Gold Rush: Stories of Big Mines and a Little Town Named Malartic Gold Rush; stories of big mines and a little town named Malartic Musée minéralogique de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue
00: 01 – 00: 10 Workers prepared the houses to move them from the southern district of the city of Malartic to the new district located a few […]
Aerial view of Malartic and the Canadian Malartic Mine pit in 2012.
In 1932, Mr. James Paul Norrie and Mr. L.K. Coffin staked the land located half a kilometre from actual Malartic in the direction of Val d’Or. They began […]
A Simple and Effective Style Originating in North America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the “boomtown” style is predominantly found in mining towns, which were […]
Malartic’s main street in the 1940s, prior to being paved.
The photo is captioned Paris Vallée, one of the village’s nicknames at the time (1940s)
View of Roc-d’Or’s main street in early 1940.
One of the Roc-d’Or buildings being moved to Malartic using tractors and wood logs.
Workers struggle to lift a building over the railway.
Malartic’s main street is called Rue Royale.