Saguenay 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. The city of Saguenay constitutes a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE); its geographical code is 941. Together with the regional county municipality of Le Fjord-du-Saguenay, it forms the census division (CD) of Le Saguenay-et-son-Fjord (94). The mayor of Saguenay is Jean Tremblay, who served as mayor of Chicoutimi before the merger. Prior to its use as the name of the city, the term “the Saguenay” or (less commonly) “Saguenay Valley” had already been used for the whole Saguenay River region (see Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean). Saguenay is the seat of the judicial district of Chicoutimi.
In primary and secondary public schools and francophone Saguenay are managed by two boards, the School Board of Jonquière and the school board of Rives-du-Saguenay, which have respectively 11 015 and 11 048 students. These figures include 38 primary schools, 7 secondary schools and 5 vocational training centers in the city and institutions of neighboring municipalities of Upper and Lower Saguenay. Outside the public sector, found in a private elementary school of 160 students; the Apostolic School of Chicoutimi, and a 1100 high school students, the Seminary of Chicoutimi. Saguenay is also a primary school and secondary English 200 students; Riverside Regional School is the responsibility of the Central Québec School Board. At the college level, Saguenay has two colleges, one in Jonquière and Chicoutimi with a combined 5,500 students. In addition to offering pre-university programs, and similar techniques, each of the schools have programs that are unique. For example, the Cégep de Jonquière offers technical training in Art and Media Technology while that of Chicoutimi offers a technical piloting aircraft.
Saguenay’s economy is in transition and stands by developing research and teaching in applied technologies for energy, aluminum, boreal forest, genomics and Biomedical Sciences. It also relies on the exploitation of water resources. The city owns three hydroelectric power stations, one operating in the borough of Jonquière and two other Pont-Arnaud and Chute-Garneau in operation since spring 2011. Saguenay has three large industrial parks totaling 8,496,138 square meters of commercial facilities: 5 city centers and shopping centers, six shopping centers, power centers and two five major commercial arteries. In addition, Rio Tinto Alcan confirmed in December 2010 investment of 750 million dollars to upgrade its pilot plant in Jonquière AP-60. The plant will be 40% more productive than the current aluminum. The first phase includes 38 tanks equipped with new technology with an estimated production of 60,000 tons of aluminum per year. The first ingots should be cast in the first quarter of 2013. According to 2010 data from the Institute of Statistics of Québec (ISQ), the per capita personal income in 2009 amounted to $ 31 677 versus $ 31 344 in 2008, a variation of 1.1%. On the other hand, the GDP of the Saguenay CMA in 2009 totaled $ 6 billion compared to $ 9.1 billion to the GDP of the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean. Adventure travel and cruises are just as important niche for the region’s capital. Indeed, a pier in La Baie has been in operation[38] since 2008 to accommodate ships and tourists. Cobalt Aircraft will be operating a plant in the city. On January 17, 2011 the company has chosen Saguenay for the assembly plant of the aircraft Co50, a high-end propeller plane on the cutting edge of technology.
The city’s airport is the Bagotville Airport, which shares the aerodrome of Canadian Forces Base Bagotville. It operates daily flights to Montreal-Trudeau International Airport as well as flights to Quebec City and Sept-Îles, and also seasonal flights to Cancún and vacation destinations in Cuba. Another airfield, Chicoutimi/Saint-Honoré Aerodrome former air force base, is located to the north of the city. It is located in Saguenay what the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi (UQAC), a francophone university’s network UQ counts 6500 students and provides training at university level. Only university in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, she also hosts students from across Quebec and la Francophonie. Located near downtown Chicoutimi campus account, in addition to the main building, the sports pavilion and the pavilion of the Humanities, a flag of icing research, a house of Forestry, Medicine, Arts, and the center of Aluminium Technology.
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