{"id":190,"date":"2023-04-12T21:05:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T21:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francoamericangravy.com\/wills.\/?page_id=190"},"modified":"2024-12-05T13:40:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T18:40:21","slug":"bolton-eastern-townships-quebec-canada","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/francoamericangravy.com\/wills\/bolton-eastern-townships-quebec-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolton, Eastern Townships, Quebec, Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Carte
Eastern Townships 1861, Toronto Public Library Archives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sometime in the mid 19th century copper was discovered in the bucolic Eastern Townships of Quebec.\u00a0 At that time, the Eastern Townships were mainly English speaking, the refuge of Loyalists and New Englanders, and sparsely settled compared to the area along the St Lawrence River.\u00a0 These days, it may be best known for a spa and waterfall<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Passe<\/a>\r\nWilliam Barlett's Engraving of Bolton Pass\r\nQuebec<\/em><\/pre>\n
There’s no information why J.A.B. Wills and Anne Reed came to this area in 1867 but it can be safely concluded there was\u00a0 mining work and J.A.B. Wills knew about mining growing up in Lelant, Cornwall, a tin mining village.\u00a0 Their first child, Emma Elystra Wills (Ricker) was born in Bolton Quebec in April 1868 and baptized in South Stukely’s St. Matthew’s Anglican Church in June of the same year.<\/p>\n
The copper mine was owned by Lucius Seth Huntington, <\/a>\u00a0a controversial\u00a0 business man and politician.\u00a0 His biography in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography is\u00a0 here <\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Apparently the Huntington Copper Mine and Huntington, himself, did well during the American Civil War but in the years after the war, copper prices collapsed and there were hard times at the mine in Bolton.<\/p>\n
William Notman, the noted Canadian photographer captured images of the mine and workers at the time, J.A.B. Wills was likely working there.\u00a0 it is conceivable J.A.B. Wills is a worker in one of the images.\u00a0 The McCord Stewart museum has seven\u00a0 images of the Huntington Copper Mine online here<\/a> and makes them freely available.<\/p>\n
\"Huntington
Collection of McCord Stewart Museum, Montreal.\u00a0 William Notman
Huntington Copper Mining Company’s works, Bolton, QC, 1867<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Here are some additional Link about Bolton, Quebec.\u00a0 All are active at the time I am writing.\u00a0 Apologies ahead of time if a link is not working.<\/p>\n
Bolton Pass<\/a> by Blogger Lindaseccaspina<\/p>\n
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Sometime in the mid 19th century copper was discovered in the bucolic Eastern Townships of Quebec.\u00a0 At that time, the Eastern Townships were mainly English speaking, the refuge of Loyalists and New Englanders, and sparsely settled compared to the area along the St Lawrence River.\u00a0 These days, it may be best known for a spa … <\/p>\n
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