A Slide Towards Edouard Lake in 1941
![Black-and-white photograph of several people sliding on a wood structure installed on a hill.](https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/rouyn-noranda-une-histoire-de-mines_a-mining-story/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2015/12/19.3.jpg)
Date: circa 1940
Crédits: BAnQ Rouyn-Noranda, Joseph Hermann Bolduc funds. 08Y,P124,P423-41-30.
This facility was built in the early 1940s and enjoyed a natural difference in elevation from this part of the city. It was demolished after a little girl was seriously hurt. At the time, the slide was installed on Du Portage Street, or Principale Street, and faced downwards towards Édouard Lake.