It's summer in Chicoutimi, a town of 70,000 people in the picturesque Saguenay region in the Canadian province of Quebec. On Avenue Price, one of the city's main drags, behind a vast wooden house with bright red shutters, light from a campfire dances on the crowded backyard patio. A few guys with acoustic guitars sing a Québécois campfire song, to loud applause from a group of backpackers from Ontario. Inside, in the basement, a tattooed bartender serves up local microbrews to patrons.