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
Usually, bulldozers would destroy buildings that could not be moved to Malartic. Sometimes, obstacles prevented machinery from getting close enough. The building would be burned to the ground. […]
Today, more than 70 years after the last squatter moved out, there is no trace of Roc-d’Or. Several houses now stand where the village used to be. As […]
This is the only Roc-d’Or house spared from demolition. This modern, “first-class” house built in 1940 belonged to a contractor. According to the Roc-d’Or Inquiry Report, it stood […]
Some squatter homes are strong enough to withstand the move. They must first be raised and solidified. There follows the installation on wooden skids provided by the government. […]
The picture shows a building being moved from Roc-d’Or to Malartic in July 1943. A few buildings had been already relocated some years before. Such was the case […]
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 1942, of the 266 buildings erected in Roc-d’Or, 137 were log cabins. They had been built in the early days of the village in 1936 or 1937. […]
The settlement is dense and lacks waste disposal services. People simply throw all their rubbish on the ground very close to the houses. As reported by the Roc-d’Or […]
There being no sewage system in Roc-d’Or, there is no waste water treatment. Thus, according to the Roc-d’Or Inquiry Report, “a thick layer of black mud covers some […]
