{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Port-Cartier | native_name = | settlement_type = City | image_skyline = Port Cartier.jpg | imagesize = | image_caption = | image_flag = | flag_size = 120x100px | image_shield = Coat_of_arms_for_Port-Cartier.jpeg | shield_size = 100x80px | nickname = | motto = | image_map = | mapsize = 200px | pushpin_map = Quebec | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_label = | pushpin_map_caption = | coordinates = {{coord|50|02|N|66|52|W|region:CA-QC|display=inline,title}} | coor_pinpoint = | coordinates_footnotes= <ref name="toponymie"/> | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = Canada | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_name1 = Quebec | subdivision_type2 = Region | subdivision_name2 = Côte-Nord | subdivision_type3 = RCM | subdivision_name3 = Sept-Rivières | established_title = Settled | established_date = 1916 | established_title1 = Constituted | established_date1 = February 19, 2003 | government_footnotes = <ref name="mamh">{{mamrot |{{#property:P3856}}|access-date=2024-06-07}}</ref> | government_type = | leader_title = Mayor | leader_name = Danielle Beaupré | leader_title1 = Federal riding | leader_name1 = Côte-Nord—Kawawachikamach—Nitassinan | leader_title2 = Prov. riding | leader_name2 = Duplessis | area_footnotes = <ref name=mamh/><ref name=sc21>{{SCref |year=2021 |unit=csd |code={{#property:P3012}}|access-date=2024-06-06}}</ref> | area_total_km2 = 1371.79 | area_land_km2 = 1092.75 | area_water_km2 = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | population_footnotes = <ref name=sc21/> | population_total = 6516 | population_as_of = 2021 | population_density_km2= 6.0 | population_blank1_title= Pop&nbsp;<small>(2016-21)</small> | population_blank1 = {{decrease}} 4.2% | population_blank2_title= Dwellings | population_blank2 = 3,307 | population_note = | timezone = EST | utc_offset = −05:00 | timezone_DST = EDT | utc_offset_DST = −04:00 | postal_code_type = Postal code(s) | postal_code = G5B | area_codes = 418 and 581 | blank_name = Highways | blank_info = {{jct|state=QC|QC|138}} | website = {{Official URL}} | footnotes = }}

'''Port-Cartier''' ({{IPA|fr|pɔʁ kaʁtje}}) is a city in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada. It is located on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River at the mouth of the Aux-Rochers River, {{convert|63|km|mi}} southwest of Sept-Îles, Quebec.

Port-Cartier had a population of 6,516 at the 2021 Canadian census.<ref name=sc21/> It has a land area of {{convert|1092|km2|sqmi|0}}, ranking 27th in area among all Canadian cities and towns. Besides Port-Cartier itself, the communities of Rivière-Pentecôte (<small>{{coord|49|47|N|67|10|W|display=inline}}</small>),<ref>{{Cite cgndb |ERLAH |Rivière-Pentecôte |access-date=2024-06-07}}</ref> Pointe-aux-Anglais (<small>{{coord|49|40|38|N|67|10|05|W|display=inline}}</small>),<ref>{{Cite cgndb |EHRUB |Pointe-aux-Anglais |access-date=2024-06-07}}</ref> Baie-des-Homards (<small>{{coord|49|49|58|N|67|06|41|W|display=inline}}</small>),<ref>{{Cite cgndb |EMPKF |Baie-des-Homards |access-date=2024-06-07}}</ref> and Grand-Ruisseau (<small>{{coord|49|44|03|N|67|10|26|W|display=inline}}</small>)<ref>{{Cite cgndb |EMPGY |Grand-Ruisseau |access-date=2024-06-07}}</ref> are also within its municipal boundaries, all located along Quebec Route 138.

==History== In 1915, Colonel Robert R. McCormick, owner of the Chicago Tribune, visited the Rochers River area to evaluate its forest potential. Soon after, a settlement was established on the west side of the mouth of this river, originally called Shelter Bay.<ref name=greatlakes>[http://www.greatlakes-seaway.com/en/ports/portofcartier.html Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway System : Port Cartier<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829153740/http://www.greatlakes-seaway.com/en/ports/portofcartier.html |date=2007-08-29}}</ref> The post office opened in 1916, followed by a sawmill in 1918 and a debarking factory of the Ontario Paper Company in 1920. Yet the exhaustion of timber led to the closure of the factory in 1955.<ref name="toponymie">{{cite web |url=http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct/ToposWeb/fiche.aspx?no_seq=50727 |title=Port-Cartier (ville) |publisher=Commission de toponymie du Québec |access-date=2010-07-30 |language=fr}}</ref>

In 1958, the Québec Cartier Mining Company constructed an iron ore processing plant and an artificial sea port near Shelter Bay, for shipping the iron ore mined from deposits at Lake Jeannine near Gagnon. Port-Cartier, named after the mining company, was incorporated as a town in 1959 <ref name="toponymie"/> and the next year, Shelter Bay was added to it.<ref>{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 22|year=1965|page=378|publisher=Americana Corp}}</ref> The original town of Shelter Bay is now the suburb known as Port-Cartier West.<ref>{{cite book|first=Ivan|last=Brookes|year=1974|title=The lower St. Lawrence: a pictorial history of shipping and industrial development|page=165|publisher=Freshwater Press}}</ref> Today, the port handles approximately {{convert|18000000|t|ST LT|sigfig=3|lk=on}} of cargo per year <ref name=greatlakes /> and ranks third in Quebec in terms of handled tonnage.<ref name="toponymie"/>

===Rivière-Pentecôte=== thumb|left|200px|Rivière-Pentecôte In 1875, a mission called Saint-Patrice-de-la-Rivière-Pentecôte was established some 100&nbsp;km south-west of Sept-Îles at the mouth of the Pentecôte River. This name is attributed to Jacques Cartier who arrived at the place on the day of Pentecost in 1535. In 1884, the "Penticost River" Post Office opened, frenchized to Rivière-Pentecôte in 1933. At the end of the 19th century, it was among the most important industrial centres along the North Shore. In 1972, the Municipality of Rivière-Pentecôte was formed out of unorganized territory.<ref name="CTQ-RP">{{cite web |url=http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct/ToposWeb/fiche.aspx?no_seq=53633 |title=Rivière-Pentecôte (municipalité) |publisher=Commission de toponymie du Québec |access-date=2010-07-30 |language=fr}}</ref>

On February 19, 2003, the Municipality of Rivière-Pentecôte was amalgamated into the city of Port-Cartier.<ref name="CTQ-RP"/>

== Demographics == In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Port-Cartier had a population of {{val|6516|fmt=commas}} living in {{val|2918|fmt=commas}} of its {{val|3307|fmt=commas}} total private dwellings, a change of {{percentage|{{#expr:6516-6799}}|6799|1}} from its 2016 population of {{val|6799|fmt=commas}}. With a land area of {{convert|1092.75|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|6516|1092.75|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2021.<ref name=sc21/> {{Canada census |location = Port-Cartier |2021_population=6,516 | 2021_pop_delta=-4.2 | 2021_land_area=1,092.75 | 2021_pop_density=6.0 |2021_median_age=45.2 | 2021_median_age_m=44.4 | 2021_median_age_f=46.4 |2021_total_pvt_dwell=3,307 |2021_occ_pvt_dwell=2,918 | 2021_mean_hh_income=82,000 |2021_geocode=2021A00052497022 | 2021_access_date=2022-04-27 |2016_population=6,799 | 2016_pop_delta=+2.2 | 2016_land_area=1102.09 | 2016_pop_density=6.2 |2016_median_age=43.7 | 2016_median_age_m=43.0 | 2016_median_age_f=44.6 |2016_total_pvt_dwell=3,336 |2016_occ_pvt_dwell=2,930 | 2016_mean_hh_income=74,816 | 2016_access_date=2024-06-06 |2011_population=6,651 | 2011_pop_delta=-1.6 | 2011_land_area=1,101.31 | 2011_pop_density=6.0 |2011_median_age=43.1 | 2011_median_age_m=42.6 | 2011_median_age_f=43.5 |2011_total_pvt_dwell=3,093 | 2011_mean_hh_income=70,897 | 2011_access_date=2014-01-29 |2006_population=6,758 | 2006_pop_delta=+5.1 | 2006_land_area=1,101.31 | 2006_pop_density=6.1 |2006_median_age=41.7 | 2006_median_age_m=41.1 | 2006_median_age_f=42.2 |2006_total_pvt_dwell=3,010 | 2006_mean_hh_income=56,801 | 2006_access_date=2012-05-07 |2001_population=6,412 | 2001_pop_delta=-9.3 | 2001_land_area=292.86 | 2001_pop_density=21.9 |2001_median_age=38.2 | 2001_median_age_m=38.2 | 2001_median_age_f=38.2 |2001_total_pvt_dwell=2,764 | 2001_mean_hh_income=54,488 | 2001_access_date=2012-05-07 |notes = Municipality of Rivière-Pentecôte amalgamated into the Town of Port-Cartier on February 19, 2003. }}

{| | {{Historical populations |title = Historical Census Data - Port-Cartier, Quebec |align = none |cols = 2 |percentages = |footnote = Population counts are not adjusted for boundary changes and mergers. |source = Statistics Canada<ref name="scpast">1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 census</ref><ref name=census1971>{{cite journal |title=1971 Census of Canada - Population Census Subdivisions (Historical) |journal=Catalogue 92-702 Vol I, part 1 (Bulletin 1.1-2) |date=July 1973 |pages=76, 139 |publisher=Statistics Canada}}</ref> | 1961 |3458 | 1966 |3537 | 1971 |3730 | 1976 |8139 | 1981 |8191 | 1986 |6858 | 1991 |7383 | 1996 |7070 | 2001 |6412 | 2006 |6758 | 2011 |6651 | 2016 |6799 | 2021 |6516 }} | {{Historical populations |title = {{Nowrap|Historical census populations –}} Rivière-Pentecôte |align = none |cols = |percentages = |footnote = The Municipality of Rivière-Pentecôte existed from 1972 to 2003. |source = Statistics Canada | 1976 |953 | 1981 |924 | 1986 |786 | 1991 |736 | 1996 |622 | 2001 |640 }} |}

Mother tongue (2021):<ref name=sc21/> * English as first language: 1.3% * French as first language: 97.1% * English and French as first language: 0.6% * Other as first language: 1.0%

== Jail == The Correctional Service of Canada operates the Port-Cartier Institution, a maximum security prison, about two kilometres to the north. The institution houses male offenders and offers various programs and services to promote rehabilitation and reintegration into society. Port-Cartier Institution is known for its focus on education and vocational training, with a wide range of courses available to help inmates develop new skills and prepare for successful reentry into the workforce upon release.<ref name="b264">{{cite web | title=Information archivée dans le Web | website=Publications du gouvernement du Canada | url=https://publications.gc.ca/site/archivee-archived.html?url=https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2017/sp-ps/JS83-1-27-3-eng.pdf | language=fr | access-date=June 2, 2024}}</ref> Notable inmates have included convicted murderers Paul Bernardo, Russell Williams, Michael Rafferty, Mohammed Shafia, Robert Pickton, Luka Magnotta, and Guy Turcotte.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://torontosun.com/2013/06/21/michael-rafferty-joining-killers-russell-williams-and-paul-bernardo-in-quebec-prison/wcm/fe1761c0-2bb7-4f6e-a715-d8397fe87b00 |title=Michael Rafferty joining killers Russell Williams and Paul Bernardo in Quebec prison |last=SUN |first=Toronto |date=2013-06-21 |language=en-CA |access-date=2019-01-03}}</ref>

==Local government== List of former mayors:<ref>{{cite web |title=Répertoire des entités géopolitiques: Port-Cartier (ville) 1.7.1959 - ... |url=https://www.mairesduquebec.com/mairesduquebec/munic.php?id=2564 |website=www.mairesduquebec.com |publisher=Institut généalogique Drouin |access-date=7 June 2024}}</ref> * Roger Labrie (1959–1964) * Hector Maloney (1964–1966) * Louis Dufresne (1966–1973) * Gervais Lechasseur (1973–1975) * Bernard Dionne (1975–1982) * Ghislain Gagnon (1982–1983) * Anthony Detroio (1983–2009) * Laurence Méthot (2009–2013) * Violaine Doyle (2013–2017) * Alain Thibault (2017–2025) * Danielle Beaupré (2025–present)

== See also == * List of cities in Quebec * Cartier Railway * Île aux Oeufs

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== {{Commons category|Port-Cartier}} * {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.villeport-cartier.com/ Port-Cartier official website] * [http://www.qcmines.com/default.aspx Québec Cartier Mining Company] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20031228115617/http://broadband.gc.ca/demographic_servlet/community_demographics/3525 Government of Canada demographic information] * [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9060911/Port-Cartier Encyclopædia Britannica entry]

{{Geographic location | title = Adjacent Municipal Subdivisions | Centre = Port-Cartier | North = Lac-Walker | Northeast = Sept-Îles | East = ''Gulf of St. Lawrence'' | Southeast = | South = Baie-Trinité | Southwest = | West = Lac-Walker | Northwest = }} {{Sept-Rivières RCM|state=expanded}}

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Category:Cities and towns in Quebec Category:Incorporated places in Côte-Nord Category:Port settlements in Quebec Category:Quebec populated places on the Saint Lawrence River Category:Sept-Rivières Regional County Municipality