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
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 […]
Roc-d’Or was not incorporated and civil and religious authorities refused to build any school or church. The lack of a church did not cause much of a stir, […]
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 […]
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 […]
The beginnings of the village are unclear, but there was a definite increase in the population in the spring of 1936. The first concrete evidence of Roc-d’Or to […]
Living in these poorly-insulated houses must have been tough. Insects, especially the infamous mosquitoes, swarmed in summer and winters were worthy of Siberia. For many inhabitants, small cast […]
Besides its unflattering nickname of “Putainville”, Roc-d’Or had several appellations. One of them was Paris Valley. Was it due to its effervescent character or a reference to one […]
At the beginning, one named G. St-Louis owned at least part of the claims at Roc-d’Or. This changed in 1936, with an amendment to the Mining Act. Buildings […]
East Malartic Mines also built an attractive village close to its infrastructure. Named after Joseph Rupert Norrie, the mine manager, it was not recognised by the government. There […]
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 […]
