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Roc-d’Or’s Blanchette and Gauthier Garage and Gas Station

Black and white photograph of a garage with a tar paper front. Over the garage door, the "Blanchette & Gauthier" sign. In front, a man operating the gas pumps. On the left, a car with a trailer.

Date : 1942

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

This Shell gas station belonged to Noël Blanchette and Jean-Marie Gauthier. It opened in 1936 at the very beginning of Roc-d’Or in the most commercial part of the village. Some ten metres to the south stood a second gas station, under the Imperial Oil banner.