It’s perhaps not the first thing we think of when reflecting on the World Wars of the 20th century but love and marriage were ever-present even during this tumultuous period. In particular, love (or, at…
This month the ETRC would like to enlist the help of readers to identify a few of our numerous unidentified photographs. All of these photographs come from a collection of documents that are primarily from…
Crisp air, leaves beginning to change, and getting back into the routines of school are part of how we’re ushered out of summer and into autumn. With the start of school also come the sights…
This article was written by our summer archives technician, Jazmine Aldrich. “It all began way back on December 21st 1935,” wrote Henrietta Kathleen Warren – or as many knew her, Kay – in her travel…
For a short period in the early 1900s, Captain B.V. Naylor made his mark on the tourist and shipping industry along the Richelieu River near the Quebec/Vermont border. Born in Noyan in 1858, Benjamin Naylor’s…
Horse-drawn carriages, dirt roads, and covered bridges. They all seem to just go together when we think of the past. CanadaPost’s recent issuing of a new stamp series showing Canada’s historic covered bridges speaks to…