Lake Tourouvre has been artificially formed in 1950 by damming the Saint-Maurice River with the La Trenche Generating Station built at southeast of the lake, north of La Tuque, in the administrative region of Mauricie, in Quebec, in Canada.

Located entirely in forest and mountainous areas, this water body of 1,448 ha[1] is ideal for tourist activities including boating, fishing, hunting, and other similar lakeside pastimes.

The latter road crosses the Saint-Maurice River to the barrage of La Trenche Generating Station.

French geographer Reclus (1830-1905) wrote that this town is "the place in Europe that contributed to the most part, the settlement of the New World".

The House of French Emigration to Canada, open to the public on October 1, 2006, was established symbolically Tourouvre, France.