Eastern Townships Resource Centre

This elegantly dressed man poses with his pup, their faces equally serious, for a photograph taken in the 1800s. They say that owners and pets resemble one another: would you agree?

P998 - ETRC Graphic Material collection

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https://www.townshipsarchives.ca/etrc-p998-092-038-026-jpg

On this second Monday of June, the ETRC is showing off this absolutely heartwarming photograph of a young nurse and her very happy pup posing together!

P998 - ETRC Graphic Material collection

History at your fingertips.
https://www.townshipsarchives.ca/unidentified-woman-50

This month's theme is pets and their owners!

This photograph shows an unidentified toddler holding a cat, with a garden and house visible in the background, probably taken in Sherbrooke in the 1920s.

P168 - Gingras family fonds

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https://www.townshipsarchives.ca/etrc-p168019-jpg

We will see our first peonies blooming very soon. In honor of this wonderful event, we share this postcard view from the 1910s of Harry A. Norton's peony and lilac garden, with Lake Massawippi shining in the background. People came from as far as California to see Mr. Norton's three-hundred flower varieties.

P999 – ETRC Postcard collection

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https://www.townshipsarchives.ca/peony-garden-ayer-s-cliff

This postcard shows greenhouses in Waterloo — owned by Thomas Slack — in 1909. Do you want to learn more about this business? Check out our blog post about it: https://www.etrc.ca/king-mushroom-slack-brothers-waterloo.

P058 - Herbert Derick collection

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https://www.townshipsarchives.ca/waterloo-02

Our friends at the Bishop's University Library Learning Commons are hiring! If you are an archivist looking for a stimulating work environment, please consider applying.

Nos ami-es de la bibliothèque de l'Université Bishop's recrutent ! Si vous êtes archiviste et que vous cherchez un environnement de travail stimulant, n'hésitez pas à postuler.

Archiviste Universitaire//University Archivist – Working at Bishop's Les énoncés suivants sont destinés à décrire la nature et le niveau de travail général. Ils ne représentent pas une liste exhaustive de toutes les responsabilités, tâches et aptitudes requises.

We soon will reach the time to tend to our gardens; in this photograph from 1910, people work in the gardens of a convent in East Angus.

P232 – Société d’histoire et du patrimoine du Haut St-François collection

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https://www.townshipsarchives.ca/014-3

May has come at last; soon gardens and forests shall bloom once more. The ETRC wants to start off this month's theme of flowers and gardens with this photograph taken at Domaine St-Laurent in Compton, probably dating from between 1979 and 1991.

P232 – Société d’histoire et du patrimoine du Haut St-François collection

History at your fingertips.
https://www.townshipsarchives.ca/the-flowers-of-domaine-st-laurent-compton-quebec

The ETRC is hiring a summer student from May to August! See the posting in English, here: https://www.etrc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/YCW2026_Job-posting_ArchivesTechnician_ETRC_EN.pdf. Please share widely! Deadline to apply: May 5th.

Le CRCE engage un.e etudiant.e pour l'été ! Voici l'offre d'emploi : https://www.etrc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/JCT2026_OffreEmploi_Technicien-neArchivistique_CRCE_FR.pdf. N'hésitez pas à partager ! Date limite pour postuler : 5 mai.

Most of us should be more thankful for our current means of transportation, especially in
the colder months of the year. Horse sleighs may be quite stylish, but we are sure they did
not possess seat warmers or the comfort of modern cars. This photograph of a group in
and around an elongated traverse sleigh was taken around 1912 in front of the Rice home
in Riceburg.

P020 - Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

History at your fingertips.

https://www.townshipsarchives.ca/horse-and-sleigh-2