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
The picture shows a building being moved from Roc-d’Or to Malartic in July 1943. A few buildings had been already relocated some years before. Such was the case […]
William B. Hetherington was chosen as Malartic Mayor in 1939. He was also Construction and Maintenance Engineer at Canadian Malartic Gold Mines. In 1934, among other tasks, he […]
For a long time, the people of Malartic blamed Father Joseph-Albert Renaud for the dismantling of Roc-d’Or. He had come to Malartic in December 1936. He was a […]
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 […]
The vast majority of newcomers to the mining camp had no choice but to settle in Roc-d’Or. Their families could not stay in the bunkhouses (barrack-like dormitories near […]
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 […]
At first, Malartic Gold Mines’ private camp was quite barebone. However, once exploration got underway in 1927, it grew considerably. With the construction of its ore-processing plant in […]
After the arrival of the railway in Abitibi, the provincial government aided by the Catholic clergy encouraged settlement by families. Colonization propagandists, mostly clergymen, crisscrossed Quebec to promote […]
The National Transcontinental railway opened Abitibi to settlement. In 1912, trains started to run and newcomers formed parishes along the railway line. For Abitibians, the railway meant connections […]
