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Jeffrey Mines, Asbestos, QC
CA ETRC P031-003-01-A-005 · Part · [191-?]
Part of William G. Clark collection

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."

CA ETRC P031-003-01-B-album 007 · Part · 1929
Part of William G. Clark collection

Item is a photograph of the Canadian Johns-Manville parade float, Asbestos, Canada Day, 1929, showing: Alfred Lefebvre, Bob Grimard, Nova Blais, Alphonse Poirier, Joseph Lalancette (at right, leaning on float), Edmond Bergeron, and Bertrand Poirier, as well as the Dubois photograph studio in background.

The caption reads, "This Float consisted of a Cyclone Collector, Elbows and Ductwork and an aspirating Fan all built by the sheet metal workers Alphonse Poirier, foreman. 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."

CA ETRC P031-003-01-B-album-26 · Part · 1953
Part of William G. Clark collection

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.

Group of machinists
CA ETRC P031-003-01-B-album-33 · Part · 1927
Part of William G. Clark collection

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.

CA ETRC P031-003-02-002 · Part · 1904
Part of William G. Clark collection

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.

Third Richmond bridge
CA ETRC P049-009-005 · Part · [1903?]
Part of Richmond collection

Item is a photograph of a man standing in front of the MacKenzie steel bridge in Richmond over the St. Francis River, probably taken around 1903-1910.

Ice jam
CA ETRC P020-003-06-D002b-P744 · Item · 1948, copied 1979
Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of a man in the streets of Bromptonville, standing next to mounds of ice, which came from the river.

Ice jam
CA ETRC P020-003-06-D002b-P745 · Item · 1948, copied 1977
Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of mounds of ice on the street, left from the St. Francis River flood in Bromptonville in 1948. A bulldozer is visible, pushing the ice blocks from the main street to open the road.

Ice jam
CA ETRC P020-003-06-D002b-P746 · Item · 1948, copied 1979
Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of an aerial view of ice damage that occured in Bromptonville. A house is completely surrounded by ice and water from the St. Francis River.

Windsor
CA ETRC P020-003-06-D002a-P422 · Item · [1910?], copied 1977
Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of the employees of Canada Paper Company in front of the sawmill in Windsor, showing Thomas Logan at left, taken around 1890.