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Delivery of Goods in Rouyn Lake Docking Area

During the first years, the Rouyn Lake docking area was strategically located as the exclusive passage for people and goods. Road and railway construction have considerably diminished the importance of […]

The Alligator Boat at the Rouyn Lake Docking Area

This boat was owned by McLauglin & Lumber Company and was used to transport goods between the village of Angliers in Témiscamingue and the Rouyn Lake docking area. […]

Several Police Officers Near the Fences of the Horne Mine

A contingent of police officers assembled to control the strike of June 1934. Sergeant Turnbull, the Provincial Police Chief, hurriedly returned from his trip to Québec City to […]

A Crowd Gathered Outside the Horne Mine Entrance

On June 12, 1934, at the beginning of the strike, several hundred strikers and sympathizers joined in a picket line in front of the Horne mine gates. They […]

Interview with Rémi Jodouin About the Foreigners Strike of June 1934

Interviewer: Did you experience one of the first strikes that happened over here in 1934? Rémi Jodouin: Yes, but from afar if you will, because I was in […]

Noranda City in 1939

In the late 1930s, Armand Senécal was a travelling salesman for the Salada Tea Company and visited several mining towns in Abitibi. He took the opportunity to shoot […]

Noranda’s First Development Plan

A development plan was implemented when Noranda got incorporated as a municipality in March 1926. It was put into place so that the city could develop according to […]

A Masked Man Driving a Car in the Smelter

The significant environmental impacts of sulphur dioxide released during copper smelting were common knowledge even before the construction of the Horne mine. Proof of this is the fact […]

The Horne Smelter with its Two Smoking Chimneys

As soon as Noranda Mines undertook construction of its smelter, mine and city, the company needed to bring heavy equipment into the township. The construction of a railroad […]

The Construction of the Horne Smelter

The construction of the smelter started in June 1926 on the Horne mine location. About 600 workers, many of whom helped build the Ontario railroad, were gathered there. […]

Christ-Roi Ukrainian Catholic Church of Rouyn

The construction of Christ-Roi Ukrainian Catholic Church of Rouyn was undertaken in 1955, soon after the consecration of Ukrainian Catholic Church of Val-d’Or. Its construction was completed in […]

The Construction of Christ-Roi Ukrainian Catholic Church of Rouyn

Until the 1950s, the Byzantine Catholic Ukrainians in Rouyn and Noranda did not have a permanent celebrant. However, a Ukrainian priest from Kirkland Lake in Ontario sometime came […]