Relocation of Hotel St-Louis From Roc-D’or to Malartic, 1940
![Black and white photograph of a two-storey building being moved across a railway. Hotel St-Louis’ sign is visible. A dozen curious onlookers watch two tractors haul the building.](https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/village-minier-roc-d-or_mining-village/wp-content/uploads/sites/117/2020/02/17.1.-P186.20-min.jpg)
Date : 1940
Credits : Société d’histoire de Malartic, Antoine Bélanger fonds
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 for Hotel St-Louis. But the main exodus from Roc-d’Or began at the end of the summer of 1943.