Destruction in downtown Mille Roches on New Year's Eve 1938-39. Derousie Hardware Store on left; Stanley Fleming home behind ruins; in background the Murdock, C. Bush, E. Touchette properties. The arched corner of the Mille Roches Arena roof at the right.

Aftermath of New Year's Eve fire 1938-39. Percy and Estella Johnston's home, store, gasoline pumps and Eat Well Inn on right. Provincial Paper Mill in background.

New Year's Eve fire in downtown Mille Roches 1938-39. Percy Johnston's Eat Well Inn on the right

Ruins of the New Year's Eve fire of 1938-39 at Mille Roches, destroying the Manson Warner block - Photo of ruins taken on January 2, 1939

The burned-out remains of the Manson Warner Block, destroyed in a fire on New Year's Eve 1938-39.
The buildings from left to right are: Gower's Store, operated by Arthur and Florence Gower. Later, the store was operated by J.B. Murdock, then Morris Fyckes operated the store and post-office in the 1940s.
The burned-out Manson Warner block. This building had the Howard Manson Grocery Store and restaurant on the main floor, and the Pentecostal Hall upstairs. After the fire, the building was rebuilt, with two restaurants downstairs and apartments up and down. Manson Warner had a tin-smith shop in the middle unit. A fire started in the George Mickelright Restaurant, with the loss of two children.
The next building, over the years, housed the Standard Bank, Bank of Commerce, Stacey's Restaurant, Ev Bush's Restaurant and taxi stand, and Harrison MacIntosh's Restaurant.
The building on the right, with a tiny bit showing, was the MacGillivary's Hotel, Angie Norman MacDonald Hotel, and then the Percy and Estella Johnston home, store, and Eat Well Inn.

Devastation from New Year's Eve fire in the Mille Roches business district on December 31, 1938, and January 1, 1939. Percy and Estella Johnston's home, store, gas pumps, Eat Well Inn on right.

Ruins at the Mille Roches business district fire on New Year's Eve, December 31, 1938, and January 1, 1939. Mille Roches Arena in the background and Percy Johnston's business on the right.

The destruction caused by the New Year's Eve fire of 1938-39 in downtown Mille Roches. The Stanley Fleming brick home behind the ruins, and the Murdock home on Station Road at the right.

The second fire at the Manson Warner Block. The fire started at the George Mickelright Restaurant at the right side of these ruins. His two children died in the fire.

Ethel Touchette (L) and Phyllis O'Connell (R) at the Mille Roches Swing-bridge

Top left - Photo taken January 2, 1939 - New Year's Eve fire - Destroys restaurant, stores and apartments
Top right - Photo taken in front of James (Jim) Sheets' home, with Lakeview Cheese Factory at left in the distance, and Mille Roches Public School, S.S. # 4 on right. Creek beside St. George's Roman Catholic Chapel in foreground
Bottom left - Murdock's Store destroyed. January 2, 1939, photo. Stanley Fleming home in smoke of shouldering ruins
Bottom right - Fire in downtown Mille Roches - photo taken on January 2, 1939 - Inside of the Bennett place.

Looking through the ruins of Bush's Restaurant and Taxi Stand, destroyed in the New Year's Eve fire of 1938-39. Photo taken on January 2, 1939. Derousie Store at left in the background

Business section of Mille Roches destroyed by fire on New Year's Eve 1938-39. Stanley Fleming's home shows at top left

Joe Fox's place in ruins following the New Year's Eve fire of 1938-39 in downtown Mille Roches- Photo taken January 2, 1939. Mille Roches Arena in background.

Roger Barker - 1939 - at "The Head" of Sheek Island in Ault Park. Roger Barker lost his life in WWII, just after D-Day in 1944

Marjorie Rafuse, Mille Roches - 14 years of age at Provincial Girl Guide Camp - Sheek Island in 1939. Marjorie born on September 3, 1925, died at St. Lawrence Sanitarium on October 29, 1947

Top left - Murdock McMillan- 1939 - Goalie for Mille Roches Hockey Team
Top middle - L-R - Norma Gowsell, daughter of Clara Gowsell and sister of Garry Gowsell, and Kay Ray;
Top right - Photo taken alongside Highway #2, east of St. George's Roman Catholic Chapel, with Cornwall Canal, Old Mille Roches on Sheek Island, and St. Lawrence River beyond;
Bottom left - Mille Roches Juvenile Hockey Team Champions - 1939-40
Bottom right - Unidentified

Men and boys from Mille Roches United Church - 1939 - Back left is Arnold Hughes - Back centre is Rev. Charles Dawes

Mille Roches Public School 1939
Front Row - ?, Claude Ray, ?, ?, ?, John Paul Touchette, Jim McLellan, Harold Murphy, Jim Lepage, Semon Sauve, Clarence MacDonald, Orville Irvine, ?
Top Row, right - Romeo Quenneville

Waiting at the Mille Roches Railway Station for the arrival of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1939.

Men and boys from Mille Roches United Church - 1939 - Rev. Charles Dawes, back right

Men and boys from Mille Roches United Church - 1939 - Back left is Arnold Hughes - Back centre is Rev. Charles Dawes

Mille Roches Public School, S.S. #4,
Front Row - Norman Campbell, ?, Carl Barkley, Claude Ray, Carman Barkley, ? Robideaux, Jimmy Green, Harold (Turk) Murphy, ?, Kenny Pidgeon, Doug Johnston
Second Row - Glen McDonald, Bobby Antoine or Jack MacDonald, Johnny Stansel, ?, Ranald MacDonald, Penner or Joe Hickman, ?, Giles Denneny, ?, ?, Vernon Buchner, Art Ross, Arnold Legue
Third Row - ?, Dorothy Robertson (Moss), Dorothy Urquhart, Marie (Tootsie) Germain, Vivian (Biddy) Gowsell, Ruth Elderbroom, Margaret McLellan, ?, Dorothy Fox, ?, Ruth Johnston, Alice Elderbroom ?, ?
Fourth Row - Mona Lowell, Arlene Yates, Nann Blackie, Jeanette Amell, Mary Denny, Anna Grace MacDonald, Gilda Denny, Velma Wilkins, Jeanette Sauve, Betty Warner, ?, Maxine Wilkins

Mille Roches Public School - c. 1939
Student: 1- ?; 2- ?; 3- Eunice Young; 4- ?; 5- Isobel McLellan; 6- Marie Stansel; 7- Ivalu Hartle; 8- Marguerite Touchette; 9- Raphael Quenneville; 10- Lawrence Welch; 11- Lorne MacMillan; 12- James Forbes; 13- Archie McLellan; 14- ?; Floyd Buchner

Mille Roches United Church - 1939 - Front, L-R: Murdock MacMillan, Harold Murphy, Floyd Buchner, Leonard Raymond, Gerald Robertson
Back, L-R: Newton Thompson, Charles Stansel, Charles Dawes, Sr., Rev. Charles Dawes