Cowansville and Bruck Mills: A Golden Thread Cowansville and Bruck Mills: A Golden Thread Bruck Museum
Portrait of Leopold S. Lee (1899-1972), vice-president of Bruck Silk Mills Limited. Originally from the small town of Chyrow in Poland (now located in Ukraine), he emigrates to […]
Advertisement of Bruck Mills Australia Ltd. circa 1946. It makes a link between the Bruck factories in Wangaratta and Cowansville, both established in towns near major urban centres […]
Operator checking bobbins and repairing broken threads as needed, circa 1948.
Top: in August 1932, 10 years after the opening of Bruck Silk Mills, employees and managers are photographed in front of the plant. An important growth in the […]
The Bruck Museum, located at 225 rue Principale in Cowansville, is an art and heritage museum. Built in 1874 as a branch of the Eastern Townships Bank, this […]
This artefact, commemorating the first yard of silk produced by the Bruck Silk Mills in 1922, was carefully preserved by the Bruck family and is now on display […]
Left: example of four advertisements promoting Bruck fabrics for clothing and home décor. These ads are also placed in fashion magazines (including Châtelaine) and textile industry trade publications. […]
A landscape painter, Sarah Robertson began her art studies at the age of nineteen at the Art Association of Montreal with William Brymner, Maurice Cullen, and Randolph Hewton. Robertson was […]
View of the factory facilities near the railway line, circa 1955. The tall smokestack, reservoir and approaching train have been part of the town of Cowansville’s landscape for […]
A group of workers gathered in front of the entrance to the shipping department, circa 1923.
Recruitment ad for the Premier Silk Mills factory in Cowansville in 1923. The plant is described as the most progressive in the fastest growing town in the Eastern […]
The bronze sculpture representing the founder of Bruck Mills, Isaac I. Bruck, is exhibited in the entrance hall of the Bruck Museum.
