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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)

Commerce and industries

CA SHC C032-S001-D006
File
1875-2014

Part of Collection Société d’histoire de Coaticook

File presents information on the economic history of the Coaticook region from 1875 to 2014. It consists of an account book for James Williamson for R.C. Baldwin’s store (1875), an invoice from Charles H. Bryan (freight delivery) for Belding-Corticelli (1917), a poster for J. H. Knapp’s ambulance and funeral service and a wedding book printed to J. H. Knapp ([192-?]), a flyer for Georges Vaillancourt's store (date unknown), three promotional posters for Cercle de Couture Pfaff, Felix I. Lajoie (Coton Wabasso) and J. B. Dionne (dates unknown), two wallpaper sample catalogues from W. E. Dionne & Fils (dates unknown), a programme for the Penman's employee picnic held at Jacques-Cartier Park (22 August 1953), an article “Scientific fish culture in Quebec since 1945” by Louis-Roch Séguin (1957), an article “Étude d’un important projet pour la promotion touristique de la Station Piscicole du Lac Lyster” (1957), a brochure “Eastern Townships Fish Hatchery/Station piscicole des Cantons de l’Est” (1958), a brochure for Camping Piskiart at Lake Lyster (1960s), a ribbon from the Penman's employee picnic held at Crystal Beach in Magog (26 August 1961), two flyers for the Marché Suprême Benoit (1963) and Coaticook Pharmacy, a promotional poster for Michael Élias & Co. (ca. 1964), an article “Trout rearing with the minimum of fresh make-up water possible/Élévage de truites avec le minimum d’eau fraîche de compensation possible” by Louis-Roch Séguin, Benoit Dion and Raymond Charbonneau (1978), a commemorative photo album and medallion celebrating Niedner's 100 years in Coaticook (2014), and a cabinetry catalogue from Cabico (2014).

Factory

CA ETRC P020-003-06-P040
Item
[1922?], copied 1977

Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of a factory, possibly the old Sanborn or Tapatco, that burned down.

Logging camp

CA ETRC P020-003-06-D003a-P866
Item
1897, copied 1979

Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of Hollis Cairns' logging camp located on the North River, with many workers and a few horses visible in front of the camp, in Compton County.

“Old” Sherbrooke, 1842

CA ETRC P999-053-D001-021
Item
[193-?]

Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Postcard collection

The item is a postcard showing a reproduced photograph showing the Magog River gorge in Sherbrooke and the industrial building that once stood on the “island” in the middle of the river, probably photographed around the 1890s, reproduced around 1930.

Clearing out sale

CA ETRC P069-002-001
Item
1899

Part of James Miller fonds

The item contains information on James Miller’s professional life. It is an advertisement for a clearing out sale.

Sherbrooke’s industries

CA ETRC P050-001
Item
193?

Part of Robert B. Speer fonds

The item contains information on Robert Speer’s activities. It is a newspaper article about Sherbrooke’s industries in the 1930’s.

Sugar Beet Factory

CA ETRC P038-300-04-002
Item
1880

Part of Townshippers' Association fonds

The item contains information on the Townshippers’ Associtaion cultural activities. It depicts the sugar beet factory of Coaticook in 1880.

J.B. Reed's grist mill

CA ETRC P250-007-024
Item
1916

Part of Reed family (North Hatley) fonds

The item contains information on the professional lives of the Reed family in the 1910s. It depicts J.B. Reed's grist mill in 1916.

History

CA SHC F028-S006
Series
[194-?]-1984

Part of Fonds Canadian Celanese of Coaticook

Series illustrates the history of the activities, employees, and production at the Canadian Celanese in Coaticook from he 1940s to the 1980s. It consists of photographs (largely reproduced) and scrapbooks. The series is composed of the following files: Photo albums (reproductions), Photo albums (originals), Other photographs, and General documents.

Finishing room, Canada Paper Company

CA ETRC P998-2015-051-P003
Item
[1894]

Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Graphic Material collection

The item is a photograph showing the interior of the finishing room at the Canada Paper Company's Springvale mill in Windsor, taken about 1894. Pictured in the photograph are, from left to right: Miss Rousseau, Miss. St. Laurent, Superintendent Arthur A. Briggs, David Jamieson, Unknown, Joseph Parent, and Fred Young.

Other historical research documents

CA ETRC P232-003-072
File
1967-1969

Part of Société d'histoire et du patrimoine du Haut-St-François collection

The file contains source material on historical research of various subjects from 1967 to 1969. It consists of the following research documents: Au Township D’Eaton, Notre-Dame-du-Saint-Rosaire de Sawyerville, Messire A. E. Dufresne et Les Anglo-Protestants, La Mine de Chesham, Avenement des Chemins de Fer dans Les Townships, Quelques Sources de Renseignements en Histoire Regionale et en Genealogie.