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CA ETRC P997-005-08-001 · File · June 1944
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Textual Records collection

The subseries file contains primary source information on the Bell Telephone Company of Canada in Sherbrooke in 1944. It consists of one telephone directory for Sherbrooke and vicinity, dated June 1944. It also includes information for Lennoxville, Asbestos, Ayer's Cliff, Bishopton, Black Lake, Bury, Coaticook, Compton, Cookshire, Danville, Disraeli, East Angus, East Broughton, East Hereford, Garthby, Inverness, La Patrie, Laurierville, Leeds, Lyster, Magog, Marbleton, Megantic, North Hatley, Plessisville, Richmond, Rock Island, St. Ferdinand de Halifax, St. Malo, Sawyerville, Scotstown, Thetford Mines, Victoriaville, Waterville, and Windsor.

Bell Telephone Company of Canada (The)
CA ETRC P164-005-004-001 · Item · 1941
Part of Eddy Echenberg collection

Official Telephone Directory including Sherbrooke, Coaticook, Richmond, Magog, Rock Island, Thetford Mines and surrounding territory, published by Bell Telephone Company in 1941.

CA ETRC P164-005-003-001 · Item · 1936
Part of Eddy Echenberg collection

Official Telephone Directory including Sherbrooke, Coaticook, Richmond, Magog, Rock Island, Thetford Mines and surrounding territory, published by Bell Telephone Company in 1936.

Reid Farm, Leeds
CA ETRC P020-003-06-D002a-P771 · Item · [1917?], copied 1977
Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of the Reid farm located in Leeds, with two children playing on the grass and a man standing next to them. The farm house and surrounding area are also visible.

W. Gillies Ross fonds
CA ETRC P233 · Fonds · 1767 [Photocopied]-2006

The fonds contains of research done by W. Gillies Ross on the following subjects: the mines at Eustis, Capelton and Albert Mines, asbestos mining at Asbestos, the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic, the Stanstead granite industry, and covered bridges in the Eastern Townships and surrounding areas. It consists largely of research notes, research documents, photographs, and oral histories. The fonds is organized i the following series: Interviews (1944-1996), Harvard’s Baker Library Trip and Research (1887-1996), Jo Cooper (1977-1987), Newspaper Index (1971-1975), National Archive of Canada Research (1903-1921), Publications (1890-1938), Granite Project (1898-1900, 1976), Copper / Pyrite Mining Studies (1867 [Photocopied] -1996), Asbestos Mining and Landscape Research (1897 [Photocopied]-1965), Spanish Flu Research (1918 [Photocopied] -2006), Photographs (1888-1972), Maps and Plans (1767 [Photocopied] - 1979), Asbestos Mining (1950-2004), Mining Study – Correspondence (1883 [Photocopied]-2005), Book Translation (1995), Cookshire (1979), Research on covered bridges ([ca. 1990?]).

Ross, W. Gillies (1931-2019)
Aeneas McMaster fonds
CA ETRC P094 · Fonds · 1873-1888

The fonds contains source material mainly on railway development and settlement in Clinton, Hampden, Ditton, and Marston townships in Compton County and around Lake Megantic from 1873 to 1888 and on the role of the Glasgow Canadian Land and Trust Company, managed at the time by Aeneas McMaster. The fonds consists of letters sent to McMaster from 1873 to 1888 by businessmen and shopkeepers, municipal councillors or mayors, employees of the Glasgow Canadian Land and Trust Company, men in search of work, and settlers and includes a proposal for building a mill; letters signed by McMaster; and a few other documents. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Railway Companies (1876-1888), Settlement (1873-1876), Municipal Affairs (1873-1881), Miscellaneous Documents (1875-1881) and Correspondance (1876-1882).

McMaster, Aeneas
55th Megantic Battalion
CA ETRC P058-004-65-013 · File · 1901 [reproduction]
Part of Herbert Derick collection

The file consists of a photograph of two privates of the 55th Megantic Battalion, taken in Point L�vis, Quebec: Tom Johnston (left) and Jim Beattie.

East Broughton mining sector
CA ETRC P244-006-001-001 · Item · [19--?]
Part of Freeman Clowery Collection

Item is a photograph of part of East Broughton, formerly East Broughton Station, (presently 10e avenue nord), with the mining installations of Quebec Asbestos Corporation visible in the distance, taken around 1910.

Ward family
CA ETRC P205-005-063 · Part · [193-?]
Part of Ward family (Thetford) fonds

The item is a photograph of Alexander Henry (Harry) Ward family. From left to right the back row: Agnes Gertrude Moore-Ward (the mother), Marjorie Ward, Don Beathie (Marjorie's husband), Alexander Henry (Harry) Ward. Front row: Evelyn Ward and Lois Ward.

Ward Brothers
CA ETRC P205-005-054 · Part · [194-? ]
Part of Ward family (Thetford) fonds

The item is a photograph of six of the Ward brothers at Albion's house in Lower Ireland. The house used to be the one of Annie M. Cairns Ward.

Ward Brothers
CA ETRC P205-005-049 · Part · [194-? ]
Part of Ward family (Thetford) fonds

The item is a photograph of Alexander Henry (Harry) Ward, Robert Grant Ward, Bill Ward and Albion Tudor Ward.