Fermont

Fermont is a town of 2471 inhabitants in the regional Municipalité of county of Caniapiscau to the Quebec (Canada), located in the administrative area of the Coast-North.

Fermont forms part, with Wabush and Labrador City with the Labrador (Ground-New-and-Labrador), of the Pit of Labrador. This is the name of a vast mining center where one extracts from iron, from where the name of Fermont.

The " Mur"

The city is dissociated in particular thanks to its principal building, commonly called " Mur" (Daviault Place), which gathers the principal trade and services of the municipality, in addition to sheltering good number of residences. One finds there, for example, a grocer, a post office, an elementary school and secondary, as well as a hotel and various sporting installations. The " Mur" , length of a little more than one kilometer, owes its nickname with its principal function, which is to constitute a wall screen serving to protect the remainder from the city as the strong winds coming from north. As all the services of the city are gathered there, it is theoretically possible, for a fermontois, of living in the " Mur" without never feeling the need to leave there.

Municipalities bordering

Sources

Repertory of the municipalities of Quebec
Commission of toponymy of Quebec
municipal Businesses and areas - regional charts

External bond

Official site of the town of Fermont

the Club photo Caniapiscau

CFMF : The Community radio of Fermont

the Club Lions of Fermont

File on Fermont de Parole Citoyenne/ONF (2004)

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