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Archevêché de Sherbrooke
CAMAR · Corporate body · 1874-

L’abbé Jean Raimbault, curé de Nicolet et premier missionnaire, célébra la première messe sur le territoire de l’archidiocèse à Sherbrooke, au Belvédère, le 1er mai 1816. Saint Colomban fut choisi comme titulaire de la mission. On y érigea une chapelle en 1826 et un cimetière en 1827.

Le 11 septembre 1836, Mgr Joseph Signay, archevêque de Québec, faisait à Sherbrooke l'honneur d'une première visite pastorale. Depuis deux ans déjà, l’abbé Jean-Baptiste McMahon y résidait. Des missionnaires s'installèrent aussi à Bonsecours et à Stanstead. Ce n'est qu'en 1841 que Sherbrooke put accueillir son curé dans un presbytère. La première église fut bénite le 14 janvier 1855. Mgr Jean-Charles Prince décida alors que saint Michel archange en serait le nouveau titulaire. La mission devint une paroisse le 7 mars 1872.

Lors de son érection, en 1874, le diocèse de Sherbrooke empruntait quatre cantons à l’archidiocèse de Québec, dix-huit au diocèse de Saint-Hyacinthe et vingt-cinq au diocèse de Trois-Rivières. Le diocèse de Sherbrooke était alors suffragant de Québec. Il comptait 30 000 catholiques, 32 paroisses ou dessertes et 29 prêtres.

Le diocèse a reçu de son très pieux et actif premier pasteur, Mgr Antoine Racine, une impulsion et une orientation qui se sont graduellement affermies et développées par la suite, sous la protection de saint Michel archange. Le 2 janvier 1875, il fonda un séminaire diocésain. Le diocèse devint suffragant de Montréal en 1886.

Thomas, Daniel Sr.
Person · d. 1855 or 1856

Daniel Thomas left Woodstock, Vermont to settle in Melbourne Township at the beginning of the 19th century. On 24 August 1835, he married Elizabeth Ann Armstrong, who came from Belfast, Ireland. They had five children: Daniel (1835), Samuel Simpson Wood (1837), Henrietta Maria (1839), Laura Ann (1843), and Charles Metcalfe (1847). Daniel Thomas had a notarial practice in Melbourne for many years and was held in high regard in the community, in particular in the field of education. He died in 1855 or 1856.

Mansonville United Church
Corporate body · 1873-2010

Mansonville United Church, initially of Methodist denomination, was organized in 1873. The Church was closed in 2010 and the building was sold.

Person · 1928-1971

Alice Lill Baldwin was born 7 January 1928 in Baldwin's Mills and was the youngest daughter of Harold F. Baldwin and Ruth S. May. In adolescence, she attended Stanstead College, in Stanstead, Quebec.

The 15 May 1948, Alice married I. Ross Corey and together they had the following children: Christopher, Kathleen, and Neil. She and two of her sons died in a tragic car accident the 9 Nov 1971 in Esterhazy, Saskatchewan. Alice is buried at the Lakeview Cemetery in Baldwin's Mills.

Derick, Morris Colton
Person · 1855-1926

Morris Colton (a.k.a. Mott) Derick was born on 10 October 1855 in Noyan, Quebec to Philo Derick and Phoebe Adelia Flagg. He married first Elizabeth Mary (a.k.a. Lizzie) Beerwort (1863-1891) and together they had four children: Edith (1885-1889), Mabel Evelyn (1886-1923), Ray Leon (1889- ), and Harvey Myron (1891-1964). Morris married second Flora A. Hunter (1866-1949) on 5 June 1895. Morris purchased his father’s farm in Noyan and in addition to farming, he was mayor of St. Thomas from 1901-1904 and in 1908, the warden for Missisquoi County in 1903, and served as supervisor of roads for a number of years. Morris died on 26 February 1926 and is buried at the St. Thomas Cemetery in Noyan.

Person · 1852-1907

Melvin Church Derick was born on 8 December 1852 in Brockton, Massachusetts to Philo Derick and Phoebe Adelia Flagg. He never married and worked in the shoe industry in Boston and Brockton, Massachusetts. Melvin died on 21 August 1907 in Brockton, Massachusetts and was buried at the St. Thomas Cemetery in Noyan.

Corporate body · 1835-

Plymouth United Church in Sherbrooke was established by Congregationalists from Sherbrooke and Lennoxville in 1835. When formed, it was called the Plymouth Congregational Church. In 1925, Plymouth Congregational Church entered into the Dominion-wide union of the Congregational, Presbyterian, and Methodist Churches to form the United Church. Plymouth Congregational Church then became known as Plymouth United Church. In 1971, Plymouth United Church amalgamated with Trinity United Church, forming Plymouth-Trinity United Church. Prior to the formation of Plymouth Congregational Church in 1835, the pastoral oversight of the region had been carried out by Reverend Ammi J. Parker, pastor of the Congregational Church in Danville. In the early years, the Church was governed in keeping with Congregationalist doctrine. The congregation maintained administrative control over the building and property and was responsible for choosing the Pastor. Congregational meetings were held weekly, after the service. As the congregation grew, members formed church boards (Board of Trustees, Official Board, Joint Board, Session, Board of Stewards and Congregation) and committees to oversee church affairs. The Church also had societies and organizations for women (Ladies' Guild Women's Association, Women's Missionary Society, United Church Women), for children (Sunday School), and for adults and couples (Choir, Double or Nothing Club). Plymouth United Church was part of the Quebec and Sherbrooke Presbytery of the Montreal and Ottawa Conference of the United Church of Canada.

Person · 1926-2020

Eunice Ruth Baldwin was born 13 March 1926 in Baldwin's Mills to Harold F. Baldwin and Ruth S. May. During her adolescence, Eunice attended the Feller Institute, a co-educational boarding school in Grand Ligne, Quebec. Later, she went on to pursue post-secondary studies in Montreal. She died on May 19, 2020.

BUArtColl · Person · 1881-1942

Clarence Gagnon was born in 1881 in rural Québec. He is known for his Québec landscapes; in particular, the Charlevoix region and the Laurentians. He began his study of painting in 1897 under William Brymner (1855-1925) at the Art Association of Montréal (now Montréal Museum of Fine Arts). He studied in Paris at the Académie Julian under French painter Jean Paul Laurens (1838-1921). While in Paris he met other Canadian painters such as James Wilson Morrice (1865-1924) where he picked up Morrice's technique of "painting quickly on the spot". He died in Baie St. Paul, Québec, in 1942.

BUArtColl · Person · 1906-1987

Frederick B. Taylor was born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1906. He studied architecture at McGill University and in 1927 he won McGill's Anglin Norcross Prize for drawing. After graduating in 1930, he exhibited and worked in Britain and Canada, settling in Montréal in 1937. He taught drawing at McGill School of Architecture and painted portraits to make a living, however, his paintings often had the subject matter of the hard work and people in Canadian factories. He died in Mexico 1987.

Ward, John-Peter, 1944-2022
Person · 1944-2022

John-Peter Ward was born on October 27, 1944 in Sherbrooke. The second living child of a family of seven, his life was marked by his wish to excel in the fields that interested him. Audio, cycling, cross-country skiing, construction tools and photography were his passions at different times in his life. Having taken a course in technical drawing, then a bachelor's degree in philosophy at the University of Sherbrooke, he devoted a good part of his life to supporting his father, Albert Ward, suffering from lung cancer (1915-1987), then his mother, Marcelle Salois, suffering from Alzheimer's disease (1919-2013). Single and reserved, he lived with his parents all his life before acquiring the family home after his mother's death in 2013.

Between 1958 and 1968, the family lived in a house in the country on Route 143 between Bromptonville and Windsor. In 1968, the family moved to Greenlay, to a house built in the 19th century. People knew John-Peter by his long walks. This was an opportunity for him to photograph various events, including the demolition of the Domtar Mill in Windsor, floods in Greenlay and fires. Photography for him was a technical tool of precision before being an art. He was especially interested in the quality of the image in different contexts.

John-Peter Ward died in 2022.

Drew, Irene
Person · b. 1908

Irene May was born 21 September 1908, the daughter of John V. May and Edith Ward. She married Gordon Drew. In 1948, the moved onto Irene's father's farm in Coaticook. They had six children: Bertha Lyonnais (nee Drew), Merriman Drew, Richard Drew, Olive Ackerman (nee Drew), Ruth Austin (nee Drew), and Leon Drew. After Gordon retired in 1973, the couple lived with Ella (Irene's sister) in Coaticook and later moved to Stanstead. She died on May 7, 2000 in Smiths Falls, Ontario.

Person · 1931-1993

Harold Richard Baldwin, known more commonly as Dick, was born 30 September 1931, the second youngest son of Harold F. Baldwin and Ruth S. May. He studied Stanstead College, a private boarding school located in Stanstead, Quebec, and pursued post-secondary studies at Mount Allison Academy in Sackville, New Brunswick. He married Cecile Lefevre and had one daughter, Tanya. Dick died in 1993 and is buried at the Lakeview Cemetery in Baldwin's Mills.

Person · 1933-

Lester Stevens Baldwin was born 9 October 1933, the youngest son of Harold F. Baldwin and Ruth S. May. He attended Stanstead College, a private boarding school in Stanstead, Quebec. He married Jacqueline Péloquin and has four children: Judy, Cynthia, Linda and Lisa.

Person · 1853-1916

Born 14 May 1853 in Barnston, Eugene Arthur Baldwin was the son of John Percival Baldwin and Mary Jeanette Baker. He marred Lennie Adele Wilcox 25 December 1872. They had three children together: Percival Arthur, Pardon Wilcox and Blanche Janette.

Eugene died 30 November 1916 in Stanstead County.

Baldwin, Eva Rose, 1953-
Person · 1953-

Eva Rose Baldwin is the oldest child of Elvyn Baldwin and Jane Ross. She was born on February 19, 1953 at the Sherbrooke Hospital. She is a graduate of Bishop's University. Eva married Bill Morton and they have three children: Rose, Jane-Anne and Ian.

Baldwin, Louise Lill, 1956-
Person · 1956

Louise Lill Baldwin is the youngest daughter of Elvyn Baldwin and Jane Ross. She was born December 8, 1956 at the Sherbrooke Hospital. She traveled extensively during her early adulthood. Louise married Brant LeBaron.

Baldwin, Mead Ross, 1955-
Person · 1955-

Mead Ross Baldwin is the oldest son and the third of five children of Elvyn Baldwin and Jane Ross. He was born on January 6, 1955 at the Sherbrooke Hospital. He married Joyce Hamilton. He is a minister in the United Church of Canada.

Racicot, Peter, 1944-
Person · 1944-

Roland Peter Racicot, also known as Peter Racicot, was born in 1944 to Roland W. Racicot (1919-1984) and Ruby May Racicot (nee Baldwin) (1922-2014). He grew up in Coaticook. He has a sister named Sharon who is three years younger than him (1947-). Peter is related to the Baldwin Family of Baldwin's Mills through his mother. In 1961 he visited his grandparents Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Baldwin there. As a child, he was a member of the First Coaticook Boy Scouts starting in 1956 along with his father Roland who acted as a chairman. He attended Coaticook High School in at least 1956 for his sixth-grade year and won a school board prize and honours certificate. He later attended Stanstead College from 1960 until at least 1961. In 1972 he lived in Groton, Connecticut, and in the winter of 1972, he spent some time in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. In 1972 he also visited family (Mr. and Mrs. Elvyn Baldwin) in Baldwin’s Mills. He eventually was married to Linda Mills and as of 2014 the two lived in La Canada, California.

Racicot, Sharron Anne, 1947-
Person · 1947-

Sharron Anne Racicot was born 3 February 1947 in Oshawa, Ontario, and is the second eldest child of Roland Racicot and Ruby May Baldwin. In adolescence, Sharron attended Coaticook High from at least grade 2 in 1955 to grade 7 in 1960. The Racicot family moved to Pomona, California, in July 1960. In Pomona, Sharron attended Ganesha High School and, in 1964, achieved the status of a Coronet, one of 81 students picked for the Grad Honor Guard. In 1979, Sharron married Donald C. Watt in Ventura, California.

Person · 1887-1916

Blanche Jeanett/Janette Baldwin was born 9 December 1887 in Stanstead, Quebec to parents Eugene and Lennie (Adelle) Wilcox Baldwin. She was one of three children. Her two brothers were Percival Arthur Baldwin (1874-1946) and Pardon Wilcox Baldwin (1877-1955). She was raised in Stanstead, Quebec and lived there with her family until her marriage 5 October 1910. She was married to Lyman Kinney Heath and they had two children together, Oscar Wilcox Heath (1913-1967) and Rosetta Jean Heath (12 August 1916- 24 October 2010 ). After their marriage they moved to Orleans, Vermont. They lived on a farm where they bought and sold beef cattle. Blanche's life was filled with family time and she often spent her free time with her family, such as her parents and brothers. Blanche died 6 December 1916 in Orleans, Vermont at the age of 28 and her husband (Lyman) passed away a few days later 11 December 1916.

Person · 1923-2015

Evelyn Majora Rowe was born on November 9th, 1923 in Lennoxville, Que. and was Baptised April 27th, 1924, the eldest of the two children of Caroline Willard and Frederick William Rowe. After moving to Coaticook, Que. at the age of around eight to nine years old, she attended Coaticook Highschool and graduated in 1942. On December 29th 1945, she married Willis Keith Baldwin with whom she would have four children: Bill (1947-), David (1951-), Nancy (1954-), and Dale (1958-). Soon after getting married, they moved to Montreal, Que. while Keith studied to become a metallurgical engineer. They moved to Sherbrooke, Que. in the latter half of 1951 and finally settled down in Lennoxville around 1953-1954. Evelyn died on October 28th, 2015 at the Wales Home in Cleveland, Que.

Person · November 9, 1924 - September 8, 2000

Erline Jane Ross, known as Jane, was born 9 November 1924 in Kinnear's Mills to Leonard Ross and Eva May Allan. She had three sisters, Glenna Ross, Ida Hugh Ross and Ruby Donaghy and two brothers, William (Bill) Allan Ross and Charles Ross. As a young woman, Jane taught at the school house in Baldwin's Mills and boarded at the house of Harold F. Baldwin. On 8 September 1951 in Kinnear's Mills, she married Elvyn Baldwin and they had five children together: Eva, Mead, Louise, Allen and Paul. Jane died 15 November 2000 at 76 years old and is buried at the Lakeview Cemetery in Baldwin's Mills.

Person · 1933-

Lester Stevens Baldwin was born in Stanstead, Quebec on October 9th, 1933 to his mother, Ruth Stevens Baldwin May, and father, Harold Ferrin Baldwin. He was the youngest of seven children, his siblings being Harold Richard, Alice Lills, Eunice Ruth, Elvyn Mead, Willis Keith, and Ruby May. He graduated junior matriculation from Stanstead Wesleyan College in 1950, having taken part in junior track and field, senior football, basketball, and the corporal cadet corps. He married Jaquelin Peloquin (1938-2021), and together they had four children: Lisa, Linda, Cynthia, and Judy. The six of them lived in Pointe-Claire, Quebec for an unspecified time. His wife, Jaquelin died in Sherbrooke in 2021.

Person · 1908-1964

Jessie Adelle Baldwin, also known as Adelle Baldwin, was born the 28th of April 1908 in Stanstead, Que. to Percival Arthur Baldwin (1874-1946) and Florence Lucy Ives Baldwin (1876-1966). She had one older brother, Sidney Ives Baldwin (1899-1972) who died in Ayer’s Cliff, Que. Adelle grew up in Judd’s Mills, Stanstead County, Que. where she received her high school leaving from Stanstead College, in 1924. She continued her education at Bishop’s University where she studied Philosophy. During her time at Bishop’s University (1924-1928), she was on the Ladies Basketball team as defense in 1926 and a member of the Glee Club, a member of the Maths and Science Club in 1927-28, and Secretary Treasurer for the Class of ’28. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1928. After graduating, she moved to New Haven, Connecticut, where she studied at Yale School of Nursing. She graduated from Yale School in 1931 as a Registered Nurse. During her time in New Haven, she met her future husband, Ulric Alcimus Lanoue (1903-2002), who was studying at Yale Divinity School for a Missionary career. They later married at the American Church in Paris, France on the 19th of December 1931 and Jessie Adelle Baldwin then became known as Mrs. Ulric Lanoue.
The couple left shortly after for Kimpese, Belgian Congo, where they remained and worked as missionaries for four years, with one year of furlough in 1937 in New York, followed by 5 more years of continued work in Kimpese, as missionaries, for the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. They had 3 children during this time; Robert Lanoue Baldwin (1933-1967), Beverly Jean Baldwin (1939-?), and Richard E. Baldwin (1940-?). Upon their leave from the Belgian Congo in 1943, they moved to the United States of America. Adelle became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1949. During her professional career, she worked 8 months with the Victorian Order of Nurses in Montreal, followed by 18 months with the Lutheran Hospital in Hot Springs, South Dakota, then 11 years as a staff nurse for the Veterans Administrations’ Hospitals in Hot Springs, Tomah, Wisconsin, and Madison, SD. Adelle also served as the executive secretary of the Orleans County Chapter of the American Red Cross, in Newport, Vermont, for two years. In 1951, Ulric A. Lanoue formally changed his name to Russell E. Baldwin. This surname change was adopted by his wife and children too. During the years from 1955-1958, Adelle lived in Tomah, WI and then from 1958-1964 in Madison, WI.
On December 3rd, 1964, Adelle Baldwin, that is Mrs. Russell Baldwin, was tragically found deceased in Rockford, Illinois at the Inn Towne Motel. Her funeral was held at Lake Edge Congregational Church in Rockford, Illinois, and she was then buried in Monona, Wisconsin.

Baldwin, Percy A., 1874-1946
Person · 1874-1946

Percival Arthur Baldwin was born on the Baldwin farm in Judd’s Mills, Stanstead, Quebec in 1874 to parents Eugene Arthur Baldwin (1853–1916) and Lenna Adelle Wilcox (1855–1945) who lived in the area for many years as some of the earliest pioneers in that region. He married Florence L. Ives (1876–1966) on November 28, 1894 in Stanstead and had two children; a son, Sidney Ives Baldwin (1899–1972) and daughter, Jessie Adele Baldwin (1908–1964).
He lived for six years in Barnston, Quebec during his early married life. After that time, however, he lived the rest of his life in Baldwin Mills where he opened a grist mill until it was destroyed by flooding in 1927 where the mill was later sold. He was a member of the Centenary United Church in Stanstead. He passed away at his home in East Stanstead, on July 13, 1946 at the age of 72 after having declining health for many months.

Person · 1855-1945

Lennie Adelle Wilcox Baldwin (née Wilcox) was born September 12th, 1855 in Barnston, Stanstead, Quebec to Pardon Bennett Wilcox and Judith Wilcox (née Allen). She was a Methodist Protestant. She was literate, being able to both read and write. She married Eugene Arthur Baldwin (1853-1916), a future Stanstead town council member, on December 25th, 1872. The couple would go on to have three children, Percival Arthur Baldwin (1874-1946), Pardon Wilcox Baldwin (1877-1955) and Blanche Jeanett Baldwin (1887-1916). Her husband purchased Judd's Mills, located in Stanstead, in 1875 and set up a flour and feed business on the property. Lennie lived on the property for the rest of her life. In late 1916, she became gravely ill from eating diseased bear meat. While she eventually overcame the illness, the poisonous meat killed her husband, as well as her daughter Blanche Jeanett and her son-in-law, Lyman Kinney Heath (1888-1916), within a span of two weeks. Her son Percival Arthur would go on to take over Judd’s Mills following her husband's death. In her later life, she maintained a correspondence with her husband's brother's wife, Lill Mead Ferrin, until the latter's death in 1935. Lennie died at Judd's Mills on May 17th, 1945 at the age of 89. She is buried in Crystal Lake Cemetery, located in Stanstead.