It is an extraordinary country with its 150 000 square miles, its forests, lakes, rivers and its overall population of 320 000 inhabitants. Antoine Dubuc speaks of the great industrialist John Murdoch of the Alcan plant, the largest aluminum reduction plant in the world and Val-Jalbert, the ghost town abandoned after a strike at the plant pulp. Two men snowshoe in the woods. Val-Jalbert ghost town. Keywords: SAGUENAY-LAC-ST. JEAN