Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
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.
Lac-Saint-Jean (French: [lak sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃], Quebec French pronunciation: [lak sẽ ʒã]) is a federal electoral district in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region, northeast Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1925 to 2004, and has been represented since 2015.
Saguenay (/ ˈ s æ ɡ ə n eɪ, ˌ s æ ɡ ə ˈ n eɪ / SAG-ə-nay, - NAY, French:, locally) is a city in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada, on the Saguenay River, about 200 kilometres (120 mi) north of Quebec City by overland route.
This page was last edited on 29 November 2024, at 15:49 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
Lac-Saint-Jean-Est (French pronunciation: [lak sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ ɛst]) is a regional county municipality in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. The seat is Alma. In 2016, 99.3% reported that they spoke French most often at home, according to the census. [3]
The site is on the north shore of the Saguenay River. The site is in a cove with a wharf. The village is set back from the river, on hilly terrain. [4] It is a parish municipality in the Le Fjord-du-Saguenay Regional County Municipality within the region of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean. Théophile Cove, Sainte-Rose-du-Nord
Normandin (French pronunciation: [nɔʁmɑ̃dɛ̃]) is a city located on the west side of Lac Saint-Jean in the Canadian province of Quebec. Normandin is named after the surveyor Joseph-Laurent Normandin. Its history of European-Canadian settlement began in 1878 when the first pioneers arrived.