| La Baie | |
|---|---|
| — Borough — | |
| Borough of La Baie (in blue) in the City of Saguenay | |
| Coordinates: | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Quebec |
| Region | Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean |
| City | Saguenay |
| Government | |
| • Borough president | Jean-Eudes Simard |
| Area | |
| • Total | 262.66 km2 (101.4 sq mi) |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Total | 19,639 |
| • Density | 75/km2 (194.2/sq mi) |
| Time zone | Eastern (UTC−5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−4) |
| Area code(s) | 418/581 |
| Website | Borough Council of La Baie |
La Baie is a borough of the city of Saguenay, Quebec, located where the Rivière à Mars flows into the Baie des Ha! Ha!, a bay of the Saguenay River. Formerly an independent city, its population in 2006 was 19,639.
La Baie was created by the result of the merger of the towns of Bagotville, Port-Alfred and Grande-Baie in 1976. In 2002, it was further amalgamated into the city of Saguenay.
While Chicoutimi and Jonquière, the two boroughs that constitute the main urban core of Saguenay, are located close to each other, La Baie is at a moderate distance from the city centre. This has created some unique issues for the borough — for example, while a full-power television or radio station in Saguenay can serve the entire city from a single transmitter without difficulty, La Baie is distant enough from the city's urban core that some low-power broadcasters, such as CKAJ-FM, have had to add separate transmitters to rebroadcast their signals in La Baie.