| Alma | |
| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Motto: | La ville de l'hospitalité |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Lac-Saint-Jean Quebec |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean Quebec |
| Coordinates: | 48.55°N -110°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Quebec |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean |
| Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
| Subdivision Name3: | Lac-Saint-Jean-Est |
| Established Title: | Amalgamation |
| Established Date: | 1962 (of Isle-Maligne, Naudville, Riverbend and St-Joseph d'Alma.) |
| Established Title1: | Constituted |
| Established Date1: | February 21, 2001 (amalgamation with Delisle) |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Sylvie Beaumont |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Name1: | Lac-Saint-Jean |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Leader Name2: | Lac-Saint-Jean |
| Area Footnotes: | [2] |
| Area Total Km2: | 230.30 |
| Area Land Km2: | 195.59 |
| Area Urban Footnotes: | [3] |
| Area Urban Km2: | 41.10 |
| Area Metro Footnotes: | [4] |
| Area Metro Km2: | 340.35 |
| Population Total: | 30904 |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Population Density Km2: | 158.0 |
| Population Urban: | 26016 |
| Population Density Urban Km2: | 633.0 |
| Population Metro: | 33018 |
| Population Density Metro Km2: | 97.0 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2006-2011 |
| Population Blank1: | 3.0% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 13884 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Postal Code: | G8B, G8C & G8E |
| Area Codes: | 418 and 581 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Blank Info: | |
| Blank1 Name: | Telephone Exchanges |
| Blank1 Info: | 212, 321, 480-2, 487, 662, 668-9, 719, 720, 769 |
| Blank2 Name: | NTS Map |
| Blank3 Name: | GNBC Code |
| Blank3 Info: | EFHQD[5] |
Alma (2021 Town population: 30,331; CA Population 33,018; UA Population 26,016) is a town in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, in the Canadian province of Quebec.
The present town of Alma was formed in 1962 from the merging of four villages: Isle-Maligne, Naudville, Riverbend and St-Joseph d'Alma. The oldest of the villages, St-Joseph-d'Alma, was founded in 1867 by Damase Boulanger. The area became an important industrial centre during the 1920s and 1930s with the construction of a hydro-electrical power station on the Grande-Décharge River, a paper mill (Price) and an aluminum smelting plant (Alcan), all of which are still in activity today.
In 2002, Alma merged with the Municipality of Delisle. Both modern day Alma and St-Joseph d'Alma are named after the Battle of the Alma.
Alma is located on the southeast coast of Lac Saint-Jean where it flows into the Saguenay River, in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada, approximately 175 km north of Quebec City. Alma is the seat of Lac-Saint-Jean-Est Regional County Municipality. Alma is the second largest city in population in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region after the city of Saguenay.
Alma is the seat of the judicial district of Alma.[6]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Alma had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 194.92km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[7]
Population trend:[8]
Mother tongue:[10]
| Visible minority and Aboriginal population (Canada 2006 Census) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population group | Population | % of total population | ||
| White | 29,025 | |||
| Visible minority group Source:[11] | South Asian | 0 | ||
| 45 | ||||
| 40 | ||||
| 0 | ||||
| 20 | ||||
| 15 | ||||
| Southeast Asian | 60 | |||
| 0 | ||||
| 0 | ||||
| 10 | ||||
| Visible minority, n.i.e. | 0 | |||
| Multiple visible minority | 0 | |||
| Total visible minority population | 200 | |||
| Aboriginal group Source:[12] | 125 | |||
| 335 | ||||
| 0 | ||||
| Aboriginal, n.i.e. | 10 | |||
| Multiple Aboriginal identity | 0 | |||
| Total Aboriginal population | 480 | |||
| Total population | 29,705 | 100% | ||
Alma is serviced by the Alma Airport, located 4.1 km to the south of the town.
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Canada. Alma has been twinned with Falaise, Calvados, France, since 1969.[13]