Heavy Industry Archives | The birth of Rouyn and Noranda: a mining story

A Wright Mine Headframe

This headframe sat on a 60-foot-deep mine shaft, for which the drilling started at the end of 1880. It was finally destroyed in the winter months between 1977 […]

Noranda City in 1939

In the late 1930s, Armand Senécal was a travelling salesman for the Salada Tea Company and visited several mining towns in Abitibi. He took the opportunity to shoot […]

A Masked Man Driving a Car in the Smelter

The significant environmental impacts of sulphur dioxide released during copper smelting were common knowledge even before the construction of the Horne mine. Proof of this is the fact […]

Rouyn-Noranda: Provincial Capital of Pollution

In 1985, a group of activists march through the streets of Noranda to protest pollution caused by the mining industry.