Fermont

Fermont is a town in northeastern Quebec, Canada, close to the Quebec-Labrador fringe around 23 kilometers 14 mi from Labrador City on Route 389, which associates with the Trans-Labrador Highway Newfoundland and Labrador Route 500. It is the seat of the Regional County Municipality of Caniapiscau. Fermont French compression of "Fer Mont", signifying "Press Mountain" was established as an organization town in the mid 1970s to abuse rich iron mineral stores from Mont Wright, or, in other words kilometers 16 mi toward the west from the town site.

The town is outstanding for the immense independent structure containing flats, stores, schools, bars, a lodging, eateries, a market and swimming pool which protects a network of littler loft structures and homes on its leeward side. The structure was intended to be a windscreen to whatever is left of the town. It licenses inhabitants other than excavators to never leave the working amid the long winter, which as a rule keeps going around seven months. The town, outlined by Maurice Desnoyers and Norbert Schoenauer, was roused by comparable tasks in Sweden composed by Ralph Erskine, quite that of Svappavaara, an iron mining town in Sweden. The building estimates 1.3 kilometers 4,300 ft long and stands 50 meters 160 ft high.