Julia Page

But finding common ground amidst the opposing views on the industry's future has been challenging for residents.

CBC reporter Julia Page travelled to Ruin-Aranda in August, and she spoke with all kinds of people about that complex

relationship.

And the thing is too is that you got used to it at night at 11 o'clock at night you'd have the underground blast you know that we knew they were blasting and all the men were out and then they would go back in after they've blasted.

Rosalie Chartier-Lacombe with Le Petit Théâtre says it's impossible to deny the demand and necessity to make and recycle the technology she herself relies on daily.

We are fonderie, we are copper, we are miners, but we want to make the people dream again.

That was CBC reporter Julia Page.

Thanks to everyone who helped put this episode together.

It's home to a copper smelter owned by Glencore Canada that's intertwined with its history and continues to transform it to this day.

Julia Page explains

explainsWe were one, two, three, fourth house.

Linda Marion grew up just a few steps from the Horne Mine and Smelter, where her father worked.

Rosalie Chartier-Lacombe says she understands the demand for the technology she herself relies on daily, including for the theater's latest project, Mon Vieux dans 100 ans, which is asking residents of Old Noranda to outline what they want for the neighborhood.

To make them, uh, imagine what will be in, um, 100 years.

Julia Page, CBC News, Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec.

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