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
Emulating Noranda Mines, Teck-Hughes Gold Mines founded its own town in April 1934. The company built Bourlamaque on the grounds of its Lamaque mine. It controlled its development […]
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 […]
