Clarke City, called Paushtik^u in the

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, is a community in the City of Sept-Îles, in the

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. It is located roughly 20 kilometers west of the Sept-Îles city centre, on the Sainte-Marguerite River near Route 138. The name of the town originated from the Clarke brothers who established a paper mill there in 1903 to feed their publication house in Toronto. They also built a hydroelectric factory in 1908 and that year, the village was officially founded as the region's first

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/ref> The registers of the Saint-Cœur-de-Marie Parish also began that year, counting 400 persons in Clarke City. The city was amalgamated into the city of Sept-Îles in 1970. It is now a sector in the western part of Sept-Îles.

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Neighbourhoods in Sept-Îles, Quebec Former municipalities in Quebec Populated places disestablished in 1970 {{Quebec-geo-stub