Fermont is a French-speaking town in northeastern Quebec, Canada. It has a population of 2,918 (2001), and lies near the Quebec-Labrador border about 23 kilometres from Labrador City on Quebec route 389, which connects to the Trans-Labrador Highway (N&L Highway 500). Fermont (French contraction of "Fer Mont", meaning "Iron Mountain") was founded as a company town in the early 1970s to exploit rich iron ore deposits from nearby Mont Wright. It is the seat of the Regional County Municipality of Caniapiscau. This article describes the Canadian province. ... Orthographic projection over Labrador City Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador Labrador City is a small town in western Labrador (part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador), near the Quebec border. ... This highway connects Highway 138 adjacent to Baie Comeau with the Newfoundland and Labrador border, connecting with the Trans-Labrador Highway (Newfoundland provincial highway 500) to Wabush and Labrador City, and beyond to Goose Bay. ... The Trans-Labrador Highway (TLH) is a Canadian highway located in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. ... A company town is a town or city in which most or all real estate, buildings (both residential and commercial), utilities, hospitals, small businesses such as grocery stores and gas stations, and other necessities or luxuries of life within its borders are owned by a single company. ... Name of a mountain near Fermont in Quebec and site of major iron ore mining operations since the 1970s by such companies as Québec Cartier and Iron Ore Company of Canada. ... Categories: Canada-place stubs ...

Truck 172 from the Mont-Wright Mine, on display in Fermont, QC

The town is notable for the huge self-contained structure containing apartments, stores, schools, bars, a hotel, restaurants, a supermarket and swimming pool which shelters a community of smaller apartment buildings and homes on its leeward side. The structure was designed to permit residents (other than mine workers) to never leave the building during the long winter, which usually lasts about seven months. The town, designed by Maurice Desnoyers and Norbert Schoenauer, was inspired by similar projects in Sweden designed by Ralph Erskine, notably that of Svappavaara, a copper mining town in Sweden. The building measures 1.3 kilometres long and stands 50 metres high. ^[1] Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 466 pixel Image in higher resolution (1280 × 745 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 466 pixel Image in higher resolution (1280 × 745 pixel, file size: 1. ... Windward is the direction from which the wind is blowing at the time in question. ... Ralph Erskine (February 24, 1914 - March 16, 2005) was a London born architect, who lived and worked in Sweden for most of his life. ...

The local economy is entirely dependent on the mine owned by Québec Cartier Mining Company ^[2]. Average earnings for full time workers was $63,982 in 2001, compared to $39,217 in Quebec as a whole. ^[3] The mine product is converted to pellets and shipped to southern Quebec on the Cartier Railway. In 2006 the mine was affected by a labour dispute which lasted from early April to early June. It was amicably resolved with a six-year contract renewal.^[4] This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Cartier Railway is a railway that operates 416 kilometres of track in the Canadian province of Québec. ...

Notes

1. ^ The Windscreen (from Caniapiscau). Retrieved on 2006-06-24.
2. ^ Socio-economic profile CÔTE-NORD. Retrieved on 2006-06-24.
3. ^ Statistics Canada Community Profile. Retrieved on 2006-06-24.
4. ^ Cartier Mining press release. Retrieved on 2006-06-24.

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External links

• Photos and brief description
• Map
• Additional photos
• Original site plan by Norbert Schoenauer