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Though the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region has long been known for its beautiful landscapes and rugged glacial fjord, the city of Saguenay itself is only a few years old, having been created in 2002 when a handful of smaller cities, municipalities, and townships merged to form Saguenay's three boroughs: Chicoutimi, Jonquiere, and La Baie. Chicoutimi's Old Port offers riverside trails for bicycling and skating. Both summer and winter activities abound: whale-watching, birdwatching, kayaking, rafting, hiking, cycling, snowmobiling, snowshoeing, dogsledding, and ice fishing. At the Musée du fjord, see amusing, interactive exhibits of scientific experiments. The Baie des Ha! Ha!-Saguenay Fjord ecosystem is explored through interactive exhibits. In Jonquiere, take a guided tour of the Abitibi-Consolidated paper mill in Kénogamie and learn about the highly complex process of manufacturing paper. Saguenay's natives are known for two things: their accented French, which reputedly sounds strange even to other Quebecois, and their love of the blueberries from which they take their nickname: "Bleuets."
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