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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 main street in Richmond.

Item is a photograph of the St. Francis river during the winter of 1901, in the background a bridge is visable.

Item is a photograph of the Asbestos Mill.

Item is a photograph of the ruins of the Abestos mill, with many of the structures of the former building still visable.

Item is a photograph of the village of Asbestos, with a tree blocking part of the view.

Item is a photograph showing part of the pit at the mines in Asbestos around 1910.

Item is a photograph showing the town of Asbestos with a view of Jeffery Mines in 1909.

Part is an album page of five photographs showing a view of the town of Asbestos from 1897 to 1912.

Item is a postcard showing King Street in Asbestos around the 1910s by photograph V. Dubois. A handwritten caption reads "1924-25 Looking E [east] from centre of 'Square.' Sunday A.M. People going into Post Office." There are people visible on the sidewalks and two motor vehicles.

Item is a photograph of a snow plow owned by Canadian Johns-Manville at Asbestos in 1929 or 1930.

The caption reads: This Float consisted of a Cyclone Collector, Elbows and ки Ductwork and an aspirating Fan all built by the sheet metal workers Alphonse Poirier, foroman. Alfred Lefebvre, Bob Grimard (truck driver) Nova Blais,

Alphonse Poirier, Joseph Lalancette, Shovel repair foreman Edmond Bergeron, (oxy-acetylene burner) with his bottles of gases and his torch. The boy holding the "Cup" is Bertrand Poirier, son of Alphonse. The two young boys are unknown. The two other men on the truck are also not known."

The caption reads "This picture taken when these men were installing the new machinery in the New Machine Shop, 1913. This shop was used until 1942 when another move was make to a new building on the St George Road. This third machine shop was vacated last year and demolished in this spring 1980."
Front: Clifford Gale, Albert Carneau, Johnny Morris, James Coyle Jr., David Roy. Rear: Bob Williams and Gordon Clark, foreman.

Aerial view of the different mills used by Canadian Johns-Manville.

The caption reads, "THE C.J.M. CO.LTD. MILIS

As seen from the air.

In the upper right hand corner is the Machine Shop #2 which was vacated in 1942. Nearby are the Main Stores and stores sheds. A little less than top centre is the Shawinigan Water and Power Sub Station. Below that, nearer to the camera is Mill #3 Dryer, Mill #3 and Mill #3 Fibre Storage Shed. Closer to the camera are several large buildings. That in the centre of the picture is Mill 4A. The smaller one at the left is Mill 4 B at the right of these are Mill 4A & 4B Dryers, Plant C Screen Rooms and Plant C Crusher Building."

Item is photograph of the Asbestos Hockey Team, Asbestos hockey team, ca. 1912. Front row, L-R: Joseph McCabe, Gordon Clark, Archie Fales. Second row, L-R: Unknown, Jack MacLeod, Unknown, Charlie Stata, Harry Gifford, Harry Wilson, Unknown, Louis Dunsmore.

Item is a draft of a deed of gift, dated 1840, documenting Daniel Thomas' gift of a parcel of land situated on lot 12, range VIII in the Township of Melbourne, on which St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church of Melbourne was intended to be built.

Item is a photograph of St. John's Anglican Church hall with a Union Jack flag on the roof.

Item is a photograph of a train wreck near Danville, with floodwater near the tracks.

Item is a photograph of the Danville square, with people, stores, and a horse and wagon visible.

Item is a photograph of the Houston Block located in Danville.

Item is a photograph of Station Street located in Danville.

Item is a photograph of Grove Street located in Danville.

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 a covered bridge (the first bridge across the St. Francis river at Richmond), with lumber for passing locomotives visible on the side of the road.

Item is a photograph of Main Street in Richmond, looking south, with a horse pulling a buggy visible.

Item is a photograph of part of the town of Richmond, with the St. Francis River and surrounding landscape visible.

Item is a photograph of the town of Richmond, with the St. Francis River in front.

Item is a photograph of P. J. Girard's store located on Main Street, in Richmond, with cars parked in front.

Item is a photograph of Chateau Windsor located in Windsor Mills, with people visible, including a man on the roof.

Item consists of photograph of Captain Harry Roland Cleveland Sr., member of the 5th C.M.R. during the First World War.

Item consists of photograph of Lieutenant Harry Roland Cleveland, member of the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War.