The item contains information on Louis-Philippe Demers' interests. It is a post card depicting the Market Place of St. Hyacinthe in 1903. Message on verso : St. Hyacinthe, Arthur, Melle Alice Bern[e].
The item contains information on Louis-Philippe Demers' interests. It is a post card depicting the Place Pacific Square of Sherbrooke.
The item contains information on Louis-Philippe Demers' interests. It is a photograph depicting Sherbrooke's Country Club.
The item contains information on Louis-Philippe Demers' interests. It is a photograph depicting Sherbrooke's Christ Roi Church, situated on Aberdeen Street.
The item contains information on Louis-Philippe Demers' interests. It is a photograph depicting the gorge of the Magog River in Sherbrooke.
Item is the cover of the Johns-Manville Pictorial News from October 1950, an issue that profiled the company in Asbestos, Quebec.
This graphical element is from the October 1950 edition of the Johns-Manville News Pictorial, which contained an article about Asbestos, Quebec, where Johns-Manville operated the asbestos mine.
Item is a photograph showing miners at the Jeffrey Mines in Asbestos around 1905.
The caption reads: This is how stripping was done about 1905 and until 1914. Horses hauled dumpcarts which were loaded by hand, to the dump. Sometimes the drivers, mostly young boys employed by the contractor, would back the cart too close to the edge of the dump and when the latch was released and the load did not slide out easily, everything went, load of earth, dumpcart, and the poor old horse. In most cases that was the end of the horse. The harness was stripped off and the horse shot and buried by suceeding loads of earth. Incidentally the "Dirt Dump" was along side of the Danville road just a short distance below the "Square"
In this picture it is possible to see three separate pits. The small cabins on the edge of the pit were for the signal boys. The hoist operator could not see into the pit or even see the platform where the derrick boxes were dumped into the ore cars. so boys were placed where they could be seen by the hoist operator and the men in the pit. They used paddles about the size of a Ping-pong paddle or bat. These were brightly painted, mostly white with a ex red centre like a large target, bull's eye. With these they transmitted signals from the pit crew to the hoistman. There were two boxes to a hoist. While one was being hoisted and emptied the pit gang were loading the second. When they had loaded and hoisted 100 boxes their day was finished. Starting at 6,30 A.M. to 12.00 noon, one hour for lunch, restart 1.00.P.M. until the 100 box was dumped which was anywhere from 1.30 to 3.00 P.M. These same boxes were used to lower and raise the men into and cut of the pit."
Item is a photograph showing a steam shovel and miners, including one identified as Tharé Connolly, Johns-Manville mine in Asbestos in 1928 or 1929.
Item is a postcard showing a view of Laurier Street in Asbestos around the 1910s. A handwritten caption reads "Looking S.E. [southeast] from centre of 'the Square.'"
Pictured here is a P & H Electrical Shovel, with a regular truck to receive all the sediments.
Pictured here is the skating rink on the corner of St. Aime Street and St. George Street.
The verso reads, "Village of Asbestos as seen from main office / Skating rink in the foreground / Corner of St. Aime and St. George Streets."
Pictured here is another view of the village of Asbestos.
Item is a photograph of a large house, possibly used as a hotel, located in Georgeville, with people in the yard. It was known as the "Old Camperdown(?) House."
Item is a photograph of St. John's Anglican Church, in Gallup Hill, near Melbourne.
Item is a photograph of Bishop's University located in Lennoxville, taken from across the Massawippi River.
Item is a photograph of the Grand Trunk Depot, the New Sherbrooke House Hotel, with a streetcar on the street in front.
Item is a photograph of the last Canadian National Railway steam train used, as it passes through Lennoxville on its way to Portland from Montreal.
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 the old Grand Trunk Railway Bridge in 1859 (Victoria Bridge, on top) and the new bridge in 1899.
Item is a photograph of the Soldiers' Monument in the Lennoxville town square dedicated to those who had died in World War I (WWI), with a gun from the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (CMR).
Item is a photograph of a Canadian Pacific Railway train wreck, which occured between Lennoxville and Huntingville.
Item is a photograph of a barn that was used by Tom Andrew's for blacksmithing, near Denison's Mills. He was known for making knife blades.
Item is a photograph of a wooded area near Ives Hill farm.
Item is a photograph of the Mouland Male Quartet of Sherbrooke.
Item is a photograph of the Sherbrooke Centenary choir.
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 large log pile at a sawmill located in Dixville. The town can be seen in the background.