Thereafter, he was mayor of Stanstead Plain from 1890 to 1904, Conservative MP for the Legislative Assembly from 1892 to 1900, and a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Bedford from 1915.

Lake Hackett (Mekinac) has a length of 4.8 km in the north-south axis (and a maximum width of 1.7 km), including the long strait in the southern part, resulting into the "Lac du Canard" (Duck Lake) which has a large area consisting of marshes.

The discharge of the later flows over 1.25 km to the northeast and empties into "Lac du Canard".

Coordinates of the dam: latitude: 47° 05'; longitude: - 72° 27' [2] Located in the Zec Tawachiche, its mouth flows into the "Ruisseau des îles" (Stream of Islands), which course on 3.25 km north-west and flows into the Rivière aux eaux mortes (Mékinac).

Starting at Hervey-Jonction, visitors can travel 30 km to reach the southern part of Lake Hackett.