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Jonquière (; ; 2021 population: 60,250) is a
Jonquière was founded in 1847 by Marguerite Belley, who came from La Malbaie to settle on the Rivière aux Sables. It was named after Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de la Jonquière, Marquis de la Jonquière, governor of New France from 1749 to 1752.
Growth came from the construction of pulp and paper mills at the beginning of the 20th century. Between 1925 and 1928, the world's largest aluminum plant was built along with the city Arvida (then a separate town). In 1942, to supply power to the plant, Alcan built a hydroelectric station at Shipshaw that was the largest in the world at that time. Jonquière, Arvida, and Kénogami were amalgamated into a single city, Jonquière, in 1975. Jonquière was the host city for the Quebec Games in the winter of 1976, and for the Canoe/Kayak World Championships in slalom and whitewater racing, in 1979.
Much of Jonquière's development owed its strength to the Price family, who ran a pulp and paper factory in Kénogami. Today that factory is owned by Resolute Forest Products. Arvida is the home of an 2001 Statistics Canada Community Profiles: Jonquière
/ref> The heavy metal band Voivod formed in Jonquière. The Rivière aux Sables runs through the centre of Jonquière. Significant damage to the city's buildings was caused by the 1996
Borough Council of Jonquière
(Archive) *
Municipality of Jonquiere
(Archive)
"Giant of the North"
''Popular Mechanics'', December 1943, article on the crash program to create the Shipshaw hydroelectric project {{DEFAULTSORT:Jonquiere Populated places established in 1847 Populated places disestablished in 2002 Boroughs of Saguenay, Quebec Former municipalities in Quebec Former cities in Quebec 1847 establishments in Canada 2002 disestablishments in Quebec
borough
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In the Middle Ag ...
(arrondissement
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Europe
France
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) of the city of Saguenay in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean
Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean (, ) is a region in Quebec, Canada. It contains the Saguenay Fjord, the estuary of the Saguenay River, stretching through much of the region. It is also known as Sagamie in French, from the first part of "Saguenay" and t ...
region of Quebec
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, Canada. It is located on the Saguenay River, near the borough of Chicoutimi.
History
Jonquière was founded in 1847 by Marguerite Belley, who came from La Malbaie to settle on the Rivière aux Sables. It was named after Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de la Jonquière, Marquis de la Jonquière, governor of New France from 1749 to 1752.
Growth came from the construction of pulp and paper mills at the beginning of the 20th century. Between 1925 and 1928, the world's largest aluminum plant was built along with the city Arvida (then a separate town). In 1942, to supply power to the plant, Alcan built a hydroelectric station at Shipshaw that was the largest in the world at that time. Jonquière, Arvida, and Kénogami were amalgamated into a single city, Jonquière, in 1975. Jonquière was the host city for the Quebec Games in the winter of 1976, and for the Canoe/Kayak World Championships in slalom and whitewater racing, in 1979.
Much of Jonquière's development owed its strength to the Price family, who ran a pulp and paper factory in Kénogami. Today that factory is owned by Resolute Forest Products. Arvida is the home of an aluminium
Aluminium (aluminum in American and Canadian English) is a chemical element with the symbol Al and atomic number 13. Aluminium has a density lower than those of other common metals, at approximately one third that of steel. It ha ...
plant owned by Rio Tinto Alcan.
When the city of Saguenay was constituted on February 18, 2002 by municipal amalgamation, the borough of Jonquière was created from the former city of Jonquière, the former municipality of Shipshaw, and the former municipality of Lac-Kénogami. The former city of Jonquière had a population of 54,842 in the Canada 2001 Census, the last census in which Jonquière was counted as a separate city./ref> The heavy metal band Voivod formed in Jonquière. The Rivière aux Sables runs through the centre of Jonquière. Significant damage to the city's buildings was caused by the 1996
Saguenay Flood
The Saguenay flood (french: Déluge du Saguenay) was a series of flash floods on July 19 and 20, 1996 that hit the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. It was the biggest overland flood in 20th-century Canadian history.
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Transportation
Rail
Jonquière is the northern terminus of the Montreal–Jonquière passenger train operated by Via Rail. Three round-trip trains per week run between Jonquière station andMontreal Central Station
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, scheduled to take about nine hours each way. This route is shared by the Montreal–Senneterre train as far as Hervey station. From Montreal, passengers can connect to trains serving major destinations such as Quebec City
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, Ottawa
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, Toronto
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, Halifax, and New York City
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.
Notable people
* Christiane Chabot, artist * Bernard Jean, oboist, conductor, and music educator * Pierre Pilote, NHL hall of famer * Annie Villeneuve, singer-songwriter * Voivod, heavy metal band *Guillaume Morissette
Guillaume Morissette (born 1983) is a Canadian fiction writer and poet based in Montreal, Quebec. His work has frequently been associated with the Alt Lit movement, with ''Dazed & Confused'' magazine describing him as "Canada's Alt Lit poster boy. ...
, novelist
Mayors
*Jean Allard ( – January 20, 1868), (1872–1876) and (February 5, 1894 – August 26, 1895 Death) * Jules Gauthier Me Jules Gauthier (1942 - bef 1949) *Camille Gagné *Francis Dufour (1975–1985) (Arvida 1967 – 1975) *Gilles Marceau *Marcel Martel ( – November 7, 1999) * Daniel Giguère (November 7, 1999 – February 18, 2002)References
External links
Borough Council of Jonquière
(Archive) *
Municipality of Jonquiere
(Archive)
"Giant of the North"
''Popular Mechanics'', December 1943, article on the crash program to create the Shipshaw hydroelectric project {{DEFAULTSORT:Jonquiere Populated places established in 1847 Populated places disestablished in 2002 Boroughs of Saguenay, Quebec Former municipalities in Quebec Former cities in Quebec 1847 establishments in Canada 2002 disestablishments in Quebec