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
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 […]
