Arvida Au Saguenay : Naissance D'une Ville Industrielle
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0773513787
ISBN-13
9780773513785
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint
McGill-Queen's University Press
Country of Manufacture
CA
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 9th, 1996
Print length
288 Pages
Weight
450 grams
Dimensions
15.10 x 22.90 x 2.20 cms
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Founded in 1925, the town of Arvida was established to provide labour for Alcan's plant on the Saguenay River. With the arrival of big business in the rural Quebec countryside, two cultures collided -- the modern industrial culture of English North Americ
The town of Arvida provides a field on which we can observe in microcosm the birth of an industrial town and the development of the population''s identity as a community. Using a wealth of quantitative and qualitative data, José Igartua examines what type of people chose to come, who decided to stay, how they lived, and how the demographic traits of the region shifted. He argues that even though a significant proportion of the population came from outside the region Arvida gradually acquired the character of a Saguenay town, where family, the Catholic Church, and French-Canadian culture were dominant. Igartua pays particular attention to the local labour movement, which culminated in the famous wildcat strike of 1941, revealing that the fight for collective action was the turning point in the development of a community consciousness.
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