Alma (2021 Town population: 30,331; CA Population 33,018; UA Population 26,016) is a town in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, in the Canadian province of Quebec.
Alma | |
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Motto: La ville de l'hospitalité | |
Alma Location in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean Quebec | |
Coordinates: 48°33′N 71°39′W / 48.550°N 71.650°W[1] | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Quebec |
Region | Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean |
RCM | Lac-Saint-Jean-Est |
Amalgamation | 1962 (of Isle-Maligne, Naudville, Riverbend and St-Joseph d'Alma.) |
Constituted | February 21, 2001 (amalgamation with Delisle) |
Government | |
• Mayor | Sylvie Beaumont |
• Federal riding | Lac-Saint-Jean |
• Prov. riding | Lac-Saint-Jean |
Area | |
• Town | 230.30 km2 (88.92 sq mi) |
• Land | 195.59 km2 (75.52 sq mi) |
• Urban | 41.10 km2 (15.87 sq mi) |
• Metro | 340.35 km2 (131.41 sq mi) |
Population (2011)[3] | |
• Town | 30,904 |
• Density | 158.0/km2 (409/sq mi) |
• Urban | 26,016 |
• Urban density | 633.0/km2 (1,639/sq mi) |
• Metro | 33,018 |
• Metro density | 97.0/km2 (251/sq mi) |
• Pop 2006-2011 | 3.0% |
• Dwellings | 13,884 |
Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
Postal code(s) | G8B, G8C & G8E |
Area codes | 418 and 581 |
Highways | R-169 R-170 R-172 |
Telephone Exchanges | 212, 321, 480-2, 487, 662, 668-9, 719, 720, 769 |
NTS Map | 22D12 Alma |
GNBC Code | EFHQD[6] |
Website | www |
The present town of Alma was formed 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 centre during the 1920s and 1930s with the construction of a hydro-electrical power station on the Grande-Décharge River, a paper mill (Price) and an aluminum smelting plant (Alcan), all of which are still in activity today.
In 2002, Alma merged with the Municipality of Delisle. Both modern day Alma and St-Joseph d'Alma are named after the Battle of the Alma.
Alma is 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. Alma is the seat of Lac-Saint-Jean-Est Regional County Municipality. Alma is the second largest city in population in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region after the city of Saguenay.
Alma is the seat of the judicial district of Alma.[7]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Alma had a population of 30,331 living in 13,815 of its 14,493 total private dwellings, a change of -1.4% from its 2016 population of 30,771. With a land area of 194.92 km2 (75.26 sq mi), it had a population density of 155.6/km2 (403.0/sq mi) in 2021.[8]
Population trend:[9]
Mother tongue:[11]
Visible minority and Aboriginal population (Canada 2006 Census) | |||
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Population group | Population | % of total population | |
White | 29,025 | 97.7% | |
Visible minority group Source:[12] |
South Asian | 0 | 0% |
Chinese | 45 | 0.2% | |
Black | 40 | 0.1% | |
Filipino | 0 | 0% | |
Latin American | 20 | 0.1% | |
Arab | 15 | 0.1% | |
Southeast Asian | 60 | 0.2% | |
West Asian | 0 | 0% | |
Korean | 0 | 0% | |
Japanese | 10 | 0% | |
Visible minority, n.i.e. | 0 | 0% | |
Multiple visible minority | 0 | 0% | |
Total visible minority population | 200 | 0.7% | |
Aboriginal group Source:[13] |
First Nations | 125 | 0.4% |
Métis | 335 | 1.1% | |
Inuit | 0 | 0% | |
Aboriginal, n.i.e. | 10 | 0% | |
Multiple Aboriginal identity | 0 | 0% | |
Total Aboriginal population | 480 | 1.6% | |
Total population | 29,705 | 100% |
Alma is serviced by the Alma Airport, located 4.1 km to the south of the town.
Alma is twinned with: