[2] The large canton of Abbadie, part of the Sept-Rivières Regional County Municipality, was proclaimed on 5 June 1965 but as of 2018 was uninhabited.

[3] The Pasteur is one of the main tributaries of the Aux Rochers River, the others being the MacDonald, Gravel and Schmon.

The absence of sediments on some of the low hills indicates that the waters of the Goldthwait Sea did not reach these lakes.

This depression probably provided an outlet for the melting Laurentide Ice Sheet, letting the water flow into the Pasteur River valley.

[2] A map of the Ecological regions of Quebec shows the river rising and flowing south through the eastern spruce/moss domain of the boreal zone.

[10] The Lake Pasteur Biodiversity Reserve was proposed in 2003 as an IUCN category III area.

[13] In 2005 the Conseil régional de l’environnement de la Côte-Nord recommended improving management of resources in the Pasteur River watershed by expanding the conservation and development council of the Pasteur Lake biodiversity reserve to include representatives from the forestry, mining and energy industries.