Thetford Mines

Thetford Mines , is a Ville Quebec located in the regional Municipalité of county of Asbestos and the area of the Boiler-Appalachian Mountains. Its population in 2005 was established with: 26 861 inhabitants.

Thetford Mines is located at approximately 100 km in the south-west of the town of Quebec and at équidistance in the North-East of Sherbrooke. The city is crossed by the Rivière Bécancour.

Thetford Mines was founded in 1876, after the discovery of a layer éponyme of Amiante (more precisely Chrysotile) by Joseph Fecteau. Initially known under the name of Kingsville, it was famous Thetford Mines in 1905.

French-speaking with 94%, its toponym of Thetford Mines is discussed because of its English formulation.

Today, with the consequences of the banishment of asbestos by several countries, several institutions of the area of asbestos try to erase the reference to this product by changing their name. For example, the College of the area of Asbestos changed its name for the Cégep de Thetford, the School commission of Asbestos for the School commission of the Appalachian Mountains and the Hospital of the area of Asbestos for the Health center and social services of the area of Thetford. However, these name changes divide the population. Moreover, several companies, of which many mines, closed their doors in the area because of the Boycott of the Amiante. The population even decreased during several years. Today, one notes a veillissement population obvious.

Thetford Mines amalgamated with River-White on December 14th, 1994, and since the municipal fusions in Quebec, on October 17th, 2001, Thetford Mines gathers the municipality of Pontbriand, the municipality of the village of Robertsonville, the municipality of the canton of Thetford-Part-South as well as the towns of Black Lake and of course, Thetford Mines.

Being more the big city of the area of asbestos, the town of Thetford Mines gathers on its territory various institutions of public services such as the general hospital and Cégep de Thetford.

The city is the place of several cultural activities as the Festival Promotuel of the Changing and equips it with hockey local, the Isothermic, which evolves/moves in LNAH.

Removal of the St-Maurice district

Of 1970 with 1972, a whole district of the city was literally moved house by house. The objective being to leave the free site for future mining, as to move away the population from the sites where one used Explosif S. Certains buildings, of which the splendid Saint-Maurice church, were not moved.

Today, several say that the removal was useless, since it there forever have use of the ground for mining. Moreover, several citizens were disturbed by the way in which the district was refitted, since the dwellings were gathered according to their style, thus developing esthetics with the detriment of the human aspect.

Characteristic

To Thetford Mines, the names of the streets do not correspond to their real orientation. Rather, they indicate the reverse of it. Thus, the North-South directed streets are désigées by the terms “is” and “western”, and vice versa.

Media

Newspaper

  • Mail Frontenac , weekly

===Télévision===

  • Cable 9: TVCRA, Community television of the area of Asbestos.
  • Cable 9: TVCOGECO, local television
  • Cable 9: Vidéotron, local television sector Robertsonville

Radio

  • O 97,3 (CFJO): opinions, information and music
  • Passion Rock'n'roll 105,5 (CKLD): local music and information

Culture

  • Theater of summer
  • Library (CEGEP)
  • the Single one, team of collegial improvisation of Cégep de Thetford
  • Geniuses out of grass with Thetford Mines

Festivals

  • Promotuel Festival of the Changing
  • Multicultural Festival, from July 8th to 10th

Museum

Sports

Sports events

Thetford Mines accommodated the final of the Jeux of Quebec during the winter 1980 like at the summer 2003.

  • Provincial Tournament Inter-City Asbestos Bantam de Thetford Mines (at the end of January, at the beginning of February)

  • Provincial Tournament Atom of Thetford Mines (Sector Black Lake) (2nd and 3rd end of the week of January)
  • Festival Beginner of the sector Black Lake (3rd end of the week of February)
  • Interregional Tournament Beginner Atom of Thetford Mines
  • Festival Pre-beginner Thetford Mines

School and major sporting teams

  • the Isothermic, team of hockey of LNAH
  • the Seams, name of the various sporting teams of the Cégep de Thetford
  • the Mountain dwellers, name of the various sporting teams of the General-purpose of Thetford
  • Cabinet work 2000, team of hockey Junior AA
  • the Brave men, equips with Baseball Junior BB

Sporting Actvities in area

  • cycle and pedestrian Track of more than 21.7 km connecting the sectors Black Lake to the Robersonville sector while passing by the center town of the sector Therford Mines
  • Club of Golf and Curling (center town)
  • Club of Ski and Adstock Golf (with a few kilometers towards the south)
  • Paths of motoneige (VTT and motoneiges are authorized to circulate on certain arteries of the city)
  • 2 swimming pools (General-purpose of Thetford Mines and municipal building with Black Lake)
  • Quilles

Personalities related to the city


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