Photos
"Here is a typical farmhouse in the village of St. Lin, from the 1930s. The house was not very sturdy, made of a wood frame…
"A wartime grocery store, 1942, in New Glasgow/St. Sophie. The store features all authentic signage of the times."
Michael…
"The Roxy Theater in St. Agathe, in 1956. Eggs for the town were supplied by the farmers of St. Sophie and New Glasgow."
Michael…
"The Roxy Theatre in St. Agathe, where kids could pretend to be Jeff Chandler, or Scaramouche. Where the ticket taker was the ice…
"This farm in New Glasgow, began about 1905… and became a Hotel for the Montreal summer crowd. Ida Kottenberg was the…
"The Opera Bottling Plant was a small local distributor of soft drinks. This painting shows a local grocery store in St. Agathe…
"St. Sophie was the egg producing capital of Quebec...here is one of the Gontovnick chicken houses."
Michael Litvack, artist
"Willie Rudy was an exceptional man. Born in New Glasgow, Quebec, he was a simple farmer. He learned to speak six languages in…
The old Fort Rose School in New Glasgow, Quebec, was "a one room building with grades 1 to 7 all being taught at the same time.…
"Here is the General Store in Val-David, exact date unknown, but depicted as of the end of the 1940s... The Shawbridge bakery…
"The place where little boys' dreams almost came true, The Roxy, and the Alhambra, provided the summer crowds with movies,…
"In the 1960s, through to the mid 1990s, a basic food group was supplied by this tiny roadside stand just outside of St. Agathe.…
"The store that provided just about everything for the little community… Food, candy, newspapers, land for sale, and antiques…