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34 Lucie K. Morisset > aNalysis | aNalyse fig. 65. the AreA ArOund sAinte-thérèse church, ArvidA, in 1928. | cOllectiOn chArles bOivin. distinctive buildings and its array of houses, schools, churches, businesses, and parks, designed by such notable figures as Frederick Gage Todd, Ernest Isbel Barrott, Léonce Desgagné, Harold Lea Fetherstonhaugh, Alexander Tilloch Galt Durnford, some of the best-known Canadian architects and landscape designers of the period (figs. 66-68). During the Second World War, when the smelter, with its fully integrated production process, attained the jaw-dropping capacity the 1925 plans had aspired to and catapulted the city to the status of world aluminum capital, a new power plant (James Curzey Meadowcroft) was built on Arvida’s north side, Shipshaw II, of course one of the world’s most powerful generating stations, received the Canadian government’s highest architectural award and created a sensation rivalling that of the world’s first aluminum bridge, which the company, now Alcan, would build just upstream a few years later. Arvida was born as an industrial utopia and forged in a tradition of excellence that its residents still enjoy the benefits of. The commitment of the aluminum companies of America and Canada and Alcan to this model city never flagged with continued growth: despite a seven-fold increase in population between 1939 and 1950, the new neighbourhoods that sprang up were as charming as the old (fig. 69). After the meticulously documented boom mapped out in complex charts now held in the municipal archives, 113 the city could boast property valued at over $45 million on an initial investment of a little under $700,000 (1948) and a full documentary record in the tradition of the original, ambitious plans. A new hospital with its aluminum ornamentation was built in the 1950s, confirming the city’s regionalist vocabulary: It was also located “on a mountain north of the centre of town,” to quote Garnier, and to this day “curtains of greenery frame [it] to the east and west.” 114 Thus, if Arvida’s downtown had not yet attained the monumentality seen in the 1926 City Beautiful plan, this was no doubt because immediate completion was less important to Arthur Vining Davis’s social utopia than was its living environment. The construction of the first two commercial blocks, which resembled those of Badin and Alcoa, took place under very tight company supervision to ensure architectural quality. “It has taken constant supervision and endless patience to get the buildings constructed according to the plans,” 115 complained Wake as he struggled with the whims and financial reversals of businesses that had acquired lots in the business district. A subsequent slowdown in Arvida’s development has been attributed to the splitting up of the company in 1928. Suspected of monopoly, the company hived off its Canadian operations and formed the new, autonomous Aluminum Company of Canada. Arthur JSSAC | JSÉAC 36 > N o 1 > 2011
fig. 66. this elegAnt tAke On french cAnAdiAn vernAculAr Architecture, One Of the new mOdels Of hOuse built in ArvidA during And After the secOnd wOrld wAr, wAs designed by the firm fetherstOnhAugh And durnfOrd, sPecificAlly (it beArs his initiAls) by AlexAnder tillOch gAlt durnfOrd befOre he left tO serve in the rOyAl cAnAdiAn nAvy. it wAs submitted by hArOld leA fetherstOnhAugh while fetherstOnhAugh wAs serving On the ArvidA PlAnning cOmmissiOn. | mcgill university Archives. fig. 67. lAndscAPer And Architect frederick gAge tOdd wAs the first President Of the ArvidA PlAnning cOmmissiOn, estAblished in 1942 by the Aluminum cOmPAny Of cAnAdA. this 1946 PlAn Of Oerstedt PArk wAs One Of A number PrOJects he designed fOr the mOdel city. | ville de sAguenAy. JSSAC | JSÉAC 36 > N o 1 > 2011 Lucie K. Morisset > aNalysis | aNalyse fig. 68. in 1936, Architect ernest isbel bArrOtt, knOwn At the time fOr his wOrk On A number Of hOusing develOPments (including severAl hOuses fOr the tOwn Of irOquOis fAlls fOr Abitibi lAnds And fOrests) delivered PlAns fOr 17 new ArvidA hOuse mOdels As well As this set Of wAtercOlOurs illustrAting the vAriety Of lAndscAPes AvAilAble with the PrOPOsed mOdels. | cOllectiOn Pierre thibAult. fig. 69. like mAny views Of ArvidA, this imAge wAs AlsO PrOduced As A POstcArd. it shOws One Of the new neighbOurhOOds built during the secOnd wOrld wAr, And demOnstrAting the sAme AttentiOn tO Aesthetic AsPects As PreviOus develOPments. | cOllectiOn chArles bOivin. 35
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