Clarke_City,_Quebec

Clarke City, Quebec

Clarke City, Quebec

Place in Quebec, Canada

Clarke City, called Paushtiku in the Innu language,[1] is a community in the City of Sept-Îles, in the Quebec region of Côte-Nord. It is located roughly 20 kilometers west of the Sept-Îles city centre, on the Sainte-Marguerite River near Route 138. The name of the town originated from the Clarke brothers who established a paper mill there in 1903 to feed their publication house in Toronto. They also built a hydroelectric factory in 1908 and that year, the village was officially founded as the region's first closed city.[2][3] Also that year, the registers of the Saint-Cœur-de-Marie Parish began, counting some 400 persons in Clarke City.[4]

Quick Facts (Paushtiku), Country ...

The city was amalgamated into the city of Sept-Îles in 1970 [2] and it is now a sector in the western part of Sept-Îles.

References

  1. [1]
    "Innu-aimun.ca: Paushtiku". Archived from the original on 2018-04-07. Retrieved 2015-12-20.
  2. [2]
    Grandquebec.com: Clarke City
  3. [3]
    Bonjourquebec.com: Centre d'interprétation de Clarke City
  4. [4]
    "Clarke City (secteur)" (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec. Retrieved 2010-08-03.


Stub icon

This Quebec location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Clarke_City,_Quebec, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.