Alma, Quebec Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Alma is a town located on the southeast coast of Lac Saint-Jean where it flows into the Saguenay River, in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada, approximately 175 km north of Quebec City.
The present city of Alma was born in 1962 from the merging of four villages: Isle-Maligne,
Naudville, Riverbend and St-Joseph d'Alma. The oldest of the villages, St-Joseph d'Alma,
was founded in 1867 by Damase Boulanger. The area became an important industrial center
during the 1920's and 1930's with the construction of a hydro-electrical dam on the
Grande-Décharge River, a paper mill (Price) and an aluminum smelting plant (Alcan),
all of which are still in activity today.
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