The First Police Station and the Liquor Commission Space in Rouyn, 1927
![Black-and-white photograph of two log cabins with bars on the windows. A sign is put up on the door of the left building.](https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/rouyn-noranda-une-histoire-de-mines_a-mining-story/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2016/01/P123S1P183.jpg)
Date: circa 1927
Credits: BAnQ Rouyn-Noranda, Xstrata Cuivre Canada funds, Fonderie Horne, Vavasour & Dick series. 08Y,P123,S1,P183.
This photo was taken after Rouyn was incorporated into a village municipality on May 6, 1926. Before that, the legislation did not allow the area to establish a Liquor Commission. In the late 1920s, there were only a few police officers on duty in Rouyn. Their place of operations was in a log cabin, which you can see on the left with a sign that reads, “Quebec Liquor Commission Police Office.”