Editing Pointe-Fortune, Quebec (section)

==Geography==
Pointe-Fortune is located on the right bank of the [[Ottawa River]] close to the [[Lake of Two Mountains]]. The locality borders the [[Ontario]] border, near the [[Carillon hydroelectric generating station]]. The municipality is located 65 km west of [[Montreal]]. Its [[territory]] is bounded to the west by the township of [[East Hawkesbury]] (Ontario) in the united counties of [[United Counties of Prescott and Russell|Prescott and Russell]], to the north by the bay of Rigaud, to the east and to the south by the city of [[Rigaud, Quebec|Rigaud]]. On the opposite shore of the lake of Two Mountains is the municipality of [[Saint-André-d'Argenteuil]], in the Regional County Municipality of [[Argenteuil Regional County Municipality|Argenteuil]], in the [[Laurentides]] region.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/search-recherche/productresults-resultatsproduits-eng.cfm?LANG=E&GEOCODE=2021A00052471140 | title=2021 Census of Population geographic summary: Pointe-Fortune, Village (VL) &#91;Census subdivision&#93;, Quebec | date=9 February 2022 }}</ref> The total area of the municipality is 9.54km2, with 8.09km2 being terrestrial.<ref name="mamrot" />

Pointe-Fortune is in the [[Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Lowlands]] and its [[terrain]] is [[plain|flat]]. The [[altitude]] is 24m on the shore of the [[Lake of Two Mountains]] and rises to 48m at the southeastern end of the territory. The low ground levels create several [[Wetland|wetlands]] inland. The [[soil]] of Pointe-Fortune consists in the eastern part of a sector dating from the [[Cambrian]] composed of [[sandstone]], [[Conglomerate (geology)|conglomerate]], [[limestone]] and [[Dolomite (rock)|dolomite]] ([[Potsdam Sandstone|Potsdam sandstone]], Brador and Forteau formations) and, in its western part, of an area of [[Dolomite (rock)|dolomite]] and sandstone from the Lower [[Ordovician]] (Beekmantown group and Romaine formation).