Rouyn-Noranda is a city of the Quebec (Canada), administrative area of the Abitibi-Témiscamingue. Rouyn-Noranda is the result of the fusion of two cities, Rouyn and Noranda, which was founded on banks of the lake Osisko following the discovery of a rich person layer of Cuivre in 1917 which led to the foundation of the mine Noranda.

In 1966, the Rouyn-Noranda city became the regional administrative capital, seat of several regional offices of various ministries for the government of Quebec. The area still preserves its industrial activities (mining and forest) and knew to develop tourist activities (excursions, purveyances, etc)

Toponymy

The name of Rouyn wants to be a homage to the captain of Rouyn, member of the Royal-Roussillon regiment in 1759, which is illustrated at the time of the battle of Holy-Foy in 1760 and receives the cross of Saint-Louis. It will turn over thereafter to die in France.

Noranda name results from the contraction from North and Canada which, in the beginning, was to take the form of Norcanda, but was moulted in its current form in consequence of the negligence of an inattentive printer.

History

Chronology

  • 1907 : Foundation of the canton of Cléricy.
  • 1916 : Foundation of the canton of Rouyn.
  • 1916 : Foundation of the canton of Cadillac.
  • 1920 : Foundation of the canton of Bellecombe.
  • 1920 : Foundation of the canton of Montbeillard.
  • 1926 : The canton of Rouyn becomes the village of Rouyn.
  • 1926 : Foundation of the town of Noranda.
  • 1927 : The village of Rouyn becomes the town of Rouyn.
  • 1935 : Foundation of the canton of Destor.
  • 1940 : The canton of Cadillac becomes the village of Cadillac.
  • 1948 : The village of Cadillac becomes the town of Cadillac.
  • 1948 : Foundation of the municipality of Évain.
  • 1954 : The village of Évain is detached from the municipality of Évain.
  • 1976 : Creation of the new municipality of Évain by the fusion of the old municipality and the village of Évain.
  • 1978 : The canton of Cléricy becomes the municipality of Saint-Joseph-of-Cléricy.
  • 1978 : foundation of the municipality of Saint-Guillaume-of-Granada.
  • 1978 : The canton of Bellecombe becomes a municipality.
  • 1978 : Foundation of the municipality of Saint-Norbert-of-Mount-Brown.
  • 1979 : Foundation of the municipality of Beaudry.
  • 1979 : Foundation of the municipality of Nailsmith.
  • 1979 : Foundation of the municipality of Kinojévis.
  • 1979 : Foundation of the municipality of Rollet.
  • 1980 : Foundation of the municipality of Arntfield.
  • 1980 : Foundation of the village of Lake-Dufault.
  • 1980 : Foundation of the municipality of Alembert.
  • 1980 : The canton of Montbeillard becomes a municipality.
  • 1981 : The canton of Destor becomes the municipality of Destor.
  • 1981 : The municipality of Kinojévis becomes the municipality of McWatters.
  • 1986 : Creation of the town of Rouyn-Noranda by the fusion of the towns of Rouyn and Noranda.
  • 1995 : Creation of the new town of Rouyn-Noranda by the fusion of the old city and the municipality of Saint-Guillaume-of-Granada.
  • 1997 : The municipality of Saint-Norbert-of-Mount-Brown becomes the municipality of Mount-Brown.
  • 1997 : Creation of the new town of Rouyn-Noranda by the fusion of the old city and the village of Lake-Dufault.
  • 1998 : The municipality of Saint-Joseph-of-Cléricy becomes the municipality of Cléricy.
  • 2000 : Creation of the new town of Rouyn-Noranda by the fusion of the old city and the municipality of Beaudry.
  • 2002 : Creation of the new town of Rouyn-Noranda by the fusion of the old city, the town of Cadillac and the municipalities of Arntfield, Bellecombe, Cléricy, Nailsmith, Alembert, Destor, Évain, McWatters, Montbeillard, Mount-Brown and Rollet.

Beginnings with today

Located at the North-West of Quebec, the area of the Abitibi-Témiscamingue was a long time the kingdom of the runners of wood, the trappers and the Algonquins Amerindians.

With the beginning of the year 1900, the area of Rouyn-Noranda was only one vast crossed wild forest of rivers and many practically inaccessible lakes. A prospector of the Nova Scotia, Edmund Horne, ventured on banks of the Lac Osisko for the first time in 1911. He returned two other times to excavate the ground and discovered finally layers of Cuivre of an amazing richness.

During the economic crisis of 1929, the government of the Quebec encouraged the establishment of colonists. People flowed of everywhere, inflated hope and of enthusiasm. A mine set up, of the wood huts appeared here and there on the edges of the lake and one spoke soon about a village… In addition to a rudimentary hotel, the hotel Osisko, the few huts sheltering the colonists, a large camp was drawn up on a point advancing in the lake. It was the residence of Mister Joseph Dumulon, of City-Marie, which in addition to placing the family, was used of store and post office. In the east, with a few acres the camp of the fenders rose, then opposite, the office of the trade union where the sites of the future city were sold. Thursday, the October 10th 1924, in the store of Mr Dumulon, the Fougère abbot celebrated the first mass. On this ground corner full with promises, about fifty people, gathered around a counter being used as furnace bridge, requested together for the first time.

The two cities were set up in Municipalités the same year, that is to say the March 11th 1926 for Noranda, and the May 5th for Rouyn. They thus took their first steps together for then taking a different form, adapting to their character and their needs. In 1926, Rouyn-Noranda counted 27 subscribers on the telephone. The single directory for all the Québécois area and Ontarienne was entitled: Temiscaming Telephones Directory. It contained 88 pages, advertisements included. The privileged numbers were the 1 for the Pelletier priest, and 10 for the Mine Noranda. The priest had to plead his cause to obtain number 1.

The two cities will be amalgamated in 1986, to form the new town of Rouyn-Noranda.

In 1997, the sulfur dioxide emissions in the atmosphere are evaluated with 150.000 tons annually. Metallurgy of Noranda copper envisaged to reduce to 90% the sulfur dioxide emissions in the air by the end of the year 2001. It is evaluated that approximately 50.000 tons will be rejected annually. By comparison, the great area of Montreal produces 23.000 tons of SO2 per year.

Still in 1997, Transports Canada yielded the property of the Aéroport to the Town of Rouyn-Noranda. Since, the airport, located on bank is Rivière Kinojévis with 16km of the city, plays an important role on the chess-board of economic development and industrialist of the community.

Population

Although today the population is very mainly of Québécois origin (Canadian-Frenchwoman), in the beginnings, a great number of Nationalité S cohabited in the city-sisters. This particular phenomenon is due mainly to the foreign labor engaged by the Mine Noranda for its exploitation. The Polish formed the group most and they were already very active by melting a mixed Chorale, a group of folk dances as well as a team of Football. The Italy NS come then, followed English, Irish, Yougoslaves, French, German of the Ukrainian and Russian .

Majority of the immigrants mentioned above, who had not learned that the English as it was generally done at the time of before the Loi 101, when have was immigrant, is turned over today in their countries of origins or was quite simply directed elsewhere than in Quebec. The others were assimilated to the Québécois population of the city. It also should be noted how, at the time, the population Canadian-Frenchwoman numerically exceeded with the years the Canadian-English and immigrant population.

One could find in Rouyn-Noranda a few years ago, in addition to the church S Catholique S Francophone S, a great number of vaults and churches of different Christian confessions scattered on the town suit.

In 1931 , the population of Rouyn amounts with 3.225 people (57% of French origin, 14% of English origin, 29% of origin others), that of Noranda to 2.246 people (23% of French origin, 27% of English origin, 50% of different origins)

In 1951 , the population of Rouyn amounts with 14.633 people (85% of French origin, 7% of English origin, 8% of different origins), that of Noranda amounts with 9.672 people, the number of anglophone inhabitants then starts to decrease largely.

In 1971 , the population of Rouyn amounts with 17.821 people (94% of French origin, 1% of English origin, 5% of different origins), that of Noranda amounts with 10.741 people (72% of French origin, 21% of English origin, 7% of origin others)

In 1981 , the population of Noranda amounts with 8.670 people, that of Rouyn to 16.941 people.

In 1991 , the amalgamated city of Rouyn-Noranda account 27.800 people.

In 2001 , the prevalent native tongue in the area of Rouyn-Noranda is the French and this for 97% of the whole of the population. With the wire of the decades, English had been adopted like native tongue by the majority of the immigrants (Irish, Écossais, Germans, Poles, Ukrainians. ) The other nonofficial languages account for 1% and find mainly among the algonquins area.

Policy

The Municipal council of Rouyn-Noranda includes/understands a Maire and fourteen advisers representatives each one a district of the city. All the members are elected with the Vote for all at the time of municipal elections for a mandate four years.

Since November 6th, 2005, the mayor is Roger Caouette, wire of the former chief creditist Réal Caouette. He succeeded Jean-Claude Beauchemin, former special adviser of the Prime Ministers Jacques Parizeau and Bernard Landry, posts some since 2002.

Culture

Rouyn-Noranda is the birthplace of a French-speaking poet of America, Richard Desjardins.

Rich person of a single artistic community, Rouyn-Noranda profits from the presence of many artists in his center.

The cultural life of Rouyn-Noranda is enriched by the presence by the Center by exposure by Rouyn-Noranda, the Variation and several other places supporting the emergence of the artistic life.

Festivals, events and organizations

CERN " Created in 1973, the Center of exposure of Rouyn-Noranda is an non-profit making organization accredited by the ministry for the Culture and the Communications of Quebec. The Center of exposure is a place of diffusion, creation, animation and education. The Center of exposure of Rouyn-Noranda regards the conservation as an increasingly important shutter of its mission with the constitution of its permanent collection of works of professional artists of Abitibi-Témiscamingue and other areas of Quebec. "

the variation, Place of current art " The Center of the artists in visual arts of Abitibi-Témiscamingue (CAAVAT) is a regrouping of approximately 70 artists representative of various disciplines and tendencies of visual arts of the area. Resulting from this regrouping was born the variation… Place of current art, a center of artists self-managed which acts like place of diffusion in current art. The diffusion of recent work artists of the area and besides or precede research, the experimentation and the innovation is privileged there. By the means of its exposures and its parallel activities, he wants to be a place of resourcing, confrontation, information, documentation and diffusion of current art. "

Tourism and historic sites

the House Dumulon http://www.maison-dumulon.ca/ First building of Rouyn-Noranda, it revives the environment of the years 1920. Historic site gathering a general store, a post office as well as the family residence of the time. Product sales regional and of craft industry.

orthodoxe Church Russian Saint-Georges , built in 1954 - 1955 by the Russian community then made up of a score of families. Converted into religious museum after its closing in 1981, one comments on the celebration of the mass there, the religious rites as well as the big role of the foreign ethnos groups.

The Synagog Beit Knesset Israel of style néo-novel was built in 1948 on the same site where a first synagog out of wooden had been built in 1932. The community Juive represented with its zenith forty families in the Fifties.

historical Circuit of interpretation of the Old man-Noranda . Misant on the development of its old districts, the town of Rouyn-Noranda developed patrimonial circuits intended to the pedestrians and for the cyclists. Panels of interpretation, carried out by the Committee of the Old man-Noranda, highlight certain elements of the architectural framework.

historical Circuit of interpretation of the Old man-Rouyn

Destination Gold http://www.cablevision.qc.ca/destinationor/

Foundry Horne . One of the most important noble metal and copper foundries in the world. The Horne foundry made its beginnings in 1926 and first run of copper the December 17th 1927 took place. Today, it refines the ore which comes to us from 18 countries. Visit museum, factory of smeltage and services related.

the variation, Place of current art The museum of current art is located in full heart of the district of the Noranda old man, where one finds a high concentration artists.

Education

Rouyn-Noranda profits from the presence of a cégep and a flourishing university.

University of Quebec in Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) For more than twenty years, the University of Quebec in Abitibi-Témiscamingue has educated, troop after troop, of the young loans to conquer the job market and this in several fields of which education, civil engineering, the multi-media one, etc

Cégep of Abitibi-Témiscamingue (CÉGEPAT) Since its creation, in 1967, Cégep of Abitibi-Témiscamingue innovates in order to offer formations to the height of the hopes of the young people of the area and besides. To serve a territory of 65.143 km ², Cégep of Abitibi-Témiscamingue has three campuses of regular teaching, located at Amos, Rouyn-Noranda and Valley-in Or, just as the training centres continues of City-Marie and the Saar.

Sports

The Huskies de Rouyn-Noranda evolve/move in the Ligue of Hockey Major Junior of Quebec.

The Citadelles of Rouyn-Noranda evolve/move in the League of hockey midget AA Norbord Nexfor of Abitibi-Témiscamingue.

Rouyn-Noranda accommodated the Jeux of Quebec during the summer 1973.

Several hockeyeurs who play or who played in the National league of hockey come from Rouyn-Noranda: Dave Keon, Jacques Laperrière, Réjean Swells, Pierre Turgeon, Sylvain Turgeon, Eric Desjardins, Dale Heel, Stephan Matteau, Jacques Cloutier, Christian Bordeleau, Jean-Pierre Bordeleau, Paulin Bordeleau, Andre Racicot, Hubert " Pit" Martin.

Gold medal-holder to the Olympic Games of Turin, hockeyeuse the Gina Kingsbury has grows in Rouyn-Noranda.

The " Great lady of the badminton canadien" , Denyse Julien, comes from Rouyn-Noranda. A gymnasium bears even its name there.

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