See also: Company of Hudson Bay

the Bay is an old city of the Quebec. It was amalgamated in 2002 with Saguenay.

History

The city of Bay formerly consisted of three parishes (before 1928), become municipalities (in 1928), which were amalgamated in 1976. These three parishes were Large-Bay, Bagotville and Port-Alfred. Here a short history of the city.

The first parish with being inhabited was Large-Bay. “The first newcomers were inhabitants of Malbaie who built their residences on the southern part of the ha! Ha!. Their new clearing” gives place, later, so that we know today under the name of Large-Bay, in the municipality of Bay.

As of spring 1838, “the government of the Low-Canada encourages the departure of a group of colonists towards Saguenay”. “The first inhabitant of Bagotville was Mars Simard of the Bay-Saint-Paul, a village of Charlevoix. It arrived in October” of this year. It is in the honor of this man that the river at Mars is thus named.

“With the arrival of the first colonist S of Charlevoix, a new era was born in Saguenay. The city answers initially in the name of municipality of Bagot, in 1845 and of canton of Bagot in 1855, thus called in the honor of Sir Charles Bagot (1781-1843).” Then the three parishes form villages while being industrialized. First of all, one opens the “first modern school in 1857. ” Then “N 1882, Bagotville sets up the first cheese dairies”, which we all know today. One then creates “the Company of the railroad of the Baie of the ha! Ha! in 1909, in order to connect the factories of Chicoutimi to the quay of Bagotville. ” Then a pulpery is built with Bay “N 1916-1917, the industrialists of the Company of pulp of Chicoutimi”. This pulpery became a paper mill equipped with 4 machines with newspaper about 1924-1925. This factory, for one undetermined period at summer closed on December 13rd, 2003 by the company Abitibi Consolidated Inc. for economic reasons. January 26th, 2005, the company announced its permanent closure. The factory is at present in the course of demolition.

A bridge connected Port-Alfred and Bagotville. But this one old and was badly maintained. It “fell on May 12th, 1939 was replaced by this bridge, broad and well solid, which spans the river at Mars”.

The fusion of these three villages, in 1976, gives place to the city of Bay. Since January 1st, 2002, following the territorial reorganization of certain municipalities, it is amalgamated with the town of Saguenay.

Education

the regional history of education, between 1841 and 1943, is compared with that of the whole of Quebec and appears rather in conformity there. At the base, at the Catholic French-speaking, there existed three groups of schools. First of all, there were the public schools, then the schools independent or deprived and to finish, the schools concerned with various ministries. These categories, between 1841 and today, changed configuration.

The composition of the public schools was made elementary schools elementary, primary model and primary academic. In 1923, the elementary elementary schools and in 1929 were added, the higher elementary schools. In 1956, the fusion of the complementary and primary elementary schools higher becomes the public secondary schools. The domestic schools and the teacher training schools belonged to the public schools and were almost exclusively reserved to the girls.

In the private schools, one found the traditional colleges, the convents, the universities and the schools independent. The schools which raised of various ministries were made up of all schools giving a technical training like the special schools, of agriculture, fishing, trades, etc

During several years, the school of row to single class represented the standard school with the Saguenay-Lake-Saint-Jean, but as from the years 1920, “one started to set up buildings on several floors and multiple classes. These schools will replace, with one until the middle of the Fifties, then the several at the same time schools of row or villages”

Schools of City of Bay

According to the authors Luc Noppen and Lucie K. Morisset, the first “school of row appears since 1841 around bay of the ha! Ha! There remains about it today some rare examples, not always in good state, in the rows located on the territory of City of Bay. ”

Holy-Therese school

The first quoted school is the Holy-Therese school. “An independent school commission is born with Bagotville in 1861. The Marist brothers take load in 1902 of it. Then, in 1908 one builds a Couvent with the bedside of the church, in the old cemetery, establishment which direct the Sœurs of the Good-Council, arrived in Bagotville the previous year. It is this school for girls which gave rise to the current Holy-Therese school, set up in 1948 according to the plans of the Architecte S Leonce Desgagné and Boileau. ”

Médéric-Gravel school

In October 1917, Marie Gravel, a relationship of the priest Médéric Gravel, sign with children in his private house. The Médéric-Gravel school “will be inaugurated in 1918”. Thereafter, they are the sisters of Good-Council who ensure teaching the pupils except that “for lack of sufficient religious personnel, eights of the nine classes are entrusted to laic teachers. ” On the other hand, “the first school of Port-Alfred was a timber construction which burned in 1920. It is according to the plans of the architect Alfred Lamontagne that one rebuilt in 1922 a rather similar school. ”

School Saint-Alphonse

“It is in 1927 that the Academy Saint-Alphonse is inaugurated, school for boys, directed in Bagotville by the brothers of the Sacred Heart. Drawn in 1922 by the architect Alfred Lamontagne, the plans were re-examined and corrected in 1925. ”

Old Saint-Edouard college

“When the brothers of the Christian Schools are established with Port-Alfred in 1927 to take care of teaching to the boys, they settle in the new Saint-Edouard college whose construction had been undertaken the previous year”. During this year, the enrolled pupils are excellent. In this college, “five laic brothers and three teachers make the class with two hundred twenty-seven boys divided into seven classes”.

It should not be forgotten that “the closing of the factories of Port-Alfred in 1931 had as a consequence a fall of the number of the pupils, but after reopening, on March 28th, 1932, the situation is rectified gradually. ”

Old Sainte-Marie convent

“It is into 1934 that the sisters of Holy-Marie-of-the-Presentation, nuns come from France, settle with Large-Bay where they take the changing of the sisters of the Good-Council. The construction of a new convent begins in 1940, guided by the plans of the architects Lamontagne and Gravel, of Chicoutimi”.

Sports and entertainment

Sports

the Bay is a place recognized for fishing on ice in winter. At various places (with Large-Bay, the Handle-with-Benjamin like in Battures) on the Bay of the ha! Ha!, one can practice this sport there.

On the level of hockey, the arena Jean-Claude Tremblay accommodates everywhere the hockeyeurs in the area at the time of the tournament Pee-Wee de Ville of Bay. The building was named in the honor of the former defender of the Canadian of Montreal and the Nordiques of Quebec born with Bay

Entertainment

Since 1988, the fabulous history of a kingdom, a play reporting the history of the Saguenay-Lake-Saint-Jean, is played in front of more than 2300 spectators each evening with the theater of the Municipal Palate of the Bay at each summer. Recognized universally, this fresco puts in the high-speed motorboat actors of the area was created by craftsmen of the area. The narrator is the actor originating in Jonquière, Michel Dumont.

However, for its twentieth year of existence, the play will know a new setting in scene. Indeed, this one will take the name of the fabulous news or the adventures of Flo. Indeed, “the new” part will tell the history of an young man named Flo which will live in a triangle in love concerning an Amerindian young person and a young person saguenéenne.

To date, Frédérick Bouchard is recognized universally as being the worst KIS of Bay.

References

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