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)The item is a postcard view of boats and people on regata day in North Hatley from around 1906.
Item is a photograph postcard of the power dam in the Coaticook river. Visible is the front of the flowing dam, with buildings on either side of it, and the river that precedes it. The photo was probably taken around 1910.
Valentine & Son's Publishing Co., Ltd. (Montreal, Que. and Toronto, Ont.)Item is a photograph of a power dam located on the Coaticook River.
Item is a photograph postcard of a man holding an axe and standing beside train tracks that overpass a river in Coaticook. The train tracks are supported by logs and rocks stacked in the river. There seems to be a logging camp in the background. The photo was taken in 1926.
Item is a photograph postcard of a train loaded with wooden logs and 4 men standing at the front of it in Coaticook. The photo was taken in 1926.
Item is a photograph postcard of the power dam in the Coaticook river. Visible is the dam, and multiple buildings beside the river. The photo was probably taken around 1912.
Pinsonneault Frères (Sherbrooke, Que.)This file is comprised of three geological surveys produced by the Canadian Department of Mines and Resources - Mines and Geology Branch between 1942 and 1945. The surveys Preliminary Maps of Orford, Stanstead and Brome Counties, and Mansonville, Quebec, They also each have corresponding descriptive notes either written directly on the map or as a separate document.
Government of Canada, Department of Mines and Resources, Mines and Geology BranchItem is a postcard of the dam at Magog, which is postmarked 9 January 1908.
Item is a photograph postcard of an aerial view of the Coaticook river and the electric power dam in the Gorge. The photo was probably created in the 1930's.
Rumsey & Co., Ltd (Toronto, Ont.).Item is a photograph of a postcard of the dam on the Lake Magog falls.
Item is a photograph postcard of a view of the Coaticook river near the central power dam. The photograph was probably taken in the 1930's.
Ancien barrage de la compagnie Belding-Corticelli sur la rivière Coaticook.
Barrage de la Belding-Corticelli.
Vue de la rivière Coaticook et de la centrale électrique dans la Gorge.
Vue de la rivière Coaticook près de la centrale électrique dans la Gorge.
L'intérieur de la mini-centrale St-Paul en 2002 à Coaticook.
Construction des mini-centrales. Les colonnes abritant les turbines de la centrale St-Paul à Coaticook.
Construction du barrage Belding. Le site vue de l'emplacement de la Waterville TG.
La construction du tunnel du barrage Belding. Travaux préparatoires à une coulée de béton. À droite, le barrage Hopkins.
Construction des mini-centrales. Mise en place des turbines à la centrale St-Paul à Coaticook.
Le fonds contient de l'information sur le prolongement de gazoduc par Trans Québec et Maritimes par East Hereford, sur la vie de Lucie Roy-Alain, et sur la vie communitaire à East Hereford et Coaticook entre 1981 aux années 2000. Il consiste de la correspondence, des études environmentales, l'opposition au gazoduc, et de documents de recherche sur le projet de prolongement. Il consiste de photographies et des oeuvres artisitiques de Lucie Roy-Alain. Le fonds comprenne les séries suivantes : Gazoduc TQM Prolongement vers Portland Natural Gas Transmission System (PNGTS) (1995-1999), Photographies (1981-1994), Oeuvres artistiques ([200-?]) et Antoine Roy (1992, 2013).
Pont sur la rue St-Paul à Coaticook.
La construction du barrage Belding, vue de la rive est de l'emplacement de l'usine Waterville TG.
Barrage de la rue St-Paul sur la rivière Coaticook.