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A Sauna in Rouyn, 1926

Black-and-white photograph of several rudimentary buildings made of wooden planks or timbers. One of them is a steam bath, identified as such on a sign.

Date: circa 1926

Credits: BAnQ Rouyn-Noranda, Xstrata Cuivre Canada funds, Fonderie Horne, Vavasour & Dick series. 08Y,P123,S1,P20.

In the middle of the 1920s, people from Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland) arrived in the Rouyn township. Many worked in mines, but some them owned saunas (public steam baths).