See also: Seven Islands (homonymy)

Sept-Îles' is a Québécois Ville located in the regional Municipalité of county of the Seven-Rivers and in the administrative Région of the Coast-North with Bay-Comeau and Port-Cartier. The Mildewed River, the villages of Mildewed and Gallix form also part of Seven-Islands.

History

Jacques Cartier was the first to mention Seven-Islands historically. In 1535, it describes in its book of edge bay and its islands, which it named “the round islands”. The archipelago of Seven-Islands is composed of the Large Basque, the Small Basque, the Large Ball, the Small Ball, Corrossol, Manowin and the islets De Quen.

Seven-islands was for a long time a village of fishing and it is the mining development, first of all with Schefferville then with Labrador City, which will contribute to make a regional metropolis of it, replacing Clarke City, now become a sector of Seven-Islands.

Today, Seven-Islands is a modern city equipped with all the equipment and services.

Economy

Near an imposing hydroelectric network, the municipality has of a deep water port and a basin of human and natural resources with remarkable qualities.

The wearing of Seven-islands tranships the iron of Labrador. The fisheries are another important sector of the economy; the crab, the shrimp, the molluscs are in particular exploited there. The industry of the small fruits the such Chicoutai, the Bilberry, the Raspberry and the Bleuet also becomes extensive in the area.

Seven-islands accommodated the Jeux of Quebec during the be 1983 and during the be 2007.

Statistics

The Unemployment rate is there of 11,3% and the primary branches of industry are:

Environment

In 1979, the Corporation of environmental protection of Seven-Islands (CPESI) was the first environmental paramunicipale and non-profit-making corporation to be born in Quebec.

With its credit, the Corporation counts several achievements:

  • annual Collection of domestic residues dangerous
  • Recovery and recycling
  • Collection of the Christmas trees
  • Donation and plantation of trees
  • Greener Contest Seven-Islands
  • Study on moist environments
  • Study on the habitat of fish in bay of Seven-Islands
  • Study of the surfaces of reproduction of the éperlan rainbow
  • Protection of a pilot peat bog
  • Valorization of the river of the Station
  • Collaboration with measurements of compensation of loss of habitat
  • Contribution to job creation by the installation of green areas and cycle tracks…

The Corporation of environmental protection of Seven-Islands exercises its mandate in many ways: presence in the schools, behavior of exposures and living rooms, collaboration to the bulletin Coast-North Healthy and Saves, etc It also contributed to the foundation of the District council of the environment of Coast-North, to Stratégie the St. Lawrence, committee ZIP of northern bank of the estuary of the St. Lawrence and northern bank of the gulf of the St. Lawrence.

Climate

Seven-islands is classified with the third rank among the sunniest cities of the Quebec (after Rigaud and Brébœuf), with 45,8% of time without cloud. The highest rates of sunning occur in January, in February, in April and in December, which makes the winters very pleasant and encourages the practice of the sports of outsides.

In addition, Seven-Islands receives on average 146 days of precipitations per annum against 164 with Montreal. At the border of the parallel 50e, the winds most frequently come from the east in spring, in summer and autumn.


Municipalities bordering

Sources

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

External bonds

  • Official site of the town of Seven-Islands

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