Sights in Saguenay
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Centre d'Interprétation des Mammiféres Marins
The CIMM gives excellent background information on local sea creatures through multimedia exhibits.
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Poste de Traite Chauvin
The Poste de Traite Chauvin is a replica of the continent's first fur-trading post and offers some history on the first transactions between Aboriginals and Europeans. Exhibits are in French, but ask for an English guidebook.
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Petite Chapelle
Built in 1747 by the Jesuits, Petite Chapelle is one of North America's oldest wooden churches. Also known as the Indian Chapel, it contains a small exhibition on missionary life.
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Musée de la Petite Maison Blanche
Nearby, also in the area known as 'the Basin,' is the spindly Musée de la Petite Maison Blanche. Built in 1900, the house withstood water with a force equivalent to Niagara Falls in a 1996 flood that caused $16 billion of damage to Chicoutimi.
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La Pulperie
This was once the world's biggest pulp mill. A guided tour and exhibitions explain the mill's history and its pivotal role in the development of a town that increased its population from 708 in 1899 to 4255 in 1929. The site also features the House of Arthur Villeneuve, now a museum. The barber-artist painted the entire building inside and out like a series of canvases in his bright, naive folk style.
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