The item is a poem, titled "Vive Montjoie," composed by Dolor Biron in 1900 on the occasion of the annual trip taken by the philosophy students at the Séminaire de Sherbrooke.
The file consists of four booklets titled "Prize Lists for the Richmond County Agricultural Society Annual Fair", dated respectively 1960, 1964, 1966, 1967; prize cards, from 1893-1914, of the Danville Union Agricultural Society, the Richmond County Agricultural Society and the Eastern Townships Agriculture Society; a souvenir programme from the Sherbrooke Fair from 1945; and a poster of the 62nd Annual Farmers' Exhibition, organized by the Stanstead County Agricultural Society in Ayer's Cliff, from 28 to 29 August 1907. The file provides information on the setting up of agricultural fairs. It contains the names of the Richmond County Agricultural Society's members, the departmental committees and the rules and regulations and judging programmes of the fairs. It also a prize book for Canada's Great Eastern Exhibition (Sherbrooke, Que.) from 1894 and architectural drawings for a multifunctional building for the Exposition Sherbrooke Fair, dated 23 March 1983.
The file consists of one invitation card to an informal dance from the Students Council of Lennoxville High School on 12 December 1935 at the Gymnasium.
Item consists of digital reproduction of a poster advertising the Sherbrooke Hussars' Centennial Guard activities in Sherbrooke in 1967. The poster features an illustration of a soldier in a 19th-century uniform, holding a musket. The activities included a program of drill and 1867 battle tactics and a concert by the Sherbrooke Hussars Band to commemorate Canada's Centennial and the 100th Anniversary of the Regiment. Activities were to take place at the Parade Grounds (Champ-de-Mars) off of Queen Street (now Boulevard Queen-Victoria) in Sherbrooke on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday afternoons.
Item is a photograph of John McCammon's General Store in Inverness, probably taken in the late 1930s.
Item is a photograph of the John McCammon General Store in Inverness, probably in the late 1930s.
Item is a photograph of John McCammon's family in the late 1930s.
The item is a pair of tickets sent to C.E. Jobin to attend the royal visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Sherbrooke on July 12th 1939. The event takes place on Alexander street.
Item is a certificate of shares issued by the Eastern Townships Bank to Isabella A. Slack of Abbottsford, QC on 11 April 1878.
Item is a certificate of shares issued by the Eastern Townships Bank to Mrs. Isabella A. Slack (widow of the late Reverend George Slack) of Abbottsford on 17 August 1881.
Item is a certificate appointing John Hume as school inspector in Leeds in 1854.
The file consists of a scrapbook page compiled by Mildred Waldron showing many members of the McBurney and Forgrave families as well as members of the Willing Workers group from the Sawyerville Presbyterian Church from the Sawyerville area, probably taken around the 1910s. It also includes a letter from Mildred to Marjorie Goodfellow.
The file consists of the programme of the Victoria Day celebrations in Richmond in 1900 and includes information of the concert, parade, and sports and games planned as part of the activities, which was organized by the Citizens Committee and the 54th Battalion.
The file contains primary source material on the Little White Ribboners, a temperance group, in Milby from 1925 to 1961. It consists of publications, leaflet, certificates, lists of members and graduates and a white ribbon pin.
Item is the last page from the "Memorandums for 1837" diary of a Lacolle farmer.
Item depicts the pages for February and March 1837 from the "Memorandums for 1837" diary of a Lacolle farmer.
Item depicts the pages for November and December 1837 from the "Memorandums for 1837" diary of a Lacolle farmer.
Item is the front of the postcard sent by R.J. Meekren, a Canadian soldier, to his mother in Stanstead from the Rhineland (Germany) on July 25, 1916.
Item is a postcard written by R.J. Meekren, a Canadian soldier, from the Rhineland (Germany) to his mother in Stanstead, dated July 25, 1916.
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 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 consists of a photograph of John and Alice Copping on the occasion their 50th anniversary, taken in Lennoxville in 1946.