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CA ETRC P997-005-08-001 · File · June 1944
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Textual Records collection

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.

Bell Telephone Company of Canada (The)
Cheese Day
CA ETRC P020-003-06-D002b-P564 · Item · [1909?], copied 1977
Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of a $42,000 Cheese Day with horses pulling wagons full of cheese to the train station in Danville, with a portrait of a young boy in the top right-hand corner.

Fairs
CA ETRC P997-004-01-003 · File · 1893-1983
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Textual Records collection

The file consists of four booklets titled "Prize Lists for the Richmond County Agricultural Society Annual Fair", dated respectively 1960, 1964, 1966, 1967; prize cards, from 1893-1914, of the Danville Union Agricultural Society, the Richmond County Agricultural Society and the Eastern Townships Agriculture Society; a souvenir programme from the Sherbrooke Fair from 1945; and a poster of the 62nd Annual Farmers' Exhibition, organized by the Stanstead County Agricultural Society in Ayer's Cliff, from 28 to 29 August 1907. The file provides information on the setting up of agricultural fairs. It contains the names of the Richmond County Agricultural Society's members, the departmental committees and the rules and regulations and judging programmes of the fairs. It also a prize book for Canada's Great Eastern Exhibition (Sherbrooke, Que.) from 1894 and architectural drawings for a multifunctional building for the Exposition Sherbrooke Fair, dated 23 March 1983.

CA ETRC P097-001 · Item · [191-?]
Part of Baker family fonds

The item contains information on the Baker family's personal lives. It is a farm scene depicting two unidentified young people, with a young man pushing a young woman seated on a wheelbarrow, possibly in the area of Danville.

Hauling log with sledge
CA ETRC P998-2019-015-009 · Item · [1914 or 1915]
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Graphic Material collection

The item is a photograph of a team hauling a log on a sledge (sled) in winter, likely including members of the Baker family at the Edwin G. Baker farm on Haslett Road at Danville, taken in 1914 or 1915. Also visible is the load binder - the bent stick. The log would be chained to the sled, the load binder attached to the chain, bent over and hooked, thereby applying tension to the chain to hold the log in place.

Danville Rifle Company
CA ETRC P058-004-65-018 · File · [190-?]-1987
Part of Herbert Derick collection

The file contains information on the Danville Rifle Company. It consists of a history as remembered by T. Perkins (aka "Perk") Cleveland and correspondence received by Herbert Derick.

CA ETRC P235-008 · Series · 1995-1999
Part of Michael Grayson fonds

The series contains source material on the repairs of Trinity United Church of Danville. It consists of correspondence, reports, submissions, invoices, sketches and photographs. The repairs were done on the roof, the bell tower, outside walls, stained glass, entrance and nave. The series is comprised of the following subseries: Correspondence (1996-1999), Finances (1995-1998), Submissions (1998), Reports (1994-1998) and Photographs.

CA CAMAR FP034 · Fonds · 1867 - 2002

Ce fonds fournit de l'information sur la construction et la reconstruction de l'église ainsi que sur la gestion financière et le patrimoine de la paroisse. Il se compose de plans, de documents financiers, de dossiers relatifs à la reconstruction de l'église, de documents concernant une ordination, ainsi que des demandes et décrets d'érection pour les associations et les mouvements spirituels. On y retrouve également une fiche d'inventaire de l'église et des photographies. Un dépliant relatif à un pèlerinage, des procès-verbaux et des rapports complètent ce fonds.

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