Saguenay

[sag-uh-ney]

noun

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

Saguenay

/ 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)

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A passenger on the Air Canada flight from Montreal to Saguenay, Quebec, filmed the incident, CBC reports.

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