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Travailleurs de la Mine Eustis

CA SHW C001-SR1330
Item
[vers 1900]

Part of Collection de photographies

La pièce est une photographie d’un groupe de travailleurs de la mine Eustis vers 1900.

Magasin de Tabac Kinkead

CA ETRC P999-053-D001-P020
Item
[193-?]

Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Postcard collection

Item consists of a postcard showing the storefront of Kinkead's Tobacco Store on Wellington Street, Sherbrooke, Quebec in the 1930s

Moore Carpet Factory and Falls on Magog River

CA ETRC P999-053-D001-P013
Item
[190-?]

Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Postcard collection

Power Dam Kaysers Silk Mills

CA ETRC P999-053-D001-P010
Item
[191-?]

Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Postcard collection

Power Dam and Kaysers Silk Mills

CA ETRC P999-053-D001-P009
Item
[191-?]

Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Postcard collection

The item is a postcard of the power dam and the Kaysers Silk mills in Sherbrooke, Quebec.

Sherbrooke Mills

CA ETRC P998-2014-045-P004
Item
[189-?]

Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Graphic Material collection

The item consists of a reprint of an engraving showing the Sherbrooke Mills on the Magog River and the Dufferin Street bridge that may have appeared on the Eastern Townships Bank notes.

Christmas Party at National Thread

CA ETRC P244-001-002-007
Item
[Circa 1960]

Part of Freeman Clowery Collection

Item is a photograph of a Christmas party at the National Thread factory, in Sherbrooke.

Signing of the union contract

CA ETRC P244-001-002-005
Item
May 1961

Part of Freeman Clowery Collection

Item is a photograph of the signing of collective convention with the local 1506 of l'union des ouvriers du Textile d'Amérique. Left to right: Gilles Courchesne, president of the local, Freeman Clowery, Secretary-Treasurer and Robert Dean, manager of the joint council of the Eastern Townships of the UOTA.

Old Plant

CA ETRC P244-001-002-002
Item
[Between 1941 and 1952]

Part of Freeman Clowery Collection

Item is a photograph of the the first National Thread plant located on Laurier Ave., Sherbrooke, before the company opened a new one on 10th avenue in 1952.

W. Gillies Ross fonds

CA ETRC P233
Fonds
1767 [Photocopied]-2006

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, and the Stanstead granite industry. 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) and Cookshire (1979).

Ross, W. Gillies (1931-2019)

Eustis miners

CA ETRC P102-002-D002-001
Part
[190-?]

Part of Henry J. Cordy fonds

The item is a photograph of a group of miners from the Eustis mines from around 1900, pictured with tools and lunch pails.

College House, Lennoxville, Que.

CA ETRC P058-010-07-002-013
Item
1917

Part of Herbert Derick collection

The item is a postcard view of the College House hotel located at the intersection of Queen Street and College Street in Lennoxville from 1917.

Magog River, Sherbrooke, Que.

CA ETRC P058-010-07-001-058
Item
[192-?]

Part of Herbert Derick collection

he item is a postcard view of the Magog River gorge with bridge and industries visible in the background in Sherbrooke from about the 1920s.

Moore Carpet Factory and Falls on Magog River, Sherbrooke, P.Q.

CA ETRC P058-010-07-001-056
Item
1909

Part of Herbert Derick collection

The item is a postcard view of the Magog River, dam and the Moore Carpet Factory in Sherbrooke from 1909.

The Gorge, Magog River, Sherbrooke, Que.

CA ETRC P058-010-07-001-054
Item
[192-?]

Part of Herbert Derick collection

The item is a postcard view of the Magog River gorge with bridge and industries visible in the background in Sherbrooke from about the 1920s.

Old Mill of Sherbrooke, P.Q. 1830 from the Art Gallery

CA ETRC P058-010-07-001-019
Item
1906

Part of Herbert Derick collection

The item is a postcard with a reproduction of a Henry Bartlett print of Magog River falls and factories in Sherbrooke from 1906.

Wolfe Street Bridge, Sherbrooke, Que.

CA ETRC P058-010-07-001-012
Item
1913

Part of Herbert Derick collection

The item is a postcard of the Wolfe (presently Belvedere) Street bridge from the Magog River with factories visible in the background from 1913.

Paton Mfg. Co. Sherbrooke, Que.

CA ETRC P058-010-07-001-010
Item
1913

Part of Herbert Derick collection

The item is a postcard showing the Paton Manufacturing Company in Sherbrooke from 1913.

Where the Magog River joins the St. Francis, Sherbrooke, Que.

CA ETRC P058-010-07-001-008
Item
[192-?]

Part of Herbert Derick collection

The item is a postcard showing the confluence of the Magog and St. Francis Rivers with a view of some of the industries and the Sherbrooke East from about the 1920s.