Category: Sports & Games

Women on a Fishing Trip

Advertising Poster Showing a Sled Dog Race

Dogsled races, a sport still played in Abitibi-Témiscamingue!

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 […]

Skis

Rémigny Village View, in the Late 70s

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 Race During Rouyn-Noranda’s Winter Carnival

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 […]

A Snowshoer

Four Women Cross-Country Skiing

Winter sports were not only for men!

Newspaper Article from “La Frontière”

A Bear Trap