Chicoutimi, Canada Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Since its founding by a Scottish immigrant in 1842, the regional capital of CHICOUTIMI has grown from a small sawmill centre into one of the province's largest towns and as such is not a particularly enticing place. The city's main attraction is La Pulperie de Chicoutimi at 300 Dubuc, five austere brick buildings built along the rapids by the Chicoutimi Pulp Company, which was founded in 1896 and quickly became Canada's largest producer of paper pulp. Left to rot in 1930, these gigantic ghosts of Chicoutimi's industrial past had been restored to prime condition but the flood of 1996 caused $1 … more »