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Burroughs Pelletier, One of the Officials in Charge of the Roc-D’Or Inquiry

Black and white photograph of a man in a suit, with a hat and a brush moustache, posing in a forest.

Date : 1941

Credits : BAnQ, Québec, fonds ministère de la Culture et des Communications. 03Q,E6,S7,SS1,P4260.

The Quebec government wanted to improve its oversight of new mining towns. So, in the mid-1930s, it established its Mining Villages Division. In 1938, the head of the Division is Burroughs Pelletier, a civil engineer. In the summer of 1942, he was handed the Roc-d’Or Inquiry by the Quebec Minister of Lands and Forests. From 1943 to 1948, he also supervised the dismantling of the village.