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
Carole St-Jarre speaks about company villages. Mrs. Carole St-Jarre: “Gold Fields Mines, that was further away. There was the road going in to Gold Fields which was about, I […]
Malartic Gold Fields had its own village eight kilometers east of Malartic. Named in honour of Robert A. Halet, the mine’s manager, the small settlement was home to […]
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 […]
Canadian Malartic Gold Mines processed ore starting in April 1935. When it shut down in 1965, it had produced more than 33 tons of gold and 20 tons […]
In the summer of 1923, gold was found in Fournière Township. The Porcupine Goldfields Development and Finance Company acquired the mining claims. Prospection went on until 1925, when […]
Emulating Noranda Mines, Teck-Hughes Gold Mines founded its own town in April 1934. The company built Bourlamaque on the grounds of its Lamaque mine. It controlled its development […]
When it was incorporated in March 1936, Noranda was granted a special status. It would exempt the town from certain provisions of the Quebec Cities and Towns Act. […]
