Item consists of a 15-page photocopy of "The Farm Journal of P.H. Gosse from the Season of 1837."
The collection contains source material on various topics related to the Eastern Townships in the ninetieth and twentieth centuries such as settlement, colonization, politic, military, economy, transport, communication, health and welfare, education, religion and culture. It consists mainly of schedules, obituaries, by-laws, insurance policies, certificates, photographs, maps, drawings, posters, cards, petitions, genealogies, diaries, scrapbooks, newspapers, letters, songsheets, land grants, reports, ledgers, minutes of meetings, notebooks and programmes. The collection is comprised of the following series: Settlement and Colonization ([18--]-Photocopied 1994), Politics (1965-1974), Military (1802-1988), Economy (1830-1987), Transport and Communications (1826-1990), Health and Welfare (1931-1949), Education (1854-1998), Religion ([18-?]-Photocopied 1993), Culture ([18-?]-1990).
The item consists of a programme for "A Shamrock Evening", which included music and theatre production, performed at Mont-Notre-Dame in Sherbrooke on 13 April 1913.
The item consists of a programme for an evening of music and dancing held to benefit the 1st Lennoxville Volunteer Rifle Corps at the Albion Hotel in Lennoxville in 1863.
The subseries contains primary source information on telephone communications in Sherbrooke in 1944. It consists of one telephone directory issued by the Bell Telephone Company of Canada in June 1944 for Sherbrooke and vicinity. The subseries is comprised of the following files: Bell Telephone Company of Canada (1944).
The subseries contains source material on insurance companies the Eastern Townships from 1907 to 1924. It is comprised of the following files: Metropolitan Life Insurance (1924), and Mississiquoi and Rouville Mutual Fire Insurance (1907-1910).
The subseries contains primary source information pertaining to military activities that took place outside of active wartime. It consists of one digital reproduction of a poster advertising the Sherbrooke Hussars' Centennial Guard activities in Sherbrooke in 1967.
The subseries contains information on the school buildings and property in the Eastern Townships from 1951 to 1961. It consists of souvenir programmes from the official opening and dedication of several schools. The subseries is comprised of the following files: Souvenir Programmes (1951-1961).
The subseries contains primary source information on the volunteer militia units in the Eastern Townships from 1888 to 1895. It consists of a logbook used during the military camps held at different locations in the Townships, which includes lists of those responsible for specific duties during the camp as well as notes on activities.
The subseries contains source material on banking in the Eastern Townships from 1865 to 1987. It is comprised of the following files: Casco National Bank (1865), Sherbrooke Trust Company (1929-1987), and Eastern Townships Bank (1878-[1912?]).
The file contains source material on professors who had taught in the Eastern Townships from 1998. It contains the following file: Robin Burns (1998).
The subseries consists of a pamphlet produced by the Liberal Central Committee on how to operate polling booths in 1896 and a ribbon from the Liberal convention, held in Sherbrooke on 25 August 1911.
The subseries contains source material on various associations relating to educational institutions in the Eastern Townships from 1917 to 1965. It contains the following files: Lennoxville and Ascot Home and School Association {1955-1965), and Cookshire Sunday School Association (1917).
The subseries contains source material on business in the Eastern Townships from 1830 to around 1940. It is comprised of the following files: Joseph Edwin George General Store (1900-1913), Boynton Store (1830), Megantic General Store (1893-1897), J. Selby (1862-1864), John McCammon General Store (1890-[1938?]), Gleason's Shorthand and Business College (1913), Charmeuse Hosiery ([194-?]), Vilas Furniture Company ([196-?]-[198-?]), and James A. Barrie (1911).
The file contains primary source information on the Barrows family around Lake Memphremagog in 1909 and 1964. It consists of a copy of "Samuel June Barrows: A Circuit Rider in the Humanities" by Paul U. Kellogg and a copy of an article by Michael M. Davis titled "A History of Lake Memphremagog Region," originally published in the Sherbrooke Record on March 21, 1964, which discusses the Barrows family's summer properties on Lake Memphremagog.