Alma, Quebec
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Alma (2001 population: 30,126) is a town located on the southeast coast of Lac Saint-Jean where it flows into the Saguenay River, in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada, approximately 175 km north of Quebec City. Alma is the seat of Lac-Saint-Jean-Est Regional County Municipality.
The present city of Alma was born in 1962 from the merging of four villages: Isle-Maligne, Naudville, Riverbend and St-Joseph d'Alma. The oldest of the villages, St-Joseph d'Alma, was founded in 1867 by Damase Boulanger. The area became an important industrial center during the 1920s and 1930s with the construction of a hydro-electrical dam on the Grande-Décharge River, a paper mill (Price) and an aluminum smelting plant (Alcan), all of which are still in activity today.
In 2002, Alma amalgamated with Delisle, Quebec.
Weblink
- http://www.ville.alma.qc.ca
- Statistics Canada (http://www12.statcan.ca/english/profil01/Details/details1.cfm?SEARCH=BEGINS&ID=490&PSGC=24&SGC=24410&DataType=1&LANG=E&Province=All&PlaceName=alma&CMA=&CSDNAME=Alma&A=&TypeNameE=Census%20Agglomeration&Prov=)
- Tourism: Town of Hospitality ! (http://www.tourismealma.com)
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