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A few log cabins on the southwest shores of Osisko Lake

Black-and-white photograph of several log cabins on a small tree-lined hill. On the foreground there is a lake with a rudimentary dock as well as a few canoes.

Date: between 1926 and 1935.

Credits: BAnQ Rouyn-Noranda, Xstrata Cuivre Canada funds, Fonderie Horne, Vavasour & Dick series. 08-Y,P123,S1,P10.

Starting in the winter of 1923–1924, the first log cabins were built around Osisko Lake. For its first inhabitants, this lake made it easier to get around and allowed easy access to drinking water. These rudimentary buildings were the core around which the Rouyn’s mining community would expand.