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Lac Saint Jean (Canadian French: lak sẽ ʒã) is a large, relatively shallow lake in south central Quebec, Canada, in the Laurentian Highlands. It is situated north of the Saint Lawrence River, into which it drains via the Saguenay River. It covers an area of , and is at its deepest point. Its name in the Innu language is Piekuakamu.

The lake is fed by dozens of small rivers, including the Ashuapmushuan, the Mistassini, the Peribonka, the Des Aulnaies, the Métabetchouane, and the Ouiatchouane. The towns on its shores include Alma, Dolbeau Mistassini, Roberval, Normandin, and Saint Félicien. Three Regional County Municipalities lie on its shores: Lac Saint Jean Est, Le Domaine du Roy, and Maria Chapdelaine.

The lake was named Piekuakami by the Innu, the Indigenous people who occupied the area at the time of European arrival. It was given its French name after Jean de Quen, a Jesuit missionary who in 1647 was the first European to reach its shores. Industry on the lake was dominated by the fur trade until the 19th century. Colonization began in the Saguenay–Lac Saint Jean region in the early 19th century and continued intensively until the early 20th century. Industry was mainly forestry and agriculture. In the 20th century, pulp and paper mills and aluminum smelting rose to importance, encouraged by hydroelectric dams at Alma and on the Péribonka River. Lac Saint Jean also has an important summer resort and sport fishing industry. The area is featured in the classic French language novel Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hémon published in 1914 and subsequently translated into twenty languages. In the 1940s, during World War II, Lac Saint Jean, along with various other regions within Canada, such as the Saguenay, Saint Helen's Island and Hull, Quebec, had Prisoner of war camps. Lac Saint Jean's was numbered and remained unnamed just like most of Canada's other war prisons. The prisoners of war (POWs) were classified into categories including their nationality and civilian or military status. Lac Saint Jean lies within a elongated rift valley that is known as the Lac Saint Jean Lowlands. These lowlands are an elongated flat bottomed basin formed by the Saguenay Graben by the displacement of Grenville crystalline rocks. This basin is long and wide. This basin is bounded by normal faults running parallel to its length. It extends from just west of Lac Saint Jean along the Saguenay River to the Saint Lawrence Valley where is it truncated by St. Lawrence rift system. The Saguenay Graben that undelies Lac Saint Jean Lowlands has controlled the deposition and the accumulation of Quaternary deposits (sand, gravel, silt, and clay), which can reach up to in thickness beneath the central lowlands. The Quaternary sediments include glacial, marine, glaciofluvial sediments and post glacial alluvial and delta plain sediments. The area was covered by ice sheets several times throughout the Pleistocene. The valley formed by the Saguenay Graben being oriented more or less parallel to the glacial flow, became a preferred path for ice flow and resulted in deep excavation of the bedrock. The glaciers cut into the graben and widened it in some places as well as making it considerable deeper in others. At the time of retreat of the last ice sheet, the region had been depressed below contemporaneous sea level. As a result, as the Laurentide Ice Sheet retreated, the Saguenay Graben was flooded by marine waters to form the Laflamme Sea. As the land rose in response to considerable Post glacial rebound, the bottom of the Saguenay Graben was blanketed by the Saguenay River with deltaic and terrestrial fluvial sediments to form the modern day Lac Saint Jean Lowlands.