Item is a photograph of the Canadian Johns-Manville Company located in Asbestos.
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Item is a photograph of the Iroquois Hotel located in Asbestos.
Item is a photograph of the corner of Station Street and the square located in Danville.
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.
Item is a photograph of the square located in Danville, looking south.
Item is a photograph of Grove Street located in Danville.
Item is a photograph of the Danville Academy building.
Item is a photograph of Station Street located in Danville.
Item is a photograph of the Gibson Block located in Danville.
Item is a photograph of Station Street located in Danville.
Item is a photograph of the Houston Block located in Danville.
Item is a photograph of Main Street, located in Danville.
Item is a photograph of an automobile parade in Danville.
Item is a photograph of the Danville square, with people, stores, and a horse and wagon visible.
Item is a photograph of Gibson's Pond located in Danville.
Item is a photograph of a barn that was used by Tom Andrew's for blacksmithing, near Denison's Mills. He was known for making knife blades.
Item is a photograph of a grist mill located near Denison's Mills.
Item is a photograph of a train wreck near Danville, with floodwater near the tracks.
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.
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)The item contains information on the members and the activities of the Denison Mills Women's Institute. It depicts a member, Bertie, at Thanksgiving in 1959.
The item contains information on Louis-Philippe Demers' interests. It is a post card depicting mills in Asbestos. Message on verso : Wide Léo Paul Lupi[en], Asbestos, Guide Touristique.
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.
The item is a photograph of Silas Baker on a plow (plough) pulled by a team of horses at the Edwin G. Baker farm on Haslett Road at Danville, likely taken in 1914 or 1915.
The item is a photograph of Silas Baker on a hay cutter pulled by a team of horses at the Edwin G. Baker farm on Haslett Road at Danville, likely taken in 1914 or 1915.
Item is a photograph of the barn at the Edwin G. Baker farm on Haslett Road at Danville as hay is being hoisted into the hay mow, likely taken in 1914 or 1915.
The item is a photograph of a team of horses pulling a wagon loaded with hay, with Ruth Baker driving, at the Edwin G. Baker farm on Haslett Road at Danville, likely taken in 1914 or 1915.
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.
The file contains photographs of the Baker and Messenger families in Richmond and Danville.