The item is a plan of the Elmwood Cemetery in Sherbrooke.
The item is a plan of the Elmwood Cemetery in Sherbrooke.
Part of the plan division register showing Lingwick Township, created circa 1860.
Part of the plan division register showing Westbury Township, created circa 1860.
The item is a photograph showing the Hyatt Bridge and the Magog River in Sherbrooke around the 1880s.
The item is a photograph showing Dufferin Street (formerly Commercial Street) and the Hyatt Bridge in Sherbrooke, around the 1890s. A church is visible in the distance.
The item is a photograph showing the flood in June 1943 in Sherbrooke.
The item is a photograph showing a group of people in a boat on King Street during the flood, including a view of the Aylmer Bridge in June 1943 in Sherbrooke.
The item is a photograph showing a truck and wagon full of people traveling through the flood waters on King Street and the Aylmer Bridge in June 1943 in Sherbrooke.
The item is a photograph showing Georgeville with Lake Memphremagog and Mount Elephantis in the background from around the 1880s.
Item is a photograph of a road in Georgeville with buildings along both sides, taken around the 1880s.
Sherbrooke bird's eye view, for the British American Land Company
Item is a photograph of Jeffrey Mines asbestos pit in Asbestos around the 1910s.
The caption reads: "Looking NORTH through the central portion of the open pit. Year 1928 The old Factory in the background, also the A.A.A.A. playgrounds, baseball, football etc. The grandstand on the initi (sic) right. Beyond playgrounds are houses on Poirier Street."
Item is a photograph of the Canadian Johns-Manville parade float, Asbestos, Canada Day, 1929, showing: Alfred Lefebvre, Bob Grimard, Nova Blais, Alphonse Poirier, Joseph Lalancette (at right, leaning on float), Edmond Bergeron, and Bertrand Poirier, as well as the Dubois photograph studio in background.
The caption reads, "This Float consisted of a Cyclone Collector, Elbows and Ductwork and an aspirating Fan all built by the sheet metal workers Alphonse Poirier, foreman. Alfred Lefebvre, Bob Grimard (truck driver) Nova Blais,
Alphonse Poirier, Joseph Lalancette, Shovel repair foreman Edmond Bergeron, (oxy-acetylene burner) with his bottles of gases and his torch. The boy holding the "Cup" is Bertrand Poirier, son of Alphonse. The two young boys are unknown. The two other men on the truck are also not known."
Pictured here is an aerial view of the Johns-Manville installation in Asbestos. The caption reads, " Showing Tailings till in area where ore was drawn through 'Block Caving' in underground mine. Mill #3 Centre foreground.
Pictured here is a group of machinists
Front: Florian Champoux, Alpherie Jutras, George H. Burns
2nd row: Albert Beliveau, Edourd Spenard
3rd row (standing) Lucien Marchand, Philippe Proulx, Roderick MacKenzie, Verron Carson, gerard Delisle, Harold Lockwood and Joseph R. Houle.
Item is a photograph of employees of the Asbestos and Asbestic Company Ltd., Asbestos, 1904. Included in the photo are: (front, L-R): Gordon Clark, Ted Walsh, Regis Leprise, George Smith, Tom Lefebvre, Unknown, Unknown, Harry Williams (General Superintendent). (second row, L-R): M. Lizotte, David Roy, Unknown, Pierre Champagne, Omar Champoux, James Clark (foreman), Lizotte, Unknown, Johnny Morris, Wilbrod Boisclair. Back: Ed Boucher.
Item is a photograph of two men standing at a bar, with bottles of alcohol visible in the background, probably taken in the Georgeville or Magog areas, around the 1890s.
Item is a photograph of the St. Helen’s School (private girls’ school) basketball team in 1932 in Dunham.
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.
Item is a photograph with a view of Main street in Richmond, including St. Anne's church.
Item is a photograph of a train wreck between Waterloo and Warden in 1879. The caption reads: "Wreck between Waterloo & Warden 1879. Engine former C.V. 'Governor Payne', Joseph Clark, 1849-50. Passumpsic, 'Orleans'. Operated in mixed, Sorel to Sutton. S.E.R. train carrying load of granite for the construction of Col. A.B. Foster's home at Waterloo;-- C.W. Foster, gave the signal 'all clear' when the mixed was on the right of way. This event ended his railway career. Engr. John Daly, killed."