Item is a photograph of the Foster Railway Station, and surrounding landscape.
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 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 a truck transporting christmas trees, with Roland Blair standing by truck, probably taken in the 1950s.
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 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 an aerial view of ice damage that occured in Bromptonville. A house is completely surrounded by ice and water from the St. Francis River.
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 the Walker covered bridge over the Niger River with surrounding landscape visible.
Item is a photograph of the American House hotel and grounds located in Stanbridge East. It burned down in 1921.
Item is a photograph of the Tomifobia River raging underneath a covered bridge in Rock Island.
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 St. Francis Paper Company located in Windsor Mills, with a picture of a paper machine in the bottom left-hand corner.
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 the Stanstead Hotel.
Item is a photograph of the residence of R.A.D. King, located in Compton, with people playing tennis in the yard.
Item is a photograph of the Windsor hotel located in Granby.
Item is a photograph of St. Barnabas Anglican Church located in Milby, with part of the surrounding landscape visible.
Item is a photograph of a finishing room at the Canada Paper Company paper mill in Windsor, with women and men gathered together for the picture.
Item is a photograph of the Canada Paper Company's log haul equipment located at the end of 6th avenue.
Item is a photograph of the Canada Paper Company St. Francis mill, with the St. Francis River in the background.
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 Central Hotel located in Magog.
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 Main Street, Way's Mills.
Item is a postcard depicting the Methodist Church in Knowlton.
Item is a photograph of the main building at the Dominion exhibition located in Sherbrooke.
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 Ruby Cushing driving two horses, pulling a wagon of wood in front of the Cushing barn in Dixville.
Item is a photograph of paper machine used by the Canada Paper Company at their St. Francis mill, with some of their workers on it.