The item is a photograph of a group of miners from the Eustis mines from around 1900, pictured with tools and lunch pails.
The item contains information on Robert Speer’s activities. It is a newspaper article about Sherbrooke’s industries in the 1930’s.
The item is a photo scrapbook that contains 230 photographs of individuals within the Labonte/Leonard families. The photos were probably taken between 1910 and 1930.
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.
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.
Item is a photograph of a Christmas party at the National Thread factory, in Sherbrooke.
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.
The item is a postcard showing the Paton Manufacturing Company in Sherbrooke from 1913.
The item is a postcard of the Wolfe (presently Belvedere) Street bridge from the Magog River with factories visible in the background from 1913.
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.
Engraving by William H. Bartlett.
The item is a postcard with a reproduction of a Henry Bartlett print of Magog River falls and factories in Sherbrooke from 1906.
The item is a postcard showing a reproduced photograph showing the Magog River gorge in Sherbrooke and the industrial building that once stood on the “island” in the middle of the river, probably photographed around the 1890s, reproduced around 1930.
The file contains photographs of members of the Desruisseau/Labonte/Leonard family, as well as many unidentified photographs, possibly taken between 1870 and 1940. It consists of a photo album comprised of 56 studio photographs, a photo scrapbook comprised of 230 photographs, and 37 other photographs.
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.
The item is a postcard view of the Magog River, dam and the Moore Carpet Factory in Sherbrooke from 1909.
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.
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.
The item is a postcard of the power dam and the Kaysers Silk mills in Sherbrooke, Quebec.
Item consists of a postcard showing the storefront of Kinkead's Tobacco Store on Wellington Street, Sherbrooke, Quebec in the 1930s
Item is a photograph of the Huntingville gristmill with two workers and part of the Hunting family posed in the foreground, taken about 1905. Pictured, from left to right, are: James Dewing, Joseph Lambert, Floyd Hunting, Kenneth Hunting, Bernice Hunting, Clifford Hunting and William H. Hunting.
Item is a photograph of the Huntingville mill on the South side of the Salmon River, taken in 1946.
Item is a photograph of the mill and new dam at Huntingville, on the Salmon River, taken in 1946.
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 Magog river as it passes through part of the city of Sherbrooke, the Central Electric and the Royal Corset Co can both be seen in this photograph.
Item is a photograph of the Canadian Rand Drill Company, located in Sherbrooke.
Item is a photograph of the Moore Carpet Factory and falls of the Magog river, located in Sherbrooke.
Item is a photograph of the Canadian Fairbanks Co., located in Sherbrooke, which made valves and scales for the railway.