Item is a photograph of barrage. The dam costed 20,000,00$ to built. On the top right is M. Philippe Bédard's farm.
Pictured here is a Marion Electrical Shovel, model 5320, used by the Canadian Johns-Manville.
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).
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)L'intérieur de la mini-centrale St-Paul en 2002 à Coaticook.
Item is a photograph of part of East Broughton, formerly East Broughton Station, (presently 10e avenue nord), with the mining installations of Quebec Asbestos Corporation visible in the distance, taken around 1910.
Aperçu des dommages causés par les inondations à la centrale Penman's à Coaticook
Construction des mini-centrales. Les colonnes abritant les turbines de la centrale St-Paul à Coaticook.
Construction des mini-centrales. Mise en place des turbines à la centrale St-Paul à Coaticook.
Construction des mini-centrales électriques. On aménage la conduite forcée en-dessous du pont de la rue St-Paul à Coaticook.
Construction des mini-centrales. Mise en place des turbines à la centrale St-Paul à Coaticook.
La pièce est une photographie du barrage à l’arrière de la meunerie de Théodule Dion à Waterville vers les années 1960.
Item is a letter from Jean Marc Roberge (notary) in Thetford Mines to Doris Peterson-Ward in Montreal, dated September 15, 1966. The letter was enclosed with a copy of a Deed of Sale in favor of Flintkote Mines Limited (Thetford Mines).
Item is an interview of Edward "Teddy" Green about his experience working at the Eustis copper mines by W. Gillies Ross in October 1965. Included in the interview are the subjects of mining accidents, working conditions, mining methods, use of communication in the mines, entertainment and leisure, WWI and marriage, and Black people from North Carolina working in the mines.
Green, Edward Colston (1895-1972)The item is an audio recording of an interview of C. William Crease by W. Gillies Ross on 6 November 1965 about Mr. Crease's time as a miner at the Eustis copper mine. Among the topics covered were the number of employees, mining accidents, working conditions, mining technologies, sports teams, the harvest trains, pollution, the changing landscape around the mining villages, Capelton mine, Albert Mines, and Eustis mine.
Crease, Christopher William (ca. 1888-1967)Pictured here is a P & H Electrical Shovel, with a regular truck to receive all the sediments.
Arial photo of the Johns-Manville mine in Asbestos.
The item is a reproduced album showing the relocation of houses, businesses, services, and the Quebec Central Railway tracks to accommodate the expansion of the open-pit asbestos mines in Thetford Mines from 1953 to 1956.
left: V. Hart
right: E. Harvison
Taken in 1954 in Albert Mines
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.