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Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds
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Landscapes of the Past

The file contains primary source information on the history of the Eastern Townships from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. It consists of photographs copied from private collections and historical societies in the area during a project conducted in 1977 and 1979 by the Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation titled "Landscapes of the Past." It also consists of oral histories that were conduced under the same project.

Ice jam

Item is a photograph of mounds of ice on the street, left from the St. Francis River flood in Bromptonville in 1948. A bulldozer is visible, pushing the ice blocks from the main street to open the road.

Ice jam

Item is a photograph of an aerial view of ice damage that occured in Bromptonville. A house is completely surrounded by ice and water from the St. Francis River.

Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

  • CA ETRC P020
  • Fonds
  • 1923-1984; predominant 1974-1980

The fonds contains source material on the steps taken between 1974 and 1976 to organize the Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation and on its administrative and research activities between 1976 and 1984. The fonds is also a source of information on the relations between the Foundation and the region's other heritage organizations, in particular English-speaking historical societies. The documentation produced by the project Landscape of the Past relates to the various aspects of life in the Eastern Townships during the first half of the 20th century. The fonds consists of documentary materials of various kinds, including minutes, correspondence, constitution, letters patent, accounting and financial records, contacts, photographs, sound recordings, and transcripts. It is comprised of the following series : Foundation Preliminaries (1974-1976), Constituent Documents ([1976?]-1984), Administration (1923-1983), Financial Resources (1976-1983), Membership (1976-[1978?]), and Miscellaneous Documents ([1976?]-[1980?]).

Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation (Lennoxville, Que.)

Train at Mansonville

Item is a photograph of a train at the Mansonville train station, originally on the Orford Mountain Railway line, with people and horse-drawn vehicles in the background, ca. 1909.

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