The Saguenay-Lake-Saint-Jean is a administrative area Quebec, located on northern bank of the the St. Lawrence. It is made up of four regional municipalities of county (MRC) and 60 Municipalité S.

Presentation

The Saguenay-Lake-Saint-Jean is recognized for his vast wide and the beauty of his natural landscapes. Of a Superficie is of 95893 [[km ²]], it is the larger third Québécois area in extent, after the North-of-Quebec and the Coast-North. The territory includes/understands also a community indigenous: the Innus of the Lake-Saint-Jean (1812 hab.), living the reserve of Mashteuiatsh. On the whole, the area of the Saguenay-Lake-Saint-Jean counts: 277007 inhabitants.

This area is bathed by two major water levels, the Lac Midsummer's Day and the river Saguenay, which mark its landscape deeply and which was, through the Histoire, the engines of its development. Among other notable rivers, let us note the most important tributaries of the lake Midsummer's Day: the Ashuapmushuan, the Mistassibi and the Péribonka. The River Holy-Marguerite, being thrown in the bas-Saguenay with Bay-Holy-Marguerite, is a river with salmon S with the layout parallel with that of Saguenay on a good part its length.

The greatest proportion of the area is not inhabited, but rather a territory whose property and administration are public: the controlled zones of exploitation (ZEC) where, with the help of a right of exploitation, one can practice the Chasse and fishes it.

Bordered of forests and mountainous solid masses, the area constitutes a fertile enclave in the Canadian Bouclier. One regards it as an oasis moderated in Scandinavian medium . The panorama as well as the sites and activities in cultural matter of the Saguenay-Lake-Saint-Jean attract each year the tourists.

The colors of the flag represent more or less significant elements of the area. Thus the red represents the inhabitants, the green represents nature, the yellow represents industry Agroalimentaire and the gray represents the industry of the Aluminum.

Demography

  • Population: 274.095 (2006)
  • Surface: 95.893 km ²
  • Density: 2,9 hab. /km ²
  • Birth rate: 9,5 ‰ (2006)
  • Death rate: 7,5 ‰ (2006)
Source: Statistical institute of Quebec

Spoken language at the house

    French
  • , 99,0%
    • English
  • , 0,6%
  • Others, 0,4%

Population

The Population of the Saguenay-Lake-Saint-Jean, concentrated in three great agglomerations, Saguenay - composed of the districts of the Bay, Chicoutimi and Jonquière: 146.332 [[Population hab.]] -, Alma (32 603 hab.) and Roberval - Saint-Félicien - Dolbeau-Mistassini (36 407 hab.), accounts for 3.8% of the population of Quebec.

It should be noted also that the French local is largely recognizable by its particularisms as much phonetic than lexical. This feature is quickly identified by any other Inhabitant of Quebec. With the difference in several Québécois under-idioms, that of the area is francizing towards all the Anglicisms, thus, the English word lighter , will not have the English pronunciation which one can find in Montreal, it will be marked " Lacteur". Moreover, several words are single with the area, thus, one will say canis for mildewed , frock for jacket , marking clerk for the edges of roads, “compartment” for the winter clothings, etc the inhabitants of the area very extremely pose also a tonic Accent on the vowels U and I , in addition to nasaliser strongly the nasal vowels.

Because of a effect founder, certain genetic diseases meet primarily only in this area of the world, the such Syndrome of Andermann.

Regional characteristics

  • the area is recognized for its cornflowers and its tart plate.
  • the very particular accent of people originating in Saguenay and the Lake-St-Jean.
  • very many families: of which the Tremblay, Side and Blackburn.
  • Tremblay family name is most widespread in French America.

History

September 1st, 1535, Jacques Cartier discovers the Saguenay while accosting with Tadoussac. Many Amerindians of Stadaconé and Hochelaga speak about the area at the end of this river like kingdom where gold and copper are abundant. The first to be penetrated in the river would have been Samuel de Champlain, which goes not far from the current site of the town of Holy-Rose-of-North, on June 11th, 1603. He contradicts the existence of richnesses.

So that a first explorer poses the foot on the current territory of Chicoutimi, it is necessary to await the father Jean de Quen who, at the request of the tribes of Piekouagami (Lac Midsummer's Day) reached of an epidemic devastator, borrows the Rivière Chicoutimi to reach the Lac Kénogami then the Lac Midsummer's Day from July 11th to 16th 1647.

In May 1652, the epidemic perdure always and forces the establishment of a mission to the lake Midsummer's Day by the Jesuit S which use the same road as the father Jean Dequen to go to destination. According to their accounts, several Amerindian burials then strew banks with Saguenay because of the important devastations of the epidemic. The missionaries take this road until 1671 coming to assistance of the tribes victims of the epidemic and the war against the Iroquois.

The first mention of the name Chicoutimi would go up at that time. In the year 1661, one could read in the Relation of the Father Gabriel Bruillet and Claude Dablond:

Cheg8timi, remarkable place to be the term of the beautiful navigation and the beginning of the bearings.

Regional municipalities of county

  • Lake-Saint-Jean-Is, whose chief town is the town of Alma.
  • Field-of-Roy the, whose chief town is the town of Roberval.
  • Fjord-of-Saguenay the, whose chief town is the town of Saguenay (although this city does not form part of it).
  • Maria-Chapdelaine, whose chief town is the town of Dolbeau-Mistassini.

Municipality except MRC

  • Town of Saguenay

Indigenous municipality except MRC

Sources: Government of Quebec, 2003; Statistical Canada, Census 2001

Chronology of the Saguenay-Lake-Saint-Jean

  • 1603 - May 27th: First treaty enters the White and Montagnais, concluded by Champlain, in Tadoussac.
  • 1628 - Spring: Catch of Tadoussac by the Kirke Brothers, French huguenots with the pay of the British.
  • 1641 - Beginning of the mission of the Jesuits with Saguenay.
  • 1647 - December: Creation of the Royal Field by the King of France. The territory of the Saguenay-Lake-Saint-Jean is thus detached from the remainder of News-France.
  • 1661 - Iroquois set fire to the station of draft of Tadoussac.
  • 1664 - War enters Iroquois and Montagnais to the Lake-Saint-Jean.
  • 1676 - Establishment of a catholic mission and a station of draft in Chicoutimi.
  • 1680 - Establishment of a residence for the catholic missions, in Métabetchouan.
  • 1756 - Beginning of the 7 year old War, opposing the British and French colonies.
  • 1759 - Unloading of the British Fleet in front of the station of draft of Chicoutimi and catch of all the furs like spoils of war.
  • 1760 - Capitulation of Montreal and News-France vis-a-vis the British Crown.
  • 1791 - the Act Constitutional-Division of Canada in two parts, High-Canada and Low-Canada.
  • 1838 - Arrival with the Handle-Saint-Jean and Large Bay of the 14 colonists to the pay of the Company of the Twenty and One on the goélette of Thomas Simard.
  • 1842 - May: Claim of all the installations of the Company of the Twenty-and-Ones in the Saguenay-Lake-Saint-Jean by William Price.
  • 1842 - Foundation of the municipality of Chicoutimi by Peter McLeod.
  • 1849 - Exploration of the Lake-Saint-Jean by the abbot Nicolas-Tarentin Hébert who is in the search of a territory to found the village of Hébertville.
  • 1852 - Died of Peter McLeod, called King de Chicoutimi, which will make it possible William Price to exert a monopoly on the forestry development of the area.
  • 1858 - Foundation of the municipality of the Handle-Saint-Jean.
  • 1859 - Foundation of the municipalities of Hébertville and Roberval.
  • 1865 - Foundation of the municipality of Jonquière and Saint-Félicien.
  • 1866 - Establishment of a service of cross bar between Chicoutimi and the village of Holy-Anne, on bank of the Saguenay river.
  • 1867 - Canadian Confederation.
  • 1867 - Foundation of the parish of St-Joseph-in Alma (Alma).
  • 1870 - May 19th: Almost total destruction of the territory ranging between Mistassini and Bay of the ha! Ha! by Large Fire.
  • 1881 - Foundation of the municipality of Saint-Method (Ticouape).
  • 1885 - Foundation of the municipality of Saint-Bruno.
  • 1888 - Arrival of the railroad in Chambord.
  • 1889 - Fall: Serious epidemic of typhoid.
  • 1893 - Arrival of the railroad in Chicoutimi.
  • 1898 - Opening of the Mill of Chicoutimi which manufactures pastes and papers.
  • 1899 - July 17th: Construction of a factory of pastes and papers with Jonquière.
  • 1900 - Construction of a factory of pastes and papers with Métabetchouan.
  • 1902 - Fire of the factory of pastes and papers of Métabetchouan.
  • 1902 - Foundation of the municipality of Saint-Ambroise.
  • 1910 - Arrival of the railroad to Bagotville.
  • 1912 - Foundation of the municipality of Kénogami.
  • 1915 - Foundation of the municipality of Valley-Jalbert.
  • 1915 - Beginning of the construction of the deep water port with Port-Alfred.
  • 1916 - Construction of a factory of pastes and papers with Port-Alfred.
  • 1918 - Incorporation by Julien-Edouard-Alfred Dubuc of the municipality of Port-Alfred.
  • 1918 - Fall: Serious Spanish flu epidemic - Several hundreds of victims through the area.
  • 1927 - Closing of the pulpery of Valley-Jalbert.
  • 1942 - Construction of the Airport of Bagotville.
  • 1954 - Opening of the Airport of Roberval.
  • 1971 - May: Landslide to Saint-Jean-Vianney which causes the death of 31 people.
  • 1976 - Strike of several months of the workmen of the factories of pastes and paper of Jonquière and Alma.
  • 1988 - November: Earthquake a magnitude of 6,2.
  • 1996 - July: Pouring rain causes the death of 5 people and causes considerable damage on the catchment area of the Lac Kénogami and on the River-with-March, in particular in the towns of Chicoutimi, Jonquière and the Bay.
  • 2002 - February: Fusion of Chicoutimi, Jonquière, the Bay, Laterrière, Shipshaw, Lake Kénogami and a portion of the territory of Canton Tremblay to form the current town of Saguenay.

See too

External bonds

  • Gate of the Saguenay-Lake-Saint-Jean
  • Port Saguenay
  • regional documentation available in full text

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