I've always wondered at the distinction made in modern French between fleuve and rivière. For a long time I thought that one was big and the other little, but that's not it.
What makes the difference is whether the watercourse flows into the sea. If it doesn't, it's a rivière no matter how bit it is.
A fleuve, on the other hand, goes directly into the sea. The St. Lawrence is a fleuve but all its tributaries are rivières.
The photo is of a small stream that drains one of the fields along the St. Lawrence. In this summer of drought, it was very small indeed.
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