The main vocation of the lake relates to recreational and tourist activities, in an agricultural environment.

The Hermitage road crosses this isthmus from East to West, to head towards the Ermitage Saint-Antoine.

The route 155, connecting La Tuque and Chambord (Lac Saint-Jean), runs along the eastern part of the Bouchette lakes and Ouiatchouane.

The "dam of the Commissioners" belongs to the Government of Quebec and is found at the outlet of the Lac des Commissaires, which constitutes the main source supplying the Ouiatchouane River.

This expedition follows the vote on a plan by the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada to establish new places of colonization.

In 1828, the surveyor Joseph Bouchette (1774-1841) who led an expedition in the Lac-Saint-Jean region, was accompanied by commissioners Andrew and David Stuart.

The Surveyor General's team had left Trois-Rivières in the summer of 1828, going up the Saint-Maurice River to La Tuque.

[3] The toponym "Lac Bouchette" was registered on December 5, 1968, at the Place Names Bank of the Commission de toponymie du Québec.