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A Slide Towards Edouard Lake in 1941

A Slide Towards Edouard Lake in 1941

This facility was built in the early 1940s and enjoyed a natural difference in elevation from this part of the city. It was demolished after a little girl […]
Interview With Anthropologist Sylvain Beaupré

Interview With Anthropologist Sylvain Beaupré

Sylvain Beaupré : “In lode mines, where the deposits are at their narrowest, we still use outdated technologies. But the system is always the same. The driller gets […]
Painting of the Dumulon General Store, the First Post Office in Rouyn.

Painting of the Dumulon General Store, the First Post Office in Rouyn.

This painting allows us to see what kind of building was built on the Dumulon tip in Rouyn’s early days. On the right, you can see Jos Dumulon’s […]
Rouyn’s Principale Street in the Mid-1930s

Rouyn’s Principale Street in the Mid-1930s

This photo was taken west of Rouyn’s Principale Street, between Gamble Street and McQuaig (now called Terminus Street) in the mid-1930s. Principale Street quickly became one of the […]
Aerial View of Rouyn and Noranda in August 1933

Aerial View of Rouyn and Noranda in August 1933

Virtually no one lived in the Rouyn township in the early 1920s. But the number of inhabitants grew in 1933, at the time this photo was taken, to […]
The First Streets and Shops of Rouyn in 1926

The First Streets and Shops of Rouyn in 1926

This is an aerial photograph of the Rouyn mining community taken in the summer of 1926. On it is written the street layout of several important streets and […]
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