Bridges

CA ETRC P233-017
Series
[ca. 1990?]

The series contains primary source information on research conducted by Gil Ross around 1990 about covered bridges in the Eastern Townships, as well as elsewhere in Canada and the United States. It consists mainly of photocopied newspaper clippings, reproductions of textual reference materials about covered bridges, reproductions of simple maps of the Eastern Townships, as well as projector transparencies, notes, and tables recording the locations and features of Eastern Townships covered bridges. It also contains a copy of a letter from Barbara Verity addressed to Gil Ross regarding a film that she made in 1974 about covered bridges.

Narrows Bridge, Fitch Bay, Que.

CA ETRC P999-063-D015-P004
Item
[192-?]

Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Postcard collection

Item is a photograph postcard of the covered Narrows Bridge in Fitch Bay, with a house visible, probably taken around 1920.

Narrrows Bay, looking south, Fitch Bay, Que.

CA ETRC P999-063-D015-P003
Item
[191-?]

Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Postcard collection

Item is a postcard view of the covered bridge and Narrows Bay, looking south, with boathouses visible, probably taken around 1915.

Covered bridge near Fitch Bay, Quebec

CA ETRC P999-063-D015-P001
Item
[198-?]

Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Postcard collection

Item is a postcard view of the a road leading up to the covered bridge in Fitch Bay, printed for the Beebe-Rock Island-Stanstead Chamber of Commerce, probably taken around the 1980s.

General view entering the bay new Fitch Bay, Quebec

CA ETRC P999-063-D015-P002
Item
[198-?]

Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Postcard collection

Item is a postcard view of the covered bridge in Fitch Bay, taken from the water, printed for the Beebe-Rock Island-Stanstead Chamber of Commerce, probably taken around the 1980s.

Covered Bridges of the Eastern Townships documentary

CA ETRC P237-004-004
Part
[ca. 1977]

Part of Barbara Verity fonds

Item is a documentary project researched and produced by Barbara Verity and narrated by Joyce Cochrane on covered bridges in the Eastern Townships, produced around 1977. Included in the documentary are images of the covered bridges at Fitch Bay (Narrows), Milby, Capelton, Coaticook (Drouin), Stanbridge East (Monaghan), Melbourne (Creek/Gibson), Highwater (Province Hill/de la Frontière), Gould (Fisher Hill/McVetty-McKenzie), Ste-Catherine-de-Hatley (Rexford), Cowansville (Freeport), Notre-Dame-de-Stanbridge (Pike River/des Rivières), and Island Brook (McDermott).

View of Lennoxville from Bishop's University campus

CA ETRC P998-2022-039-001
Item
[190-?]

Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Graphic Material collection

Item is a photograph, taken from the McGreer Building on Bishop's University campus, of Lennoxville from about 1900. Visible is the covered bridge over the Massawippi River on College Street, part of the front lawn and driveway for the University and includes a view of the first Saint-Antoine Catholic Church and the steeples of the Lennoxville Methodist Church and St. George's Anglican Church.

North Hatley bridge collaspe

CA ETRC P250-007-020
Item
1918

Part of Reed family (North Hatley) fonds

The item is a photograph showing the collapse of the North Hatley steel bridge February 1918. Houses and buildings along Main and Sherbrooke Streets are also visible.

Inauguration of the third Richmond bridge

CA ETRC P049-009-004
Part
1903

Part of Richmond collection

Item is a photograph of the inauguration of the MacKenzie steel bridge in Richmond over the St. Francis River on 25 May 1903, likely with MLA Peter S.G. MacKenzie in the foreground amongst the gathered crowd. Also visible is a horse and carriage.

Third Richmond bridge

CA ETRC P049-009-005
Part
[1903?]

Part of Richmond collection

Item is a photograph of a man standing in front of the MacKenzie steel bridge in Richmond over the St. Francis River, probably taken around 1903-1910.

First Richmond bridge

CA ETRC P049-009-002
Part
[187-?]

Part of Richmond collection

Item is a photograph of the first bridge in Richmond over the St. Francis River, which stood from 1847 to about 1882. It was the longest wooden covered bridge in the Eastern Townships. Cords of wood are seen piled in the foreground of the photograph.

Second Richmond bridge

CA ETRC P049-009-003
Part
[between 1882-1901]

Part of Richmond collection

Item is a photograph of the second bridge in Richmond over the St. Francis River, which stood from 1882 to 1901, until it was washed away from ice and flooding on April 7, 1901.

“Old” Sherbrooke, 1850

CA ETRC P999-053-D001-022
Item
[193-?]

Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Postcard collection

Quebec Bridge

CA ETRC P048-003-001
Item
[191-?]

Part of Stanstead and Sherbrooke Fire Insurance Company fonds

The item is a photograph depicting Quebec’s Bridge after the 1916 collapse.

Coaticook River looking East - Rivière Coaticook regardant l'Est, Coaticook, P.Q.

Part of Collection de cartes postales de la Société d’histoire de Coaticook

Une carte postale de la Riviére Coaticook regardant est, incluant le pont couvert et l'église Saint-Emond à Coaticook.

Downtown North Hatley, July 1st

CA ETRC P250-007-001
Item
[189-?]-[191-?]

Part of Reed family (North Hatley) fonds

The item contains information on the social life in downtown North Hatley at the end of the XIXth and in the early XXth century. It depicts downtown North Hatley on Canada Day.

Tomifobia River raging underneath Bridge

CA ETRC P020-003-06-D003a-P734
Item
[1920?], copied 1977

Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of the Tomifobia River raging underneath a covered bridge in Rock Island.

Gouin Bridge and Chambly Canal

CA ETRC P058-009-05-009-001
Item
[192-?]

Part of Herbert Derick collection

Item is a photograph of the Gouin Bridge, Chambly Canal and the Richelieu River in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, with car visible, around the 1920s.

South River bridge, Clarenceville, Que.

CA ETRC P058-009-05-006-001
Part
[191-?]

Part of Herbert Derick collection

Item is a postcard of South River Bridge in Clarenceville, Quebec from around the 1910s. Trees line the road before and after the bridge.

Masonville Covered Bridge

CA ETRC P237-001-001-059
Part

Part of Barbara Verity fonds

The item is a negative of the exterior of a Mansonville covered bridge.

Masonville Covered Bridge

CA ETRC P237-001-001-057
Part

Part of Barbara Verity fonds

The item is a negative of the exterior of a Mansonville covered bridge.

Masonville Covered Bridge

CA ETRC P237-001-001-058
Part

Part of Barbara Verity fonds

The item is a negative of the exterior of a Mansonville covered bridge.

Masonville Covered Bridge

CA ETRC P237-001-001-055
Part

Part of Barbara Verity fonds

The item is a negative of the interior of a Mansonville covered bridge.

Masonville Covered Bridge

CA ETRC P237-001-001-056
Part

Part of Barbara Verity fonds

The item is a negative of the interior of a Mansonville covered bridge.

CPR #251 freight train

CA ETRC P238-002-001-023
Item
1990-02-24

Part of George Matheson fonds

Item is a photograph of CPR #251 freight train in Sherbrooke, going under the Belvédère S. Street overpass. Locomotives 4701-4700-4568

Wolfe Bridge during the Centenary

CA ETRC P244-003-05-005
Item
1937

Part of Freeman Clowery Collection

Item is a photograph of Wolfe Bridge (replaced by the Hubert C. Cabana Bridge), on Belvédère Street North over the Magog River, at night decorated for for the 1937 centenary of Sherbrooke with electric lights.

Aylmer Bridge during the Cenenary

CA ETRC P244-003-05-006
Item
1937

Part of Freeman Clowery Collection

Item is a photograph of Aylmer Bridge, on King Street over the St. Francis River, at night decorated for the 1937 centenary of Sherbrooke with electric lights.

Montcalm Bridge during the Centenary

CA ETRC P244-003-05-003
Item
1937

Part of Freeman Clowery Collection

Item is a photograph of Montcalm Bridge, on King Street over the Magog River, at night decorated for the 1937 centenary of Sherbrooke with electric lights.