The C.S. Brooks company in Magog.
A E.T. Research Website that just came online had some nice era pictures of the Dominion Textile plant in Magog Quebec, so I decided to 'take a trip' on Google and find it... It wasn't hard. I just went along rue Principale til I got to the easterly area of town and there it was.
I could tell immediately by the architecture.
A company called C.S. Brooks is in the building now and according to the Internet it is Dominion Textile by another name. Still does the bleaching, screen printing and dying.
I wonder if, like in 1911, everyone there works 60 hours. The Canadian Census shows that. I guess that was the legal limit, so the employees were told to say that to the Census man.
Even the 'odd jobbers' worked 60 hours.
I found some girls of 12 working there in the 1911 Census, too. Underage.
Well, in my book THRESHOLD GIRLabout Flora Nicholson, my husband's great aunt who attended Macdonald Teachers College in 1911/12
I created a fictional character, Miss Gouin, who is from Magog, who works as a milliner's assistant in Richmond and who goes to work at Dominion Textile in Montreal and takes part in a strike march where Flora meets up with her, again.
I visited Magog only a few times in my life. Just a few years ago I spent a day at a house on the Penfield compound and when I was 2 or 3 my parents vacationed there. It was the worst vacation ever, as we kids got sick and my parents liked to tell us the story of cleaning our bedsheets of vomit and such by trailing them behind the motor boat in Lake Memphremagog.
Magog is much larger than Richmond. It's a vacation town. Maybe we'll go there next year.
