diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index a9a00ea1b..edd3e3e23 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Changelog
 
 v0.54.0 (unreleased)
 --------------------
-Contributors to this version: Trevor James Smith (:user:`Zeitsperre`), Pascal Bourgault (:user:`aulemahal`).
+Contributors to this version: Trevor James Smith (:user:`Zeitsperre`), Pascal Bourgault (:user:`aulemahal`), Éric Dupuis (:user:`coxipi`).
 
 Breaking changes
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Bug fixes
 Internal changes
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 * Changed french translations with word "pluvieux" to "avec précipitations". (:issue:`1960`, :pull:`1994`).
+* `streamflow` entry replaced with `q` in ``variables.yml``.  (:issue:`1912`, :pull:`1996`)
 * In order to address 403 (forbidden) request errors when retrieving data from GitHub via ReadTheDocs, the ``nimbus`` class has been modified to use an overloaded `fetch` method that appends a User-Agent header to the request. (:pull:`2001`).
 * Addressed a very rare race condition that can happen if `pytest` is tearing down the test environment when running across multiple workers. (:pull:`1863`).
 
diff --git a/xclim/data/variables.yml b/xclim/data/variables.yml
index a02194514..71a7b7dd0 100644
--- a/xclim/data/variables.yml
+++ b/xclim/data/variables.yml
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ variables:
     standard_name: lwe_thickness_of_snow_amount
     data_flags:
       - negative_accumulation_values:
-  streamflow:
+  q:
     canonical_units: m3 s-1
     cell_methods: "time: mean"
     description: The amount of water, in all phases, flowing in the river channel and flood plain.