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CA ETRC P020-003-06-P177
Item
[1900?], copied 1977

Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a misidentified photograph that actually depicts the Knowlton Methodist Church and mill pond from around 1900. The image is laterally reversed.

Landscapes of the Past

CA ETRC P020-003-06-D003b
File
1977-1979

Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

The file 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".

Landscapes of the Past

CA ETRC P020-003-06-D003a
File
1979

Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

The file 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.".

C.P.R. Station

CA ETRC P020-003-06-D003a-P572
Item
[1910?], copied 1977

Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of the Canadian Pacific Railway station located at the corner of Belvedere and Frontenac Streets in Sherbrooke.

Ayer's Cliff Academy

CA ETRC P020-003-06-P034
Item
1920, copied 1977

Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of the Ayer's Cliff Academy / High School, probably taken around 1920.

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.

Edward W. Gibson

CA ETRC P020-003-06-D003a-P499
Item
[1890?], copied 1977

Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of Edward W. Gibson (1851-1919) an engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Interior, Rock Island Congregational Church

CA ETRC P020-003-06-D003a-P659
Item
1889, copied 1979

Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of the interior of the Rock Island Congregational Church (later Stanstead South United Church) decorated for Easter in 1889, with organ in background.

Tomifobia River raging underneath Bridge

CA ETRC P020-003-06-D003a-P734
Item
[1920?], copied 1977

Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of the Tomifobia River raging underneath a covered bridge in Rock Island.

Maple sugaring evaporator

CA ETRC P020-003-06-P409
Item
[1900?], copied 1977

Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of a sap evaporator used for maple sugaring.

Council Room

CA ETRC P020-003-06-D003a-P519
Item
[1900?], copied 1977

Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of a house where a council room was previously used, located in St. Cesaire.

Man with Oxen

CA ETRC P020-003-06-D003a-P492
Item
[ca.1900], copied 1977

Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of Levi Smith with his oxen named Buck and Bright, with the Barnston Pinnacle in background.

Pinnacle

CA ETRC P020-003-06-P503
Item
[1900?], copied 1977

Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of the Pinnacle, located at Baldwin's Mills.

Horses pulling wagon

CA ETRC P020-003-06-P533
Item
[1905], copied 1977

Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of Ruby Cushing driving two horses, pulling a wagon of wood in front of the Cushing barn in Dixville.

Building a barn

CA ETRC P020-003-06-P530
Item
[1905], copied 1977

Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

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.

Round barn

CA ETRC P020-003-06-P531
Item
[1908?], copied 1977

Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of a marked area, indicating where a round barn will be built on John Cushing 's farm in Dixville, with surrounding landscape visible.

Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

CA ETRC P020
Fonds
1923-1984; predominant 1974-1980

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.)

Streetcar in Granby

CA ETRC P020-003-06-D003a-P469
Item
[191-?], copied 1977

Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of a streetcar at the intersection of Main and Drummond Streets in Granby from around the 1910s.

Church, Philipsburg

CA ETRC P020-003-06-P204
Item
[1900?], copied 1977

Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of the Methodist church located in Philipsburg.

Main Building at Exhibition

CA ETRC P020-003-06-P710
Item
1907, copied 1979

Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of the main building at the Dominion exhibition located in Sherbrooke.

Board of Trustees

CA ETRC P020-003-06-D003a-P744
Item
[1925], copied 1979

Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of the Stanstead college board of trustees. Included in the men pictured is Charles Eugene Nelson (standing, 4th from left).

Her Majesty Queen Victoria

CA ETRC P020-003-06-D003a-P574
Item
[1880?], copied 1977

Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.

Passenger Train

CA ETRC P020-003-06-D003a-P622
Item
1900, copied 1977

Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of a passenger train leaving Lime Ridge for Portland, Maine, with people standing beside it. Pictured is Engine No. 2 of the Hereford Railway becoming Engine No. 126 of the Maine Central Railway. Included in the photograph are Philander Abbott (in front), engineer, and Bernier (2nd from rear), conductor.

Mackenzie Bridge, Richmond