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The Main Street of Roc-d’Or in 1937

Black and white photograph of a gravel road lined with plant and log buildings. On the right, signs “Paris Cafe” and "Royal Restaurant”. In the foreground on the right, the front ends of two cars.

Date: 1937

Credits: BAnQ Rouyn-Noranda,  Canadian National fonds. 08Y,P213,P304

Roc-d’Or was not incorporated and civil and religious authorities refused to build any school or church. The lack of a church did not cause much of a stir, but having no school did. In the first years, a grant and fundraising evenings did support a school in the squatters’ village. But, in 1938, the new Malartic school board obliged the Roc-d’Or children to go to school in Malartic.