Alma | |
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Motto: La ville de l'hospitalité | |
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 |
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.
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.