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The collection consists of source material from people and places in and around the Eastern Townships of Quebec. It contains mostly photographs and sketches of residents of this area, as well as material on industry, education, medicine, religion, and recreation in the Townships. The collection includes 175 photographs, 42 sketches, 16 postcards, 2 paintings, and 1 map.
Further accruals are expected.
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The series consists of material on the people and places from Compton County. It contains the following sub-series: Landscapes/Streetscapes [1916]-[194-?], Buildings [184-?]-[2005], Families [18--]-[1961], Economy, Industry, and Professions [18--]-[1910], Transportation [187-?]-[1926], Military [191-?]-[1918], Education [189-]-[1951], Recreation [189-?]-[1937], Religion [187-?]-[196-?], and Medicine [1917-1938]. The series includes 147 photographs, 37 sketches, 5 textual records, 15 postcards, and 2 paintings
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This sub-series consists of material on landscapes and streetscapes in Compton County. It contains the following files: East Clifton [19--], Sawyerville [194-?], Cookshire [196-?], Flanders [1916]. The sub-series includes four photographs, and one textual record.
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The file consists of material on landscapes and streetscapes of East Clifton. It contains one photograph.
Gift of the Karrold Lindsay family
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The item is one coloured photograph of a rural view of East Clifton.
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The file consists of material on landscapes and streetscapes in Sawyerville. It contains one photograph, and one textual record.
A gift from the family of Karrold Lindsay of Sawyerville, Que.
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The item is a photograph of a view of Sawyerville going towards Randboro.
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The item is a photocopy of a photograph of a snow plow (army truck) that was driven by George Buck in the mid 1940's.
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The file consists of material on a streetscape in Cookshire. It includes one photograph.
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The item is a photograph of the covered bridge found along the road between Cookshire and East Angus. The covered bridge was built in 1834 and opened for use in 1835. Today it is used only as an historical sight.
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The file consists of material on a streetscape in Flanders. It contains one photograph.
Donated by Karrold Lindsay, Sawyerville, Que.
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The item is a photograph of the collapsed remains of the old bridge at Lakes Mills. The bridge in Lakes Mills was built around 1840. It collapsed in 1916 with George Armstrong Kees, his wife Ada (Lake), baby daughter, Amethyst, and a pair of driving horses. All survived. A carriage can be seen in the wreckage.
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The sub-series consists of material on commercial and residential buildings in Compton County. It contains the following files: Martinville [189-?], Sawyerville [188-?]-[1937], Cookshire [184-?]-[1918], Bulwer [188-]-[193-], Eaton Corner [2005], Unknown location [188-?], La Patrie [190-?]-[1906], Scotstown [187-]. The sub-series includes nine photographs, nine postcards, one textual record, and one painting.
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The file consists of material on the buildings in Martinville. It contains one photograph.
Lyman Smith (1853-1922), was born in Eaton, he later moved to Martinville where he was a butcher and a farmer. He was one of the first councillors in Martinville and a steward in the Methodist church. He married Emma Mills in 1877 and they had 2 children: Hollis who was born in 1882, and Lula who was born in 1885.
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The item is a photograph of Lyman Smith's house showing people in the front yard, two dogs, as well as a horse and buggy.
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The file consists of material on the buildings in Sawyerville. It contains two photographs.
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The item is a photograph of the Sawyerville Hotel that has a date written on the photo of June 12th, 1937.
Donated by Dave Donaghie of Lennoxville, Que.
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The item is a photograph of the Sawyerville Hotel in Sawyerville. D. B. McKeig was the proprietor of the hotel at the time.
Gift of B. M. McKeage of Sarnia, ON.
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The file consists of material on the buildings in Cookshire. It contains three postcards, three photographs, and one textual record.
The Honorable John Henry Pope was born in the township of Eaton on December 19th, 1819. His father, Col. John Pope, was the son of a United Empire Loyalist, the family came from Boston in 1800, and settled in the township of Eaton now known as Cookshire. Mr. Pope married Miss Baily on March 5th, 1845, by whom he had three children: Lizzie (wife of the Hon. W. B. Ives M.P. for Sherbrooke), Rufus H. Pope, and a third child who died in infancy. John Henry was one of the original promoters of the Eastern Townships Bank. Another enterprise he was invovled in was the International Railway, running from Sherbrooke to the province line with a view to opening up the Townships. Mr. Pope was associated with the Paton Manufacturing Company of Sherbrooke being one of the original partners, he did a great deal towards the development of the lumber trade in the Brompton Mills region. John Henry Pope became a leader of men, not only on the farm, in lumbering camps, in railway enterprise, in financial operations, but in every avenue of life upon which he entered. Much more of his biography can be found in "History of Compton County". John Henry Pope died in the spring of 1889.
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The item is a photograph of the home of John Henry Pope while it was under construction in Cookshire.
From "History of Compton County" by L. S. Channell: Cookshire was incorporated as a town in 1892, previous to this it formed part of the township of Eaton. The first hotel was erected in 1850, built by Horace French who settled on the west side of the road leading from Cookshire to Eaton Corner (formerly owned by Esra Taylor) opposite the street coming up from C. Frasiers. The hotel was known as the Learned Hotel.
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The item is a photograph of the Learned Hotel under construction in Cookshire, showing people on and around the building.
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The item is a postcard of the County Building in Cookshire (which has since been destroyed by fire) with many people and several cars gathered in front of it for a Peace Celebration on November 8th, 1918.
Gift of Mrs. Kay Hurd (Lionel) of Sawyerville, Quebec.
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The item is a photograph of the County Registry Office in Cookshire that was taken in 1955.
Donated by Mrs. Murray Labonte of East Angus, Que.
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The item is a photocopied postcard of Learned's Hotel in Cookshire.
Donation from the Karrold Lindsay family
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The item is a postcard of Learned's Hotel and Post Office in Cookshire
Donated by Dave Donaghie of Lennoxville, Que.
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The item is a postcard of the business block in Cookshire.
Donated by Dave Donaghie of Lennoxville, Que.
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The file consists of material on buildings in Bulwer. It contains one photograph, and one postcard.
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The item is a photograph of a house in Bulwer owned by Edward John Parker (1838-1935). Edward's son Rutherford (Rufus) Benjamin Hayes Parker (1879-1935) owned it after him. Curtis Ross purchased the house in 1947 and continued to live there for several years. The house was located next to the blacksmith shop west of the railroad tracks on the south side of the road going through Bulwer.
Gift of Stanley Parker & Douglas Parker
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The item is an illustrated postcard of Rogers' General Store and Post Office located in Bulwer, circa 1930's.
Donation of Dave Donaghie of Lennoxville, Que.
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The file consists of material on the buildings in Eaton Corner. It contains one painting.
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The item is a painting called "A Summer Day In Eaton Corner" by Denis Palmer. It shows the Academy building and church in Eaton Corner.
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The file consists of material on a building in an unknown location in Compton county. It contains one photograph.
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The item is a photograph of three women and three children, identities unknown, standing in front of a large two-storey white house, with attached summer kitchen and connecting carriage house, perhaps in Compton County.
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The file contains material on the buildings in La Patrie. It contains two postcards.
Donation from Dave Donaghie of Lennoxville, Que.
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The item is a postcard showing the store owned by A. Bourret
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The item is a postcard showing the residence of Dr. Charles F. X. Prevost
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The file consists of material on the buildings in Scotstown. It contains four postcards.
Donated by Dave Donaghie of Lennoxville, Que.
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The item is a postcard of a residential street in Scotstown.
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The item is a postcard showing the Scotstown Hotel. C. S. Caswell was the proprietor at the time.
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The item is a postcard showing a framed house being built in Scotstown in 1873. It was the residence of W. P. Bowman.
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The item is a postcard showing a residential street in Scotstown.
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This sub-series consists of material on families in Compton County. It contains the following files: Cromwell family [186-], Ellis family [187-], Farr family [190-], Ord family [186-], Leonard family [189-], Cook family [18--], Warren family [18--]-[183-], Batley family [18--], Lalumiere family [189-?]-[194-?], Sharman family [18--], Bown family [18--], Ross family [186-?], Gillies family [18--], Sawyer family [18--], Riddell family [18--]-[189-?], Taylor family [186-?], Cairns family [187-?], Rogers family [188-?], Wilson family [1907], Learned family [18--]-[190-?], Frye family [189-?], French family [186-?]-[189-?], Worby family [188-?], Chute family [188-?]-[191-?], Mackay family [190-?], Cobleigh family [189-?]-[190-?], Picard family [18--], Caswell family [188-]-[19--], Warner family [18--], Bowen family [189-?], Burns family [188-?], Watt family [19--], Austin family [186-?]-[1961], Sunbury family [18--]--[188-?], Hurd family [18--], Heard family [18--], Willard family [186-?]-[188-?], Rand family [18--]-[187-?], Bowker family [18--]-[190-?], Harvey family [18--], Anderson family [19--], Scott family [189-?], Morrison family [1894], MacAulay family [188-?], Bartlett family [186-?], Unknown family [18--]-[189-?], Bailey [189-?]. The sub-series includes seventy-three photographs, thirty-seven sketches, and one painting.
Eliza Jane Riddell Cromwell was a resident of East Clifton (Lost Nation). Her parents were James Riddell and Mary Jane Doherty. Eliza was the first wife of William Alexander Cromwell (May 16th, 1866 to October 22nd, 1915) who had a brick business in the East Clifton area. William was the son of Thomas Cromwell who immigrated from Ireland, and his wife, Elizabeth J. Kinnear of Megantic County. Eliza and William had one son, Frank Eliza died on June 28th, 1903 aged 36 yrs., 19 days. She is buried in Grove Hill Cemetery.
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The file consists of material on the Cromwell family. It contains one sketch.
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The item is a framed portrait of Eliza Jane Cromwell of East Clifton (Lost Nation), Que.
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Captain Albert William Ellis of Bury was born in 1871. He married Harriet Agnes Maskell (1865-1929) in 1897. Harriet had come from Cambridge, England with her parents at age 7. Captain Ellis and Harriet had three children: George, Gordon, and Mildred. Captain Ellis had three brothers: Eddie, Collin, Henry, and a sister, Mrs. George Eddy.
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The file consists of material on the Ellis family. It contains one sketch.
Donated by Ardith E. Darker
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The item is a sketched portrait of Captain Ellis of Bury.
Goldie Tite lived in Brookbury in the early 1900's. She was married to Albert Farr. Goldie was the daughter of Hollis Tite.
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The file consists of material on the Farr family. It contains one photograph.
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The item is a photograph of Goldie Farr of Brookbury.
John A. Ord (May 6th, 1865 to 1953) was the son of Henry Ord and Mary Ann Moss. John married Emma Torkelson (1870 to June 20th, 1902). They are buried in St. John's Cemetery, Brookbury. Their children were: Ann and Mary (August 6th, 1890), Mary Annie Matthew (August 18th, 1891 to November 19th, 1979), Annie McCarthy (b. December 14th, 1894), Henry (January 20th, 1896 to December 7th, 1989), Pansy Maria Buttemer (April 10th, 1898 to November 28th, 1988), and George A. (May 24th, 1900 to January 29th, 1979).
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The file consists of material on the Ord family. It contains one photograph.
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The item is a photograph of John and Emma Ord and family of Brookbury. Most of the subjects in the picture were identified by a descendent of George (Gerry) Ord as follows, back row: Emma Torkelson Ord (mother of the children on the bench), John (Jack) Ord (father of children on the bench), unknown Ord family member. Front row: young boy with bicycle, unknown, Isaac Bartlett, (seated) 5 children on the bench: George (Gerry), Pansy, Henry (Harry), Annie (Lena) and Mary Annie (Mammie), Mary Ann Everett Bartlett (seated), young boy with bicycle, unknown.
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Sarah Maude Wheeler (1876 to September 27th, 1938) was the daughter of Edward Wheeler and his wife Lucina Coates Wheeler of Birchton. Maude married Edward Philip Leonard (1879-1947) of Bishop's Crossing on June 14th, 1905. They had no children. Previous to the marriage Maude was a teacher in Dudswell and Brookbury. Maude and Philip lived in Brookbury.
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The file consists of material on the Leonard family. It contains one photograph
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The item is a photograph of Sarah Maude Leonard of Brookbury.
Mary Jane Bennett (Aug. 7, 1849 - June 9, 1927) of Brookbury, was the daughter of Edward Bennett and Hannah Rowe. She married John Cook Jr. (1848 to June 8th, 1895), who was the son of John Cook Sr. and Jane Lindsay. Mary Jane and John Cook Jr. were the grandparents of Gordon Joyce of Bishopton, Quebec.
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The file consists of material on the Cook family. It contains one photograph.
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The item is a framed photograph of Mary Jane Cook of Brookbury.
Charles Warren (1834 - November 14th, 1911) arrived with his parents, Reverend John Warren and Eliza Gaskin in Compton in 1836. Twenty years later he took up residence in Brookbury where he was a successful farmer, a councillor, clerk of the Advent Church Society. Charles married Lydia Rowell (August 30th, 1834 to December 9th, 1914, in New York state) in 1856. Lydia was the daughter of Kendrick Rowell and Sarah Hawes of Hatley. Charles and Lydia adopted a child, Abbie A. Willard who married Nehemiah Batley.
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The file consists of material on the Warren family. It contains four sketches.
Donation of Bill Cloutier of Kirkland, Que.
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The item is a sketched portrait of Charles Warren of Brookbury.
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The item is a sketched portrait of Lydia Warren of Brookbury.
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The item is a sketched portrait of John Warren of Compton.
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The item is a sketched portrait of Eliza Warren of Compton.
Robert Batley (May 5th, 1806 to January 20th, 1891) came from Kenning Hall, Norfolk, England to Brookbury. Robert married Ann Warren Batley, she was his second wife. Ann was also born in England. Ann died on September 6th, 1895 aged 78 years.
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The file consists of material on the Batley family. It contains three sketches.
Donation of Bill Cloutier of Kirkland, Que.
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The item is a sketched portrait of Robert Batley of Brookbury.
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The item is a sketched portrait of Ann Batley of Brookbury.
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The item is a sketched portrait of Nehemiah Batley of Brookbury.
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The file consists of material on the Lalumière family. It contains nine photographs.
Gift of Mrs. Olney of Sherbrooke, Que.
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The item is a photograph of Zénophile Lalumière with Louis St. Laurent, both sitting on the steps in front of a house.
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The item is a photograph of Angelina Lalumière, aged 5 years.
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The item is a photograph of two unidentified women, both holding parasols.
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The item is a photograph of a priest. On the back is written Mr. et Mad. Lalumière, J. O. Guimond.
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The item is a photograph of an unknown woman.
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The item is a photograph of an unknown man.
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The item is a photograph of Alma Lalumière.
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The item is a photograph of Zénophile Lalumière holding a poster of Louis St. Laurent.
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The item is a photograph of Angelina Lalumière in her Ursaline nun's habit.
Walter George Sharman (October 30th, 1863 - November 15th, 1925). Walter was married to Eliza Ann Clark (d. February 15th, 1892 aged 30 years), daughter of Robert Clark and Eliza Ann Woods. Walter was the son of Ebenezer (November 30th, 1824 to May 4th, 1900) from Suffolk, England, and Caroline Bennett (June 23rd, 1826 to March 23rd, 1909). Walter had five siblings: James, Sarah, Mary, Lucy (m: Charles Bown). Eliza is buried in the Bury Cemetery, Walter is buried in the Bown Cemetery.
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The file consists of material on the Sharman family. It contains two sketches.
Donation of Lucy & Charles Bown of Bury, Que.
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he item is a sketched portrait of Walter George Sharman of Bown, Quebec.
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The item is a sketched portrait of Eliza Ann Sharman of Bown, Quebec.
Captain Thomas Charles Bown was the founder of Bown, Quebec. He came from England and was among the first settlers in Bury in 1836. He took up land and made a home on the Victoria Road mid-way between Bury and Scotstown. In 1841 Thomas was elected delegate to represent Bury at first meeting of the council of the district of Sherbrooke. In 1842, he was elected to first town council in Bury. Thomas was captain in the militia. He promoted the establishment of the first school in his district, known as the Bown School. He also gave land for a church and cemetery near his home. Thomas married Mary Ann Sharman. They had two daughters: Ann Jane, and Mary Aurelia, and three sons, Thomas Jr., and William (who went into the lumber business). Thomas died on June 30th, 1877 aged 87. Mary Ann died on October 1st, 1909, aged 87. They are buried in Bown Cemetery.
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The file consists of material on the Bown family. It contains two sketches.
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The item is a charcoal sketch of Captain Thomas Charles Bown of Bown.
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The item is a charcoal sketch of Mary Ann Bown.
Lt. Col. James Ross was born at Ferne Ross Shire, Scotland in 1814. He received his education at the Invergordon Grammar School. He moved to Canada in 1831. James was married in 1838 to Maria Ann Brown of Quebec. James was engaged in a mercantile business there. In 1845 he came to the township of Lingwick where he founded the village of Gould. He carried on a business there until his untimely death in 1874 at the age of 60. He had held the position of mayor, secretary of the school board and council, and lieutenant colonel of the militia. He was eminently literary and was one of the best read men in the province. He was the first MLA for Compton County from 1867-1871. By trading with the West Indies, he mastered the Spanish language. He was proficient in French and in his day he was the only member in parliament who could speak four languages: Gaelic, English, French, and Spanish. James and Maria had twelve children.
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The file consists of material on the Ross family. It contains one photograph.
Donated by Mrs. C. S. Smith of Scotstown, Que.
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The item is a framed photograph of James Ross of Gould.
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