Arvida (from ARthur VIning DAvis, one of the founder 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 Jonquiere, the town was planned from the first day and was developped as a company town, to get a population of about 14000 inhabitants, 4 catholic parishes, many other denomination parishes, schools. During the war, the smelter was expended and a large hydroelectric complex was built on the Saguenay River at Shipshaw (1 200 000 HP). The smelter, which transform imported bauxite to alumine and to aluminum by electrolytic process, employed up to 7500 persons in the 50 and the 60. The plant is due to close in 2005, as it has been replaced by at least 3 plants constructed during the last 10 years in the Saguenay area. the town has been amalgamated in the early 70 to Jonquiere, and in the early 2000, to the City of Saguenay, which includes Chicoutimi, Riviere-du-moulin, Arvida and Jonquière.
Quebec produces approximately 30 per cent of all the creamery butter and about 20 per cent of all the factory cheese produced in Canada, 298,777,262 pounds of the first, and 182,649,749 of the second, (1944).
There is no compulsory education in the province of Quebec [at the time of publication of this article, in 1948, this was already incorrect as compulsory education was introduced in 1943; see the text on Adélard Godbout for further details] but school attendance favourably compares with that found elsewhere.
The arms of the province of Quebec are as follows: Or, on a fesse gules, a lion passant guardant or; in chief two fleurs de lis azure and in base three maple leaves slipped vert.
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