The Customs Office
Notes de recherche
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Centenaire de Rock Island
p. 4
- Eastern Townships Telephone Co.
- Started in 1905
- Located behind Surprenants Meat market in the early 1930
- Moved in front of the Old Customs building
- In the late 1940’s, Bell took over
p. 12
- Fregeau Building (built 1819)
- Torn down when Canadian Customs inspection station was built
- First water-powered generator
- Owned by Sam Fregeau
- Home of the Rock Island Overall Co.
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Marion Botsford Fraser, “The Lie of the Land”, in “From the Country: Witings About Rural Canada” ed. Wayne Grady, Camden House Publishing, Camden East, 1991.
p. 56
- The current Canadian customs and immigrations office in Rock Island, […], was constructed on the site of one of the old textile factories.
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E. D. Struthers, “Custom Houses of Stanstead County”, in Customs and Excise Examiner, November 1956.
p.64
- A Canadian Customs Office was opened in 1821 in Stanstead
- Located in the old brick building immediately north of the Maples Hotel
p. 68
- A Customs office was opened in Rock Island in the residence of John Paquette pending the building of the Rock Island Post Office and Customs building in 1912. When built, the Customs Office was in the back of the Post Office building, on the second floor, with no view of the boundary whatsoever.
- The Old Yellow store at Rock Island, which had been built in 1809 by the Hon. Timothy Hinman on the site of the present Rock Island office, was bought and became the Rock Island Customs House.
- To cope with the increased traffic, the present Rock Island Customs house was built in 1929 and, as commercial traffic began to move, another well-known old store, The Kathan Store, was purchased in 1936 to make way for the present examination lot.
- S.H.S. Collection : ROA - ROC. F3T1. Rock Island, file 2 of 6. Coupures de presse « Local progress in eight years », Stanstead Journal, 13 février 1936, [n.p.].
- Traite de projets immobiliers qui ont transformé Rock Island entre 1928 et 1936.
- "At Rock Island the “Old Yellow Store” had been replaced by the present attractive customs building."