Island of the Cross  The Island of the Cross (Île à la Croix) is located in the middle of the Batiscan River, at the northern edge of the eastern part of the Portneuf Wildlife Reserve, in the area designated "Miguick-Île à la Croix", the unincorporated Lac-Lapeyrère, Quebec territory, Portneuf Regional County Municipality, in the administrative area of the Capitale-Nationale, in the province of Quebec, Canada. By 1888, near the Miguick River (Quebec), a quarry of granite began to be exploited, through the construction of the railway connecting the Lower Batiscanie and Upper Batiscanie. The French toponym "Ïle-à-la-Croix" was officially recorded December 5, 1968 in the bank of place names at the Commission de toponymie du Québec (Geographical Names Board of Quebec). Formerly, a cross was planted on the island as protection for travellers on the river regularly surreptitiously caused the drowning. The rapids upstream and downstream of the island are deemed dangerous for boats river. The cross also protect residents and seasonal workers fast river (upstream and downstream) and sometimes considerable floods accentuated the risk of injury or drowning. In Judeo-Christian origin place name "Island of the Cross" is akin to the place name "Lac à la Croix" which is located at southern of Lac-Édouard. The Batiscan River, which rises in Lake Édouard flows into the "Lac à la croix". Fifty kilometres (following the route of the river) separate the mouth of the lake and the island at the cross. The "Island of the Cross" (Île à la Croix) is located 63 km south of the village of Lac-Édouard in Upper-Batiscanie, north of the village of Notre-Dame-de-Montauban and (direct line) of the church of Rivière-à-Pierre. The island is from Miguick hamlet, and from Linton , which is downstream from the mouth of the Jeannotte River. The island is shaped like a foot (toes pointing to the southwest and the heel to the mouth of the Miguick River (Quebec)) with a length of one kilometre and a maximum width of . The altitude of the water upstream of the island is 246 m and 244 m downstream.