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Though the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region has long been known for its beautiful landscapes and rugged glacial fijord, 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, along with tours of the museum known as La Petite Maison Blanche ("The Small White House"), which miraculously survived the heavy floods of 1996, and tours of La Vieille Pulperie, once Canada's largest producer of paper pulp. In Jonquiere, an aluminum bridge spans the river in silent tribute to the area's aluminum industry. 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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