File illustrates the development of roads and the origins of their names in area of Baldwin Mills. It consists of annotated and hand-drawn maps, research documents and notes, correspondence, and notes on resolutions of the Municipality of Barnston’s town council.
The file contains railway maps excerpted from publications related to Eastern Townships and MRC du Haut-Saint-François from 1979 to 1989.
The file contains source material on railway development in the Eastern Townships from 1876 to 1888. It consists of correspondence mainly to or from Aeneus McMaster regarding cargo shipments and other business matters with the railways. It contains correspondence from the following people:
Armstrong, C.
Biron, A.
Folsom, H.E.
Harriet, Arthur
Heneker, R.W.
Law, A.
McFee, D.E.
Morton, A.B. & Sons
Morton, Dudley
Porteus, John
Reeve, George B.
Reeve, John
Sherman, F.M.
Simpson, A.F.
Item is a photograph of a railway bridge, originally built for the Drummond County Railway and later acquired by the Grand Trunk Railway, over the St. Francis River in Drummondville from around the 1910s.
The file contains primary source information on the involvement of Cecil H. Bowen of Sherbrooke, QC with railroads from approximately 1898 to 1902. It consists of photocopies of press clippings on railways and the Great Lakes Waterway; a copy of Bill 98, the Act Respecting the Cobourg, Northumberland and Pacific Railway Company, passed by the House of Commons in the 1890s; a prospectus and an application form related to the issuing of debentures by the Cobourg, Northumberland and Pacific Railway Company in 1898; a draft contract, dated 1898, between Cecil H. Bowen, Reuben W. Leonard and John D. Cameron for the building of the railway; and correspondence, notes, and estimates related to the railway and to the construction of a line between Newington in Sherbrooke and Tobins Mills. One letter is addressed to Frank Grundy, Manager of the Quebec Central Railway in Sherbrooke. The file also includes a map showing the route of the Cobourg, Northumberland and Pacific Railway Company and its connections.
The file contains information about the Quebec Central Railway from 1895 to 1948. It consists of one passenger tariff book; two agenda (1911 & 1915); one timetable pamphlet and some train ticket.
The file contains primary and secondary source information on Henry Seth Taylor and his invention of the steam buggy in Stanstead in the 1860s, collected and created by Randy Piercey for the production of a podcast. It consists of research, interviews, photographs, and supporting recordings as well as a completed version of the podcast.
The file contains photographs of railway related to Eastern Townships including trains, stations, locomotives, workers, passengers, accident from 1901 to 1952. It also includes a letter on photo request in 1999 and two drawings of the interior of rail-car. Some photos were reproduced from other organizations in 1998 and 1999 and others can be found in the photograph series of Société d'histoire et du patrimoine du Haut-St-François collection.
The file contains primary source information on the Passumpsic Railroad from 1871 to 1888. It consists of a pamphlet and three oversized posters.
The file contains source material on historical research of various subjects from 1967 to 1969. It consists of the following research documents: Au Township D’Eaton, Notre-Dame-du-Saint-Rosaire de Sawyerville, Messire A. E. Dufresne et Les Anglo-Protestants, La Mine de Chesham, Avenement des Chemins de Fer dans Les Townships, Quelques Sources de Renseignements en Histoire Regionale et en Genealogie.
The item is a road map for Stanstead County, with town insets for Ayer's Cliff, Coaticook, Beebe Plain, Stanstead Plain, Rock Island, North Hatley, produced by Quebec's Ministry of Transport, in 1961. Includes information on road surfaces.
The file consists of the research, podcast voice over script, and sound recordings prepared and collected in the course of the production of Randy Piercey's podcast on the Lake of the Lake, a steamship on Lake Memphremagog, which was produced in 2020.
File presents Belding-Corticelli's opinion on the matter of the sale of the Town of Coaticook's hydroelectric power plant to Southern Canada Power in 1952. It consists of correspondence between the Coaticook office and the head office in Montreal.
The file contains source material on the history of railways in Eastern Townships from 1877 to 1998. It consists of magazines, newsletters, book excerpts, newspaper clippings, correspondence and other documents related to railroad lines, trains, locomotives, stations, companies, employees and important persons in the development of railways in Eastern Townships.
The file contains source material on heritage railways in from 1988 to 1991. It consists of a guide for evaluating heritage railways, three inventories of railways including stations, structures and sites in East Angus, Scotstown and Cookshire, inventories of railway stations and rolling stocks in central Quebec in 1988 and a document designating the East Angus railway station as a heritage site in 1911.
File presents aspects of the history of the Coaticook region from 1845 to the 1980s. It consists of a commercial gasoline ration coupon booklet (1945), a car care information book distributed the Texaco in Coaticook (1974), and patches for Baldwin and Étoile de l’Est snowmobile clubs ([198-?]).
The file consists of a photograph of E.J. Simon's gas station (Peerless gasolene) in East Angus from 1931.
The file contains primary and secondary source information on the life of Donald Benjamin Naylor from 1914 to 1992 in Missisquoi County and in the Canadian North. It consists largely of correspondence regarding Donald Naylor's career as a sailor and captain; copies of attestation papers and other records from his military service during World War I with the 24th Battalion of the Canadian Infantry Brigade; copies of and original correspondence by Donald during his time at war as well as later in life; an interview transcript; magazine and newspaper articles; and research notes.
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 file consists of Clifton stories. It contains stories and anecdotes about early settlers and events in Clifton. The file includes 16 photographs.
The file consists of primary source material on the business affairs of the Naylor family in Missisquoi County from around the 1870s to 1975. It consists largely of advertisements for steamship excursions and lumber, shipping receipts, an advertisement for Ile-aux-Noix Park, letterhead for "Naylor's summer resort", and a history of the Vaughan and Naylor shipping history.
The file contains information on various boats, largely on the Richelieu River, from around the 1870s to the 1910s. Included among the boats pictured are the Island Queen, the Ojibway, the Missisquoi, a schooner captained by W. Montgomery, the Daisy, an unidentified barge, the Windsor, and the Majestic. Also pictured is the Richelieu Bridge and possibly St. Johns wharf.
The file contains information on boats and shipping from the 1900s to 1930s. Among the postcards are images of boats on Lake Memphremagog, Lake Champlain, Red River (Winnipeg, Man.), the Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence River, Saskatchewan River (Alberta), Kootenay Lake (B.C.), Peace River, Athabaska River, and in Vancouver and other places in British Columbia, among others. Many of the postcards include messages addressed to George B. Naylor and B.V. Naylor as well as a few to Mrs. M.L. Abbott, Mrs. A.H. Derick, Samuel Abbott.
The file contains a photograph of the steamship "Pocahontas" on Lake Massawippi, ca. 1910.
The file consists of a photograph of the steamer "Pocahontas" on Lake Massawippi around 1905, with a dock and canoes visible in the foreground.