Chicoutimi

Chicoutimi is the most crowded district arrondissement of the city of Saguenay in Quebec, Canada. It is arranged at the intersection of the Saguenay and Chicoutimi streams. Amid the twentieth century, it turned into the fundamental authoritative and business focus of the Saguenay– Lac-Saint-Jean area. In 2002 it converged into the new city of Saguenay and structures the core of the fifth biggest urban zone of the territory of Quebec. At the 2011 evaluation, its populace was 66,547.

At last to wind up the focal point of the precinct of Chicoutimi was first settled by French homesteaders in 1676 as an exchanging post in the hide exchange. Around then, the Saguenay and the Chicoutimi streams had been utilized as conduits by the Montagnais clans for a considerable length of time. The name Chicoutimi implies the finish of the profound water in the Innu dialect. After the British seized Lower Canada, the Chicoutimi exchanging post kept on working just until the point that 1782, as the hide exchange had moved further west of the Great Lakes.

The city of Chicoutimi was formally fused in 1845 as a district by Peter McLeod, a Metis timber contractual worker who manufactured a sawmill there in 1842. The town was assigned in 1855 as the seat of Chicoutimi County and the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chicoutimi in 1878. The landing of the Canadian National Railway in 1893 empowered the development of Chicoutimi's mash and paper ventures, especially mechanical mash creation.