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A Laundry Owned by a Chinese Immigrant

Black and white photograph of a tar paper house with a Boomtown façade. A poster placed on the floor reads, "Gin LAUNDRY buanderie".

Date : 1942

Credits : BAnQ Québec, Ministère de la Culture et des Communications fonds

This is the laundry ran by the only Chinese immigrant to settle in Roc-d’Or. The 1941 census records 136 people of Chinese origin in Northwestern Quebec. They came, building the National Transcontinental Railway, and later worked in restaurants and laundries.