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
Transcript of an article published January 20th 1938 about the choice of a name for Roc-d’Or. “Roc-d’Or: Such will be the name of the small village north of […]
Interview with sociologist Jean-Philippe Rioux-Blanchet about the two waves of international immigration to Abitibi. Mr. Jean-Philippe Rioux-Blanchet: “Abitibi-Témiscamingue had two important waves of immigration. The first wave was at […]
Rose-Aimée Francoeur-Mask recounts her life in Roc-d´Or Mrs. Rose-Aimée Francoeur-Mask: “We stayed six years at Roc-d’Or, it seems to me. After that, we moved to Malartic. But in the past, […]
Carole St-Jarre speaks about company villages. Mrs. Carole St-Jarre: “Gold Fields Mines, that was further away. There was the road going in to Gold Fields which was about, I […]
This photo taken between 1938 and 1942, shows that business is thriving in Roc-d’Or. On the right, we see the Bellevue Hotel and St-Onge Grocery Store.
Usually, bulldozers would destroy buildings that could not be moved to Malartic. Sometimes, obstacles prevented machinery from getting close enough. The building would be burned to the ground. […]
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 […]
Excerpt from an interview in which Mrs. Carole St-Jarre discusses the remembrance of Roc-d’Or. Mrs. Carole St-Jarre: “The houses were moved from the southern district in 2009 and 2010. […]
The drill core shed of the Amphi Gold Mines is one of the few buildings of Roc-d’Or still standing. The mining company began operating in 1937. The shed […]
This is the only Roc-d’Or house spared from demolition. This modern, “first-class” house built in 1940 belonged to a contractor. According to the Roc-d’Or Inquiry Report, it stood […]
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. […]
Rose-Aimée Francoeur-Mask talks about moving her house: Mrs. Francoeur-Mask: “I remember that in our case, they moved the house with large logs underneath. And that it was a tractor […]
