Do You Remember...
(contributed by Art Dockrill
and John Kempson)
People
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Mr. Charoni |
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Butcher |
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Mr. David |
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Butcher and
beer |
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Walter
Treagus |
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Green grocer |
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Jack Hall |
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Dry cleaner |
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Jim Hall |
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Coal and oil |
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Joe Carmel |
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Coal and
wood |
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Alex Carmel |
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Ice |
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Albert
Brossard |
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Grocer |
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Donat
Brossard (alderman) |
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Grocer |
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Places Lost to Fire
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The Barn |
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Pepper's |
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Caine's |
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Noble's |
Other Places
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Brosseau's
Quarry |
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Days of swimming,
picnics, and fishing for catfish. |
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Baillargeon's
Quarry |
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Same as above. No
fishing but lots of mushrooms. |
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The Pond |
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Located across from the
school, the pond saw many a game of hockey in winter and many a homemade raft in the
spring.
More...
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Roads |
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In East Greenfield there
were no roads -- only deep wagon ruts. The first gravel road was Wesley Blvd., circa 1930.
In winter, a
large steel roller was drawn by horses over the roads to compact the snow. |
Events
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Floods
and lots of blizzards |
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Every spring would bring
bad floods. For three weeks the Richelieu River would overflow, and East Greenfield would
be covered with two feet of water. Springfield would have three feet.
Memories of the old wood sidewalks still persist. To get to
work, men made rafts and poled them to the station.
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British
Airship arrives |
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The
dirigible R-100 passed over East
Greenfield and docked at St. Hubert airport on August 1, 1930. |
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Forest
fire |
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In 1953, a
raging fire burned most of the woods. All the men turned out with buckets, but there was
not enough water to be effective. The fire just burned itself out. This prompted the
construction of Ina (later renamed Maricourt) Blvd. as a firebreak. |
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Methodist
Church arrives |
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This
pre-fabricated building was brought from N.D.G. on a Southern Counties flat car and was
pulled up Wesley Blvd. by a team of horses (c.1925-26) |
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