Who We Are
The Eastern Townships Resource Centre (ETRC) is a resource centre for the study of the Eastern Townships with a special focus on the English-speaking community. The ETRC was originally founded in 1982 by faculty members at Bishop’s University to further multidisciplinary research on the Eastern Townships through funding regional and community-based research projects, disseminating scholarly work in its own journal-Journal of the Eastern Townships Studies/Revue d’études des Cantons-de-l’Est (JETS/RECE), holding conferences and speaker forums, preserving archival collections and organizing exhibitions. Its original name Eastern Townships Research Centre reflected this academic oriented focus.
GET YOUR CALENDAR NOW!
Last copies of ETRC’s 16-Month Calendar including archival images now available for free.
We still have a few copies of our 16-month calendar, featuring annotated photographs drawn from the ETRC's Archives. Each month boasts an image from a different Eastern Townships locality from a bygone era.
The remaining copies will be available for free in the Old Library at Bishop’s University, as well as in ETRC office. Some copies are also available at our traditional partners like Townshippers’ Association, Lennoxville Library, Lennoxville-Ascot Historical Society and in your favourite coffee shops around Sherbrooke.
We wish to thank everybody whose contribution to the calendar helped us raising money to carry out our regional mission.
Tourism began on Lake Memphremagog in the 1850s.
To learn more: Jewett, E.L., Notes on Nineteenth Century Tourism on Lake Memphremagog, 1850-1899, in JETS 31, pp. 25-44.
Jack Little
Professor of History at Simon Fraser University and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
“During my many years as a historian of the Eastern Townships, I’ve always looked forward to my annual spring visits to the archives of the ETRC, and to the excitement of examining recently acquired materials expertly catalogued by the invariably friendly and professional archivists. By collecting family, business, church and other association-related materials, the ETRC has helped to fill a very large gap in the region’s neglected English-speaking history, in particular. Furthermore, I’ve greatly appreciated the opportunity to publish a number of my articles in JETS, an excellent outlet for research on the region. And finally, I’ve been much encouraged over the years by the opportunities to meet an interested public at the regular book launches and public lectures that the ETRC has organized on my behalf.”