History of Compton County and Sketches of the Eastern Townships, District of St. Francis, and Sherbrooke County

By L. S. Channell

Filled to the brim with biographical sketches, first-hand accounts, and historical records from a wide array of primary and secondary sources, The History of Compton County will continue to delight readers and researchers for centuries to come. 

Contents include:

Introduction
The Eastern Townships [origins through settlement]
District of St. Francis
Early History - 1672-1791
Buckingham County - 1791-1829
Sherbrooke County - 1829-1853
Compton County - 1853-1896
Political History - 1792-1896
Municipal History
The Militia [early history to 1896]
Railways of Compton County
Township of Eaton [including Cookshire and Sawyerville]
The Late Honourable John Henry Pope
Township of Compton [including Waterville and Compton]
Township of Clifton [ including East Clifton, Martinville, and St. Edwidge]
Towsnhip of Newport
Township of Westbury
Township of Hereford
Township of Bury
Township of Lingwick
Township of Hampden [including Scotstown]
Township of Winslow [including North and South Winslow]
Town of Whitton [including Village of Lake Megantic and South Whitton]
Township of Marston [ including South Marston]
Townships of Ditton, Chesham, Auckland, and Clinton
Corrections
General Index
Index to Engravings
Index to Biographies 

Click here to view the General Index -- Index of Engravings & Biographies Index.

After more than 100 years, this book is still considered the essential resource for those with an interest in the early settlement history of Compton County, Quebec and its founding families.

From the Introduction:
New persons, reading any ordinary history, appreciate the amount of research necessary to obtain ample and accurate information on the subjects treated. This labor is enhanced when the value of the history depends upon the minuteness with which the events narrated are recorded. The history of an age where a country may be written in a broad, general way, in which the leading events stand out in large perspective, while the minor details are omitted of only introduced in a cursory manner. But the value of the history of a century consists largely in the extent and minuteness of the detail furnished, and to obtain and verify these involves a vast amount of painstaking investigation.

In the present instance the difficulty of obtaining records is increased by the fact that no published book exists which might serve as a starting point. The only works extant of any use in describing the Eastern Townships, are those of Joseph Bouchette, Suveyor-General of Lower Canada for thirty years, published in 1815 and 1831, and Mrs. Day's "History of the Eastern Townships", published in 1869. The author had only managed to extract a few tidbits from these works, primarily in the Township histories. Nearly all the information has been gathered from old settlers, old newspapers, government reports, municipal records, and written accounts left by some pioneers.

The aim has been not to write a romance, but simply to give the facts as they have been found, after months of research and study. Every item of interest that could be learned concerning the County of Compton has been traced out and, so far as verified, here recorded.

Details

296 Pages
8.5" x 11.25"
Photos and Illustrations
General Index
Index of Engravings
Biographies Index
Originally published by L.S Channell, Cookshire, 1896
This edition published by Global Heritage Press, Milton, 1999 ISBN 1-894378-13-X (Hardcover edition)