Le fonds contient des recherches effectuées par W. Gillies Ross sur les sujets suivants : les mines d'Eustis, Capelton et Albert Mines, l'extraction d'amiante à Asbestos, l'épidémie de grippe espagnole de 1918 et l'industrie du granite de Stanstead. Il se compose en grande partie de notes de recherche, de documents de recherche, de photographies et d'histoires orales. Le fonds est organisé selon les séries suivantes : Entrevues (1944-1996), Voyage et recherches à la bibliothèque Baker de Harvard (1887-1996), Jo Cooper (1977-1987), Index des journaux (1971-1975), Recherches dans les Archives nationales du Canada (1903-1921), Publications (1890-1938), Projet du granite (1898-1900,1976), Études sur l'exploitation du cuivre et de la pyrite (1867 [Photocopié] -1996), Recherches sur l’extraction d'amiante et le paysage (1897 [Photocopié] -1965), Recherches sur la grippe espagnole (1918 [Photocopié] -2006), Photographies (1888-1972), Cartes et plans (1767 [Photocopié] -1979), Extraction d'amiante (1950-2004), Études sur les mines - Correspondance (1883 [Photocopié] -2005), Traduction de livre (1995) et Cookshire (1979).
Ross, W. Gillies (1931-2019)La collection témoigne de l’histoire de la région d’Asbestos et du développement de l’industrie de l’amiante aux 19e et 20e siècles ; elle fournit aussi des informations sur la Johns-Manville Corporation. La collection comprend les séries suivantes : Le Citoyen ; Cahiers historiques (1971-1980), Périodiques (Le producteur d’amiante and Johns-Manville News Pictorial), (1948-1976), Photographies ([1897?]-1981), et Documents divers (1940-1971).
Sans titrePart is an album page of five photographs showing a view of the town of Asbestos from 1897 to 1912.
Item is a photograph of the founding of the town of Asbestos, taken as a group picture of the community.
Item is a photograph showing part of the pit at the mines in Asbestos around 1910.
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.
Item is a photograph showing miners at the Jeffrey Mines in Asbestos around 1905.
The caption reads: This is how stripping was done about 1905 and until 1914. Horses hauled dumpcarts which were loaded by hand, to the dump. Sometimes the drivers, mostly young boys employed by the contractor, would back the cart too close to the edge of the dump and when the latch was released and the load did not slide out easily, everything went, load of earth, dumpcart, and the poor old horse. In most cases that was the end of the horse. The harness was stripped off and the horse shot and buried by suceeding loads of earth. Incidentally the "Dirt Dump" was along side of the Danville road just a short distance below the "Square"
In this picture it is possible to see three separate pits. The small cabins on the edge of the pit were for the signal boys. The hoist operator could not see into the pit or even see the platform where the derrick boxes were dumped into the ore cars. so boys were placed where they could be seen by the hoist operator and the men in the pit. They used paddles about the size of a Ping-pong paddle or bat. These were brightly painted, mostly white with a ex red centre like a large target, bull's eye. With these they transmitted signals from the pit crew to the hoistman. There were two boxes to a hoist. While one was being hoisted and emptied the pit gang were loading the second. When they had loaded and hoisted 100 boxes their day was finished. Starting at 6,30 A.M. to 12.00 noon, one hour for lunch, restart 1.00.P.M. until the 100 box was dumped which was anywhere from 1.30 to 3.00 P.M. These same boxes were used to lower and raise the men into and cut of the pit."
The file contains photographic information on mines and mining equipment in Val-des-Sources (Asbstos) from 1909 to 1930. It consists of pictures.
Item is a photograph showing the town of Asbestos with a view of Jeffery Mines in 1909.
Item is a photograph of Jeffrey Mines asbestos pit in Asbestos around the 1910s.
The caption reads: "Looking NORTH through the central portion of the open pit. Year 1928 The old Factory in the background, also the A.A.A.A. playgrounds, baseball, football etc. The grandstand on the initi (sic) right. Beyond playgrounds are houses on Poirier Street."
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.'"
Pictured here is the skating rink on the corner of St. Aime Street and St. George Street.
The verso reads, "Village of Asbestos as seen from main office / Skating rink in the foreground / Corner of St. Aime and St. George Streets."
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 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.
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.
Pictured here is another view of the village of Asbestos.
Pictured here is a group of machinists
Front: Florian Champoux, Alpherie Jutras, George H. Burns
2nd row: Albert Beliveau, Edourd Spenard
3rd row (standing) Lucien Marchand, Philippe Proulx, Roderick MacKenzie, Verron Carson, gerard Delisle, Harold Lockwood and Joseph R. Houle.
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.
La pièce est une photographie du char du défilé du Canadian Johns-Manville, Asbestos (actuellement Val-des-Sources), Fête du Canada, 1929, montrant : Alfred Lefebvre, Bob Grimard, Nova Blais, Alphonse Poirier, Joseph Lalancette (à droite, appuyé sur le char), Edmond Bergeron et Bertrand Poirier, ainsi que le studio de photographie Dubois à l'arrière-plan.
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."
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."
The subseries file contains primary source information on the Bell Telephone Company of Canada in Sherbrooke in 1944. It consists of one telephone directory for Sherbrooke and vicinity, dated June 1944. It also includes information for Lennoxville, Asbestos, Ayer's Cliff, Bishopton, Black Lake, Bury, Coaticook, Compton, Cookshire, Danville, Disraeli, East Angus, East Broughton, East Hereford, Garthby, Inverness, La Patrie, Laurierville, Leeds, Lyster, Magog, Marbleton, Megantic, North Hatley, Plessisville, Richmond, Rock Island, St. Ferdinand de Halifax, St. Malo, Sawyerville, Scotstown, Thetford Mines, Victoriaville, Waterville, and Windsor.
Sans titreArial photo of the Johns-Manville mine in Asbestos.
Item is the cover of the Johns-Manville Pictorial News from October 1950, an issue that profiled the company in Asbestos, Quebec.
This graphical element is from the October 1950 edition of the Johns-Manville News Pictorial, which contained an article about Asbestos, Quebec, where Johns-Manville operated the asbestos mine.
Johns-Manville mine on June 25th, 1950
Pictured here is an aerial view of the Johns-Manville installation in Asbestos. The caption reads, " Showing Tailings till in area where ore was drawn through 'Block Caving' in underground mine. Mill #3 Centre foreground.
Johns-Manville mine is Asbestos taken on April 30th, 1954
La pièce témoigne des intérêts de Louis-Philippe Demers. C'est une carte postale représentant des moulins à Asbestos. Le message au verso : Wide Léo Paul Lupi[en], Asbestos, Guide Touristique.
Pictured here is a P & H Electrical Shovel, with a regular truck to receive all the sediments.