Английская Википедия:Alma, Quebec
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Alma (2021 Town population: 30,331; CA Population 33,018; UA Population 26,016) is a town in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, in the Canadian province of Quebec.
History
The present town of Alma was formed 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 centre during the 1920s and 1930s with the construction of a hydro-electrical power station 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 merged with the Municipality of Delisle. Both modern day Alma and St-Joseph d'Alma are named after the Battle of the Alma.
Geography
Alma is 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. Alma is the second city in population in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region after the city of Saguenay.
Alma is the seat of the judicial district of Alma.[1]
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Alma had a population of Шаблон:Val living in Шаблон:Val of its Шаблон:Val total private dwellings, a change of Шаблон:Percentage from its 2016 population of Шаблон:Val. With a land area of Шаблон:Convert, it had a population density of Шаблон:Pop density in 2021.[2]
Population trend:[3]
- Population in 2021: 30,915 [4]
- Population in 2011: 30,904 (2006 to 2011 population change: 3%)
- Population in 2006: 29,998
- Population total in 2001: 30,126
- Alma (ville): 25,918
- Delisle (municipality): 4,208
- Population in 1996:
- Alma (ville): 26,127
- Delisle (municipality): 4,256
- Population in 1991:
- Alma (ville): 25,910
- Delisle (municipality): 4,281
Mother tongue:[5]
- English as first language: 0.5%
- French as first language: 98.5%
- English and French as first language: 0.1%
- Other as first language: 0.9%
| Visible minority and Aboriginal population (Canada 2006 Census) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Population group | Population | % of total population | |
| White | 29,025 | Шаблон:Percentage | |
| Visible minority group Source:[6] |
South Asian | 0 | Шаблон:Percentage |
| Chinese | 45 | Шаблон:Percentage | |
| Black | 40 | Шаблон:Percentage | |
| Filipino | 0 | Шаблон:Percentage | |
| Latin American | 20 | Шаблон:Percentage | |
| Arab | 15 | Шаблон:Percentage | |
| Southeast Asian | 60 | Шаблон:Percentage | |
| West Asian | 0 | Шаблон:Percentage | |
| Korean | 0 | Шаблон:Percentage | |
| Japanese | 10 | Шаблон:Percentage | |
| Visible minority, n.i.e. | 0 | Шаблон:Percentage | |
| Multiple visible minority | 0 | Шаблон:Percentage | |
| Total visible minority population | 200 | Шаблон:Percentage | |
| Aboriginal group Source:[7] |
First Nations | 125 | Шаблон:Percentage |
| Métis | 335 | Шаблон:Percentage | |
| Inuit | 0 | Шаблон:Percentage | |
| Aboriginal, n.i.e. | 10 | Шаблон:Percentage | |
| Multiple Aboriginal identity | 0 | Шаблон:Percentage | |
| Total Aboriginal population | 480 | Шаблон:Percentage | |
| Total population | 29,705 | 100% | |
Infrastructure
Transportation
Alma is serviced by the Alma Airport, located 4.1 km to the south of the town.
Notable people
- Camille Bedard, hockey player
- Chris Boucher, basketball player for the Toronto Raptors
- Lucien Bouchard, former premier of Québec
- Guy Cloutier, producer and artist manager
- Guillaume Desbiens, hockey player
- Charles Hudon, hockey player for the Montreal Canadiens
- Pierre Lapointe, singer
- Émilie Fortin Tremblay (1872-1949), one of the first white women to cross the Chilkoot on the way to the Yukon gold fields
- François-Louis Tremblay, Olympic gold medallist short-track speed skater
- Mario Tremblay, hockey player and former coach of the Montreal Canadiens
See also
References
External links
Шаблон:Geographic location Шаблон:Lac-Saint-Jean-Est RCM Шаблон:Authority control
- ↑ Territorial Division Act. Revised Statutes of Quebec D-11.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 census
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ [1], Community Profiles from the 2006 Census, Statistics Canada - Census Subdivision
- ↑ [2], Aboriginal Population Profile from the 2006 Census, Statistics Canada - Census Subdivision
