LeRoy Robinson
Notes de recherche
Impliqué dans le Stanstead Journal et le Journal Printing Co.
Stanstead Journal
- « Pioneer Life on the Frontier », Feb. 7, 1952
- The "Twin houses" residences of Mr. L. R. Robinson and Mrs. J. W. Baxter, were built in 1842 by "Baxter & French" then in trade in the "Old Yellow."
S.H.S. Collection
- STANSTEAD J – STEVENS. F3T2. Stanstead Journal, file 2 of 2. Brochure rédigée par Penny Farfan, « The Old Journal Building », Rock Island, Heritage Technologies, 1986, 16 p.
- Document sur l’histoire du Stanstead Journal, de ses dirigeants et des bâtisses qui l’ont abrité.
- Sur Leroy Robinson : "Robinson was born in Fairhaven, Vermont, on November 15, 1820, and served as an apprentice for some time in newspaper offices in Whitehall, New York and Rutland, Vermont. At the age of nineteen, he and another man called Southmayd joined forces to publish The Vermont Statesman at Castleton. When that endeavor finally folded du to lack of popular interest and, hence, lack of funds, Robinson came to Rock Island. [...] ...on November 6, 1845, he printed The Stanstead Journal's first edition in White's Building, Rock Island. (Today, the exact situation of White's Building on Main Street is unknown.) [...] Robinson operated out of White's Building for about a year and a half. Then, in June of 1847, The Journal moved to the second storey of Wood's Building, which stood where the Royal Bank is now located, and there it remained until 1855. In that year, the office moved to Blake's Building on the sit of the present Canadian Customs Office, Charles Pierce having sold the northern part of his property and it having been purchased eventually by LeRoy Robinson [mars 1861, voir acte notarié ci-dessous]. Blake's Building housed The Journal for almost sixty years. [...] In December of 1895, [...], the Journal Printing Company was formed and John Holland was back again, this time as LeRoy Robinson's partner. The association lasted until Robinson died on February 14, 1901. Shortly after that date, the widowed Mrs. Robinson sold her interests in the business to John Holland, who then became its full owner".
- ROA - ROC. F3T1. L. R. Robinson, file 10 of 12. Copie [?] de contrat, non signé : « Partnership Agreement », septembre 1896.
- Accord entre Leroy R. Robinson et John Calvin Holland concernant un partenariat pour « The Journal Printing Company ».
- « We Leroy Robinson and John Calvin Holland, both of the village of Rock Island […], Printers and Publishers, hereby certify that we have carried on and intend to carry on trade and business as Printers and Publishers at the said village of Rock Island, in copartnership under the name, style and firm of “The Journal Printing Company” […] ».
The Eastern Townships Business and Farmer’s Directory, 1892
p. 464
- Robinson L R, Editor and Publisher Stanstead Journal
Lovell’s Business and Professional Directory of the Province of Quebec, for 1890-91
p. 464
- Robinson L. R., publisher of The Stanstead Journal and job printer
Lovell’s Business and Professional Directory of the Cities and Towns of … and of all Towns and Banking Village in the Dominion of Canada, for 1896-97
p. 983
- Stanstead Journal, The, weekly, $1.00 per annum; L. R. Robinson, editor and publisher
The Eastern Townships Business and Farmer’s Directory for 1888-89
p. 147
- Robinson LR, ed. & prop. Stanstead Journal
The Eastern Townships Gazetteer & Directory for the Years 1875-76
p. 152
- ROBINSON L R, editor and proprietor Stanstead Journal
Putnam & Gray, Map of the District of St. Francis, Canada East, 1863
- ROCK ISLAND AND DERBY LINE DIRECTORY
- Robinson, L. R. Editor of the Stanstead Journal
Men of Today in the Eastern Townships, 1917
p. 36
- The Farmers' and Mechanics' Journal and St. Francis Gazette afterwards known as the Sherbrooke Gazette was founded by Joseph Walton in 1838 and the Stanstead Journal by LeRoy Robinson in 1845.
BANQ
- Greffes de notaires, District judiciaire de Saint-François, CN501, S23 Charles Anderson Richardson.
- Acte : # 4214
- Date : 18 janvier 1849
- Deed of Sale by Stephen Foster Junior, Esquire of the Township of Stanstead, to LeRoy Robinson, Printer and Publisher of the same place.
- Résumé : Vente d’une partie du lot no 1 du 9e rang du Canton de Stanstead : « …commencing at the South West Corner of the parcel of land owned by the said vendor and now occupied by Mrs Mary Buzzell, thence running West on the line of another parcel of land belonging to the said vendor and now occupied by Messieurs Stephen and Samuel Reed, the distance of five rods and six feet to the North West Corner of the said parcel of land so occupied by the said Stephen and Samuel Reed aforesaid, and thence North on a line parallel with the West line of the said parcel of land so occupied by the said Stephen and Samuel Reed, the distance of eight rods and a half to a Stake and Stone, and thence East five rods and two feet to the said land so occupied by the said Mary Buzzell and thence to the first mentioned boundary eight rods an a half, and meaning to convey all the land that is now fenced in, and now occupied by Lucius Fox[…] » . L’ensemble est vendu pour la somme de 156 pounds 5 shillings.
- Greffes de notaires, District judiciaire de Saint-François, CN501, S23 Charles Anderson Richardson.
- Acte : # 7361
- Date : 29 mars 1861
- Deed of Sale by Isaac Alpheus Blake, Farmer of the Town of Derby (Vt.), to LeRoy Robinson, Editor and Publisher of the Stanstead Journal of the Township of Stanstead.
- Achat du Blake's Building, auquel se réfèrence Penny Farfand [voir ci-dessus]
- Résumé : Vente d’une partie du lot no 1 du 9e rang du Canton de Stanstead : « …beginning at a point on the Easterly side of the highway at the distance of three feet and a half north of the building used by one Charles Pierce, the former proprietor of the piece of land hereby sold for a Shoe Maker’s Shop, and which land was formerly acquired by said Charles Pierce from Holmes and Morrill, and extending from said point Northerly on said highway about forty feet, or to the full extent or Northern boundary of the parcel of land acquired by the said Charles Pierce as aforesaid, thence Easterly at right Angles with the said highway to the centre of the River, thence down said River far enough to intersect a line to be drawn from the place of beginning, being distant and at parallel lines with the aforesaid buildings, three feet and a half exact measure and thence extending along said latter line to the place of beginning […] ». Le lot est vendu pour la somme de 900 dollars.
- Greffes de notaires, District judiciaire de Saint-François, CN501, S23 Charles Anderson Richardson.
- Acte : # 8212
- Date : 27 août 1863
- Deed of Sale by Asa Burton Nelson, Trader of the Township of Stanstead, to LeRoy Robinson, Editor and Publisher of the Stanstead Journal of the same place.
- Résumé : Vente d’une partie du lot no 1 du 9e rang du Canton de Stanstead : « …being that part of the West portion of a part of the said Lot which one Samuel L. French and John W. Baxter heretofore held in common between them, that lies on the North side of the Bye road, leading across the river between the Stores of Portus Baxter and Carlos F. Haskell, bounded and described as follows, commencing on the river at Low water mark, on the Easterly side thereof, about six feet Southerly of the Wyman Bridge “so called” and extending from thence Easterly on the road, the distance of eighty seven links, thence Southerly from the said road ninety links, thence Easterly on a straight line to a point opposite the centre of the length of the barn heretofore held in common between Baxter and French, thence Southerly on a straight line to the centre of the length of the said barn, thence still Southerly through the center of the length of said barn and along the centre of the driveway from the said Barn to the said Bye road, being the same driveway as heretofore held in common between the said Baxter and French, to the North side of the said Bye road, leading across the said River between the said Stores, thence westerly along the Northerly side of the said Bye road, to a line on the margin of the said River, said line being the line drawn by Joseph Kilborn late Land Surveyor, as appears by the plan of the Survey thereof date in the month of April 1808 and now in the possession of Portus Baxter Esquire of Derby, thence Northerly along said line to the place of beginning […]. Le lot est vendu pour la somme de 2 200 dollars. [Voir achat de Nelson, acte # 6960 (parcelle # 1)]
- Greffes de notaires, District judiciaire de Saint-François, CN501, S23 Charles Anderson Richardson.
- Acte : # 8213
- Date : 27 août 1863
- Deed of Sale by LeRoy Robinson, Editor and Publisher of the Stanstead Journal of the Township of Stanstead, to Asa Burton Nelson, Trader of the same place.
- Résumé : Vente d’une partie du lot no 1 du 9e rang du Canton de Stanstead : « …commencing at the South West Corner of the parcel of land owned by Stephen Foster, formerly occupied by Mary Buzzell now by Samuel Blodgett, thence extending West on the line of another parcel of land formerly belonging to the said S. Foster now to Burton Sanderson, the distance of five rods and six feet to the North West corner of the said parcel of land so now belonging to Burton Sanderson as aforesaid, thence North on a line parallel with the West line of the said Burton Sanderson said parcel of land, the distance of eight and a half rods to a Stake and Stone, and thence East the distance five rods and two feet to the said S. Foster’s said piece of land so now occupied by the said Samuel Blodgett as aforesaid, and thence to the first mentioned boundary, the distance of eight rods and a half rod […]. Le lot est vendu pour la somme de 700 dollars. [Voir achat de Robinson, acte # 4214]
