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Abitibi region of Quebec
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He algo does it to rib mem-
bers of his family who back
ithe Parti Quebecois.

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‘he says. And this has been so
since white settlement of
Abitibi got under way in 1912
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{Railway line, now patt of the
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make up the largest urban
centre in Abitibi—with a
population of 27,00.

Noranda was incorporated
in 1926, Rouyn in 1927, after
mining began on the rich
gold and copper deposil
discovered in 1920 by Nova
Scotia prospector Edmund
Horne.

As industrial | com-
missioner for both towns,
Fortin'’s job is to attract
industry to the area. But his
life-long passion is Abitibi
which he began to promote
long before 1974 when he was
named commissioner.

The rectangular ‘‘1ith
province” stretches roughly
from Chibougamau, Que., to
Kapuskasing, Ont, in the
north, dips south to the North
Channel of Lake Huron and
cuts back across the border
to Ste. Agathe, just 30
kilometres northwest of
Montreal.

It is just as far—625 kilo-
metres—to drive to Toronto
as itis to go to Montreal and
Abitibi people share com-
mon interests with people in
Ontario towns such as
Timmins and Kirkland Lake,
Fortin notes.

Both the Ontario and
Quebec regions feel they are
treated like poor cousins by
their respective provinclal
governments, and both have
resourcebased economies.

The old Horne mine in No-
randa ciosed last year,
putting more than 300 miners
out of work, but the Noranda
Mines ore concentrator still
employs about 1,00 and
processes ore from mines as
far away aS Manitoba.

Unemployment was 16.2
per cent in Abitibi in Sep-
tember, by Ottawa figures,
higher than the Quebec rate
which continues to hover
near 11 per cent,

Ted McLaren, president of
the Confederation of
National Trade Unions’
construction wing for nor-
thwestern Quebec,
challenges this, saying the
real rate of unemployment is
35 per cent, adding that last
year 60 per cent of the
workers in his union were

jobless.

The official figure is lower,
he says, because people no
longer eligible for unem:-
ployment insurance are nat
included and alot of the
unemployed leave the region
to look for work.

“This is no paradise on
earth. Far from it.”

The current period of
stagnation affecting Western
economies hits outlying

a regions such as Abitibi

sooner and harder than
metropolitan zones, as Cor-
porations cut back on far-off
activities first, he says.

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mining jobs in Abitibi, now
there are about 4,000. Low
copper prices don’thelp and,
although gold is above §200

an ounce, high production -

costs have prevented a
large-scale resumption of
gold mining.

Noranda Mines plans to
spend $3million to bring its
Chadburne gold mine in
Noranda back into
operation. The mine would
operate only five years and
employ 50.

If the Chadburne project
a company
spokesman says, the same
process might be used to
mine other small gold
deposits in the region.

Another problem in Abitibi
is one common to other
regions of Canada away
from built-up centres-a
freight-rate squeeze.

It costs comparatively
little to ship the mineral and
forestry products of Abitibi
out, Fortin notes, but the cost
of bringing goods in is high.

And Abitibi, which,
ironically, first was settled
as a forming region, looks
elsewhere not only for
finished products but for
basic foodstuffs too.

Abitibi is on the Lauren-
tian plain, lying below the
50th parallel. The flat lands
of Western Canada at the
same latitude are among the
best farmlands in the world.

During the 1930s, govern-
ment assistance was given ta
the unemployed in the cities
to help them “go back to the
land” in Abitibi.

But the soil was rocky and
frosts came early 50 that
most farms were given up.

Today, two of every three
jobs in the region are in the
bush camps, saw mills and
pulp and paper operations of
the forest industry.

Mining is the second most
important industry.

Fortin says that a change
in the census area of Abitibi,
trimming the most northerly
portion away, has caused
headaches as civil servants
in the south tried to cut back
services,

The 1961 census indicated

the population of Abitibi-
Temiscamingue was 169,600.
Ten years later it was
142,900, although most of the
drop can be explained by the
shift in the boundary.
Although the population is
lower, Fortin points out that
its demographic makeup has
changed. At the beginning of
the 1970s most people in
RouynNoranda were over 40.
Now 50 per cent are under 25.
The linguistic mix also has
changed.
Secretary-treasurer Helga
Brewer notes that the

Protestant school board once .

had a 25-per-cent share’ cf
property taxes but now its
portion is less than four ‘per
cent, Enrolment in the high
school, which was 514 in 1964,
now is 100.

Those of English origin
who remain, such as Ted
McLaren, are bilingual and
speak French all the time in

eir day-to-day lives.

Abitibi people are attached
to their region and no one is
more anxicus to develop it
than Louis-Marie Fortin.

Fortin recalls that during
the 1960s Noranda Mines
wanted to build a zinc
refinery which would have
been a boon to the town.

But Hydro-Quebec offered
the company power In
Valleyfield near Montreal at
less than half what it would
cost In Rouyn-Noranda, and
the refinery was built in the
southern city.

Fortin takes another map
from behind his desk, It
shows the James Bay region,
just north of Abitibi, and is
labelled: “Operation Bassin
BaieJames,” the James Bay
basin operation.

It was conceived by
Fortin, at a projected cost of
$3billion, and unveiled
Aprilag, 1971. The next day
former premier Robert
Bourassa released details of
his “project of the cen-
tury"— the $6-billion James
Bay hydroelectric
development,

Fortin traces the road-
ways he suggested in his

project and says that these:

are the same routes selected
for the present James Bay
development.

He notes that workers and
materials for the massive
project are, for the most
part, brought in from
Montreal where Hydro-

Quebec is based, and Abilibl
is overlooked,

Even though the develop-
ment—now estimated to cost

$15billion—is on its doorstep,

Abitibi will not benefit from
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