A Laundry Owned by a Chinese Immigrant
![Black and white photograph of a tar paper house with a Boomtown façade. A poster placed on the floor reads, "Gin LAUNDRY buanderie".](https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/village-minier-roc-d-or_mining-village/wp-content/uploads/sites/117/2020/01/8.1.-Maison-55-100-b-Adrien-Robert-55.jpg)
Date : 1942
Credits : BAnQ Québec, Ministère de la Culture et des Communications fonds
This is the laundry ran by the only Chinese immigrant to settle in Roc-d’Or. The 1941 census records 136 people of Chinese origin in Northwestern Quebec. They came, building the National Transcontinental Railway, and later worked in restaurants and laundries.