History of Compton County and Sketches of the Eastern Townships, District of St. Francis, and Sherbrooke County: Supplemented with the Records of Four Hundred Families. Two Hundred Illustrations...; Including Biography of the Late John Henry Pope

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History of Compton County and Sketches of the Eastern Townships, District of St. Francis, and Sherbrooke County: Supplemented with the Records of Four Hundred Families. Two Hundred Illustrations...; Including Biography of the Late John Henry Pope
Abstract
A history of several Eastern Townships' counties, as well as a brief overview of their political, industrial and social development. Includes short biographical sketches of the leading nineteenth-century citizens in the area. The author points out that most of the information in the book was obtained through interviews with the area's original settlers or from old newspapers and government records. John Henry Pope (1819-1889) was a farmer, lumberman, railway entrepreneur, and federal politician.
Place
Cookshire, QC
Publisher
L.S. Channell
Date
1896
# of Pages
289p.
Language
en
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Channell, L. S. History of Compton County and Sketches of the Eastern Townships, District of St. Francis, and Sherbrooke County: Supplemented with the Records of Four Hundred Families. Two Hundred Illustrations...; Including Biography of the Late John Henry Pope. Cookshire, QC: L.S. Channell, 1896. https://archive.org/details/historyofcompton00chanuoft.
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