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The Mining Village of Bourlamaque

Black and white photograph of a street lined with log cabins. Men are at work on pavement. In the background, a water tower and a mine headframe.

Date : 1937

Credits : BAnQ Rouyn-Noranda, Canadian National fonds. 08Y,P213,P346

Emulating Noranda Mines, Teck-Hughes Gold Mines founded its own town in April 1934. The company built Bourlamaque on the grounds of its Lamaque mine. It controlled its development hoping to avoid the disorder reigning in nearby Val-d’Or.