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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
