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The Saguenay flood (French: Déluge du Saguenay) was a series of flash floods on July 19 and 20, 1996 that hit the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. It was the biggest overland flood in 20th-century Canadian history .
Saint-Jean-Vianney (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ vjanɛ]) was a village in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, which was abandoned after it was partially destroyed in a landslide on May 4, 1971.
Lac Saint-Jean lies within a elongated rift valley that is known as the Lac Saint-Jean Lowlands. These lowlands are an elongated flat-bottomed basin formed by the Saguenay Graben by the displacement of Grenville crystalline rocks. This basin is 250 km (160 mi) long and 50 km (31 mi) wide.
Bouchard was born in Saint-Cœur-de-Marie, Québec, the son of Alice (née Simard) and Philippe Bouchard. [1] His brother is the historian Gérard Bouchard . Lucien Bouchard graduated from Jonquière Classical College in 1959, [ citation needed ] and obtained a bachelor's degree in social science and a law degree at Université Laval in 1964.
With a land area of 98,712.71 km 2 (38,113.19 sq mi), Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean is the third-largest Quebec region after Nord-du-Québec and Côte-Nord. This region is bathed by two major watercourses, Lac Saint-Jean and the Saguenay River, both of which mark its landscape deeply and have been the main drives of its development in history. It ...
Saguenay Fire was a forest fire in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean area, Quebec, Canada, on Wednesday, May 18, 1870, which lasted for one day. [1] [2] [3] It was one of the largest fires in the region. [4] It burned a total area of 4,000 square kilometers (0.4 million hectares).
Nicole Houde (November 1, 1945 – February 2, 2016) was a Quebec writer. [1] [2]The daughter of Thérèse Simard and Roland Houde, she was born in Saint-Fulgence [2] and studied education at the École normale Bon-Pasteur and anthropology at the Université de Montréal.
Morin was a municipal councillor from 1980 to 1984 and then was the mayor of La Baie from 1984 to 1988. He ran for election in Dubuc in 1989 and won, he was re-elected without any difficulty in 1994 as the Parti Québécois formed the government.