Table of Contents
Introduction ...... 9
I ~ Dedication Dedication...... 15
II ~ Migration and Settlement The Abenakis – Past and Present / Paul Carignan...... 19 The Pattern of Pioneer Migrations to Stanstead County 1793–1840 / Joel Andres...... 23 Ralph Merry III: Founder of Magog / Maurice Langlois...... 33 A Tribute to Samuel Dunbar / Anne Leydet...... 39 Notre arrivée dans les Cantons de l’Est – La famille Ludger Lachance / Marie-Ange Lagueux...... 57 Les Doyon de Stanstead / Marcel Doyon...... 61
III ~ A Borderland Tracing the Line: Early Maps of the Southern Quebec Border Area / Margaret Ann Kasowski and Elizabeth Brock.....69 Mr. Collins’ Error / Neufville Shaw...... 77 Customs in Stanstead County / D.N. McIntosh...... 81
IV ~ Laying the Foundations Potash and the Wedding Coat / Kathleen H. Brown...... 103 The Stage Coach Stops at Stanstead / Ed. Struthers...... 113 Eastern Townships Early Postal Service / Ivy Hatch...... 119 The Provincial Bank of Stanstead / J. Douglas Ferguson...... 123 Stanstead Paper Mill: First in Eastern Townships / W.A. Ketchen...... 135 V ~ A Diversity of Faiths Jason Lee – Missionary and Colonizer / Dr. C. Herbert Smith...... 141 Historique de la Paroisse du Sacré-Cœur de Stanstead / Marcel Bonin...... 153 Of Steeples and Stations: Preservation in the Landscape / Derek Booth...... 159
VI ~ Time for Schools Un survol de l’histoire des écoles du Comté de Stanstead (1817–1900) / Alain R. Roy...... 179 Retrospect of Stanstead College in Relation to the Border Communities during the Past One Hundred Years / Gordon L. McGilton...... 191 Les Ursulines de Stanstead / Marie-Emmanuel Chabot...... 197
VII ~ The Development of a Community Life Stanstead’s Other Journals / Matthew F. Farfan...... 205 William Stewart Hunter Jr. (1823–1894): the Return of an Artistic Legacy / Monique Nadeau-Saumier...... 219 Henry Seth Taylor and Early Photography / Pierre Rastoul...... 233 Mr. John J. Parker, Photographer / E. Getty...... 247 The Eastern Townships Conservatory of Music 1901–1955 / Joan MacDonald...... 251 Early History of the Haskell Opera House / author unknown...... 257 VIII ~ A Sense of Place “Tomifobia: What Does That Mean?” a short history / Louise Abbott...... 271 Baldwin’s Mills – Reminiscences It Seems like Yesterday / Merrick Belknap...... 283 Boynton: A Once-Thriving Community / Marguerite Dunlop...... 291 Hattie Hannah Colby & Her Carrollcroft / Jackie Hall...... 299
IX ~ Stanstead County in Times of Conflict The Stanstead Militia, 1805–1855 / Desmond Morton and John M. Scott...... 307 The Role of the People of Stanstead in the Rebellion of 1837–1838 / Jacques Boisvert...... 317 ‘A Most Marvelous Memory’: British evacuees in Stanstead during WWII / Ross Murray...... 325 Sherbrooke County
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