The Canards Suite is a lithodemic unit introduced to describe a series of granitic intrusions (usually foliated) that mainly cut the Théodat Complex and La Sicotière Suite in the Opatica Subprovince (Bandyayera and Caron-Côté, 2019). TheCanards Suite was initially associated with granitic units of the Champion Complex, intrusive in the Rupert Complex (Bandyayera and Daoudene, 2018), but subsequent work by Bandyayera and Caron-Côté (2019) has allowed for distinguishing it from the Champion Complex. Indeed, recent geochemical and petrographic data (Bandyayera and Daoudene, 2018) show that granites of the Champion Complex are generally massive and have a composition similar to that of syncollisional granites (Pearce et al., 1984), while granites of the Canards Suite are typically deformed and associated with a volcanic arc environment (Pearce et al., 1984).

The Canards Suite (nAcnd) includes a series of granitic intrusions located to the northeast of the La Sicotière Lake area (NTS sheet 32N08) and to the southeast of the Champion Lake area (sheet 32N09). It is associated with a positive magnetic anomaly, oriented EW, that continues eastward in the Montagnes (sheet 32O12) and Béchard (sheet 32O05) lakes area.

Unit nAcnd consists mainly of biotite granite, medium to coarse-grained, locally pegmatitic, homogeneous and slightly to moderately magnetic. Granite is light white pink in altered surface, light medium pink in fresh exposure and, in places, reddish due to hematization. The rock is typically foliated and locally gneissic. Intense deformation is defined by stretching and alignment of quartz grains or rods in the preferential direction of foliation. Biotite schlierens have also been reoriented parallel to foliation. The homogeneous rock contains 3-10% biotite (locally up to 15%) and 1-3% magnetite. Magnetite is highly disseminated and locally forms centimetric clusters.

In places, some outcrops contain up to 10% granitic pegmatite clusters. Unit nAcnd also contains metric biotite-hornblende tonalite enclaves, foliated to gneissic, stretched parallel to foliation planes. There are also up to 10% metric enclaves of brownish paragneiss in altered surface and medium grey in fresh exposure.

Geochemically, granitic rocks of unit nAcnd are type I, peraluminous, of calc-alkaline calcic affinity, moderately to strongly enriched in potassium, characterized by negative europium anomalies, and formed in an environment similar to that of volcanic arcs (Pearce et al., 1984).