Histoire Locale

Au début des années 1850, les Cantons-de-l'Est furent au centre d'une massive ruée vers le cuivre. L'une des premières mines de cuivre de la région s'ouvrit dans le canton de Leeds.

Stanstead’s local indigenous stone, and the mainstay of the local economy, is a variety of granite most often referred to as “Stanstead grey.” Stanstead grey has been quarried and worked in and around Beebe (which is now a part of Stanstead) for generations. But what exactly is this durable stone?

Le mouton était l'un des animaux essentiels aux premiers colons, car sa toison pouvait servir à produire de la laine. À chaque printemps, on tondait les moutons dans les fermes. On lavait la laine pour la débarrasser de sa graisse naturelle et des saletés; on la peignait et finalement la cardait. Le cardage servait à démêler les fibres.

Les premiers colons à qui on concédait des terres dans les Cantons promettaient de construire des moulins à farine et des routes dans les deux années suivant leur arrivée. Le meunier figurait parmi les personnes les plus importantes dans une colonie. Le moulin du village faisait le lien entre la ferme et l'industrie.

While workers elsewhere were suffering the work shortages and poverty of the worst part of the Great Depression, the "Three Villages" in the early 1930s were enjoying full employment.

Hunter’s Mills is situated on a side-road about mid-way between Stanbridge East and Frelighsburg, along Route 237.

Built up around a small waterfall on the Pike (Brochets) River, Hunter's Mills takes its name from the Hunter family, who ran a woollen mill at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Route 247, between Beebe Plain and the Fitch Bay Narrows, is an undulating, winding stretch of road with some lovely unspoiled scenery, picturesque farms, and splendid views of Owl’s Head, across Lake Memphremagog. It’s a beautiful drive.

Although Massawippi is by no means a ghost town, the village is a long way from the vibrant little community it once was. Situated at the junction of Routes 208 and 143, about midway between Stanstead and Lennoxville, the village’s origins date back to the beginning of the 1800s.

A hamlet in Potton Township, Vale Perkins, or East Potton, as it was once known, was named after Samuel Perkins who settled in this vicinity in the 1790s.

Bâti en 1875, le Potton Springs Hotel et ses célèbres sources sulfureuses attireront des milliers de visiteurs en provenance de l’est de l’Amérique du Nord. Les curistes arrivaient par train – le Missisquoi and Black Rivers Valley Railway qui deviendra ensuite l’Orford Mountain Railway et, finalement, le Canadien Pacifique.