Matane (city)

Matane is a city in the regional Municipalité of county of Matane to the Quebec, located in the administrative area of the Low-Saint-Laurent. The Rivière Matane has its mouth there on the Fleuve the St. Lawrence.

Education

The Cégep de Matane, smallest in Quebec, is recognized for its programmes of studies in photography and tourism. It performe also very well in Science of Nature. The establishment was also pointed out by its partnerships with Ubisoft like by its single programs of continuing education, Groupe Collégia.

Recently, the cégep accommodates many international students, coming amongst other things from the Réunion, France and the Morocco. Close 20% of the troop of Cégep de Matane comes from the outside of Quebec.

Cégep de Matane counts a campus in Montreal (Ubisoft Campus) and will count a campus in Morocco soon.

He is also partner with the Cégep de Rimouski in a collegial training center with Amqui.

Economic activities

In spite of its small size, the town of Matane has despite everything a diversified economy.

The town of Matane is known for its shrimps which are processed there - shrimps of Matane or Scandinavian Crevette of Canada -, popular throughout the world for their great quality.

Recent progress in the field of the wind energy also contributed to make known the area. Matane has the most important wind farm in Quebec in addition to having a manufacturing plant of turns (Marmen) and nacelles (Composite VCI).

The city also counts factories in the field of the Pâtes and paper with Smurfit-Stone (corrugated cardboard) and Tembec (pastes thermochemical separate) and two factories in the sector of the textile. It accommodates also a factory of transformation of the products of the Porc: the Kitchens gaspésiennes which export with the the United States and in China. Matane counts also a Shipyard. One should not forget the important factory of Provincial Concrete concrete pipes. Finally, Matane counts on a sawmill, a factory of cupboards of kitchen and a manufacturing plant of top-of-the-range wood floor.

Among the tourist attractions in the vicinity, one counts the faunal Reserve of Matane, to forty kilometers in the south-east of the city. Moreover, the park of the islands is a splendid place where the visitors can walk, observe salmon with the migratory master key and attend the exploits of some fishermen.

A cross service of of passengers and road vehicles, served by the Camille-Marcoux , connects Matane to the Coast-North, by Bay-Comeau and Godbout. A railway cross bar, the Georges-Alexandre Lebel pertaining to Cogéma, connects Matane to Bay-Comeau and transports primarily mining and forest products.

Sports

Matane has several sporting installations. The sporting center Alain-Side accommodates the team of hockey of the Beavers Senior AA of Matane. Moreover, the Mount-Beaver, a small center of ski located at 10 minutes of Matane, is one of most beautiful places the where to ski in Quebec, offering only natural snow in quantity. In addition, Mount-Beaver with the one of most beautiful snowparks .

Also, one finds the public swimming pool, located just beside Cégep de Matane, which proposes as for him sports activities like the drive in room, the badminton, the climbing, the soccer, etc

One finds also several paths of ski touring in the neighborhoods of Cégep and which are prolonged to the golf of Matane.

Finally, a school football team, the Gladiators of Matane (General-purpose of Matane) as well as a club of golf, located at 5 minutes of Matane, are offered to her residents.

Matane had a provincial visibility when it accommodated the Jeux of Quebec during the winter 1989.

Culture

Matane is also recognized for its culture. Many artists of national and even international scale are originating there or carried out their studies there: Jean-Pierre Bérubé, Jocelyn Bérubé, Isabelle Boulay, David Desrosiers, Josélito Michaud, Claude Picher, Joseph Roller, Richard Z. Sirois and Rodrigue Tremblay.

Municipal fusions

In 2003, the territory of Matane considerably increased following the municipal fusions imposed by the government of Quebec. The surrounding villages of Saint-Luc, Small-Matane and Saint-Jerome were integrated into the town of Matane.

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