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Boom and Bust in a Mining Village: The Sad Fate of Roc-d’Or

Société d’histoire de Malartic 2021
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The Société d’histoire de Malartic reveals the true history of Roc-d’Or, a village of squatters that popped up in northwestern Quebec in 1936. The village, which mushroomed before disappearing a decade later, is still known as a den of iniquity. But was it really? Boom and Bust in a Mining Village: The Sad Fate of Roc-d’Or tells the whole story of the village to better demystify the causes of its bad reputation and its disappearance.

Credits

Text

Writer

Alexandre Faucher

French editors

Carole St-Jarre
Nicole Dumas

Comparative review

Carole St-Jarre

Translation

English translator

Renée Cosgrove

English editor

Hélène Rochon

Photography

Photographer

Alexandre Faucher