Local History
Un transatlantique à Stanstead, Partie 1
Édifice érigé délibérément sur la ligne frontalière du Québec et du Vermont, à la mémoire de Carlos Freeman Haskell (1824-1865) par son épouse, Martha Stewart Haskell (1831-1906) et son fils, le colonel Horace Stewart Haskell (1860-1940), entre 1901 et 1904, la Bibliothèque et Opéra Haskell desservait la population de Derby Line (USA), Rock-Island et Stanstea
Un transatlantique à Stanstead, Partie 2
Le voyage inaugural du Lucania annonce une carrière remplie de succès. Parti de Liverpool le 2 septembre 1893, il rejoint New York le 9. Le New York Times du lendemain s’empresse de vanter les exploits du Cunarder qui a accompli le trajet en 5 jours, 15 heures et 37 minutes, soit 1 heure et 13 minutes de moins que le City of Paris de l’American Line.
Road to Richmond Paved with History
Tighsolas: House of Light, Part 1: An Intimate Glimpse into the World of a Turn-of-the-Century Townships Family
The letter was addressed to Mrs. N. Nicholson, Richmond, Quebec. It read: "Dear Mrs. Nicholson. Do you feel that breakfast seems incomplete without a bread of some sort? Just break open a biscuit made with Crisco." This was ad copy, I realized, despite the header "Mac Rae Bros. Pure Food Products." "Notice its sweet appetizing aroma.
Tighsolas: House of Light, Part 2: A Long-Lost Relic Comes Home
The Home Children
The Spell of Lake Memphremagog
Lake Memphremagog is one of the jewels of the Eastern Townships. Reputedly Abenaki for "Beautiful Waters," or less romantically "the Great Pond Place," Memphremagog is blessed with some of the most stunning scenery in the region. The lake stretches 27 miles (44 km) from below Newport, Vermont in the south, all the way up to Magog, Quebec in the north.
The Cherry River Marsh, Magog
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