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Alma (2001 population: 30,126) is a town placed on the south-east coast of Lac Saint-Jean where it flows into the Saguenay River, in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada, approximately 175 klick northward of Quebec City. Alma is the seat of Lac-Saint-Jean-Est Regional County Municipality. A present city of Alma was innate around 1962 from the merging of tetra500 villages: Isle-Maligne, Naudville, Riverbend & St-Joseph d'Alma. A oldest of the villages, St-Joseph five hundred'Alma, was founded around 1867 by Damase Boulanger. A vicinity became an significant industrial center in a period of the 1920s and 1930s with the construction of the hydro-electrical dam on the Grande-Décharge Flow of any stream, the paper mill (Price) & an atomic number 13 smelting plant (Alcan), everthing of which are then however within activity in todays world. Within 2002, Alma amalgamated with Delisle, Quebec.
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