| This city is 450 km north of Montreal, and it was my first stop on this last trip. It has many “boroughs” like Montreal, but the two main rivals are Jonquière and Chicoutimi. Both are different and we’ll see why soon. I came here using Allo-Stop, a car sharing service that serves the province, where I met two charming women. I definitely recommend it to people travelling alone, so check if there' a car sharing service in your area. |
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| Jonquière’s only cathedral (sorry about the overexposure!) The only historic building I found! However, it is on St-Dominique St., which has a very impressive nightlife! |
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| The Aluminum Bridge. Built in 1950, it’s the oldest one of its kind in the world, and it's 153m long. It’s far from either Jonquière and Chicoutimi, and there are no buses that go there :( It's an example of lacklustre public transport in the province. |
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| The view from the Aluminum Bridge. This is part of the Canadian Shield, which is one of the oldest landmasses in the world. The main rock you’ll find here is slate, which is often used to make tiles. |
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| The Little White House. I thought it was a replica of the White House in Washington, DC, but I digress. This house survived a devastating flood in July, 1996, which destroyed everything to the right of the church, including the park which I’m standing in (which wasn’t before 1996!) |
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| The Chicoutimi Pulp Factory Museum. It is an industrial museum that showed how the pulp factory worked until it shut down in 1929. The pulp and paper industry was the driving force of the Quebec economy, which provided thousands of jobs all over the province. Today the industry is a skeleton of itself and is why many people from the province move to Montreal. |