À ce jour, Louis S. St-Laurent est le seul Premier ministre canadien né dans les Cantons-de-l'Est. Il vit le jour à Compton en 1882. Ses parents, père canadien-français et mère irlandaise, exploitaient un magasin général et possédaient des moyens modestes.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, l'un des plus fameux Premiers ministres du Canada, a passé un grande partie de sa vie d'adulte dans les Cantons-de-l'Est. M. Laurier, né à Saint-Lin dans les Laurentides en 1841, étudia à l'Université McGill où il obtint son diplôme en 1864.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, one of Canada's most illustrious Prime Ministers, spent much of his adult life in the Eastern Townships. Laurier, who was born in Saint-Lin in the Laurentians in 1841, studied law at McGill University where he received his degree in 1864.
The young boy was standing in front of a small wooden table on which laid a birthday cake with four lit candles. You could see the gleam in the little guy’s face, and his underlying smile of knowing that this was his day to be celebrated, and his day alone. Dressed in a clean white shirt, dark slacks, and a clip-on bow tie, we could sense what he was thinking as he continued his bright-eyed stare into the candles. We could almost feel his wonder at what other miracles life would bring, and that this birthday was certainly one of them.
L'histoire de la Eastern Townships Telephone Company est intimement liée à celle de Carlos Skinner. Bijoutier, horloger de métier, et résident de Waterloo, M. Skinner, selon Paul Delaney, "débordait d'énergie et s'intéressait au plus haut point aux derniers développements scientifiques."
La distribution du courrier dans les Cantons-de-l'Est date des environs de 1800. À ce moment, presque tous les pionniers venaient d'arriver de Nouvelle-Angleterre. Ces gens s'inquiétaient de ne pouvoir conserver leur liens avec leur ancienne patrie, les amis et la famille qu'ils y avaient laissés.
Dans les Cantons-de-l'Est, les premiers journaux répondaient aux besoins des pionniers venus de Nouvelle-Angleterre.
Several commercial steamers have operated on Lake Memphremagog over the course of its history. This 44-km (27-mile) international lake, whose southern quarter lies within the state of Vermont, is the longest stretch of navigable water in the Eastern Townships. Newport lies at the south end of the lake, Magog, at the north.
(Continued from Steamers of Lake Memphremagog, Part 2)
(Continued from Steamers of Lake Memphremagog, Part 2)