Word: therien
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prospectors got there by plane, dog sled or canoe until a road was built. Beer was $1 a bottle. A town census registered 46 different nationalities. Shady characters prospered like green bay trees. In 1936, the first year that Val D'Or had a police force, Chief Leo Therien led a raid through the town's 300 unpainted board-and-tarpaper shacks, arrested 112 prostitutes, gamblers and bootleggers. Only 61 could be held, because no more could be jammed into the town's 25 ft. by 25 ft. log jail...
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