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
Today, more than 70 years after the last squatter moved out, there is no trace of Roc-d’Or. Several houses now stand where the village used to be. As […]
Some squatter homes are strong enough to withstand the move. They must first be raised and solidified. There follows the installation on wooden skids provided by the government. […]
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 […]
Shown is the Canadian National railway station in Malartic built in the late 1930s. Such public infrastructure, as well as many others, already existed in Malartic. One of […]
This Shell gas station belonged to Noël Blanchette and Jean-Marie Gauthier. It opened in 1936 at the very beginning of Roc-d’Or in the most commercial part of the […]
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 […]
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 […]
In this excerpt from an interview, Annette Noël tells us about her arrival in Abitibi in September 1939. Mrs. Noël: “We came when I was nine years old. We […]
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 […]
