It lies at the head of the Saumon River watershed, giving it a fairly long retention time for its size.

[1] This toponym is said to have originated from a homonymous village in the Huntingdonshire region of England, whose name is a distortion of the Old English styfic-[leah] meaning "snag ".

[2] In 1955, the Archdiocese of Sherbrooke applied to the Quebec Toponymy Commission to change the name to "lake Jouvence", after its summer camp.

[2] In 1983, the association of lake residents asked the Toponymy Commission to choose between the names "Stukely" and "Bonnalay", which were also used locally.

[7] The eastern and western ends are located in a sedimentary formation composed of breccia of varying size and composition.

[9] To the north of the lake are mixed deposits of sand and till, the result of glacial melting of the Cherry River.

[26] In 1905, a branch line of the Eastman-Valcourt railroad was built along the south shore of the lake to the present-day national park campground.

[26] In 1944, the Miner family of Granby bought a large parcel of land northeast of the park to build a second home.

[27] Camp Jouvence initially welcomed young people from Catholic organizations for their human and Christian formation, and underwent several expansions until the 1960s.

[27] In 1976, the Quebec government acquired the site, which became Base de plein air Jouvence and was subsequently integrated into Mount Orford National Park.

[27] From the 1980s onwards, the site's usage continued to evolve, becoming open all four seasons and diversifying its range of leisure activities and accommodation types, welcoming youth groups and the general public.

[28] In 1929, just before the Great Depression, 1,200 acres (485 ha) were secured for this purpose, but the financial crisis put the project on hold for the short term.

[28] In 1975, the government acquired land in the northern sector of the park, including the Jouvence resort, north of the lake.

[36] There are also eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), Eastern White Cedar (Thuya occidentalis), Balsam Fir (Abies balsamea) and Black Spruce (Picea mariana) on the shoreline on the Mont Chauve side, and White Pine (Pinus strobus) on Miner Island and the opposite shoreline.

[37] The lake's zooplankton consists mainly of copepods, with a notable presence at the water's surface of cladocerans and protozoa.

Among the most common are Smallmouth Bass (Micropterus dolomieu), Brown Bullhead (Ameiurus nebulosus), Cyprinids, Sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus), Rainbow Smelt (Osmerus mordax), White Sucker (Catostomus commersonii) and Yellow Perch (Perca perca), Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush) and Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss).

[39] Aquatic birds include the Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), Osprey (Pandion haliaetus), Canada Goose (Branta canadensis), Wood Duck (Aix sponsa), Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), Black Duck (Anas rubripes).

Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca), Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris), Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola), Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula), Common Merganser (Mergus merganser), common Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus), common Loon (Gavia immer), Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps), Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus), American Bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus), Green Heron (Butorides virescens), Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias), Spotted Redhorse (Actitis macularius), Solitary Redhorse (Tringa solitaria), Wilson's Snipe (Gallinago delicata), American Woodcock (Scolopax minor), Hudsonian Gull (Larus smithsonianus), Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis) and American Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon).

[43] The Radisson series and Jean Pierre Lefebvre's movie Mon amie Pierrette may also have used the lake for a few scenes.