The rivière à la Scie is a tributary of the south shore of the St. Lawrence River.

The main neighboring watersheds of the Scie river are: The Scie river has its source at the Monseigneur Bourget road, north of the plée de Beauharnois and south of the Grande Plé Bleu zone which straddles the Pintendre and Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-de-Lévy sectors, in the city of Lévis.

[1] The wood used to build the Ursuline Convent in Quebec was taken from the banks of the Rivière à la Scie.

A sawmill was built in this area in 1706 by Georges Regnard Duplessis, the sixth lord of Lauzon.

[2] The toponym Rivière à la Scie was made official on December 5, 1968, at the Commission de toponymie du Québec.