Pierre Vachon (1853-1930) and his wife, Agnès Gosselin (1855-1942). Photo taken in 1900.
Vachon family (Garthby)Family of Pierre Vachon (1853-1930) and Agnès Gosselin [1855-1942].
In the back, from left to right: Philomon, Clodomir, Laura, Roméo, Ludivine, Omer and Eméril.
In front, from left to right: Marie-Louise, Stanislas, Henri, Hercule and Marie-Anne.
In the center, Agnès Gosselin and Pierre Vachon.
The photo was taken on the front porch of the family's home.
Vachon family (Garthby)Inscriptions on the back of the photo:
"Garthby west (sic) 1909 October.
Horse power used for sawing firewood. The work was done at Auguste Grenier's house. The house is in good condition, built by G. Father Félix around 1860.
From left to right: Lédonia Grenier, Auguste Grenier, Adolphe Coulombe, Géraldus Grenier, Hercule Vachon."
G father = Grand Father
Item is a photograph of the Breeches Lake in Wolfe County.
Item is a photograph of six people pictured in two cars. The cars are parked on a road with trees in the background. There are four people visible in the car on the left, and two people visible in the car on the right. The woman in the car on the right is Georgiana Lemay, Noël Lemay's sister. The cars both carry New Hampshire license plates, one of which was issued in 1909. The location of the photograph is unknown, though the New Hampshire license plates may indicate New Hampshire as the location.
Lemay, Noël, 1890-1967Garthby baseball team and a Ford 1908 Model T.
The men are standing around the car or sitting in the car. One man holds a baseball glove and two others each hold a baseball bat. Some men are wearing jackets and ties.
Noël Lemay is sitting in the back of the car. He wears a mustache and goatee, drawed on the original photo.
This picture shows one of Noël Lemay's brothers, his sisters and a sister-in-law.
In the back, from left to right: John Lemay, Donalda Lemay (Mrs. Carleton), Georgine Lemay and Mary Lemay (Mrs. Lapointe).
In front of John: Aimée Lemay (Mme Mercier).
In front, Victoria Desrochers (widow of Victor Lemay, Noël's brother) and Camille Lemay (Mme Valade).
In the center, between Victoria and Camille: Lydia Lemay (Mrs. Vincent).
They are wearing very nice clothes. The ladies' dresses are particularly elaborate. The Lemay sisters were talented seamstresses.
On this picture, the Garthby wharf. Halfway to the wharf, the pergola.
Lemay, Noël, 1890-1967The picture shows a woman and three little girls on a small buggy.
To the right of the buggy and standing, Noël Lemay.
The buggy is small, with only one seat. It is oriented to the left. We can't see the animal that is harnessed to it.
In the background, a wall of a house.
Lemay, Noël, 1890-1967On this picture, the house of Cléophas Grégoire and some people. From left to right: Léonida Bernier, Réjeanne Grégoire, Adrienne Grégoire, Marie-Anne Grégoire, Ernestine Bernier, Valérie Bernier, Adjutor Grégoire, Marie Marcoux with a child sitting on top of her (second wife of Cléophas Grégoire), Cléophas Grégoire and Amanda Lizotte (wife of Louis Tessier).
Vachon family (Garthby)On this picture, the church and the presbytery of Garthby, photographed from St-Jacques street. The photographer is standing a little below on St-Jacques street which slopes down to the bottom of the village. The gaze is directed towards the north. The two buildings are seen from bottom to top, the presbytery on the left and the church on the right.
In the center, at the bottom of the photo, the inscriptions engraved on the negative of the photo: "Garthby, Que." underneath "Eglise et Presbytere" (sic), and at the bottom right, the initials "NJL" for Noël Joseph Lemay.
In this picture, we see a large two-story pontoon — possibly the floating cottage of the Smith family. The first floor is closed and the second floor is partially open. The rear two thirds of the pontoon consists of a gallery topped by a roof. The front part of the second floor is partially closed. Some people can be seen there. At the front, a small bridge. A rowboat is moored along the pontoon; it is covered on almost all its length by a roof.
Lemay, Noël, 1890-1967This photo shows skaters skating on the ice of Aylmer Lake.
The snow was shoveled on an area equivalent to a skating rink.
Some skaters are holding hockey sticks.
On the left, the Smith cottage on the shore of the lake.
In this photo, Henri Vachon (1893-1970) and Marie-Anne Grégoire (1895-1985) on October 30, 1916, their wedding day.
Vachon family (Garthby)On this photograph: the family of Pierre Vachon and Agnès Gosselin. Back row, from left to right: Roméo, Omer, Éméril, Clodomir, Philémon, Hercule, Henri and Stanislas. Middle row: Laura, Marie-Louise, Marie-Anne and Ludivine. Forward: Pierre Vachon and Agnès Gosselin.
Vachon family (Garthby)The main subject of this photo is the Garthby shipyard (now Beaulac-Garthby).
In the center left of the photo, a barge (a tugboat) under construction.
In the left background, the village sawmill. In the middle foreground, piles of boards. In the middle right, the village skating rink and on the far right, the train station.
In the background, on the right and in the distance, the house of the Vachon family.
In the foreground, on the left, inscriptions engraved on the negative: "Garthby, Que. Construction of barges at the shipyards". And on the right, still in the foreground at the bottom, the initials "NJL" for Noël Joseph Lemay.
The photo was taken from a floating raft in front of the village of Garthby Station. The view is looking west.
In the foreground, on the left, is a barge equipped with railings. This barge transported wood that was used to fuel the boilers of the tugs' steam engines.
In the mid-ground, on the right, two floating platforms on which large wooden winches are installed.
In the background, a part of the village of Garthby, with the church in the center. Along the lake, a steam train drifting north.
At https://townshipsarchives.ca/image-13-4/edit#the bottom of the photo, on the left, an inscription engraved on the negative of the photo: "Garthby, QUE.", and in the middle, the initials "NJL" for Noël Joseph Lemay.
This photograph shows a partial view of the lower part of Garthby.
The view is looking north. The photo was taken from the roof of one of the two boathouses, the northernmost one.
In the foreground, and moving away into the background, the railroad tracks can be seen. In addition to the main track, there are two sidings that were also used to sort the cars. On each of these sidings, a freight car is parked. In the foreground, on the right, the sawmill. Still on the right, a little further on, a rather imposing barge (about 35 feet long). Behind this barge, two warehouses of the Brompton Pulp and Paper Company. In the middle of the picture, to the left of the railroad tracks, the train station. Still on the left, behind the station and going up towards the background, other houses and buildings.
Lemay, Noël, 1890-1967A tug with men and children on board. The clothes that some wear (coats and ties) lead us to think that the photo was taken on a Sunday.
A partial inscription on the port side of the boat: "5 B..".
Lemay, Noël, 1890-1967Garthby, St-Jacques Street, looking west from the intersection with St-François Street, about 1918. Remarkable photograph as for the details that we find there: the car, the wooden sidewalks, the architecture of the buildings, the clothes of the passers-by. Taking in account the clothes people are wearing, picture was probably taken on a Sunday, after mass.
The car is a Ford T 1916 or 1917 (identified by the shape of the rear window, the shape of the radiator at the front and the shape and type of the headlights).
This is a picture of the C.C. Wilson, a tugboat on Aylmer Lake. A man can be seen standing at the bow of the boat.
Lemay, Noël, 1890-1967Partial view of the village of Garthby station.
The photo was taken from the pier.
In this photo, you can see the Garthby wharf with its pergola in the middle of the picture.
In the foreground, a wooden boom attached to the shore.
In the foreground, what appears to be a large pile of boards. In the middle of this pile, a post supporting a wire.
In the background, the shoreline of Aylmer Lake and hills in the distance.
Completely to the right, near the edge of the lake, a house and two outbuildings and a little further on, two other small buildings.
The orientation of this photo is east-northeast.
Lemay, Noël, 1890-1967On this photograph, we see to the right a vintage truck, parked on street side, facing left. On the side of the truck box, we can read "ELZ. COTE & "; the rest is outbound. On the left, the Beaulac hotel. In the middle, a man seen from behind, hands crossed behind and partially hidden by a fence in the foreground. In the lower left part is engraved by hand on the photo: "Garthby, Que. «Carré central» " and the initials of the photographer "NJL" for Noël Joseph Lemay.
Lemay, Noël, 1890-1967This photo shows a view of the village of Garthby Station. The village is built on a hillside.
The photo was taken from the roof of one of the two boat storage buildings located on the shore of Aylmer Lake, looking north-northeast.
The road in the foreground is dirt and almost all the houses are covered with unpainted boards. In the center are two larger buildings: the school and the church.
In the foreground, from left to right, the main railroad track and two yard tracks, one on each side of the main track.
In the midground, on the right, the village sawmill and across the railroad, many wood piles.
This is a photograph taken around 1920 in Garthby (now Beaulac-Garthby). The photographer was standing at the bottom of St-Jacques Street, looking west-northwest. In the foreground, the railroad tracks. On the left, the J. H. Dionne general store (hardware-wholesale). From the foreground, on the right, going up the street: Mr. Arthur Morin's house, the Beaulac Hotel, the A.-A. Jacques general store, Alexandre Drouin's house, Euclide Grenier's house, the presbytery. In the background, behind the A.-A. Jacques store, the church tower. Note the wooden sidewalks.
Lemay, Noël, 1890-1967In this photo, the convent of Garthby (now Beaulac-Garthby). At the bottom, on the left, an inscription: "Convent".
Lemay, Noël, 1890-1967In this photo, four tugs side by side. From left to right: the Marine, the C.C. Wilson, the McCrea and the Tobin. On the three tugs on the right, men who seem to be installed for photography. On the C.C Wilson, four men on top of the cabin and one sitting on the boat's chimney.
Lemay, Noël, 1890-1967The photograph represents "La Marine", a tugboat on Aylmer Lake. The shape of the hull is rectangular. It is topped by a cabin, which is itself topped by a wheelhouse. The front of the deck is clear. Three people can be seen standing there. Smoke is coming out of the chimney. A boat is attached behind.https://townshipsarchives.ca/image-18-3/edit#
Lemay, Noël, 1890-1967Partial panoramic view of Garthby.
This panorama is made up of two juxtaposed photos, taken from the church tower. The orientation of the view is east-southeast.
The lower half of the panorama shows part of the village of Garthby. The upper half shows Aylmer Lake.
In the middle ground, on the left, the wharf.
Lemay, Noël, 1890-1967