Category: People

Mount Chaudron View

Mount Cheminis, often called Mount Chaudron (‘Cauldron’) is truly an iconic place. It is an inselberg, a geological anomaly, that is 527 metres high. It is the second-highest […]

Rémigny Village View, in the Late 70s

Wizards Mountain, or Mount Kanasuta

Wizards Mountain (Mount Kanasuta) A watercolour from  “Rapport du du Père Paradis”, published in 1884. Père Paradis was probably the first to boast about the merits and the […]

An Interpretive Activity in Aiguebelle Park

Aiguebelle Park is situated in the heart of Abitibi, on both sides of a watershed right in the middle of the four main cities of the region, which […]

Ice Hockey on Lac Édouard

From an unknown photographer, this picture was taken in 1926 or 1927. The first hockey league in Rouyn-Noranda had four teams : the Copperfields, the Tigers and the […]

Dogsled Transportation on Perreault Street in Rouyn

Created by Indigenous people to go from one place to another during winter, the sled puled by dogs was a very popular means of transportation. For instance, we […]

Young Girl With Her Blueberry Basket

A Snowshoer

Four Women Cross-Country Skiing

Winter sports were not only for men!

Fishermen Bordering the Rémigny Lake

Impatience… I’ve been desperately waiting for spring for a few days now and my eagerness is growing as I see the snow flakes falling, a surge of winter […]

A Hunter’s Parade at the Moose Festival in Val-d’Or

(…) The Moose Festival had many highs in the 1970s and the 1980s. This festival gave way to many activities, one of the most memorable being the parade […]

Hunters Showing Off Their “Trophies”

This picture was taken on Perreault Street in Rouyn, probably in the 1950s.