History of Roxton Falls, Québec, Canada

township, in the co. of Shefford, lies between Milton and Ely and is bounded in the rear by Acton and in front by Shefford. - The southern moiety has been surveyed and granted. The land is good and if cultivated would prove fertile. The low land is rather wet, but not unfit for tillage, as it produces some of the best species of hard, black wood. Branches of the Yamaska and several other streams water this town-ship, which contains only a very few settlers. - Ungranted and unlocated, 12,000 acres.

In the middle of the 19th century, in 1849, precisely, the missionary Jacques-Edmond LeBlond left this testimony on the region of Roxton Falls (on Route 139), on the foothills of the Appalachians, in a letter to the Bishop of Montreal: “Men, women and children run, bustle and work where the wild beasts alone had made their stay. The noise of the clearing ax, the cracking of the trees which succumb, the crackling of the fire which cleans the forest, have replaced the silence of the woods. A good road, made at great expense by the Company, renders access to these places easy and convenient. It is already dotted with small cleared spaces. At the end rises the new village or "future town" of Roxton Falls, which the company had named Metcalfe, but which the inhabitants, with the agreement of the latter, prefer to call by the glorious Canadian name of Iberville. The Black River, the principal of the two branches which, when united, form the Yamaska River, runs in the middle and furnishes...

"Roxton Falls - A good sized village situated on the east bank of Black River, in Roxton Township, Shefford County. It is six miles from Acton ; eleven miles from Roxton Pond ; and fifteen miles from Waterloo. There is a fine water power here, and a great deal of lumber is annually manufac tured by mills in the place and vicinity. There are also two large tanneries in the village, which do an extensive business. Daily mails and stages. There is only one church, Roman Catholic, the Protestant community using the school house- for its place of worship. Population 300. Inhabitants principally French Canadians."