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Jonquiere
Population: 59716 people.
Area: 108 km2.

Jonquière was a city on the Saguenay River in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada, near Chicoutimi. In 2002, Jonquière became an arrondissement, or borough, of the merged city of Saguenay. Jonquière itself was the result of the agglomeration of three cities: Kénogami, Jonquière, and Arvida. Much of Jonquière's development owed its strength to the Price family, who ran a pulp and paper factory in Kénogami. Today that pulp and paper factory is owned by Abitibi-Consolidated. Arvida is the home of an aluminium plant owned by Alcan. Jonquière is probably most well known in the United States because of its Wal-Mart store, which attempted to unionize and was closed down shortly thereafter. The official reason for this shutdown was labelled as "financial problems."

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