The fonds contains source material on the steps taken between 1974 and 1976 to organize the Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation and on its administrative and research activities between 1976 and 1984. The fonds is also a source of information on the relations between the Foundation and the region's other heritage organizations, in particular English-speaking historical societies. The documentation produced by the project Landscape of the Past relates to the various aspects of life in the Eastern Townships during the first half of the 20th century. The fonds consists of documentary materials of various kinds, including minutes, correspondence, constitution, letters patent, accounting and financial records, contacts, photographs, sound recordings, and transcripts. It is comprised of the following series : Foundation Preliminaries (1974-1976), Constituent Documents ([1976?]-1984), Administration (1923-1983), Financial Resources (1976-1983), Membership (1976-[1978?]), and Miscellaneous Documents ([1976?]-[1980?]).
Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation (Lennoxville, Que.)Item is a photograph of a man in the streets of Bromptonville, standing next to mounds of ice, which came from the river.
Item is a photograph of an aerial view of ice damage that occured in Bromptonville. A house is completely surrounded by ice and water from the St. Francis River.
Item is a photograph of St. Barnabas Anglican Church located in Milby, with part of the surrounding landscape visible.
Item is a photograph of Maine Central Railroad's No. 23 locomotive, being oiled at Lime Ridge by two crewmen.
Item is a photograph of the Walker covered bridge over the Niger River with surrounding landscape visible.
Item is a photograph of a farmer in front of his barn with a cow.
Item is a photograph of seven postmen in Sherbrooke, dressed in uniform and holding mail and parcels (possibly Sherbrooke's first postmen) from around the 1910s.
Item is a photograph of Main Street, Way's Mills.
The file contains primary source information on the history of the Eastern Townships from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. It consists of photographs copied from private collections and historical societies in the area during a project conducted in 1977 and 1979 by the Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation titled "Landscapes of the Past." It also consists of oral histories that were conduced under the same project.
Item is a photograph of a postcard of the Boston Shoe Last Company, maker of models for shaping or repairing shoes or boots, located in Richmond, around 1920.
Item is a photograph of the main building at the Dominion exhibition located in Sherbrooke.
Item is a photograph of the Foster Railway Station, and surrounding landscape.
Item is a photograph of the Clarke sawmill located in Brompton Falls.
Item is a photograph of the first covered bridge in Richmond looking from the Melbourne side.
Item is a photograph of mounds of ice on the street, left from the St. Francis River flood in Bromptonville in 1948. A bulldozer is visible, pushing the ice blocks from the main street to open the road.
Item is a photograph of the founding of the town of Asbestos, taken as a group picture of the community.
Item is a misidentified photograph that actually depicts the Knowlton Methodist Church and mill pond from around 1900. The image is laterally reversed.
Item is a photograph of a road and wooden sidewalk that lead to the second Sherbrooke Court House (Palais de justice), built 1839-1841 and used until 1904, which is visible in the background. The building was given to the 53rd Sherbrooke Regiment in 1912 to serve as their armoury and later on became the armoury for the Sherbrooke Hussars.
Item is a photograph of a train wreck at North Derby, Vermont, crossing the Canadian side into Beebe, probably around 1900. Caused by a head on collision on track.
Item is a photograph of a streetcar at the intersection of Main and Drummond Streets in Granby from around the 1910s.
Item is a photograph of the Tomifobia River raging underneath a covered bridge in Rock Island.
Item is a photograph of a train at the Mansonville train station, originally on the Orford Mountain Railway line, with people and horse-drawn vehicles in the background, ca. 1909.
Item is a photograph of a group of people and horses, in front of a wooden frame for a round barn at John Cushing 's farm in Dixville.
Item is a photograph of a Gus Gamache and two ladies sitting around one of the first gramophones in Clifton.
Item is a photograph of Ruby Cushing driving two horses, pulling a wagon of wood in front of the Cushing barn in Dixville.
Item is an image of McGreer hall at Bishop's University, located in Lennoxville.
Item is a photograph of a wooden covered bridge located in Richmond.
Item is a photograph of a celebration called Old Home Week that took place in Cookshire, with lots of people dressed up, and a stagecoach that was used in 1870.
Item is a photograph of the Trinity Anglican Church located in Frelighsburg, built in 1808 and torn down around 1880.