The subseries contains source material on the land surveys and companies in the Eastern Townships from 1838 to 1983. It is comprised of the following files: Newport (1799 [photocopied 1983]), Glasgow Canadian Land and Trust Company Limited(photocopied [198-?]), Hampden (1838), and David Thompson's Journal (1834 [photocopied 2007], 2008).
The subseries contains source material on the mining in the Eastern Townships from 1861 to 1864. It contains the following file: Ascot Mining (1861-1864).
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 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 material on the accounting of schools from various areas in the Eastern Townships from 1830 to 1914. It contains the following files: Ascot (1856-1863), Hampden (1862-1914), and Dudswell (1859-1867).
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 file contains source material on professors who had taught in the Eastern Townships from 1998. It contains the following file: Robin Burns (1998).
The item consists of a secret military order requesting soldiers to report to Waterloo Station to travel by special train for embarkation, dated July 1918.
The item consists of a photograph of John and Alice Copping on the occasion their 50th anniversary, taken in Lennoxville in 1946.
The item consists of an annotated report, compiled by H. Hubbard, school inspector, on the Protestant schools of Sherbrooke in 1886.
The item is a photograph from a reunion of the 117th Battalion at the Chateau Frontenac in Sherbrooke, probably in the 1960s. Among those pictured in the photograph are James McCallum (front row, centre ) and Ed Kingsland (front row, far right).
The item is a photograph from a reunion of the 117th Battalion at the Chateau Frontenac in Sherbrooke on 14 August 1965. Among those pictured in the photograph are James McCallum (front row, second from left ), Ed Kingsland (front row, centre), E.P. Hall (front row, third from right), and Fred Evans (back row, far left).
The item is a school workbook, creator unknown, containing student assignments in various subjects, including geography and religion, from 1854.
The item is an autograph book owned by Florence Mead (b. 1907) from 1923 containing signatures, personal notes, sketches, verses, poems, and course work from her time at Macdonald College School for Teachers.