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Ending train service

Item is a letter dated 2 November 1965 to Mr. Heward Grafftey, Member of Parliament for Brome-Missisquoi, from C.S. Douglas of Sutton, arguing that the C.P.R. had obligations to the taxpayers of rural areas which contributed to the building of the railways to sustain railway service to those areas.

Bertha Ralston's notebook
CA ETRC P997-007-03-002-006 · Item · 1891-1902
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Textual Records collection

The item is a school notebook, consisting of lesson notes and plans, kept by Berth Ralston from 1891-1902 in West Bolton and following her move to New Hampshire. Bertha B. Ralston was the daughter of Edward Ralston and Carrie Williamson of West Bolton; she was born in 1868, died 1957. Bertha Ralston married Arthur Foster Sumner in 1894 in West Bolton, Quebec. The later moved to Concord, New Hampshire, where they lived until sometime after 1910.

Sutton
CA ETRC P997-004-07-001 · File · [ca.1900]
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Textual Records collection

The file contains primary source material on tourism in the Sutton area from the early 1900s. It consists of an advertisement outlining the attractions Sutton can offer to tourists. The advertisement includes images of the surrounding landscape and includes Grace Anglican Church in Sutton, Legrage Falls, Balance Rock, the Pinnacle, Sutton Methodist Church, the Canadian Mohonk, and Billing's cascade.