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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Val-d’Or incorporated as a village in August 1935, became a town in May 1937. Though similar to Rouyn, it seems to have had an even worse reputation. So […]
In the early 1920s, the discovery of precious metals led to rapid population growth in Rouyn Township. Families and merchants followed prospectors and miners and settled on the […]
