Baie Comeau

Baie-Comeau is a city found roughly 420 kilometers 260 mi north-east of Quebec City in the Cote-Nord area of the region of Quebec, Canada. It is situated on the shores of the Saint Lawrence River close to the mouth of the Manicouagan River, and is the seat of Manicouagan Regional County Municipality. There are two urban region populace focuses inside as far as possible: Baie-Comeau appropriate, with a populace of 9,917, and Hauterive, with a populace of 11,844, as of the Canada 2011 Census.

The city is named after the nearby Comeau Bay, or, in other words respect of Napoléon-Alexandre Comeau, a Quebecois naturalist. Previous Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney is a local of the town. The most established piece of Baie-Comeau is the zone known as Vieux-Poste Old Post close to the mouth of the Amedee River where in 1889, the Saint-Eugene-de-Manicouagan Mission was established by Eudists. In 1898, the main sawmill in the Cote-Nord district was worked there by the siblings Damase and Henri Jalbert, however it shut in 1907 after their timber stock was cleared into the St. Lawrence. In 1916, Route 138 was reached out to Saint-Eugene-de-Manicouagan and in 1929, its mail station opened with the English name of Comeau Bay gallicized in 1936.