Natural resources

Mill Dam, Waterville, Que.

CA ETRC P232-005-003-255
Item
[190-?]

Part of Société d'histoire et du patrimoine du Haut-St-François collection

Item is a photograph postcard of Mill Dam in Waterville. The photo was probably taken around 1909.

The Dam, Salmon River, Scotstown, Que.

CA ETRC P232-005-003-243
Item
[190-?]

Part of Société d'histoire et du patrimoine du Haut-St-François collection

Item is a photograph postcard of the dam on Salmon River in Scotstown. The photo was probably taken in the early 1900's.

The International Fine Arts Co., Ltd (Montreal, Que.).

Log Landing, Mountain Brook, Scotstown, Que.

CA ETRC P232-005-003-242
Item
[191-?]

Part of Société d'histoire et du patrimoine du Haut-St-François collection

Item is a photograph postcard of Log Landing on Mountain Brook in Scotstown. The photo was probably take in the 1910's.

The Scotstown Merchants' Association (Scotstown, Que.).

Great Northern Lumber Co's Dam, Salmon River, Scotstown, Que.

CA ETRC P232-005-003-240
Item
[190-?]

Part of Société d'histoire et du patrimoine du Haut-St-François collection

Item is a photograph postcard of the Great Northern Lumber Co.'s Dam on Salmon River in Scotstown. The photo was probably taken around 1908.

The Scotstown Merchants' Association (Scotstown, Que.).

Great Northern Lumber Co.'s Mill, Scotstown, Que.

CA ETRC P232-005-003-231
Item
[192-?]

Part of Société d'histoire et du patrimoine du Haut-St-François collection

Item is a photograph postcard of the Great Northern Lumber Co.'s Mill in Scotstown. The photo was probably taken in the 1920's.

The Scotstown Merchants' Association (Scotstown, Que.).

The Old Mill Dam, Moe's River, Que.

CA ETRC P232-005-003-125
Item
[190-?]

Part of Société d'histoire et du patrimoine du Haut-St-François collection

Item is a photograph postcard of the Old Mill Dam in Moe's River. The community church is visible in the background. The photo was probably taken around 1909.

Log Transport, Coaticook, Quebec.

CA ETRC P232-005-003-051
Item
[1926]

Part of Société d'histoire et du patrimoine du Haut-St-François collection

Item is a photograph postcard of a train loaded with wooden logs and 4 men standing at the front of it in Coaticook. The photo was taken in 1926.

Logging Camp, Coaticook, Quebec.

CA ETRC P232-005-003-048
Item
[1926]

Part of Société d'histoire et du patrimoine du Haut-St-François collection

Item is a photograph postcard of a man holding an axe and standing beside train tracks that overpass a river in Coaticook. The train tracks are supported by logs and rocks stacked in the river. There seems to be a logging camp in the background. The photo was taken in 1926.

Gorge No. 1, Coaticooke, P.Q.

CA ETRC P232-005-003-024
Item
[191-?]

Part of Société d'histoire et du patrimoine du Haut-St-François collection

Item is a photograph postcard of the power dam in the Coaticook river. Visible is the dam, and multiple buildings beside the river. The photo was probably taken around 1912.

Pinsonneault Frères (Sherbrooke, Que.)

Above Power Dam, Coaticook River, Coaticook, Que.

CA ETRC P232-005-003-022
Item
[193-?]

Part of Société d'histoire et du patrimoine du Haut-St-François collection

Item is a photograph postcard of a view of the Coaticook river near the central power dam. The photograph was probably taken in the 1930's.

Power Dam, Coaticook River, P.Q.

CA ETRC P232-005-003-023
Item
[191-?]

Part of Société d'histoire et du patrimoine du Haut-St-François collection

Item is a photograph postcard of the power dam in the Coaticook river. Visible is the front of the flowing dam, with buildings on either side of it, and the river that precedes it. The photo was probably taken around 1910.

Valentine & Son's Publishing Co., Ltd. (Montreal, Que. and Toronto, Ont.)

Coaticook River and Electric Power, Coatiook, Que.

CA ETRC P232-005-003-021
Item
[193-?]

Part of Société d'histoire et du patrimoine du Haut-St-François collection

Item is a photograph postcard of an aerial view of the Coaticook river and the electric power dam in the Gorge. The photo was probably created in the 1930's.

Rumsey & Co., Ltd (Toronto, Ont.).

Geological Surveys - Orford, Stanstead and Brome Counties, Mansonville

CA ETRC P996-2022-013
File
1942-1945

Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Cartographic Material collection

This file is comprised of three geological surveys produced by the Canadian Department of Mines and Resources - Mines and Geology Branch between 1942 and 1945. The surveys Preliminary Maps of Orford, Stanstead and Brome Counties, and Mansonville, Quebec, They also each have corresponding descriptive notes either written directly on the map or as a separate document.

Government of Canada, Department of Mines and Resources, Mines and Geology Branch

W. Gillies Ross fonds

CA ETRC P233
Fonds
1767 [Photocopied]-2006

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)

Interview with Teddy Green

CA ETRC P233-001-025-001
Part
1965

Part of W. Gillies Ross fonds

Item is an interview of Edward "Teddy" Green about his experience working at the Eustis copper mines by W. Gillies Ross in October 1965. Included in the interview are the subjects of mining accidents, working conditions, mining methods, use of communication in the mines, entertainment and leisure, WWI and marriage, and Black people from North Carolina working in the mines.

Green, Edward Colston (1895-1972)

Thetford Mines Relocation Project Album

CA ETRC P998-083-366-124
Item
1953-1956

Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Graphic Material collection

The item is a reproduced album showing the relocation of houses, businesses, services, and the Quebec Central Railway tracks to accommodate the expansion of the open-pit asbestos mines in Thetford Mines from 1953 to 1956.

“Old” Sherbrooke, 1850

CA ETRC P999-053-D001-022
Item
[193-?]

Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Postcard collection

Railway Companies

CA ETRC P094-001
File
1876-1888

Part of Aeneas McMaster fonds

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.

The Hemming and Moisan

CA ETRC P024-001-D006-001
Item
188?

Part of Lawrence Ball collection

The item contains information on the personal lives of the Hemming and Moisan families at the end of the XIXth century. It depicts L. Moisan (Hebert), Mr. Hemming, Captain F. Hemming and Mlle Moisan (Wadleigh).