| City of Fermont Ville de Fermont |
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| Motto: Faire front, faire face (French) | |
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| Country |  Canada |
| Province |  Québec |
| Region | Côte-Nord |
| Regional county municipality | Caniapiscau |
| First Settlement | 1971 |
| Incorporated (city) | October 15, 1974 |
| Government | |
| - Mayor | Lise Pelletier |
| Area | |
| - Total | 497. A motto (from the Italian word motto, meaning witticism sentence is a phrase meant to formally describe the general motivation or intention of a social group In Political geography and International politics, a country is a Political division of a geographical entity Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page A province is a territorial unit almost always an Administrative division. Quebec (kwɨˈbɛk The article is about the geographic sense of the term For other uses including Regions and Regional, see Region (disambiguation. Côte-Nord ( French for "Northern Shore" area 24762706 km², or 95609 The term regional county municipality or RCM ( French: municipalité régionale de comté MRC) is used in the Canadian Caniapiscau is a Regional county municipality in northeastern Quebec, Canada. A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. 45 km² (192. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 1 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 610 m (2,001 ft) |
| Population (2006)StatsCan | |
| - Total | 2,471 |
| - Density | 5/km² (12. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit Statistics Canada (Statistique Canada is the Canadian federal government department commissioned with producing Statistics to help Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 9/sq mi) |
| Time zone | EST (UTC-5) |
| - Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| Postal Code | G0G 1J0 |
| Area code(s) | 418 |
| Website: City of Fermont official site (French) | |
Fermont is a French-speaking town in northeastern Quebec, Canada. UTC−5 is the Time offset used in the North American Eastern Time Zone during Standard time and in the North American Central Time Zone during Daylight saving time ( DST UTC−4 is the Time offset used in the Atlantic Standard Time Zone in Canada in winter and the North American Eastern Time Zone during A telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating Telephone number ranges to countries regions areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks Quebec (kwɨˈbɛk It has a population of 2,471 (2006), and lies near the Quebec-Labrador border about 23 kilometres from Labrador City on Route 389, which connects to the Trans-Labrador Highway (Route 500). Labrador City is a town in western Labrador (part of the Canadian Province of Newfoundland and Labrador Quebec's Route 389 connects Route 138 adjacent to Baie-Comeau with the Newfoundland and Labrador border connecting with the Trans-Labrador Highway The Trans-Labrador Highway ( TLH) is a Canadian Highway located in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Fermont (French contraction of "Fer Mont", meaning "Iron Mountain") was founded as a company town in the early 1970s to exploit rich iron ore deposits from nearby Mont Wright. A company town is a Town or City in which all Real estate, Buildings (both residential and commercial) Utilities Mont Wright is a mountain near Fermont Quebec, a site of major iron ore mining operations since the 1970s by Québec Cartier Mining Company. It is the seat of the Regional County Municipality of Caniapiscau. Caniapiscau is a Regional county municipality in northeastern Quebec, Canada.
The town is notable for the huge self-contained structure containing apartments, stores, schools, bars, a hotel, restaurants, a supermarket and swimming pool which shelters a community of smaller apartment buildings and homes on its leeward side. Windward is the direction from which the wind is blowing at the time in question The structure was designed to permit residents (other than mine workers) to never leave the building during the long winter, which usually lasts about seven months. The town, designed by Maurice Desnoyers and Norbert Schoenauer, was inspired by similar projects in Sweden designed by Ralph Erskine, notably that of Svappavaara, a copper mining town in Sweden. Ralph Erskine Ralph Erskine CBRE RFS ARIBA ( February 24, 1914 – March 16, 2005) was an Architect and planner who lived and worked Svappavaara is a mining village (pop 394 in 2005 in Lappland, Sweden, situated in Kiruna Municipality, Norrbotten County. "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. The building measures 1. 3 kilometres long and stands 50 metres high. [1]
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City Council
The city council is comprised of a mayor and six city councilors. The current mayor is Lise Pelletier, and the councilors are Dave Bouchard, Janelle Gauthier, Claude Meilleur, Brigitte Poitras, Martin St-Laurent and Yan St-Pierre.
Economy
The local economy is entirely dependent on the mine owned by Québec Cartier Mining Company [2]. Québec Cartier Mining Company is one of the leading producers of Iron ore products in North America. Average earnings for full time workers was $63,982 in 2001, compared to $39,217 in Quebec as a whole. [3] The mine product is shipped to Port-Cartier on the Cartier Railway where it is converted to pellets. Port-Cartier is a town in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada. The Cartier Railway s a Railway that operates 416 kilometres of track in the Canadian province of Québec. In 2006 the mine was affected by a labour dispute which lasted from early April to early June. It was amicably resolved with a six-year contract renewal. [4]
Notes
- ^ The Windscreen (from Caniapiscau). Retrieved on 2006-06-24. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 972 - Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces takes place
- ^ Socio-economic profile CÔTE-NORD. Retrieved on 2006-06-24. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 972 - Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces takes place
- ^ Statistics Canada Community Profile. Retrieved on 2006-06-24. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 972 - Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces takes place
- ^ Cartier Mining press release. Retrieved on 2006-06-24. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 972 - Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces takes place
Sources
- City of Fermont official site (French) retrieved September 7, 2007
- Directory of Québec Municipalities (French)
- Toponymie Commission of Québec (French)
External links
- City of Fermont official site (French)
- Photos and brief description
- Official tourism site
- Map
- Additional photos
- Original site plan by Norbert Schoenauer
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