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Table of Contents 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 e k a L g o River g a M e Massawippi River l Cherry t it L North Magog Magog River Hatley Brome County Katevale e k Hatley a L i Magog Township p p i Township w a s s a Map based on M Belden Atlas – 1881 g d o n Hatley g o P a Massawippi m g n e i Ayer’s r Compton Township r e Flat h v o p L m e M Georgeville Stanstead Barnston e Township Township k Coaticook a L Barford Fitch Bay Boynton Township Barnston Way’s Mills Niger River Tomifobia River Drew’s Mills Smith’s Mills (Dixville) Griffin’s (Tomifobia) Corner Baldwin’s Mills Lake Lyster Coaticook River Stanstead Plain Beebe Plain Rock Island Canada Derby Line United States Sherbrooke County e k a L g o River g a M e Massawippi River l Cherry t it L North Magog Magog River Hatley Brome County Katevale e k Hatley a L i Magog Township p p i Township w a s s a Map based on M Belden Atlas – 1881 g d o n Hatley g o P a Massawippi m g n e i Ayer’s r Compton Township r e Flat h v o p L m e M Georgeville Stanstead Barnston e Township Township k Coaticook a L Barford Fitch Bay Boynton Township Barnston Way’s Mills Niger River Tomifobia River Drew’s Mills Smith’s Mills (Dixville) Griffin’s (Tomifobia) Corner Baldwin’s Mills Lake Lyster Coaticook River Stanstead Plain Beebe Plain Rock Island Canada Derby Line United States.
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