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Wark, Barbara (1930-)
Person · 1930-

Barbara Wark, daughter of James Wark (1897-1969) and Florence Bryant (1901-1993), was born in Sherbrooke in 1930. Barbara continued to pursue her passion for the arts following her graduation from Bishop’s University in 1950. She briefly attended the Sherbrooke school of ballet before, in 1952, applying to and being accepted by the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. Her artistic pursuits in New York City led her to remain involved in local theatre spheres upon her graduation and was part of plays presented at The Piggery Theatre and at St. Peter’s Anglican Young People’s Association. By the late 1950s Barbara had shifted her focus from her artistic pursuits towards her career. Barbara worked as a reporter with the Sherbrooke Daily Record and the Toronto Telegram. In 1963, she graduated from the School of Nursing of the Montreal General Hospital. Barbara was later married in 1970 to Martin Larry Drexel, this marriage would bring her to resettle in Camrose, Alberta, where she would stay until Drexel’s death in 1999. Following her husband’s death, Barbara returned to Sherbrooke where she lived with her sister Catherine. It was during this time that Barbara cemented her legacy as a community member, picking up where her mother had left off as the organist for the Church of the Advent. Moreover, Barbara played an active roll in community outreach programs through her involvement with the Mental Health Estrie, an organization dedicated to providing mental health services and support in English in the greater Sherbrooke area.

Ware, John
Person

Born in Brome Township, son of Lemuel Pratt Ware 1800-1855 and wife laura Fessenden 1804-1884. Mary Ware, sister of Lemuel Pratt Ware married Luke Knowlton and they both lived south of Knowlton on a cross road joining what is now Sugar Hill Road and Mt. Echo Roads. The mother of Lemuel Ware and his sister Mary was a Pratt which was another Brome family that settled in Brome Village. The Ware name is preserved in Brome history through the name of the Ware Schoolhouse shown on Walling's map of 1864, and, also by the present usage of the name Ware Hill located on the road to Brome from Knowlton. John Ware (Jack as he was called) bought the farm on this hill land, settled there, he had a pair of oxen, no bed slept on straw. Then he married Louisa Smith, who had been teaching school and had a litle saved and they got a cow. They built the present house and barns. He raised colts to built his large barn. His son Anson Lemuel Ware 1882-1959, and wife Grace E. Tilton 1884-1967 lived on the farm after.

These documents and papers show there is a relationship with an early Stone family that settled in Brome. This was through Mrs. John Ware (Mary Louisa Smith) daughter of Plutarch Stone, grandson of Ephraim Stone first settler in Brome.

Corporate body · [1861 or 1862]-1971

Warden United Church, located in the Township of Shefford, initially of Methodist denomination, was organized in 1861 or 1862. In 1925, when the United Church of Canada was founded, amalgamating the Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational Churches, the Warden Methodist Church decided to join the Union. The church was closed in 1968 and the church property was sold in 1971. Warden United Church was under the jurisdiction of the Quebec and Sherbrooke Presbytery of the Montreal and Ottawa Conference of the United Church of Canada. The Church was governed by the Board of Trustees, the Official Board, and the Congregation.

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.

Ward family (Thetford, Que.)
Family

Robert G. Ward (1837-1907), was born in Lower Ireland, Megantic County, the son of Rev. Robert G. Ward and Marianne Turriff. He married Annie M. Cairns (born 1861, daughter of Hamby Cairns and Susan Meagher, died 1936). Together they had nine children: Robert Grant "Bob" (1883-?), Hamby Ward (1884-?), Alexander Harry (1885-1964), John Albert (1888-1942), Charles Edgar (1890-1891), James Turriff (1892-?), Annie Maria (1893-1893), Peter Douglas (1895-1977?), and Albion Tudor (1898-1962). Robert G. Ward (II)'s pursuit of mining interests began in 1876 when the discovery of asbestos was made in one of his fields. Subsequently, he purchased the mining rights for the lot in Thetford Township and began the Ward family's mining intersests in the area.

Albion T. Ward, miner by profession, was married first to Nita Hammerick/Hammerich in 1925 (divorced 1944), and second to Doris Christine Peterson (1913-1986). Robert Grant Ward (III) went west to mine gold as a young man. By 1903, he had turned to amateur boxing in San Francisco. His ability in the ring led him to take the title of amateur heavyweight champion of America and, later on, pro heavyweight champion of the British Commonwealth. Later on he returned to Quebec to pursue mining. Alexander Henry (a.k.a. Harry) Ward married Agnes Gertrude Moore (b. 1899), daughter of William Moore and Sarah Elizabeth Robinson. Together they had seven children: Dorothy (a.k.a. Dolly, b. 1917), Kathleen (b. 1919), Evelyn (b. 1919), Agnes (1921-1921), Robert (1923-1923), Marjorie (b. 1924), and Lois (b. 1928). Lois T. Ward married Wilfred Alan Greatrex in 1950 in Ontario.

Walker, Rev. Blake
W001 · Person · fl. 1978-1990

Reverend Blake Walker has been minister at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church since 1978.

Walker, Beulah Lilian Marlin
Person · d.2004

Beulah Lilian Marlin Walker graduated from Bishop's University in 1938 with a High School Diploma' and her sister Millicent Marlin graduated in the same year. In 1942 Beulah Marlin married Frederick Walker. She was a teacher at Granby High School, 1939-1941; Assistant Principal at the Brownsburg Intermediate School, 1941-1942; and later office clerk Superheater Company, Sherbrooke. Beulah Walker died on June 24, 2004 in Sherbrooke, Quebec.

Waldron, Mildred, 1924-2008
Person · 1924-2008

Mildred Ettra Waldron was born on 28 January 1924 in East Clifton. She was the daughter of Luman Augusta Waldron and Flora A. Cairns. She never married. She was a Townships author and researcher. She published family and local histories of the Compton County area and, in particular, the East Clifton area, such as the Descendants of T. Waldron and M. Morse, The Hills of Clifton, Sheepskin Joe and Descendants of Hugh E. Cairns and Sarah A Waldron.

Mildred passed away 21 May 2008 at the age of 84 and is buried at the East Clifton Cemetery.

Voyer, Monique (1928- 2021)
BUArtColl · Person · 1928-2021

Monique Voyer was born in 1928 in Magog, Eastern Townships. Before going to École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Voyer went to the Montréal School of Fine Arts, having as teachers Stanley Cosgrove (1911-2002), Alfred Pellan (1906-1988), and Irène Sénécal (1901-1978). She began teaching at the Cégep du Vieux-Montréal in 1972, before returning permanently Magog in 1979. She is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. She passed away January, 2021 in Magog, Québec.

Monique Voyer est née en 1928 dans les Cantons de l’Est. Elle fait ses études à l’École des beaux-arts de Montréal et à l’École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris, en plus d’effectuer plusieurs stages de perfectionnement en estampes et techniques multiples. Elle fut professeure au collégial de 1972 à 1993. Elle est membre de l’Académie royale des arts du Canada. Elle est décédée en janvier 2021 à Magog, Québec.

Von Tiedemann, Joy
BUArtColl · Person · 20-21 cent.

"After apprenticing with one of her native Germany’s leading photographers, Joy von Tiedemann immigrated to Canada at the age of twenty, quickly establishing herself as one of the country’s most accomplished freelance photographers with a practice that spans fashion, portraiture, architecture, interior design and, most recently, construction where she brilliantly captures the raw energy and timeless beauty of the “art of building.” Through her lens she masterfully records the process of transforming steel, concrete and rebar into architectural icons for the ages, and nowhere is that more in evidence than in her most recent project: Documenting the creation of Toronto’s The One, soon-to-be Canada’s tallest building. Perhaps the reason why her images so viscerally connect with viewers is because they boldly express her own indelible personality: energetic, endlessly inquisitive and with the empathy necessary to plumb a subject’s essence with absolute honesty and aesthetic acuity."

Vogt, Adolphe (1842-1871)
BUArtColl · Person · 1842-1871

Adolphe Vogt (1842-1871)
Canadian artist, born in Germany.

Virgin, Arthur, b. 1877

Arthur Virgin was born in 1877. For many years, he was Manager of the Bank of Commerce in North Hatley. During World War I, Virgin took a particular interest in the work of the Canadian Red Cross Society in Europe. In 1965, he donated 4 acres of land to the Townships Playhouse Guild. Virgin accumulated a fortune worth many millions of dollars bequeathed by his wife, Jeannette Blake (died 1981) to four local institutions: the Sherbrooke Hospital, the Townships Playhouse Guild, the North Hatley Library, and St. Barnabas Anglican Church.

Vincent, Ovide
Person · 1896-1917

Ovide Vincent was born, probably in the Coaticook area, on 11 May 1896 to Jean-Baptiste Vincent and Della Malouin. With the outbreak of World War I, Vincent enrolled with the 117th Eastern Townships Battalion in March 1916. Following deployment to England, the members of the 117th Battalion was reallocated to other battalions and Vincent served with the 22nd Battalion. He was killed in action during the Battle of Vimy Ridge on 1 April 1917.

Verity, Barbara
Person

Barbara Verity, born in Montreal to Norman Verity (d. 1984) and Christena Bennett (d. 1991), has been deeply involved in the world of photo-journalism throughout her enduring career. Not only has Barbara's work appeared in multiple English newspapers, her dedication to this field extends beyond writing and photography, as shown by her editorial roles at the Sherbrooke Record from 1974 to 1977 and her subsequent editorship at the Townships Sun starting in 1988.

Barbara and her first husband, Kenneth Stevenson (d. 2018), had two sons, Scott, a well-known Townships writer, farmer and translator, who lives in Island Brook, and Gregory, who participated in the 1992 and 1996 Olympics as a rower and lives on Vancouver Island.

Graduating with a Master of Arts from Concordia’s Department of Communication Studies in 1989, Barbara has been author and co-author of several notable books. These include titles such as "A Community with Deep Roots Tenth Anniversary Commemorative Volume of Townshippers' Association" (1989), "35 Places to Cross-Country Ski in the Eastern Townships" (1996), "On the Move: An Outdoor Guide to the Eastern Townships" (1999), and "Even the Owl is Not Heard: David Thompson’s 1834 Journals in the Eastern Townships of Quebec" (2011).

Barbara is now living in Pointe Claire on Montreal Island near where she grew up in Lachine. She regularly visits the Eastern Townships where she is a long-standing member and former assistant director of Townshippers’ Association.

Vaudry (family)

The Vaudry family came to the Eastern Townships in the mid-19th century when Hypolite Vaudry (1834-1905) moved to Shefford and later to Waterloo. Hypolite and his wife Martha Olive Craig (1841-1923) had four children; Mary, Alphonse, Frederick and Hermon. Dr. Mary Olive Vaudry (1870-1951) a graduate of McGill and Bishop's University, moved to Lennoxville in 1905 and persued a career in teaching at the Lennoxville Academy, Knowlton Academy, in Waterloo, Windsor and Sawyerville. Hermon Lloyd Merle Vaudry (1884-1948) came to Lennoxville in 1916 where he built greenhouses in order to sell fruits and vegetables at the Sherbrooke public market. In 1925, Hermon married Olive Craig Warren, descendant of settler John Savage (1740-1826). The couple had two children; Julia Helen Vaudry (1926-2015) and Frederick John Hermon Vaudry (1928-1991). Frederick took over his father's commerce and turned it into a flowershop in 1955. The Vaudry and Lloyd streets in Lennoxville were named after Mary and her father in 1991.