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WWI postcard
CA ETRC P998-2019-015-001 · Item · [ca. 1916, reproduced 2019]
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Graphic Material collection

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.

Ice jam
CA ETRC P020-003-06-D002b-P744 · Item · 1948, copied 1979
Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of a man in the streets of Bromptonville, standing next to mounds of ice, which came from the river.

Ice jam
CA ETRC P020-003-06-D002b-P746 · Item · 1948, copied 1979
Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

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.

Ice jam
CA ETRC P020-003-06-D002b-P745 · Item · 1948, copied 1977
Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

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.

CA ETRC P237-004-004 · Part · [ca. 1977]
Part of Barbara Verity fonds

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).

Mills
CA ETRC P030-021 · Item · 1962
Part of Louis-Philippe Demers collection

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.

Scrapbook
CA ETRC P238-005 · Series · [1945?]-1959
Part of George Matheson fonds

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.

CA ETRC P031-003-01-B-album-26 · Part · 1953
Part of William G. Clark collection

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.

CA ETRC P031-001-03-B-002 · Part · 1950
Part of William G. Clark collection

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.

CA ETRC P164-005-004-001 · Item · 1941
Part of Eddy Echenberg collection

Official Telephone Directory including Sherbrooke, Coaticook, Richmond, Magog, Rock Island, Thetford Mines and surrounding territory, published by Bell Telephone Company in 1941.