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The 62-mile-long Saguenay fjord north of Quebec City is the only navigable fjord in North America. Carved by glaciers during the Ice Age, the waterway is the prime feature of the region....
- Heather Greenwood Davis
Saguenay, 120 miles (190 km) north of Quebec city, is a rail hub and an administrative, commercial, and industrial centre. It is closely associated with the extensive hydroelectric development on the Saguenay River that provides power for a huge aluminum-smelting plant in Jonquière district.
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- Finding Your Way (and a Place to Stay) in Saguenay:
“If you aren’t sure what to do, there are signs everywhere,” our guide said as he concluded his orientation on how to connect our safety harnesses to the cables along the zip line course we were about to embark on.
“But are they in English?” someone asked.
“No,” he said, smirking, much to the chagrin of the non-French-speakers in the audience.
I wasn’t surprised about the signs; after all we were in Québec, the Canadian province that proudly holds onto its French heritage, so much so that a sovereignty movement has been advocating for independence for decades. I’d been to Québec many times before, but my stays had been limited to cosmopolitan Montréal and Québec City, urban centers where English is an acceptable option.
Now I found myself in the countryside for the first time, poised to have a deeper, more authentic Québécois experience. As I traveled through Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean (a 2.5-hour drive north from Québec City), I tried to put a finger on the je ne sais quoi that sets the area apart from other bucolic destinations.
My ear isn’t trained to recognize the difference between the Saguenay accent over one from Montréal, but I do pick up on a behavioral trend: provincial pride. “Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean is different from the rest of Québec because the people refer strongly to their identity within the province,” my bilingual guide, Nancy Donnelly, explained. “They have their own expressions, accent, nickname—‘les bleuets’—and flag.”
There are plenty of hotels, B&Bs, and lodges in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region, including Auberge des 21, Pourvoire Cap au Leste, Les Chalets sur le Fjord, and Hotel Tadoussac. There are also several camping options, including ready-to-camp Huttopia tents within many of the national parks.
Transportation between points of interest may be done by car or by the convenient hop-on/hop-off riverboat shuttle service, Les Croisières du Fjord.
Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean is a vast region of forests and rivers in Quebec. The Saguenay Fjord, the estuary of the Saguenay River, stretches through much of the region.
In its vastness, the region also counts : 3 national parks to see and see again; 256 km of cycling circuits along the shores of Lac Saint-Jean thanks to the Véloroute des Bleuets (Blueberry Route); 42 kilometers of beautiful sandy beaches; 23 million kilograms of blueberries picked each year;
Feb 7, 2006 · Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Que. Vast region to the north of Quebec City whose population of about 300,000 (1991) is concentrated principally in the urban centres of Chicoutimi, Jonquière and Alma. From 1652 to 1842 the territory was set aside for the fur trade.
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Jul 1, 2002 · Saguenay. City in Québec. Contents: Population. The population development of Saguenay as well as related information and services (Wikipedia, Google, images).
