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
Quick and easy to put up, log cabins were also inexpensive. They were convenient while the owner built a house with lumber or insured his permanent settlement in […]
Roc-d’Or is not limited to a collection of rustic cabins. There were several buildings of quality. In fact, some of the houses moved to Malartic are still standing […]
In the late 1930s, mines began producing gold a few kilometers east of Canadian Malartic. East Malartic Mines (concrete headframe), in operation 1938 to 1979, produced some 87 […]
In 1939, the new town of Malartic sat on 2,590 acres. It covered the Canadian Malartic, East Malartic and Sladen (Barnat) Malartic mining claims. In May 1942, Malartic […]
The Vautrin Plan (1934-1935) helped new settlers to buy building materials for a house. The house had to meet the standards set by the Quebec Department of Colonization. […]
Except for those who owned generators, there was no electricity in Roc-d’Or. Yet, many homes had a telephone. Newspapers were available in the squatter village even if a […]
This is the laundry ran by the only Chinese immigrant to settle in Roc-d’Or. The 1941 census records 136 people of Chinese origin in Northwestern Quebec. They came, […]
