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...Canada's Saguenay River, long ago explored by Jacques Cartier, yields great riches...
...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...
...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...
None of the materials used in making aluminum is found in the Saguenay valley. But the water racing out of Lake St. John provides the most vital of all resources needed in the industry: electric power. The urgent river has been thrice dammed to drive generators which produce...
...ways which Explorer Cartier never conceived, the Saguenay is yielding great riches: $21½ million profit after paying $11½ million in taxes...