Солтүстік Бретань аралдары мен Септ-Иль қаласының тарихы

the islands in north of Brittany

The city is well known for having major iron companies like Iron Ore Company of Canada and the [SFP Pointe Noire] iron ore transport service company. The city relies heavily on the iron industry. Sept Îles has among the highest average wages and the highest average wage increases. The only settlements on the paved road network that are farther north are Fermont, Radisson and Chisasibi, the latter two of which are in the extreme western part of the province at the north end of the James Bay Road. The only other settlements at higher latitudes in the province are mostly isolated Cree, Innu, or Inuit villages, with access limited to seasonal gravel roads. Sept Îles is the seat of the judicial district of Mingan. The city is also home to the most highly attended recreational volleyball tournament in the province: the Tournoi Orange, which consists of 405 teams and close to 800 volleyball games.

The first inhabitants of the area were varying cultures of aboriginal peoples. The Montagnais or Innu people, who call it Uashat ("Great Bay"), have lived there since before the time of European encounter. Jacques Cartier sailed by the islands in 1535 and made the first written record of them, calling them the Ysles Rondes ("Round Islands"). He was not the first European in the area, as he encountered Basque fishermen who came annually from Europe for whaling and cod fishing. Early European economic activity in Sept Îles was based on fishing and the fur trade. Louis Joliet established trading posts by 1679. Great Britain took over Canada from France in 1763 after its victory in the Seven Years' War. In 1842 the Hudson's Bay Company founded another post at this location. The village was incorporated into a municipality in 1885. Lacking road access at the time, the town got its first pier in 1908. The City of Sept Îles was incorporated in 1951, on the 300th anniversary of the first Catholic Mass held in the village. The modern Sept Îles was built rapidly during the construction of the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway, the railway link to the northern town of Schefferville. The railway was built between 1950 and 1954 by the Iron Ore Company of Canada. Iron ore mined near Schefferville and Wabush, Labrador, was transported on this railway and shipped from the Port of Sept Îles. Shipment of the important new commodity resulted in investments that turned this into a major port. With the iron ore business, the Sept Îles deep water seaport was second in Canada only to Vancouver in terms of yearly tonnage. The huge engineering project led to a major increase in population, and housing was quickly built to accommodate them. The town grew from 2,000 inhabitants in 1951 to 14,000 in 1961, and 31,000 in 1981. The decline in worldwide iron ore prices in recent decades has since caused employment and population to decrease. During the early 1990s, some new jobs accompanied the construction and operation of the new Aluminerie Alouette inc. aluminum processing plant. Construction for Phase 1 began in September 1989, and operation started in 1992. Construction of Phase 2 began in 2003. In 2002 the city amalgamated with the communities of Gallix and Moisie. The city includes the neighbourhoods of Arnaud, Clarke City, De Grasse, de la Pointe, de la Rivière, Ferland, La Boule, Lac Labrie, Matamec, Plages, Pointe Noire and Val Marguerite.

The Sept Îles Airport has connections all over Quebec and Labrador. General aviation seaplanes are served by Sept Îles/Lac Rapides Water Aerodrome. Air Gaspé was based in Sept Îles, but acquired by Quebecair in 1973. In the 1980s, continued airline restructuring led to Quebecair's being acquired by CP Air in 1986, which in turn was taken over by Canadian Airlines in 1987. Tshiuetin Rail Transportation also operates a passenger rail service north to Emeril, Labrador (near Labrador City) which continues northward towards its terminus in Schefferville, Quebec. Groupe Desgagnés operates the Bella Desgagnés passenger and cargo ship along the lower St. Lawrence from Rimouski to Blanc Sablon from mid April to mid January.

Sept Îles has a subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification Dfc) bordering on a humid continental climate (Dfb) despite being located at around only 50 degrees latitude. The two main seasons are summer and winter, as spring and autumn are very short transition seasons lasting only a few weeks. Winters are long, very cold, and snowy, lasting from late October to late April, but milder than more inland locations, with a January high of and a January low of Overall precipitation is unusually high for a subarctic climate, and snow totals correspondingly heavy, averaging per season, with an average depth of annually or from December to April inclusive. Summers are mildly warm, with a July high of ; summers thus display stronger maritime influence than do winters. Precipitation is significant year round, but it is lowest from January to March. The highest temperature ever recorded in Sept Îles was on 18 June 2020. The coldest temperature ever recorded was on 29 January 1913. The coldest temperature was recorded at Clarke City, which was the primary weather station for the area until records began at Sept Îles Airport in September 1944.

FM 90.1 CKAU FM 1, First Nations community radio (rebroadcasts CKAU FM Maliotenam)
FM 94.1 CKCN FM, contemporary hit radio
FM 96.1 CBRX FM 2, Ici Musique (rebroadcasts CBRX FM Rimouski)
FM 96.9 CBSE FM, CBC Radio One (rebroadcasts CBVE FM Quebec City)
FM 98.1 CBSI FM, Ici Radio Canada Première
FM 99.1 CIPC FM, soft rock

Iron ore concentrate from IOC activities in Labrador City are transported by the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway and are shipped to many markets around the world from Sept Îles port facilities. Iron ore from Wabush and Bloom Lake is also shipped at Point Noire port facilities. The Aluminerie Alouette, in activity since 1992, has a large part in the local employment since construction started in 1989. Since its major expansion that started in 2005, it is now the largest primary aluminum smelter in the Americas. As a service centre for northeastern Québec, Sept Îles economy is also powered by many jobs in the services sector. Prior to its disestablishment, Air Gaspé was headquartered in Sept Îles.

Dredge, L. A. Surficial Geology of the Sept Îles Area, Quebec North Shore. Ottawa, Canada: Geological Survey of Canada, 1983. Faessler, Carl. Sept Îles Area, North Shore of St. Lawrence, Saguenay County. Québec: Dept. of Mines, Division of Geological Surveys, 1942.