Chicoutimi ( /ʃɨˈkuːtɨmi/) is one of the three boroughs of Saguenay, Quebec, Canada. It is situated at the confluence of the Chicoutimi and Saguenay Rivers. Located 225 kilometres north of Quebec City, it is home to a branch of the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi.
When the city of Saguenay was constituted on February 18, 2002 by municipal amalgamation, the borough of Chicoutimi was created from the former city of Chicoutimi, the former city of ...
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Chicoutimi ( /ʃɨˈkuːtɨmi/) is one of the three boroughs of Saguenay, Quebec, Canada. It is situated at the confluence of the Chicoutimi and Saguenay Rivers. Located 225 kilometres north of Quebec City, it is home to a branch of the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi.
When the city of Saguenay was constituted on February 18, 2002 by municipal amalgamation, the borough of Chicoutimi was created from the former city of Chicoutimi, the former city of Laterriére, and part of the former township of Tremblay. The former city of Chicoutimi had a population of 60,008 in the Canada 2001 Census, the last census in which Chicoutimi was counted as a separate city.
The site of Chicoutimi was first settled in 1676 as a French trading post in the fur trade.
The city of Chicoutimi was founded in 1842 by Peter McLeod. Following the completion of a railway line to Roberval in 1893, Chicoutimi especially developed at the beginning of the 20th century as an industrial city based on pulp production.
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