Trois Rivières

World Capital of Poetry

Trois Rivières is the second oldest city in Canada. The capital of St. Maurice County, it is located at the confluence of the St. Maurice and St. Lawrence rivers, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, midway between Quebec City and Montreal. The city is named for the three channels through which the St. Maurice River enters the St. Lawrence.

Population: 126,000 inhabitants

Three-hundred thousand (300,000) people live within a 50-kilometre radius of Trois Rivières. Click on the map.

The population of Quebec is 7,509,928 inhabitants. Bordering the province to the north is the Arctic Ocean; to the south, the United States and the province of New Brunswick. East of Quebec are the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of the St.Lawrence. James Bay, Hudson Bay, and the province of Ontario lie to the west of the province.

Trois Rivières is five hours by car from Boston and one hour by plane from New York City.

The World Capital of Poetry is 130 kilometres from Montreal and 120 kilometres from Quebec City.

Language : French

Special Features : Trois Rivières is a city steeped in history and culture.

Regional Economy : industrial (the manufacture of paper products, advanced research on hydrogen, the metal industry); services (colleges, hospitals, a campus of the University of Quebec). Industries specializing in the exploitation and transformation of natural resources are a large part of the economy. The manufacture of paper products provides the greatest number of jobs in the manufacturing sector.