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| • | Arvida (from ARthur VIning DAvis, one of the founders of Alcan) was founded as an industrial city by Alcan in 1927, when the first aluminum smelter was constructed. Located 127 miles north of Quebec City, south of the Saguenay River between Chicoutimi and Jonquière, the town was planned from the first day and was developed as a company town, to get a population of about 14,000 inhabitants, 4 Catholic parishes, and many other denomination parishes, schools.
During the World War II, the smelter was expanded and a large hydroelectric complex was built on the Saguenay River at Shipshaw (1 200 000 HP). The smelter, which transforms imported bauxite to alumine and to aluminum by electrolytic process, employed up to 7,500 persons in the 1950s and the 1960s. The plant is due to close in 2005, as it has been replaced by at least 3 plants constructed during the last 10 years in the Saguenay area.
In the early 1970s, the town was amalgamated with Jonquière, which in turn in the early 2000s became part of Ville de Saguenay (which now includes Chicoutimi, Riviere-du-moulin, Arvida and Jonquière).
Communities in Quebec
Source: [wikipedia: arvida, quebec]
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