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 Vautrin Plan (1934-1935) helped new settlers to buy building materials for a house. The house had to meet the standards set by the Quebec Department of Colonization. […]
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 […]
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 […]
