Alma, Quebec
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.
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Alma town website*
Statistics Canada*
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