Where we live:
English-speaking communities in Quebec are spread out in small pockets, and it can be hard to find out much about them – until now. There are great opportunities to work, travel, volunteer, and live in the regions. Read an overview of each region for a general picture, watch a slideshow of photos, or click on Our Community for personal stories about towns and neighbourhoods all over the province. To submit a story or photos, contact us.
REGIONS:
Travel without leaving your chair- The Magdalen Islands for youth: an overview of the region, local resources and opportunities, and their youth retention program. This website was created by CAMI, the Council for Anglophone Magdalen Islanders, in partnership the McGill Retention Program.
- The Estrie region: `at a glance` from Immigration-Quebec
- The Outaouais region: `at a glance` from Immigration-Quebec
- The Abitibi-Témiscamingue region: `at a glance` from Immigration-Quebec
- The Gaspe and Magdalen Islands region: `at a glance` from Immigration-Quebec
- The Chaudière-Appalaches region: `at a glance` from Immigration-Quebec
- The Laurentians region: `at a glance` from Immigration-Quebec
- The North Shore region: `at a glance` from Immigration-Quebec
For a `quick look` at any other region of Quebec, visit Immigration-Quebec`s website. Click on the region you`re interested in, and read about the geography, major towns and cities, and employment and education opportunities.
Rouyn-Noranda: Heart of the Abitibi-Témiscamingue Region
Located in the heart of the magnificent region of Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Rouyn-Noranda is the junction point for Témiscamingue, Abitibi and Nord-du-Québec, and home port to a vast array of attractions and centers of interest. Our people have hearts as big as our territory.
Rouyn-Noranda is the perfect harmony between the joys of urban life and living in close contact with nature.
The city of Noranda (a contraction of "North Canada") was created around the Horne mine. The city of Rouyn (named for Jean-Baptiste Rouyn) appeared after copper was discovered in 1917. Since 1966, Rouyn and Noranda constitute the capital of the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region. Both were officially constituted as cities in 1926, then merged in 1986. It is also the seat of public university UQAT since 1983.
The population tends to increase or decrease dramatically depending on the economic situation, and so it dropped by 5% between the 1996 and 2001 census, before increasing slightly by 0.8% for the 2006 census.
The Rouyn-Noranda Huskies have played in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League since 1996. Rouyn-Noranda has produced a high amount of NHLers for its size with former NHL stars Pierre Turgeon, Sylvain Turgeon, Dale Tallon, Robert Sullivan, Pit Martin, Jacques Laperriere, Jacques Cloutier, Dave Keon, Rejean Houle, and Eric Desjardins all hailing from the city.
Since 1982, the city has been host to the International Cinema Festival of Abitibi-Témiscamingue and since 2003, we are the host of the Emerging Music Festival in Abitibi-Témiscamingue.
Notable cultural figures from Rouyn-Noranda include singer-songwriter Richard Desjardins, actors Paule Baillargeon, Anne Dorval and Bruce Greenwood and science fiction writer Éric Gauthier.
Rouyn-Noranda is also known as a "Capital of Metal" since the metal scene is very active and popular. Many metal bands played in Rouyn-Noranda, like Behemoth, Sonata Arctica, Kreator, Napalm Death, Cryptopsy, Cannibal Corpse, Quo Vadis, Kataklysm, 1349, Anonymus, Vader, Martyr and Neuraxis. Descend Into Nothingness, Abitabyss, Archons, Cryptik Howling, Decrepity and many other metal bands from Rouyn-Noranda have great success in the metal scene.
Rouyn-Noranda’s English speaking population is represented by Neighbours Regional Association. They host a wide array of activities for every age group and all in English! For more information on our wonderful city – do not hesitate to contact them!
Courtesy of Neighbours Regional Association, a volunteer-based organization which believes in a vital future for our community.
OUR COMMUNITY:
Stories from the regionsWe are still seeking submissions of stories about the community you live in. Contact us for more information.
I am Inukclick to enlarge
by Minnie Novalinga from Kiluutaq School
Umiujaq, Northern Quebec
Provided by Blue Metropolis as an excerpt from their publication Québec Roots: The Place Where I Live. This project asks students in different classrooms across Quebec to comment on the community in which they live and work in photographs and words, in the form of a photo-essay, or book.
The Blue Metropolis Foundation is a Montreal-based non-profit organization dedicated to bringing people from different cultures together to share the pleasure of reading and writing. It organizes innovative activities that give diverse audiences direct access to various modes of literary expression of the highest calibre.
Heaven with a twist of lime
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by Caroline Savard from New Horizon Adult Education Centre
Sherbrooke, Eastern Townships
Provided by Blue Metropolis as an excerpt from their publication Québec Roots: The Place Where I Live. This project asks students in different classrooms across Quebec to comment on the community in which they live and work in photographs and words, in the form of a photo-essay, or book.
The Blue Metropolis Foundation is a Montreal-based non-profit organization dedicated to bringing people from different cultures together to share the pleasure of reading and writing. It organizes innovative activities that give diverse audiences direct access to various modes of literary expression of the highest calibre.
Our Lives in Wemindji
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by the all class: Grade 6 Maquatua Eeyou School
Wemindji, James Bay
Provided by Blue Metropolis as an excerpt from their publication Québec Roots: The Place Where I Live. This project asks students in different classrooms across Quebec to comment on the community in which they live and work in photographs and words, in the form of a photo-essay, or book.
The Blue Metropolis Foundation is a Montreal-based non-profit organization dedicated to bringing people from different cultures together to share the pleasure of reading and writing. It organizes innovative activities that give diverse audiences direct access to various modes of literary expression of the highest calibre.
Podcasts from central Quebec, the Laurentians, and Montreal
Listen to students` perspectives on their communities through podcasts, as part of the Blue Metropolis Foundation`s project Sounds Like Quebec. Students all over the province learned about radio reporting while recording their own podcasts. Click here to listen.
The Blue Metropolis Foundation is a Montreal-based non-profit organization dedicated to bringing people from different cultures together to share the pleasure of reading and writing. It organizes innovative activities that give diverse audiences direct access to various modes of literary expression of the highest calibre.
PHOTOS: Picture English-speaking life in Quebec– COMPLETE and attached separately
These photos have been supplied by the Quebec Community Groups Network and by Christopher Howlett, a young English-speaking photographer living in the Laurentians. He can be contacted at natural_selections_photography@hotmail.com. Would you like to submit a photo of your region? Contact lise.palmer@qcgn.ca.
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