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Books, Maps & Other Resources  Quebec, Canada  Genealogy & History More Canadian Resources | More Quebec Resources BOOK - History of Compton County (Quebec)- and Sketches of the Eastern Townships, District of St. Francis, and Sherbrooke County. Compiled by L.S. Channell. Originally published in 1896. From Global Heritage Press 
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 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. Hard Cover, 8.5" x 11", 1999, ISBN 1-894378-13-X.
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