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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 P998-2022-061-052 · Item · [1957 or 1958]
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Graphic Material collection

On this picture, Henri Vachon (1893-1970), Marie-Anne Grégoire (1895-1985) and their four children, sons-in-law and daughters-in-law. From left to right: Ric (Ulric) McKenty (1918-1979), his wife Gertrude Vachon ( 1919-1998), Jeannine Péloquin (1925-2018), wife of Daniel, Henri Vachon (1893-1970), Daniel Vachon (1920-1982), Marie-Anne Grégoire (1895-1985), Renaud Vachon (1922-1997) and his wife Doreen Leblanc (1921-2006), Gaspard Lemay (1917-2020) and his wife, Madeleine Vachon (1917-2004). The photo was taken in the family home in Beaulac-Garthby at 57 St-François Street.

Vachon family (Garthby)
CA ETRC P998-2022-061-045 · Item · June 20, 1956
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Graphic Material collection

This photo was taken on the evening of June 20, 1956, after Henri Vachon had been elected as the Member of the National Assembly for Wolfe County in the provincial election held that same day. Henri Vachon is standing in the back of a convertible car. His wife, Marie-Anne Grégoire, is standing beside him. The names of the driver of the car as well as a lady in the front passenger seat and a little girl between them are unknown.

Vachon family (Garthby)
Rue St-François, Garthby.
CA ETRC P998-2022-061-007 · Item · [ca. 1940]
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Graphic Material collection

This a photograph of the rue St-François, in Garthby, looking north. In the foreground, on the left, the Beaulac hotel. On each side of the street, poles supporting electrical and telephone wires. The bottom of the poles are painted white to be more visible at night. On the first post on the right is an indication of the road number in the center of a maple leaf. The number is 1. In the middle ground, on the right, there is a white oval sign with the name of an oil company: "Imperial". We see in the entrance of this service station the back part of a car.

Lemay, Noël, 1890-1967
Gertrude Vachon (1919-1998)
CA ETRC P998-2022-061-044 · Item · 1939
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Graphic Material collection

In this photo, Gertrude Vachon (1919-1998) is standing next to her father's car, a 1939 Chevrolet. The license plate of the car is dated 1939. The photo was taken on the grounds of the house of Henri Vachon and Marie-Anne Grégoire in Garthby (now Beaulac-Garthby).

Vachon family (Garthby)
CA ETRC P998-2022-061-051 · Item · 1937
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Graphic Material collection

In this photo, from left to right: Marie-Anne Grégoire (1895-1985), her four children, Renaud Vachon (1922-1997), Gertrude Vachon (1919-1998), Madeleine Vachon (1917-2004) and Daniel Vachon (1920-1982), and a family friend, Frances England.
The photo was taken on the Garthby wharf.

Vachon family (Garthby)
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
CA ETRC P998-2022-061-036 · Item · [1933?]
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Graphic Material collection

In this photo, young girls dressed as angels on Corpus Christi. They are dressed in white clothes, a scarf around their head and wear wings. They look at the photographer, hands clasped and with a serious facial expression.
The young girls are installed on either side of a staircase leading to the gallery of Cléophas Grégoire's family house.

The gallery is decorated with fabrics that are hung in the middle of the roof of the gallery. The tissues unfold downwards to the left and to the right. They frame a temporary altar placed on the floor of the gallery. Under this altar, other tissues that descend in front of it.

At the top, where the fabrics deployed on the left and right are attached, an inscription in white letters on a strip of black fabric: " VENITE ADOREMUS". Above this inscription, a cross made with branches of fir or pine and three small flags on the left and two on the right.

Vachon family (Garthby)
CA ETRC P998-2022-061-023 · Item · [between 1930 and 1940]
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Graphic Material collection

This photo, taken from the second or third floor of Henri Vachon's house, shows two steam trains meeting. The view is facing south.

In the foreground, the #1 road towards Weedon. On the right, a field. Telephone and electric poles line the road on each side. They are painted white at the base to be more visible at night.
In the background, Aylmer Lake and its southern shore in the distance. On the right, Price Island.

A freight train is running on the main track closest to the lake. It is heading south (towards Weedon). A little to the right, a passenger train heading north (towards Disraeli) is waiting on the siding for the freight train to pass.

Vachon family (Garthby)
CA ETRC P998-2022-061-032 · Item · [ca. 1930]
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Graphic Material collection

This photograph shows an aerial view of the heart of St-Charles-Borromée Church de Garthby, taken from the rear balcony. The photo was taken during a wedding. The bride and groom are seen standing, each accompanied by another person. The priest and two servers are kneeling in front of the hotel. There are only a few people present in the pews of the church.

Lemay, Noël, 1890-1967
CA ETRC P998-2022-061-004 · Item · [ca. 1927]
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Graphic Material collection

We see a small buggy, pulled by a goat. One child is seated in the buggy and driving it. A man stands in the background of the buggy with a little girl in front of him. Gaspard Lemay, Noël Lemay's oldest son, is standing to the left of the man. Valmore, Noël Lemay's second child, stands in front of the goat and holds it by its horns. In the background is a 1910's automobile (partial rear view). The other man and the two other children are unidentified.

Lemay, Noël, 1890-1967
Garthby, seen from the back
CA ETRC P998-2022-061-012 · Item · [ca. 1925]
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Graphic Material collection

Partial view of the village of Garthby. The photo was taken from the back of the village, looking east. It shows the northern part of the village.

In the foreground, plots of land rather uncultivated, except for a plot in the center left which seems to be a large garden.

The houses that we see there are distributed in the middle of the plan from the left to the right. Completely on the right, the church.

In the background, you can see most of Ward Bay of Aylmer Lake and the Longue Pointe, also known as Maple Point.

Lemay, Noël, 1890-1967
CA ETRC P998-2022-061-002 · Item · [ca. 1922]
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Graphic Material collection

This is a picture of the Brompton Pulp and Paper office in Garthby (now Beaulac-Garthby). The building is on one level and relatively small. The walls are covered with wooden slats. The soffit is decorated with two rows of small vertical elements called "dentils". The upper corners where the walls meet are decorated with "triglyphs" and "drops" at their base. The façade has a gallery whose roof covers the entire width of the building. The gallery opens on the left and on the right. The roof of the gallery is supported by four columns equally distributed from left to right. The two columns at the left and right ends are square and topped with a simple abacus. The two columns in the center are round and curved, the lower part being more domed than the upper part; they are surmounted by four Ionic-style volutes. The façade of the gallery is covered with horizontal boards. A panel equivalent to about 15% of the width of the gallery is fixed in the center of its façade. The year of construction of this building, 1920, is indicated by raised numerals. A sign on the front edge of the roof covers 90% of its width. It reads "BROMPTOM PULP & PAPER CO. in capital letters.

Lemay, Noël, 1890-1967
CA ETRC P998-2022-061-013 · Item · [ca. 1920]
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Graphic Material collection

The photo was taken from a floating raft in front of the village of Garthby Station. The view is looking west.

In the foreground, on the left, is a barge equipped with railings. This barge transported wood that was used to fuel the boilers of the tugs' steam engines.
In the mid-ground, on the right, two floating platforms on which large wooden winches are installed.
In the background, a part of the village of Garthby, with the church in the center. Along the lake, a steam train drifting north.
At https://townshipsarchives.ca/image-13-4/edit#the bottom of the photo, on the left, an inscription engraved on the negative of the photo: "Garthby, QUE.", and in the middle, the initials "NJL" for Noël Joseph Lemay.

Lemay, Noël, 1890-1967
CA ETRC P998-2022-061-031 · Item · [ca. 1920]
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Graphic Material collection

This photograph shows a partial view of the lower part of Garthby.
The view is looking north. The photo was taken from the roof of one of the two boathouses, the northernmost one.

In the foreground, and moving away into the background, the railroad tracks can be seen. In addition to the main track, there are two sidings that were also used to sort the cars. On each of these sidings, a freight car is parked. In the foreground, on the right, the sawmill. Still on the right, a little further on, a rather imposing barge (about 35 feet long). Behind this barge, two warehouses of the Brompton Pulp and Paper Company. In the middle of the picture, to the left of the railroad tracks, the train station. Still on the left, behind the station and going up towards the background, other houses and buildings.

Lemay, Noël, 1890-1967
CA ETRC P998-2022-061-024 · Item · [ca. 1920]
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Graphic Material collection

In this photo, you can see the Garthby wharf with its pergola in the middle of the picture.
In the foreground, a wooden boom attached to the shore.

In the foreground, what appears to be a large pile of boards. In the middle of this pile, a post supporting a wire.
In the background, the shoreline of Aylmer Lake and hills in the distance.

Completely to the right, near the edge of the lake, a house and two outbuildings and a little further on, two other small buildings.

The orientation of this photo is east-northeast.

Lemay, Noël, 1890-1967
Village of Garthby Station.
CA ETRC P998-2022-061-011 · Item · [after 1920]
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Graphic Material collection

This photo shows a view of the village of Garthby Station. The village is built on a hillside.
The photo was taken from the roof of one of the two boat storage buildings located on the shore of Aylmer Lake, looking north-northeast.
The road in the foreground is dirt and almost all the houses are covered with unpainted boards. In the center are two larger buildings: the school and the church.
In the foreground, from left to right, the main railroad track and two yard tracks, one on each side of the main track.
In the midground, on the right, the village sawmill and across the railroad, many wood piles.

Lemay, Noël, 1890-1967