The water level of the river varies with the seasons and the precipitation; the spring flood occurs in March or April.

[1] This toponym appears on the 1829 plan of the chief Wendat (Huron); Nicolas Vincent uses the Telahiay spelling to designate this watercourse.

In the same year, surveyor-explorer John Adams wrote that the Wendats "call this branch of the Ste.

Anne Tilayer ”(Les Ailes Marquées) after a crazy tradition of the removal of an otter by a bird, which would have marked the snow with the tips of its wings.

[2] The toponym "Talayarde River" was formalized on December 5, 1968, at the Place Names Bank of the Commission de toponymie du Québec.