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  2. 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, Ar thur Vi ning Da vis , president of the Alcoa aluminum company.

  3. Nov 26, 2018 · The area, located about 250 kilometres north of Quebec City, was founded by Arthur Vining Davis, the U.S.-born head of the Aluminum Company of America. (Radio-Canada) The Quebec government has ...

  4. 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. The latter were first supplied with alumina from East St. Louis, Illinois, pending the construction of the refining plant.

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  5. Company name changes for the Arvida plant. Arvida was created by the Aluminum Company of America, better known as Alcoa in the late 1910s. The Pittsburgh Reduction Company, that previously launched the Aluminum Company of America, was represented in Canada as the Northern Aluminum Company, the name under which it operated the first aluminum smelter in Canada, which Pittsburgh had established ...

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  6. Jun 3, 2016 · Arvida’s expansion is associated with the first aluminum plant in Canada and is a testimony to growth and development related to the country’s aluminum industry. The city of Arvida, whose name is derived from the first letters of the name of its founder, ARthur VIning DAvis (1867–1962), president of the Alcoa aluminum company, was founded following the construction of the first aluminum ...

  7. 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. Autrefois connue de par le monde pour son usine d’aluminium la plus puissante, la cité modèle gagne à être ...

  8. 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. Arvida stretches northwest from the Rio Tinto Alcan plant ...

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