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Aerial View of Rouyn and Noranda in August 1933

Black-and-white photograph of two cities build around a lake, separated by a vacant lot. In the background, you can see the smelter with three headframes and two smoking chimneys.

Date: August 1933

Credits: BAnQ Rouyn-Noranda, Xstrata Cuivre Canada, Fonderie Horne funds, Horne Mine series. 08Y,P123,S3,P327.

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 2 500 in Noranda and to just under 3 500 in Rouyn. The population growth in the two cities was remarkably quick which is why we consider them to be boomtowns or mushroom towns.