Interview With Carole St-Jarre
Date of the interview: 2019
Credits: Société d’histoire de Malartic
Title of the photograph: The relocation of Hotel St Louis from Roc-d’Or to Malartic attracts many onlookers.
Date of the photograph: 1940
Credits of the photograph: Société d’histoire de Malartic, Musée minéralogique de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue fonds
Excerpt from an interview in which Mrs. Carole St-Jarre discusses the remembrance of Roc-d’Or.
Mrs. Carole St-Jarre: “The houses were moved from the southern district in 2009 and 2010. I asked my mother if she knew about Roc-d’Or. In 2009, her early memory seemed still accurate. But in any case, I asked her if she remembered the years 1943, 1944 and 1945. At the time people of Roc-d’Or started arriving in Malartic. She did not recall, she said. I spoke about it to other people my age. As we understand it, young mothers at that time didn’t know about it. It wasn’t only my mother who had a child two or three years old. Many had children and many far more than one! They weren’t aware of it. Caught up in their daily lives. My mother lived on Abitibi Avenue. She watched the houses go by from the sidewalk in front of her house: “The houses that come from Roc-d’Or go back to Roc-d’Or” was the only thing she said to me about that time.