Pictured here is a Marion Electrical Shovel, model 5320, used by the Canadian Johns-Manville.
Item is a reproduction of a postcard depicting what is likely a militia unit at Richmond in about 1916. The unit was probably made up of people who were too young or otherwise unfit to serve in the regular forces. The inscription on the verso lists the following names: featuring Rollie Elliot, Chet Kearry, Riggins, Arthur Pope, Elmer Cleveland, Stuart Morrill, ? Blake, Elmer Stockwell, Stuart Only, Eddie Smith, Dan Tounes, Harry Pugh, Stuart Messenger, Henry Smith, Ivan Adams, Leslie Porter, Stuart Hamilton, Arthur Messenger, Russ McKee, Duncan McCallum, Brooks Hamilton, Henry Carson, Bertie Barlow, Herbie Robinson, Ralph MacBain, Serg. ?. The postcard was copied in 2019.
Item is a photograph of a man in the streets of Bromptonville, standing next to mounds of ice, which came from the river.
Item is a photograph of an aerial view of ice damage that occured in Bromptonville. A house is completely surrounded by ice and water from the St. Francis River.
Item is a photograph of a postcard of the Boston Shoe Last Company, maker of models for shaping or repairing shoes or boots, located in Richmond, around 1920.
Item is a photograph of the Clarke sawmill located in Brompton Falls.
Item is a photograph of the first covered bridge in Richmond looking from the Melbourne side.
Item is a photograph of mounds of ice on the street, left from the St. Francis River flood in Bromptonville in 1948. A bulldozer is visible, pushing the ice blocks from the main street to open the road.
Item is a photograph of the founding of the town of Asbestos, taken as a group picture of the community.
Item is a photograph of a wooden covered bridge located in Richmond.
Item is a documentary project researched and produced by Barbara Verity and narrated by Joyce Cochrane on covered bridges in the Eastern Townships, produced around 1977. Included in the documentary are images of the covered bridges at Fitch Bay (Narrows), Milby, Capelton, Coaticook (Drouin), Stanbridge East (Monaghan), Melbourne (Creek/Gibson), Highwater (Province Hill/de la Frontière), Gould (Fisher Hill/McVetty-McKenzie), Ste-Catherine-de-Hatley (Rexford), Cowansville (Freeport), Notre-Dame-de-Stanbridge (Pike River/des Rivières), and Island Brook (McDermott).
Pictured here is a P & H Electrical Shovel, with a regular truck to receive all the sediments.
The item contains information on Louis-Philippe Demers' interests. It is a post card depicting mills in Asbestos. Message on verso : Wide Léo Paul Lupi[en], Asbestos, Guide Touristique.
Arial photo of the Johns-Manville mine in Asbestos.
The series contains information on locomotives in Kingsbury, East Angus, and Sherbrooke from around 1945 to 1959. It includes locomotives from the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Quebec Central Railway, as well as historical and technical notes on the various locomotives. Included among the views are the CPR turntable and station at Kingsbury and the QCR turntable at Sherbrooke.
The item contains information on the members and the activities of the Denison Mills Women's Institute. It depicts a member, Bertie, at Thanksgiving in 1959.
Item is a photograph of the home of Murdo and Joyce MacDonald, which was formerly the McLeod schoolhouse (built 1903), taken around 1956. Kathy McLeod is visible on the front lawn.
The item is a short silent film (home movie) of Frederick Coburn, Carlotta (Marguerite Savoie), Alvarez and Kay H. dancing, which was filmed by Dr. Joseph Saine in 1955, likely outside at Coburn's property in Melbourne.
Johns-Manville mine is Asbestos taken on April 30th, 1954
Pictured here is an aerial view of the Johns-Manville installation in Asbestos. The caption reads, " Showing Tailings till in area where ore was drawn through 'Block Caving' in underground mine. Mill #3 Centre foreground.
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.
Johns-Manville mine on June 25th, 1950
Official Telephone Directory including Sherbrooke and vicinity, published by Bell Telephone Company in 1950.
The item is a postcard of the World War I memorial in Richmond from about the 1940s.
Item is a photograph of the March 20th, 1948 inondation in Brompton.
Topographic Map, Department of National Defence, Geographical Section, General staff Warwick, 1 sheet (1944): includes Ham, Wotton, Shipton, Tingwick, Warwick, Chester, and Wolfestown Townships
National Topographic series, Department of National Defence, Geographical Section, General staff, Dudswell, 1 sheet (1944): includes Stoke, Windsor, Bury, Dudswell, Wotton, Weedon, St. Camille, Shipton, Bury, and Westbury Townships
Official Telephone Directory including Sherbrooke, Coaticook, Richmond, Magog, Rock Island, Thetford Mines and surrounding territory, published by Bell Telephone Company in 1941.
Windsor Mill employee