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Malartic Mining Camp in the Mid-1940s

Colour map of the Malartic mining camp and its surroundings. The town of Malartic is encircled in black and the village of Roc-d'Or in red. The land held by the various mines appears in different colours and the location of headframes is indicated by triangles.

Date : 1945

Credits : Alexandre Faucher, De l’or… et des putes?, Rouyn-Noranda, Éditions du Quartz, 2014, p 12.

In 1939, the new town of Malartic sat on 2,590 acres. It covered the Canadian Malartic, East Malartic and Sladen (Barnat) Malartic mining claims. In May 1942, Malartic Gold Fields Mines including Halet, was annexed to the Town of Malartic. The town, with its four producing gold mines, spread to 7,287 acres.