The rivière aux Chiens (French pronunciation: [ʁivjɛʁ o ʃjɛ̃], river of the dogs) flows south, on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence river, in the municipalities of Beaupré and Château-Richer, in the La Côte-de-Beaupré Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Capitale-Nationale, in the province from Quebec, to Canada.

The Rivière aux Chiens begins at the confluence of two streams in the mountains behind the Côte-de-Beaupré, north of mont Sainte-Anne, in Beaupré.

In his short Toponymy essay on the Côte de Beaupré, composed on an unknown date, the redemptorist C.-E. Marquis sets out some hypotheses on the reason for attributing this toponym.

One of them mentions stray dogs that the first settlers had to abandon to their fate when the Kirke brothers, who had taken and occupied Quebec from 1629 to 1632, razed the Cape Tourmente farm.

[2] The toponym "Rivière aux Chiens" was formalized on April 4, 1982 at the Place Names Bank of the Commission de toponymie du Québec.