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Jos Dumulon’s General Store in Rouyn

Black-and-white photograph of a timber building, in front of which there is a boardwalk to the entrance. In the front, we can see a man in a suit and a gas pump.

Date: 1924 or 1925

Credits: BAnQ Rouyn-Noranda, fonds Canadien National. 08Y,P213,P329.

This general store is one of Rouyn township’s first buildings. The boardwalk allows easy access to the store. The boomtown-styled front—reminiscent of the California Gold Rush and the Klondike Gold Rush—was added in 1925.