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Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 16:05:47 -0500
From: Yaïves Ferland <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Company towns
 
 
Hello everybody,
If we consider the word 'company' in its extensive meaning, I suspect that
the first place-name given by a company-leader to the place he founded, in
the US, is a colony and later a state: Pennsylvania, since William Penn at
the head of a settlement company. I do not know about the Rhode of
Rhode-Island, but is it not also the case for Baltimore MD, since Lord
Calvert of Baltimore?
 
In Québec, we also have a lot of wards, towns, cities, even counties bearing
the name of the company founder or the company-name itself, in lumbering (as
Price, since Price bros.) and mining (as Murdochville or Noranda). The best
known is Arvida, today a sector of Jonquière, a planned garden-like
industrial city founded in 1925 by ARthur VIning DAvis, of Alcoa aluminium
co., now ALCAN Co. Arvida is still the largest planned autonomous city even
raised in North America.
 
Yaïves Ferland, doctoral student
Land Law Lab, Centre of research in Geomatics
Université Laval, Québec
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