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Alberta Everett collection
CA ETRC P260 · Collection · [ca. 1920s]-2017

The collection contains primary source materials relating to Alberta Everett (née Ross), her family, and the cultural heritage of the Eastern Townships from about the 1920s to 2017. It consists primarily of photographs, audiovisual recordings, and artefacts documenting events and celebrations around Eaton Township (Bulwer, Birchton, Bury), Lennoxville, and Hatley. It also consists of some textual records attesting to the personal lives of Alberta and her family. The collection is comprised of the following series: Family History ([ca. 1920s]- [ca. 1980]), Personal Life (1944-[ca. 1990]), and Townships History ([ca. 1930]-2017).

Dominion Lime Company fonds
CA ETRC P227 · Fonds · 1875-1994, 2018

The fonds contains primary source information on the Dominion Lime Company in the Haut-Saint-Francois region (especially Dudswell) from 1875 to 1994, and in 2018. It consists largely of minutes, general financial ledgers, registers of shares and dividends, agreements, contracts, transfers, trademark documentation (certifications and renewals), correspondence, land surveys, lists of landholdings, a map, deeds of sale, leases, plans of property and machinery, inventories and production reports. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Administration and Management (1887-1896, 1923-1937, 1966, 1968), Financial Resources ([1890-1937?], 1966-1985), Legal Affairs (1875-[1907?], 1932-1975, 1990-1994), Buildings and Property ([1887-1970?]), Production (1944, 1975-1980).

Dominion Lime Company
CA ETRC P172 · Fonds · 1907-1987

The fonds contains source material on the organization and activities of the Maxwell Rebekah Lodge, No. 17, in Bishopton from 1907 to 1987. It consists of minutes from the Lodge and a roll book. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Minutes (1907-1956) and Membership (1921-1987).

Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Maxwell Rebekah Lodge, No. 17 (Bishopton, Que.)
CA ETRC P125 · Fonds · 1879-1969

The fonds contains information on the butcher shop owned by Leeman Mackey and also on the Mackey family. It consists of several account books (1879-1938), a calendar (1926), a schoolbook (1908), a piano method (1969) and a few photographs (1909 & 1969). The photographs show T.S. Chapman in front of "Good Cheer Lodge" in 1909 and Kathleen Mackey with classmates at the Bishopton Intermediate School in 1969 (the last class before the closure of the school). The school book is autographed "Cora Brown". Among the account books are one for the Megantic Rifle Association (1879-1902), one that appears to be for a boarding house (1889-1892), and the others are from Leeman Mackey's butcher business.

Mackey, Leeman
St-Adolphe-de-Dudswell
CA ETRC P232-003-055 · File · 1972, 1992
Part of Société d'histoire et du patrimoine du Haut-St-François collection

The file contains source material on St-Adolphe-de-Dudswell and its neighbor towns. It consists of a chronology of the St-Adolphe-de-Dudswell from 1792 to 2000, an incomplete biography of Thomas Shaw Chapman, an excursion map around Dudswell pond (Mirror lake) in early 20th century and a tourism guide for Marbleton, Bishopton and Dudswell in 1992.

St-Adolphe de Dudswell
CA ETRC P030-022 · Item · 196?
Part of Louis-Philippe Demers collection

The item contains information on Louis-Philippe Demers' interests. It is a post card depicting St-Adolphe de Dudswell. Message on verso : Mme Frank Ménard, St-Adolphe-de-Dudswell, Guide Touristique.

CA ETRC P998-2022-061-015 · Item · [ca. 1935]
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Graphic Material collection

This photo is a partial view of Mirror Lake in Bishopton.

In the first third of the photo, from the right to the left, buildings and a house on a small point of land. To the left of these buildings, driftwood and from the end of the point of land to the left and on the lake, logs tied together to form a floating "barrier". In the distance, hills. At the bottom of the photo, an inscription: "The Pond Bishopton".

Lemay, Noël, 1890-1967
Hay wagon and hay rake
CA ETRC P998-2022-061-003 · Item · [between 1920 and 1930]
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Graphic Material collection

In this photograph, we see a hay wagon pulled by two horses. The wagon is full and a man, Roland Vincent, is seated in the pile of hay in the wagon and drives the two horses pulling the wagon. Another man is walking alongside the wagon. In the left foreground, we see a hay rack that was probably used before, pulled by a horse.
On the back of the photograph, this note: "Roland Vincent sur le voyage de foin. Bishopton".

Vachon family (Garthby)
Personal Life
CA ETRC P260-002 · Series · 1944-[ca. 1990]
Part of Alberta Everett collection

The series contains primary source information on Alberta Everett's personal life from about 1944 to 1990. It consists of her autograph book; her Grade 10 Certificate of General Proficiency; and 11 photographs of Alberta alone or with classmates and friends.

CA ETRC P997-005-08-001 · File · June 1944
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Textual Records collection

The subseries file contains primary source information on the Bell Telephone Company of Canada in Sherbrooke in 1944. It consists of one telephone directory for Sherbrooke and vicinity, dated June 1944. It also includes information for Lennoxville, Asbestos, Ayer's Cliff, Bishopton, Black Lake, Bury, Coaticook, Compton, Cookshire, Danville, Disraeli, East Angus, East Broughton, East Hereford, Garthby, Inverness, La Patrie, Laurierville, Leeds, Lyster, Magog, Marbleton, Megantic, North Hatley, Plessisville, Richmond, Rock Island, St. Ferdinand de Halifax, St. Malo, Sawyerville, Scotstown, Thetford Mines, Victoriaville, Waterville, and Windsor.

Bell Telephone Company of Canada (The)
CA ETRC P996-2023-041-001 · Item · [1952?]
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Cartographic Material collection

National Topographic series map of Dudswell (original information dating from around 1952) overlaid with information about possibilities for soil use derived from the Aménagement rural et le Développement agricole (ARDA) Québec Inventaire des terres du Canada (ITC), as of September 1969.

Government of Canada, Army Survey Establishment