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...tariff barriers because it is a low-cost producer, benefiting from Canada's lower-wage labor, devalued dollar and abundance of cheap electric power. Harnessing the remote Saguenay River, Aluminium cut into the trackless wilds of northern Quebec to build the dams that now power the smelter at Arvida (a contraction of Arthur Vining Davis). For the still bigger Kitimat power project in British Columbia, it carved a ten-mile tunnel into a mountain, created a waterfall 16 times as high as Niagara Falls and built a smelter with an awesome annual capacity of 300,000 tons...
...Mutual Admiration Cards" to those others who desire something to take the place of wedding rings or marriage certificates ... In this way Hollywood could still have its fun and games and the sanctity of marriage might not be so exposed to ridicule as it now is. . . , " , R. C. QUITTENTON Arvida, Quebec...
...medals on their hairy chests. A few will get to the end of the deep water and to Chicoutimi, now a cathedral city of 30,000, with cinemas, an airline office, soda counters and neon signs. But few will get more than a glimpse of the twinkling lights of Arvida, seven miles away...
...kingdom of the Saguenay, aluminum is king and Arvida is its capital. Named for Arthur Vining Davis, 80-year-old founder of Aluminum Company of Canada Ltd. ("Alcan"),* Arvida has two aspects. As a company town it is one of the best laid out and best run on the continent. Its schools (for adults as well as children) and recreation facilities are topnotch...
Land of Earners. Arvida's other aspect is industrial. The great aluminum plant (the world's largest individual producer) is a mile long, half a mile wide. There habitants who have forsaken the logging camps and rock-strewn farms work in vast Dantesque chambers among massive vats and electrolytic furnaces. The metal they turn out goes into pots & pans, airplanes, building materials, cigarette holders, poker chips, electric conduits. Soon, Alcan will build an aluminum bridge across the Saguenay...