Jonquiere (Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean), rue St-Dominique

Jonquiere (like numerous other Quebec communities) has now been amalgamated into a larger city (Saguenay). It is located in the modern region of Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean. The modern Jonquiere  had also been the result of an amalgamation (Jonquiere, Kenogami and Arvida). The original settlement of Jonquiere has existed since the mid 19th century, but the regional population really exploded in the second decade of the 20th century with the opening of Alcan’s  Shipshaw hydroelectric station which served their Arvida aluminium plant in Arvida, as well as the Price lumber operations in Kenogami.

The surnames below were present in Jonquiere  proper at the time of the 1911 census. it will be interesting to see the changes when the 1921 census is published – although I imagine that the changes will be more dramatic in the 1931 returns!

 

 

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Beaudoin   Belley   Bergeron   Bilodeau   

Boily   Bouchard   Boudreau   Boulianne   Brassard 

  Crowther

Dallaire   Deschêne   Duchêne   

Dufour   

Fortin   Gagnon   Gauthier   Girard       

Kironack   Laberge

Lapointe   Larouche   

Lavoie   Lemieux   

Maltais   Plaskett   Potvin   

Ratté   Savard   St-Gelais

Tremblay   Vézina   Villeneuve

 

 

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Index: Vintage Postcards of Quebec

Kenogami, Quebec (Price Bros.)

Shipshaw  | Chute a Caron

 

 

External Links

Panoramio – Modern Photo of Rue St-Dominique Jonquiere – Ptitpere

Tourism – Ville de Saguenay