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The First Police Station and the Liquor Commission Space in Rouyn, 1927

Black-and-white photograph of two log cabins with bars on the windows. A sign is put up on the door of the left building.

Date: circa 1927

Credits: BAnQ Rouyn-Noranda, Xstrata Cuivre Canada funds, Fonderie Horne, Vavasour & Dick series. 08Y,P123,S1,P183.

This photo was taken after Rouyn was incorporated into a village municipality on May 6, 1926. Before that, the legislation did not allow the area to establish a Liquor Commission. In the late 1920s, there were only a few police officers on duty in Rouyn. Their place of operations was in a log cabin, which you can see on the left with a sign that reads, “Quebec Liquor Commission Police Office.”