To stand in the heart of Arvida, with its plume-spewing smokestacks looming nearby, it’s tough to feel you’re getting a glimpse into a modern-day Eden.
Yet this remote Quebec community was born as a model city and cutting-edge town, a Silicon Valley of its day. And now, local residents are dreaming big: They want Arvida, an industrial “utopia” carved out of the Saguenay plain, recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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A Rio Tinto-Alcan bauxite warehouse is pictured in the Arvida district of Saguenay, 225km North East of Quebec City Wednesday November 10, 2010. Arvida was planned around the plant so people could walk to it.
The Rio Tinto-Alcan plant is pictured near a residential area in the Arvida district of Saguenay, 225km North East of Quebec City Wednesday November 10, 2010.
A soldier stands guard by a cenotaph during the Remembrance Day ceremony at CFB Valcartier, just North of Quebec City Thursday November 11, 2010. This year ceremony take place as Valcartier is sending troops for the new rotation in Afghanistan.
This is one of the most difficult assignments. Especially since I have a two-year-old kid now. So again, the Van Doos and other military based at CFB Valcartier near Quebec City were leaving for the 10th rotation of Operation Athena in Afghanistan.
Corporal Simon Leclerc and his girlfriend Caroline Gingras share a tearful goodbye at CFB Valartier, Qc. as Corporal Leclerc is about to leave for Afghanistan , Nov. 3, 2010.
A worker gives a last minute rush to finish the construction of the Ice Hotel in Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier, 50 km north of Quebec City January 4, 2007. The ice hotel, the only one in North America.
A ‘modified’ car rides into the mud pit during the second day of festivity of the 2006 annual Victoria Day Weekend at Trudeau Park in Tweed, Ontario Saturday May 20, 2006.
