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The town is mostly know as a home for heavy industry, but it is also a center of recreational and tourist activites. It is near the Southern limit of a web of cross-country ski trails which meander through the Laurentides. Heading North, it is possible to undertake several nature filled days of skiing towards major resort centers such as Mont-Tremblant, Quebec.

During the summer, many of the ski trails are used as dedicated bicycle paths, making it possible to undertake day long or week long cycling excursions through nature, from one resort area to another, without sharing the right of way with motorized vehicles.

The city was for several decades the home of Sicard indutries, the biggest maker of Snow blowers in the world.

Until last year, when General Motors shut its doors, it was also the home of the only Canadian automobile assembly plant outside of Ontario.

According to the 2001 Statistics Canada Census:

• Population: 24,269
• % Change ( 19961996 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty''. Events January January 5 Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone Jan- 2001): 3.4
• Dwellings: 10,879
• Area (sq. km.): 9.58
• Density (persons per sq. km.): 2533.9