La Grande River is a river in northwestern Quebec which rises in the highlands of north central Quebec and flows roughly 900 km west to drain into James Bay. It is the third largest river in Quebec. The river drains an area of 97,400 km². During the 1960s, a terrorist group known as the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) launched a decade of bombings, robberies and attacks on government offices. ... James Bay is a large body of water on the southern end of Hudson Bay in Canada. ... To help compare orders of magnitude of different geographical regions, we list here areas between 10,000 km² and 100,000 km². See also areas of other orders of magnitude. ...

The river has been extensively developed as a source of hydroelectric power by Hydro Quebec. An area of 9,900 km² was flooded in the first phase of development. A later phase saw almost all of the flow of the Eastmain River being diverted into the La Grande system. These hydroelectric development projects were called La-Grande-1 (or LG-1), LG-2, LG-3, LG-4 and LG-2A. Hydroelectric dam diagram The waters of Llyn Stwlan, the upper reservoir of the Ffestiniog Pumped-Storage Scheme in north Wales, can just be glimpsed on the right. ... Categories: Companies of Canada | Public Utilities | Stub ... To help compare orders of magnitude of different geographical regions, we list here areas between 1,000 km² and 10,000 km². See also areas of other orders of magnitude. ... The Eastmain River is a river in northwestern Quebec which rises in north central Quebec and flows 800 km west to drain into James Bay. ...

As a result of the development projects, the Cree people of the region were displaced from some parts of their traditional territories. Organic mercury levels also increased in the fish which formed an important part of their diet as a result of the flooding caused by the reservoirs. The flooding also destroyed habitat associated with the caribou of the region and 10,000 of these animals drowned during migration in 1984. Cree camp near Vermilion, Alberta The Cree form an aboriginal nation of North America. ... General Name, Symbol, Number mercury, Hg, 80 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 12, 6, d Appearance silvery white Atomic mass 200. ... Binomial name Rangifer tarandus The reindeer, known as caribou in North America, is an Arctic-dwelling deer (Rangifer tarandus). ...

On March 13, 1989, a massive solar storm caused a failure of the La Grande power complex which plunged most of Quebec into darkness for nine hours. March 13 is the 72nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (73rd in leap years). ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A geomagnetic storm is a temporary disturbance of the Earths magnetosphere. ...

At one time, this river was known as the Fort George River. The Hudson's Bay Company operated a trading post on the river at Big River House from 1803 to 1824. In 1837, a large trading post was established at Fort George on an island at the mouth of the river. The First Nations community of Chisasibi, Quebec is now situated near the mouth of the river. The Hudsons Bay Company (HBC) (TSX: HBC) is the oldest corporation in Canada (and North America) and is one of the oldest in the world still in existence. ... The fur trade was a huge part in the early economic development of North America. ... First Nations is the current title used by Canada to describe the various societies of the indigenous peoples, called Native Americans in the U.S. They have also been known as Indians, Native Canadians, Aboriginal Americans, Amer-Indians, or Aboriginals, and are officially called Indians in the Indian Act, which... Chisasibi is a mainly Cree settlement on James Bay in the Quebec province. ...

See Also

• James Bay Project

The James Bay Project is the construction of a massive hydroelectric generation system in northwestern Quebec. ...

External Link

• Hydro Quebec La Grande Complex