Abitibi-Témiscamingue: A Nature That Gives Life Abitibi-Témiscamingue: A Nature That Gives Life MA, musée d'art de Rouyn-Noranda and the Corporation de La maison Dumulon
Abandoned mining site in Duparquet.
In the foreground, on the left, Richard Desjardins.
This photo was taken in Saint-Eugène-de-Chazel, Abitibi-Ouest. The logging industry caused the reduction of the hunting grounds for Anishinabe People and the destruction of many wildlife habitats.
River-driving was prohibited after as a result of the mercury pollution created by sinking trees. In the middle of the 1970s, the ‘Regroupement des mouvements populaires du Témiscamingue’ […]