Explore Le Lac-de-l'Ancre, Quebec, Canada, with this interactive street and satellite map. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above the map to switch views. You can “grab” the map and drag it to re-centre it, or use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out to street-level detail.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the Canada Base Map with Toporama contours — plus shaded relief, a labelled UTM grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below. You will find live weather, local and world news further down the page.
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This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Le Lac-de-l'Ancre, Quebec. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen for a larger view. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key on your keyboard, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
Drag the map to pan to any area of Quebec or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Le Lac-de-l'Ancre and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the Canada Base Map from Natural Resources Canada with Toporama contours layered over it — the CanVec topographic data behind the printed NTS sheets, and the mapping used for hiking, hunting, canoe routes and back-country travel. Relief shows shaded relief and hypsometric tints. The search box finds any Canadian town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Le Lac-de-l'Ancre.
Reading the map like a paper NTS sheet. Click Grid to overlay the UTM grid, labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass — which matters in Canada, where declination runs from about 20 degrees west in Newfoundland to 20 degrees east in the Yukon.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a UTM/MGRS grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — the grid reference being what Canadian search and rescue work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
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| Place | Le Lac-de-l'Ancre |
| Type | Administrative Sector |
| Province / Territory | Quebec (QC) |
| Location | L'Anse-Saint-Jean; Le Fjord-du-Saguenay |
| Country | Canada |
| Latitude | 48.110556 |
| Longitude | -70.214722 |
| Postal Code (FSA) | G4A |
| Area Code | 263, 354, 367, 418, 438, 450, 514, 579, 581, 819, 873 |
| Importance | Small locality |
| CGN ID | EQNNN |
Le Lac-de-l'Ancre is a administrative sector in L'Anse-Saint-Jean; Le Fjord-du-Saguenay, Quebec, Canada. It is classified as a small locality. Le Lac-de-l'Ancre is located at 48.1106°N, 70.2147°W.
Le Lac-de-l'Ancre rests within the rugged folds of the Les Plateaux, a quiet basin defined by the steady, cold movement of the Rivière du Portage. It lies 16.3 km west-north-west of Secteur David, QC (from Secteur David, QC: bearing 285°T), and is situated 13.7 km south of L'Anse-Saint-Jean. The water here holds a particular, glass-like stillness that seems to capture the heavy, blue light of early evening, reflecting the surrounding spruce and balsam fir with a clarity that renders the horizon indistinguishable from its own image. Near the edges of the lake, the earth remains damp and moss-covered, grounding the observer in a terrain that feels ancient and indifferent to the passing of seasons. Roughly 20 km away, the presence of Parc national du Fjord-du-Saguenay exerts a silent, gravitational pull on the landscape, reminding one that the vastness of the region is never far from the intimacy of the shoreline. The history of Le Lac-de-l'Ancre is found in the persistent, functional labor of those who have navigated the forests and the shifting currents of the Rivière du Portage for generations. While the local economy has long relied on the quiet extraction and management of forest resources, the character of the site is defined more by its isolation than by industrial reach. Life here follows the demands of the climate, where the transition from the biting, crystalline air of winter to the sudden, lush growth of spring dictates the daily work of maintenance and preparation. Visitors often find that the stillness is not an emptiness but a physical weight, a reminder that the land demands a certain humility from those who choose to linger by the water's edge.
Le Lac-de-l'Ancre s'étire dans une langueur minérale, niché à proximité des Plateaux où le vent semble retenir son souffle avant de basculer vers les profondeurs de la Rivière du Portage. Ici, la lumière du crépuscule s’attarde longuement sur les eaux, teintant la surface d’un métal sombre, tandis que la terre, marquée par une rudesse héritée des anciens défrichements, offre ses aspérités aux rares passants. L'éloignement du Parc national du Fjord-du-Saguenay, situé à une vingtaine de kilomètres, confère à ce secteur une solitude presque religieuse, une intimité que seules les ombres des arbres viennent troubler. Le Lac-de-l'Ancre, par sa présence silencieuse, impose une géographie de la patience, où chaque pierre et chaque courbe du terrain racontent une persévérance silencieuse face à l’immensité sauvage. L’air y est vif, chargé de cette humidité forestière qui pénètre les vêtements et rappelle la proximité constante des courants fluviaux. Les habitants, façonnés par ce relief exigeant, entretiennent un rapport de respect ombrageux avec cet environnement où le ciel bas semble vouloir toucher les cimes, offrant une existence dépouillée de tout artifice, où le temps se mesure uniquement à la course lente du soleil sur les crêtes rocheuses qui surplombent le domaine.
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Explore Le Lac-de-l'Ancre, Quebec, Canada, with an embedded street and satellite map — switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 48.110556, -70.214722. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts — including hourly outlooks — are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Detailed location data for Le Lac-de-l'Ancre includes the postal code (G4A), telephone area code (263, 354, 367, 418, 438, 450, 514, 579, 581, 819, 873). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any Canadian city or town.
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any Canadian town, county or landmark by name; offers the Canada Base Map with Toporama contours and shaded relief as base layers; overlays a labelled UTM grid so the map can be read like a printed NTS sheet; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a UTM/MGRS grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data for Le Lac-de-l'Ancre is sourced from the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGN), Natural Resources Canada, and verified by coordinates rather than name matching alone. GPS coordinates, province, administrative location and place type are shown in the information panel above.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGN), Natural Resources Canada |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; Canada Base Map, Toporama and CBME © Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence — Canada); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |