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Thomas Cooper (pilot)
Captain Thomas Cooper (January 15, 1833April 5, 1906) was a 19th-century Boston maritime pilot. He was a well-known Boston pilot that took more battleships on their trial trips than any pilot on the coast. He was a leader among the branch pilots of Boston for 50 years. He had ownership in the Boston pilot boats Friend (pilot boat), ''Friend,'' Varuna (pilot boat), ''Varuna,'' and Columbia (pilot boat) , ''Columbia''. Early life Cooper was born on January 15, 1833, in Stanstead, Quebec , Stanstead, Quebec. His parents were John Cooper and Agnes Miller. He married Catharine McGowan on May 29, 1855, in Boston, Massachusetts. They had two children, Charles Thomas Cooper and Agnus Isabelle Cooper. His daughter, Agnes Isabelle Cooper, would later marry William Robinson Lampee's son Charles Walter Lampee. Charles W. Lampee and Agnes I. Cooper had two boys, Charles Irving Lampee and Thomas Cooper Lampee. Charles I. Lampee wrote about his boyhood experiences on pilot boats sixty years l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanstead, Quebec
Stanstead is a town in the Memphrémagog Regional County Municipality in the Estrie region of Quebec, located on the Canada–United States border across from Derby Line, Vermont. The Town of Stanstead was created in 1995 by the merger of the former villages of Stanstead Plain and Beebe (formerly Beebe Plain) and the Town of Rock Island. It is not to be confused with the township of Stanstead, which is nearby although not directly adjacent (the municipality of Ogden lies in between). Not only is Stanstead home to the Haskell Free Library and Opera House—the only heritage building deliberately constructed straddling the border between both countries—it also features Canusa Street, one of a number of streets in the world where the country border corresponds to the middle line marker, effectively making across-the-street neighbors residents of two countries. History Prior to merging, Stanstead Plain, Rock Island and Beebe were known informally as "les trois villages" or "t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
