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Arvida (/ ɑːr ˈ v aɪ d ə / ar-VY-də) is a settlement of 12,000 people (2010) in Quebec, Canada, that is part of the City of Saguenay. Its name is derived from the name of its founder, Arthur Vining Davis, president of the Alcoa aluminum company.
Arvida stretches northwest from the Rio Tinto Alcan plant along the shore of the Saguenay River. Crisscrossed by ravines, the residential town has an institutional zone at its heart and is encircled by a green belt.
- Arvida, Jonquière, Saguenay, Quebec
The Arvida aluminum complex includes a smelter, a dry refining plant, and an electrode plant. It is the largest aluminum complex in the world. The first two potrooms begin production in 1926, followed by the other two in 1927.
- 1994, rue Price, C.P. 2314, Jonquière, G7X 7X8, Québec
- (418) 695-7278
The arrival of thousands of people during the war led the Aluminum Company of Canada to carry out new residential complexes. Thus, the golf course changes location twice in the 1940s. As of 1927, Arvida also had a tennis club, its membership including several members of the Saguenay Country Club.
- 1994, rue Price, C.P. 2314, Jonquière, G7X 7X8, Québec
- (418) 695-7278
Jun 3, 2016 · Located in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region some 250 km north of Quebec City, Arvida was designed in 1925 and built in three phases up until 1950. It is an excellent synthesis of urban planning concepts favoured at the time, such as the City Beautiful and Garden City movements.
Arvida, ville industrielle planifiée et joyau du patrimoine saguenéen, québécois et canadien, est renommée pour son cachet particulier, son habitat unique, son architecture d'exception et ses infrastructures grandioses. Site officiel d'Arvida.
Arvida National Historic Site of Canada is located in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, 250 kilometers north of Quebec City. This company town, built to house employees of the local Alcoa aluminum plant, was designed as a whole, built in three phases and retains many original features.
