Boom and Bust in a Mining Village: The Sad Fate of Roc-d’Or
Exhibition created by Alexandre Faucher, historian, for the Société d'histoire de Malartic with the support of the Musée minéralogique de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue (Malartic) and hosted on the website Community Stories.
Roc-d’Or, a mining village of some 1,100 people in 1942, has an uncertain history. North of Malartic in Abitibi-Temiscamingue, it acquired such a bad reputation that it is remembered as "Putainville", French for whoreville.
Come discover the real story of Roc-d’Or, a village also known as “Putainville”!
