Question
Due to a triple founder effect, a region named for this river and its source, Lac Saint-Jean, has an unusually high prevalence of many rare diseases like tyrosinemia type I and a namesake “spastic ataxia.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this river that enters the St. Lawrence at Tadoussac after the Chicoutimi joins it at a namesake urban center. This river is named for a mythical kingdom sought by Jacques Cartier in 1535.
ANSWER: Saguenay River [or Rivière Saguenay]
[10h] Saguenay-Lac Saint-Jean was settled from this other region that co-names the aforementioned spastic ataxia. This region is bounded by a namesake meteorite impact structure spanning Baie-Saint-Paul, where Cirque du Soleil began, and La Malbaie, which hosted the 2018 G7 summit.
ANSWER: Charlevoix (“shar-leh-vwah”)
[10e] The Saguenay River and Charlevoix are both in this Canadian province.
ANSWER: Quebec (The triple founder effect is so named due to the small initial groups of people migrating from France to Quebec, Quebec City to Charlevoix, and Charlevoix to SLSJ.)
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