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CA ETRC P998 · Collection · [17--?]-[1995?], 2010-2023

The collection contains source material on various topics related to the Eastern Townships in the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries such as portraits, landscapes, buildings, education, religion, culture, economy, military and sports. It consists of photographs, paintings and postcards.

Eastern Townships Resource Centre Graphic Material (Sherbrooke, Que.)
Bill Buckland collection
CA ETRC P266 · Collection · 1978-2023

This collection is composed of primary and secondary records dating from [1843-1890]-1978 and 2023 pertaining to the Buckland and Robinson families of Coaticook and Waterloo. The records include, biographical accounts, genealogical documents, obituaries, news clippings, and photographs.

CA ETRC P996 · Collection · [1834?]-2023

The collection contains mainly source material on the geography of the Eastern Townships in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries such as districts, counties, townships, towns, roads, railroads, lakes and rivers. It also contains source material on Lower Canada, other portions of the Province of Quebec and the Estrie region. It consists of maps and plans.

CA ETRC P995 · Collection · [187-?]-2021

The collection contains source material on various topics related to the Eastern Townships in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries such as towns, military, settlement, agriculture, life, artist and oral histories. It consists of audio tape cassettes, videos, artefacts, textual records, photographs, and an engineering and technical drawing.

Eastern Townships Research Centre Special Media (Sherbrooke, Que.)
Collection Bernard Marcoux
CA SHC C029 · Collection · 1893 [reproductions]-2018

Collection illustrates the architectural work of Ozias Leduc, sports in Coaticook, the Festival du Lait, and early inventors in Barnston. It consists of research, correspondence, and baseball score sheets. The collection is composed of the following files: Ozias Leduc, Coaticook Canadians baseball club, Local inventors, and Festival du Lait

Alberta Everett collection
CA ETRC P260 · Collection · [ca. 1920s]-2017

The collection contains primary source materials relating to Alberta Everett (née Ross), her family, and the cultural heritage of the Eastern Townships from about the 1920s to 2017. It consists primarily of photographs, audiovisual recordings, and artefacts documenting events and celebrations around Eaton Township (Bulwer, Birchton, Bury), Lennoxville, and Hatley. It also consists of some textual records attesting to the personal lives of Alberta and her family. The collection is comprised of the following series: Family History ([ca. 1920s]- [ca. 1980]), Personal Life (1944-[ca. 1990]), and Townships History ([ca. 1930]-2017).

CA SHC C040 · Collection · 1950-2017

The collection presents the history of people who made the news and of events underlined between 1950 and 2017 in Coaticook and its region through its local weekly newpaper Le Progrès de Coaticook. It consists of original newspapers and some reproductions, photographs, contact-sheets, and negatives of the newspaper. The collection is composed of the following series : Newspapers, Photos, Contact-sheets, and Negatives.

CA SHC C001 · Collection · 1860-1991, [2015?]

Collection presents a political timeline of the mayors of the Municipality of Barford from 1860 to 1991. It consists of name plaques with dates of mayoral terms from 1860 to 1900, name plaques and photographs from 1900 to 1991, as well as a list of the mayors.

CA SHC C032 · Collection · [183-?]-2014

Collection presents information on the educational institutions, community, cultural events, religious institutions, businesses, industries, and history of Coaticook from about 1830 to 2014. It consists largely of programmes, historical articles, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, maps, certificates, and correspondence. The collection is composed of the following series: Textual documents, Iconographic documents, Cartographic documents, and Scrapbooks.

Collection Marcel Hugron
CA SHC C016 · Collection · [ca. 1900]-2009

Collection contains information on the Hugron family and Stephen Burroughs of Coaticook and Stanstead from the early 1900s to 2009. It is also a source of information on the layout of the town of Coaticook in 1960 and on views of Coaticook in 2009. It consists primarily of historical write-ups and articles, photographs of Coaticook, and an insurance plan. The collection is composed of the following files: Hugron family, Stephen Burroughs, Insurance Plan for the Town of Coaticook, and Photographs.

Collection Gérard Gosselin
CA SHC C024 · Collection · 1863 [reproduction]-2008

Collection presents history on the areas of Barnston, Barnston-Ouest, Saint-Malo, and Kingscroft with from 1863 (reproduction) to 2008. It consists primarily of lists of property owners and mayors, histories, correspondence, and maps. The collection is composed of the following files: Histories of Barnston-Ouest, Barnston-Ouest details, History of Barnston, Histories of Stanstead County parishes, History of St-Malo, Parish of St-Wilfrid-de-Kingscroft, and Maps.

Freeman Clowery Collection
CA ETRC P244 · Collection · 1891-2008

The collection contains information on various subjects of interest to Freeman Clowery from 1834 to 2008. It consists primarily of photographs; artifacts and documents related to Clowery's research and collecting areas; which were mainly about local organizations and businesses; agricultural exhibitions; and local figures. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Personal and Professional Life (1910-2008); People (1857-1999); Events and Celebrations (1890-2008); Military (1898-1945); Organizations and Businesses (1834-2000); and Other Photographs (1857-1999).

Clowery, Freeman
CA ETRC P135 · Collection · ([179-?]-[2007?])

The collection contains source material on the personal life of Henrietta Kathleen Warren Milne, as well as her involvement with the Memphremagog Library, the Pinecroft retirement home, her further community involvement, and she and her family's finances. It also contains information regarding the historian Leonard Auger, Dr. Austin Bowen, and Henrietta Kathleen's family and friends, including some geneological information. It ranges from approximately 1700 to 2004 and covers mainly the Magog area with some coverage of the wider Eastern Townships. It consists mainly of correspondence, historical and constituent documents, minutes, notes, financial papers, clippings, and photographs. The collection is comprised of the following series: Memphremagog Library ([196-?]-1995, 2001), Pinecroft Residence (1967-1994), Further Community Involvement ([194-?]-1992), Historical Documents (1796-1988), Personal Life ([19--?]-[2004?]), Leonard Auger Material ([17--?]-1985), Dr. George Austin Bowen (1894-1943), Graphic Materials ([18--?]-[2002?]), Family History ([1776-1780?], [1829?], [184-?]-[1994?]), Other Family and Friends ([1915-1999?]), Business and Finances ([1930-1982?]).

Milne, Henrietta Kathleen Warren, 1911-2001
CA SHC C007 · Collection · [194-?]-2006

Collection contains genealogical information on families in Coaticook from about the 1940s to 2006. It consists largely of handwritten notes and newspaper clippings. The collection is composed of the following files: Vincent family, Gendron family, Dionne family, Lebarré dit Genest and Beaulne families, and history.

Maurice, Françoise
CA ETRC P255 · Collection · 1883-2006

**Box 563- Box 1:
Binder “School Reports, etc.”
-2 photographs, Bury High School, 1931, 1947
-lists of students and school districts in Bury, 1873-1881
-school fair report, 1931
-newspaper clippings, 1925-2007
-class lists, 1983-1992
-Pope Memorial School prize programme, 1960-1968
Folder: lists of schools and students, 1847-1953; public speaking 1990
Binder (red, unidentified)
-copied newspaper clippings on natural disasters, 1938-1943
Binder: Index Ch. Bks, TBT Bury Anglican church (St. Paul’s)
Binder (red); Obituaries of Bury people
a. Those written by Mrs. George Parsons, c1920s, retyped by Nina Rowell
b. Written by Nina Rowell
Photo Album; Clippings of interest: Sawyerville 1921 - 1940s, Scotstown, Sherbrooke and vicinity
Binder “nostalgia”; Typed articles from the Sherbrooke Daily Record by Nina Rowell
Binder (yellow); "Highlights and Changes in Bury in 1970", Mrs George Parsons
Bundle "History of Bury", Clippings, manuscript documents written by Nina Rowell and Mrs George Parsons, outline for the celebration of Bury's 125th anniversary.
Book of Remembrance; Donald William MacCaskill, September 3, 1957, Gould
Family trees, letters: E, F, G, H, L, P, Q

**Box 564- Box 2
Ledger: Mr. Cooper, East Angus, 1925
Folder: Bill Forms; Bury business, c1930s to c1950s, includes; Thos Stokes, J.H. Saunders, Thomas Bown; and calendars
Folder (green): Misc. documents (includes Hand written original article by Mrs. George Parsons for "Special" to the Record - June 30, 1966; Pamphlet; Exposition Cookshire Fair, 2004; International Railways history handwritten)
Folder: writings by Mrs. George Parsons and Nina Rowell
-Hand written original article by Mrs. George Parsons for "Special" to the Record - June 30, 1966
-Document; 1 page, hand written history of Memorial Park in Bury, Nina Rowell
-9 parts consolidated history of Bury Schools, Nina Rowell, 1977
-Original typed pages. "Nostalgia" by Nina Rowell - 1921 -24. Articles for The Record
Folder: Bury Athletic Association, programs (1938, 1982) and committee list (1966)
Folder: List of negatives of Photographs by H.H. Weedon : Bury
Binder (red); Bury Cem. inventory "Bury Cemetery, Bury in Action", by Stuart Coates, 1982
Binder; "Churches in the ET"; clippings and history, compiled by Nina Rowell, INCLUDES 9 photographs + 1 postcard

**Box 565- Box 3:
Binder; Family Trees – Letter "A", Nina Rowell
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "B", Nina Rowell
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "B", Nina Rowell
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "C", Nina Rowell
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "C", Nina Rowell
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "D", Nina Rowell
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "J", Nina Rowell
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "K", Nina Rowell
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "M", Nina Rowell
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "W, Y, Z", Nina Rowell

**Box 566- Box 4:
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "N", Nina Rowell
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "O", Nina Rowell
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "R", Nina Rowell
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "S", Nina Rowell
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "T", Nina Rowell
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "U-V", Nina Rowell

Binder; Family Trees - Letter "W, Y, Z", Nina Rowell
Binder; "Bury Ranges 1, 2, 3 & 4"; lot ownership form and index. Compiled by Allan Rowell for the Committee to Celebrate Bury 1836-1986.
Document; Typed sheets, 11 pages, "East Clifton ... 1799 ... 1974", author unknown. Document appears to be the history of East Clifton.
Calendar; Rosaire Roy, Bury, 1981
Calendar; Richard Rothney, Cookshire, 1981 (used)
Calendar; Prangley & CO. Bury, 1988, (new)
Document; Pope Memorial School, 1997-98
Duotang; Municipality & Township of Bury – Excerpts, Minutes 1845-1891
Notebooks; Bury Council Minutes, 1912 to 1932; hand written copies,
Binder; Family tree and history of Robert Parson, 1660-1715 of Motcombe, England
Binder; compiled by Nina Rowell

  • Excerpts from old Town Minute Books, Bury; 1855-1888
  • Excerpts from old Town Minute Books, Bury; 1891-1911
    Binder; compiled by Nina Rowell
  • Excerpts from old Town Minute Books, Bury; 1917-1929

**Box 567- Box 5:
Box; S.B. C., Brookbury Women's Institute 1935, Letters from Brookbury Men who are serving overseas, 1940-42

  • Ray Everett, 1st Light Anti-Aircraft Reg't
  • Gordon Everett, 2nd Field Reg't
  • Wilfred Webb, 2nd Canadian Forestry
  • John Buttermer, 3rd Cdn Div. Signals
  • Austin Buttermer
  • Bruce Hooker, RCAF
  • Clayton Gray, RCAF
  • Buster Martin, 2nd Field Reg't
  • Emerson Martin, KIA
  • Bill Martin, RCAF
  • Letter from Red Cross re: Hong Kong parcel, 1942
    Book; "Memorial Trek 2004", Western Association of Leavitt Families" (Hatley)
    Booklet; "Island Brook School, Grade 6 Yearbook, 1963-1964", with pictures
    Booklet; " 1968-69 OUA Year Book", Island Brook School, with pictures
    Notebook; "Missionary", Hand written story by Violet Wood, post 1894
    Calendar: Rosaire Roy, Boucherie, Bury 1992, (new)
    Document: History of Telephone System in Bury, Nina Rowell
    Document; Information on the Bury Telephone System, Donalda Parsons (a personal account)
    Document; War Time Memories, Nina Rowell, 2006
    Postcard; From Margaret R. Stoddard to Mr J Drennan, Cookshire c1950s
    Document; History of the Bury Branch #48, Nina Rowell, 2006
    Documents; Family Group Records; Allaire to Delinde
    Document; Canada Day in Bury, Nina Rowell, 1982
    Document; Float Results, Bury Parade, 1983
    Document; Pope Memorial School; Physical Education Awards, compiled by Nina Rowell, 1975
    Document; Severe storm of 1901 ... Bury, Mrs George Parsons, 1967
    Various loose documents from scrapbooks that were not retained
    Scrapbook; Clippings, "Bits of Nostalgia" Articles written by Nina Rowell for the Record, 1984¬
    Map; Ontario (hand-drawn), undated, rolled
    Map; Quebec (hand-drawn), A.J. Cascadden, Cookshire P.Q., rolled
    Map; Nova Scotia (hand-drawn), undated, rolled
    Photos; Quebec Women Institute, Symposium at MacDonald College 1957-58. Some annotated with names. Mrs. George Parsons collection.
    Photo; Old farm house with 4 people (unnamed), circa 1920s (in bad shape)

**Oversized documents
• Map; Bury, Comte de Compton, Ministere des terres et forets, 1939: blue print showing lot and range lines, pre 1802, 1862 and 1903. (rolled and in a tube)
• Map; Village of Bury, hand drawn Nina Rowell. (rolled)
• Map; Plan of St. Paul's Cemetery; 1960 drawn by W.W. Bake (rolled)
• Map; Island Brook; 1860 to 1993, by Ruth Burns Morrow (rolled)
• Map: Township of Bury 1855, Lots and Ranges, showing ownership, hand drawn by Nina Rowell (rolled)
• Map: Township of Bury 1863, Lots and Ranges, showing ownership, hand drawn by Nina Rowell (rolled)
• Map: Township of Bury 1917, Lots and Ranges, showing ownership, hand drawn by Nina Rowell (rolled)
• Map: Official Map of the Township of Bury, 1894, updated 1897, 1903, 1929..(Card stock -old, flat)
• Calendar backs for:
o R.N. Mayhew, Bury Meat Market 1928
o A.J. Barter, Meat Market, Bury, 1931
o Lizotte Bros., Flour and Feed Merchants, Bury, c1930s
o R.J. Mackay, Groceries, Bury, Quebec, c1938 with pencil notes on the back
• Photos; 10 ea 16" x 20", the photos make up the contents of "Map of the District of St. Francis", Putnam and Gray, 1863, reproductions. Photos come from the National Map Collection, Public Archives Canada 1980. (transferred to OL, map cabinet, drawer 1)
• Posters: 4. Cookshire Academy class pictures with positional drawings for each person with number. Years 1890s to 1930s (INCLUDES 7 photographs)
• Poster: 2. Large with various old letter head, billing headers, old cheques of the various merchants of the village of Bury, circa 1920 to 1940.

Collection Jim Belknap
CA SHC C002 · Collection · 1851-1934

Collection presents information on business and commerce in the Coaticook area from 1851 to 1934. It consists of photocopies of invoices and newspaper clippings.

CA ETRC P997 · Collection · [18--]-2005

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).

Collection Gilles Baril
CA SHC C031 · Collection · [198-?]-2005

Collection presents information on the life, particularly religious life, of Gilles Baril, priest, in Coaticook and areas in Sherbrooke and East Angus, from about the 1980s to 2005. It consists of a biography, titled “Une vie arc-en-ciel”, on the first part of Gilles Baril’s personal and religious life and a number of musical recordings used in the course of church activities and services.

Baril, Gilles
CA CCHMS CCM001 · Collection · [18--]-[2005]

The collection consists of source material from people and places in and around the Eastern Townships of Quebec. It contains mostly photographs and sketches of residents of this area, as well as material on industry, education, medicine, religion, and recreation in the Townships. The collection includes 175 photographs, 42 sketches, 16 postcards, 2 paintings, and 1 map.

William G. Clark collection
CA ETRC P031 · Collection · 1890-2003

The collection contains source material on the history of the Asbestos region and on the development of the asbestos industry in the 19th and 20th centuries; it is also a source of information on the Johns-Manville Corporation, the life of William G. Clark, and includes an architectural sketch of the St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Asbestos from 1945. Among the materials are memoirs written by William G. Clark on his life and the town of Asbestos. The collection is comprised of the following series: Le Citoyen Historical Sections (1971-1980), Periodicals (The Asbestos Producer and Johns-Manville News Pictorial) (1948-1976), Photographs ([1897?]-1981), Miscellaneous Documents (1940-1971), and William G. Clark ([197-?]-2003).

Clark, William G., 1902-1999
CA SHC C004 · Collection · [189-?]-2001

Collection contains information on the families as well as the economic, social, and cultural history of Coaticook from the 1890s to 2001. It consists largely of newspaper clippings and photographs. The collection is composed of the following series: Families and individuals, education, businesses, churches and religion, theatre, Cercle de fermières de St-Edmond, Telmosse family, Oeuvre des Terrains de Jeux, politics, history, sports, maps, and unidentified photographs.

Collection Lydia May
CA SHC C023 · Collection · 1946-2000

Collection contains information on the Dixville, Crooker, and Marsh Cemetery Association from 1946 to 1981 and on the Coaticook Area Senior Citizens Sunshine 50+ Club from 1975 to 2000. It consists primarily of a receipts and disbursements ledger, minutes, correspondance, press clippings, and correspondence. The collection is composed of the following files: Dixville, Crooker, and Marsh Cemetery Association; Minutes, Coaticook Area Senior Citizens Sunshine Club; and Correspondence and programmes, Coaticook Area Senior Citizens Sunshine Club.

CA ETRC P232 · Collection · 1815-1999

The collection consists of materials collected from various sources by the Société d'histoire et du patrimoine du Haut-St-François, located in Eaton Corner. It consists of photographs, largely from the East Angus and surrounding areas, research files, and inventories of architectural heritages in Eastern Townships.

Collection Cécile Lemieux
CA SHC C008 · Collection · 1938-1993

Collection reflects some of the industries of Coaticook from 1938 to 1993. It consists of photographs of the interiors of Belding-Corticelli, the Canadian Celanese, and Waterville TG, as well as what appear to be groups of employees.

Collection Laura DuBois
CA SHC C015 · Collection · 1932-1987

Collection presents information on the community of Coaticook from 1932 to 1987. It consists of scrapbooks largely composed of newspaper clippings (obituaries and other articles), but including a photograph Lilian Cloutier, invitiations, and cards.

CA SHC C019 · Collection · 1867, 1904-1984

Collections presents coroner's inquests for cases from the Coaticook area from 1867 to 1984. It consists of coroner's inquests reports.

Collection Telmosse family
CA SHC C014 · Collection · 1905-1983

Collection Telmosse presents information on members of the Telmosse family from 1905 to 1983. It consists of a family tree, school notebooks and papers, an invitation for the ordination of Louis Telmosse, a newsaper article on the work of Father Edmond Telmosse in Haiti, and three photographs.

Telmosse, family
Collection Lucie Gaudreau
CA SHC C010 · Collection · 1890, [192-?]-1982

Collection presents some of the commercial history of Coaticook and St-Edwidge-de-Clifton from 1890 to 1982. It consists of a plan for the complexe polyvalent (Albert l’Heureux and Mgr Durand schools) dated 1968 and photographs showing the following:

  1. Ste-Edwige general store and Roland Favreau, ca. 1970
  2. Robitaille Automobiles Coaticook Inc. (previously Garage Bachand Dionne), ca. 1960
  3. Coaticook parade, two men on horses in front of Garage Bachand Dionne, ca. 1940
  4. Bachand store employees, ca. 1955
  5. 8 photos, Canadian Celanese employees, 1974-1978
  6. Joseph Audet Jr., grocery store, Child Street, 1890
  7. Line of Canada `67 trucks
  8. Sports ’72 trailer truck, Department of Health and Well-being
  9. Salle des Érables, 1973
  10. Labourers, Grand Trunk train cars in background, probably around 1920.
  11. Group of unidentified employees outside at Domaine Howard in Sherbrooke, 1981-1982
CA SHC F015 · Collection · 1980-1982

Fonds presents the proceedings of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Tournoi national atome Sher-Wood de Coaticook (the Atome Tournament) for hockey from 1980 to 1982. It consists of programmes.