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
During their visit to Roc-d’Or in August 1942, the investigators took photographs. They also filled out forms on each household. The record shows the name, age and employment […]
The Quebec government wanted to improve its oversight of new mining towns. So, in the mid-1930s, it established its Mining Villages Division. In 1938, the head of the […]
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 […]
In Roc-d’Or brothels, clients first wait their tun on the ground floor where they drink before “going upstairs for the sum of $3.” Jacques Miquelon, in his memoirs.
In this excerpt from an interview, Madame Marielle Rioux talks about prostitutes and the illegal liquor trade in “Putainville”, French for “Whoreville”. Mrs. Marielle Rioux: “In the old […]
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 […]
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 […]
Established in 1940, this “patent medicine” shop belonged to Roger Gauthier and was located on the west side of the main street. It was essentially a pharmacy that […]
This Shell gas station belonged to Noël Blanchette and Jean-Marie Gauthier. It opened in 1936 at the very beginning of Roc-d’Or in the most commercial part of the […]
The workforce was very mobile throughout the region. In fact, far from their roots, workers did not often settle down. Several Roc-d’Or inhabitants offered room-and-board services. A Finn […]
Identified as “Israelites”, a couple in their fifties and their 16-year-old daughter lived in Roc-d’Or starting in 1938. In the 1941 census, more than 200 Northwestern Quebeckers report […]
