Boom and Bust in a Mining Village: The Sad Fate of Roc-d’Or Boom and Bust in a Mining Village: The Sad Fate of Roc-d’Or Société d'histoire de Malartic
This photo taken between 1938 and 1942, shows that business is thriving in Roc-d’Or. On the right, we see the Bellevue Hotel and St-Onge Grocery Store.
Perron, a village of squatters northeast of Val-d’Or, was also in the government’s sight. In the fall of 1937, the government decided to establish the mining village of […]
Kewagama (also known as Petit-Canada) was a squatter village located in Cadillac Township. Near O’Brien Gold Mines. Effervescent — much like “Putainville” — Kewagama also lacked running water […]
The north side of rue Royale, at the intersection of avenue Centrale. The first building on the right houses The Bank of Toronto and Malartic pharmacy. Opposite avenue […]
The photograph shows that rue Royale was still unpaved at the time. It illustrates the difference between the town of Malartic and the squatter village of Roc-d’Or.
In May 1938, a group of Roc-d’Or citizens organised a major clean-up. They wanted to show the goodwill of the residents and spruce up the image of their […]
Shown is Salle Massicotte [Massicotte Hall]. The first floor of the building served as a ballroom. Most of the public meetings on the future of Roc-d’Or took place […]
Roc-d’Or was not incorporated and civil and religious authorities refused to build any school or church. The lack of a church did not cause much of a stir, […]
The 32-year-old woman had lived in Roc-d’Or since 1936. She was a Russian of Ukrainian origin of the Greek Catholic faith. In September 1941, several citizens of Roc-d’Or […]
A report dated April 6th 1936 contains the oldest reference to Roc-d’Or. Written by an inspector of the Department of Mines, it says that almost all of the occupants […]
This map is an excerpt from “De l’or… et des putes? [Gold … and Whores?], a book by Alexandre Faucher, published in 2014. Most of Roc-d’Or’s businesses fronted the […]
In this interview, Thérèse Legault-Richard shares an anecdote about what happened at Roc-d’Or pharmacy. Mrs. Thérèse Legault-Richard: “There was a pharmacy too. And I remember, because my sister had […]
