The history of the region in images and wordsLocated in the Saguenay, the Centre d’archives du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean covers a territory with an area of 104,000 square kilometres. It is part of the network of nine Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) archives centres distributed throughout Québec. Dedicated to the preservation and development of the region’s public and private archives, it offers researchers and the public consultation rooms and efficient personnel to guide them in the use of the wide range of documents the centre holds.

It houses two consultation rooms. The reference room is a pleasant work area that houses a vast collection of works. In the microfilm room, visitors can use a half dozen microfilm readers/copiers, microfilm readers and two microfilm readers/digitizers.

Every year, it welcomes hundreds of visitors, essentially from the educational and profes-sional sectors. They use the Centre’s services for research concerning the history of their families, localities or regions.

The Centre d’archives du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean houses archives that can be used to trace the history of the region throughout almost all of the 20th century, including:• 1591 linear metres of text documents;• 463,296 photographs;• 17,815 aerial photographs;• 37,990 maps and plans;• 24,330 architectural drawings.

AN ARCHIVES CENTRE IN AN OASIS Location:Saguenay

Year of inauguration: 1978

Saguenay−Lac-Saint-Jean

Picking blueberries, colour slide.Marc Ellefsen fonds(P246, S1 DNEA10-20).

Trinity Rock, Saguenay River, Que., Canada,

colour postcard, [19-].Dubuc family fonds

(P1, S6, SS6, D295, P1.65).

Centre d’archives du Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean 930, rue Jacques-Cartier Est, bureau C-103 Saguenay (Québec) G7H 7K9

Opening hours Monday through Friday, from 8:00 am to 12:00 noon and from 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm

Telephone: 418 698-3516 or 1 800 363-9028Fax: 418 698-3758Email: archives.saguenay@banq.qc.ca

All of the documents reproduced to illustrate this leaflet are included in the collections and fonds of BAnQ’s Centre d’archives du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean.

Accredited private archives services • Fédération des sociétés d’histoire du Lac-Saint-Jean • Société historique du Saguenay

The public archives held by the Centre d’archives du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean document the activities of the government departments responsible for applying government policies in the region. Certain collections provide evidence of the commit-ments made by individuals or organizations (notaries’ archives) or of the disputes that set them against one another (court archives).

The private archives available to the public include the:• J.-É.-A. Dubuc, Vincent Dubuc and the

Dubuc family fonds;• Consolidated Bathurst (Port- Alfred mill)

fonds;• Price fonds;• Société historique du Saguenay fonds,

including a vast collection of photographs (Joseph-Eudore Lemay fonds). These archives also include the Ellefsen, Bonneau, Krieber and Lalime photographic collections, as well as very substantial architectural archives covering almost all of the 20th century, such as the Lamontagne and Gravel, Desgagné and Laberge, Coutu and Bergeron fonds as well as those of Les Architectes associés.

The Colon and the Roberval at Honfleur,black and white photo, circa 1903-1910.Société historique du Saguenay collection(P2, S7, P10579).

Church and presbytery, Val-Jalbert,plan on paper, [1924].Maurice Gravel fonds(P214, S1, P91).

Back of a notebook belonging to Jean-Baptiste Duberger, surveyor, 1818.Société historique du Saguenay collection(P2, S2, D239).