- CA ETRC P020-003-06-D003a-P944
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- 1899, copied 1977
Item is a photograph of the founding of the town of Asbestos, taken as a group picture of the community.
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Item is a photograph of the founding of the town of Asbestos, taken as a group picture of the community.
Item is a photograph of the Asbestos mine locomotive that would transport mined resources to refinery.
Asbestos and Danville Locomotive
Item is a photograph of the Asbestos and Danville railroad locomotive #18.
Asbestos and Danville Locomotive
Item is a photograph of the Asbestos and Danville railroad locomotive #21.
Asbestos and Danville Locomotive
Item is a photograph of an Asbestos and Danville railroad locomotive.
Employees of Asbestos and Asbestic Company Ltd.
Part of William G. Clark collection
Item is a photograph of employees of the Asbestos and Asbestic Company Ltd., Asbestos, 1904. Included in the photo are: (front, L-R): Gordon Clark, Ted Walsh, Regis Leprise, George Smith, Tom Lefebvre, Unknown, Unknown, Harry Williams (General Superintendent). (second row, L-R): M. Lizotte, David Roy, Unknown, Pierre Champagne, Omar Champoux, James Clark (foreman), Lizotte, Unknown, Johnny Morris, Wilbrod Boisclair. Back: Ed Boucher.
Part of William G. Clark collection
Item is a photograph of Jeffrey Mines asbestos pit in Asbestos around the 1910s.
Canada Day float, Asbestos, QC
Part of William G. Clark collection
Item is a photograph of the Canadian Johns-Manville parade float, Asbestos, Canada Day, 1929, showing: Alfred Lefebvre, Bob Grimard, Nova Blais, Alphonse Poirier, Joseph Lalancette (at right, leaning on float), Edmond Bergeron, and Bertrand Poirier, as well as the Dubois photograph studio in background.
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Postcard collection
Aerial view of Johns-Manville open-pit mine
Part of W. Gillies Ross fonds
Arial photo of the Johns-Manville mine in Asbestos.
Item is a photograph of the Canadian Johns-Manville Company located in Asbestos.
Johns-Manville Pictorial, cover
Part of William G. Clark collection
Item is the cover of the Johns-Manville Pictorial News from October 1950, an issue that profiled the company in Asbestos, Quebec.
Jeffrey Mine workers in Asbestos
Part of William G. Clark collection
Item is a photograph showing miners at the Jeffrey Mines in Asbestos around 1905.
Steam shovel and miners, Asbestos, QC
Part of William G. Clark collection
Item is a photograph showing a steam shovel and miners, including one identified as Tharé Connolly, Johns-Manville mine in Asbestos in 1928 or 1929.
Part of William G. Clark collection
Item is a postcard showing a view of Laurier Street in Asbestos around the 1910s. A handwritten caption reads "Looking S.E. [southeast] from centre of 'the Square.'"
Item is a photograph of Asbestos mills, located in Asbestos.
Part of W. Gillies Ross fonds
Johns-Manville mine on June 25th, 1950
Asbestos and Danville Locomotive
Item is a photograph of the Asbestos and Danville railroad locomotive #14.
Asbestos and Danville Locomotive
Item is a photograph of the Asbestos and Danville railroad locomotive #31.
Asbestos and Danville Locomotive
Item is a photograph of the Asbestos and Danville railroad locomotive #31, this trains engine runs on gasoline not diesel.
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.
Item is a photograph of the Iroquois Hotel located in Asbestos.
Part of Freeman Clowery Collection
The file contains photographic information on mines and mining equipment in Val-des-Sources (Asbstos) from 1909 to 1930. It consists of pictures.
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)
Item is a photograph of the village of Asbestos, with a tree blocking part of the view.
Item is a photograph of the town of Asbestos.
The collection contains source material on the history of the Asbestos region and on the development of the asbestos industry in the 19th and 20th centuries; it is also a source of information on the Johns-Manville Corporation, the life of William G. Clark, and includes an architectural sketch of the St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Asbestos from 1945. Among the materials are memoirs written by William G. Clark on his life and the town of Asbestos. The collection is comprised of the following series: Le Citoyen Historical Sections (1971-1980), Periodicals (The Asbestos Producer and Johns-Manville News Pictorial) (1948-1976), Photographs ([1897?]-1981), Miscellaneous Documents (1940-1971), and William G. Clark ([197-?]-2003).
Clark, William G., 1902-1999
Part of William G. Clark collection
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.
Part of William G. Clark collection
Item is a photograph showing part of the pit at the mines in Asbestos around 1910.