Saguenay

American  

[sag-uh-ney] / ˌsæg əˈneɪ /

noun

1. a river in SE Canada, in Quebec, flowing SE from Lake St. John to the St. Lawrence. 125 miles (200 km) long.

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Saguenay British  

/ ˌsæɡəˈneɪ /

noun

1. a river in SE Canada in S Quebec, rising as the Péribonca River on the central plateau and flowing south, then east to the St Lawrence. Length: 764 km (475 miles)

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Example Sentences

Forest had learned to fly bush planes in Saguenay in 2018 before being hired by Air Canada in December 2022, the Toronto Star reported.

From BBC

He said his community's evacuees have been welcomed in Saguenay, a city of 145,000 people, where they have spent the past few days at makeshift shelters set up in local colleges, sleeping on military beds.

From BBC

In Quebec’s Saguenay Lac-Saint-Jean, which produces one-third of Canada’s aluminum, the region raised alarm last month when it recorded more daily cases than Montreal, which has eight times the population.

From Reuters

Julie Bouchard, president of a Saguenay nurses’ union local, said some nurses were working up to 16 hours a day, due to absent staff and limited capacity.

From Reuters

The region of Lac Saint-Jean and Saguenay, where the group went missing, has hundreds of kilometres of well-maintained trails through boreal forest and picturesque towns.

From The Guardian