The Frégeau Building
Also the Journal Office
Centenaire de Rock Island
- 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.
Stanstead Journal
- March 5, 1970
- “Bouchard block and IGA store on Main Street”
- Fregeau building on Main Street
Men of today in the Eastern townships
- p. 172-173
- James Albert Gilmore (photo)
- Commenced business as general grocer, Rock Island
- Entered partnership with S. T. Fregeau , 1891, in Rock Island Overall Co.
- Sold out to Fregeau in 1893
- Founded Globe Suspender Co., 1894
- Partnership with B. P. Ball, sold out to him in 1910
- 1910: new business: “James A. Gilmore Co.” manufacturing “Everright” overalls and shirts.
- 3 times mayor (Rock Island??)
S.H.S. Collection
- ROA - ROC. F3T1. Rock Island, file 2 of 6. Coupures de presse « Could go soon [photo et vignette] », Stanstead Journal, 8 août 1968, [n.p.].
- Traite de la possible destruction du bâtiment Frégeau (« Frégeau building ») pour faire place à un nouveau « Customs & Immigration building ».
- HA. F2T1. Haskell Free Library and Opera House, file 3 of 3. Programme « American Legion, International Minstrels and Specialties », 28 et 29 avril [19??, après 1918], 30 p.
- Le programme contient plusieurs publicités (de type carte d’affaire) de commerçants de Rock Island.
- Ludger Salois est le propriétaire du "Fregeau Block".