Tom Currie, brokeman ; Harry Leborgne, backtender ; Georges Files, machine tender ; Bill Gillman, 4th hand; Hertel Castonguay, 3rd hand ; J. A. Roberge, 5th hand
sawmills 1898. Fred Parsons (superintendent)
Item is a photograph of some workers at the brick factory. 1st row : Gérard Bissonnette, ?, Luc Turcotte. 2nd row : Léon Gaulin, ? , Gédén Lavigne. 3rd row : ? , Anatole Gosselin.
Item is a photograph of a group of workers standing in front of a building, possibly the Paton Mill.
Ernest Corriveau, Lloyd Bailey, Tardif, Conrad "Palette" Galipeau, Côté, Laberge
Item is a photograph of a work team at the Pyramide in 1930. From left to right: Germaine Desruisseaux, Bill Keating, Philip Blouin, Hubert Lloyd, Henri Desruisseaux, Gordon Sims, Emile Thériault, Rose-Alba Giguère, Helen Cornichuck, Germaine Mercier, Antoinette Desruisseaux, Napoléon Champigny, Yvonne Allaire, Rita Desruisseaux
Item is a photograph of a work team at the Pyramide. Gordon Sims, Bill Keating, Helen Cornichuck, Lawrence McCourt
Item is a photograph of two men atop a wooden silo frame, which is being built at Ray Waldron's farm, probably in Clifton Township.
Item is a photograph of lumber within a mill waiting to be transported.
The item is a postcard of the Wolfe (presently Belvedere) Street bridge from the Magog River with factories visible in the background from 1913.
Item is a photograph of the Canada Paper Company's paper mill in Windsor, whose main road passes through the mill yard. The St. Francis Mill can be seen in the background.
The item consists of a photograph showing the pulp and paper mills at Windsor Mills, Quebec, in the early 1900s.
Item is a photograph of the Windsor mill.
Item is a photograph of the employees of Canada Paper Company in front of the sawmill in Windsor, showing Thomas Logan at left, taken around 1890.
The collection contains source material on the history of the Asbestos region and on the development of the asbestos industry in the 19th and 20th centuries; it is also a source of information on the Johns-Manville Corporation, the life of William G. Clark, and includes an architectural sketch of the St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Asbestos from 1945. Among the materials are memoirs written by William G. Clark on his life and the town of Asbestos. The collection is comprised of the following series: Le Citoyen Historical Sections (1971-1980), Periodicals (The Asbestos Producer and Johns-Manville News Pictorial) (1948-1976), Photographs ([1897?]-1981), Miscellaneous Documents (1940-1971), and William G. Clark ([197-?]-2003).
Clark, William G., 1902-1999Photograph of East Angus with a view of the Saint Francis River and the William Angus and Company Mill probably taken between 1882 and 1891.
Item is a photograph of Willard's sawmill located in Bolton Centre, on the Missisquoi & Black Rivers Valley Railway.
The item is a postcard showing the confluence of the Magog and St. Francis Rivers with a view of some of the industries and the Sherbrooke East from about the 1920s.
Item is a photograph of Wells Marble and Granite Works, with tombstones visible in front.
Item is a photograph of two men fishing in a river, probably in Waterville though some sources identify it as Dixville, with a box factory and saw mill on either side. In the background a waterfall and wooden bridge are visible.
Item is a photograph of a water-wheel used for a mill, probably located in Clifton.
Item is a photograph of a water tank at the Paton Mill, located in Sherbrooke.
Item is a photograph of Walter S. J. Hodgman standing with a large sac of wool, from the year 1957.
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)