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
Interview with sociologist Jean-Philippe Rioux-Blanchet about the two waves of international immigration to Abitibi. Mr. Jean-Philippe Rioux-Blanchet: “Abitibi-Témiscamingue had two important waves of immigration. The first wave was at […]
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. […]
Excerpt from an interview in which Mrs. Carole St-Jarre discusses the remembrance of Roc-d’Or. Mrs. Carole St-Jarre: “The houses were moved from the southern district in 2009 and 2010. […]
The drill core shed of the Amphi Gold Mines is one of the few buildings of Roc-d’Or still standing. The mining company began operating in 1937. The shed […]
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 […]
Rose-Aimée Francoeur-Mask talks about moving her house: Mrs. Francoeur-Mask: “I remember that in our case, they moved the house with large logs underneath. And that it was a tractor […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
