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The Régal Theatre Is a Crowd Puller!

Régal Theatre was located on Perrault Street near the intersection of Principale Street. This 325-seat theatre was the first to open in Rouyn. Owner Ms. H.S. Carey began […]

The Noranda Theatre

The Noranda Theatre operated from 1930 to 1967. It was located on the 2nd Avenue (now known as Murdoch), near 7th Street, neighbouring the Noranda Hotel and sharing […]

Interview with Mr. Vanek, Former Chief of Staff at the Quemont Mine

“In 1952 there were many immigrant groups. French Canadians would generally refer to them as DP, but this is a fallacy. DPs were people that were displaced for […]

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Sylvain Beaupré : “In lode mines, where the deposits are at their narrowest, we still use outdated technologies.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 […]

Interview with Rémi Jodouin about the Working Conditions of Miners in the 1930s

Interviewer: And then you started working at the mine in 1931. Can you tell us how it was, working in mines, at that time? What was the job […]

Jos, Agnès, Cécile and Blanche Dumulon in 1925

This photo was taken shortly after Jos Dumulon’s wife (Agnès) and daughters (Cécile and Blanche) left Ville-Marie to settle in the Rouyn township.

Jos Dumulon’s General Store and Post Office

This photo of Jos Dumulon’s General Store was taken before a boomtown-styled front was added to the building in 1925.

A Headframe at the Horne Mine in Noranda

In underground mines, it is necessary to dig shafts and to build a headframe for easy transportation of workers, materials and ores to the surface. This photograph from […]

Prospectors Search Occurrence of Precious Ore Deposits on a Rock Outcrop

When rocks are not outcropped, prospectors must dig in the overburden in order to find the part of the rock that could potentially contain precious ores. To run […]

Interview with Léon Dumulon

Here is an interview with Rouyn’s pioneer Léon Dumulon who built his father’s General Store. Léon Dumulon: I left Ville-Marie to go to Baie Gillies with horses. From […]

Underground Work at Elder Mine

Elder mine, sometimes called Peel-Elder mine, was located in Évain (today a district of Rouyn-Noranda). Gold deposits were discovered in 1933, but Elder Gold Mines Limited only started […]

“Les Fros”, a song by Richard Desjardins

We are by the Horne Mine’s barriers in 1934, in the midst of an economic crisis, there is a strike led by those we called the “Fros” when […]