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Photographies touchant l'histoire et la vie à Magog dans les années 1920.

Portrait of Mrs. Lillis Turner in studio decor by unknown photographer. She is probably Lillis Brill (1824-1892), daughter of Joseph Brill and Margaret Sager, wife of James Turner, and the cousin of Lettie Brill.

The fonds consists of primary source information regarding Stephen Westover and his wife Dorinda Ball. The fonds contains the following series: Correspondence (1812-1817); Land Papers (1817-1826); Legal Papers (1819-1826); Accounts (1809-1833); Succession and Estate (1826-1827).

The item is a map of the southern part of Quebec, including Montreal and the Eastern Townships, published by E.R. Smith & Son, in 1897.

The fonds contains primary source material on the personal, professional and military lives of the Wark family in Sherbrooke between 1911 and 2002. It consists primarily of photographs and theatre programmes. The fonds is comprised of the following series: James H. Wark, Florence (Bryant) Wark, Barbara Wark, Wark theatre, Photographs, and Miscellaneous.

Item is a street map of the City of Sherbrooke produced for the 125th anniversary of the city in 1962. The map includes a legend listing all of the streets with numbered grid location references, as well as a legend of 26 important sites. The verso of the map includes a brief history of the city, photographs of landmarks, and a message from "Jacqueline the 1st," Reigning Queen of the City of Sherbrooke for 1962.

Item is a map of the City of Sherbrooke dating from 1954. It consists of a street map of the City of Sherbrooke on the recto and a road map of the Eastern Townships.

Item is a map proposing a sightseeing tour of the City of Sherbrooke and the surrounding region, dating from around the 1980s. It consists of a road map of the City of Sherbrooke and another road map (on the verso) of the region surrounding Sherbrooke with the furthest points represented being Danville in the north, Eaton Corner in the east, Baldwin's Mills in the south, and Richmond in the west.

Item consists of a map of the City of Sherbrooke and a road map of the Eastern Townships dating from 1956. It also includes a brief history of Sherbrooke, and a mileage table showing approximate distances from major locations in Canada and the United States.

This series contains primary and secondary sources pertaining to the British Royal Family between 1950 and 1960. It consists primarily of publications and photographs. It also consists of four maps of the City of Sherbrooke, dating from 1954 to around the 1980s. Finally, it consists of two sizes of promotional bridge score cards produced by Bryant's Ginger Ale in Sherbrooke.

The sub-series contains information on the Van Vliet family in Lacolle from 1863 to 1993. It consists of transcriptions of Traver Van Vliet’s diary (including one by Elizabeth Toop), family trees, the Van Vliet family crest, documents pertaining to a Van Vliet family reunion and reproductions of photographs including members of the Van Vliet family.

The archival fonds pertains to the life of Rufus Whitcomb (1784-1831) and consists of one textual record (will, 1831).

The fonds contains the following serie :
BCHS138, S1 Personal life.

The file contains information on various military regiments and related subjects from around the 1890s to the 1980s. Among the photographs (mostly reproduced) are images of 79th Shefford with Col. Bowman; 13th Scottish Light Dragoons; Captain McCorkell's company, 60th Battalion; 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles shortly before going overseas; 7/11 Hussars; the gymnastic class of the 117th Battalion, with inset of F.P. Butler; Canadian Rifle Team, Bisley, 1919; 16th Armoured Regiment/ 7/11 Hussars; as well as a number of unidentified photographs. The album consists largely of photographs from COTC (Canadian Officers' Training Corps) training in Sherbrooke in 1940 and the Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment in training, as well as the Sherbrooke High School Cadet Corps in 1923, Captain Ray Muir, Lt-Col. McA'Nulty, and Col. A.A. McGee.

The sub-series contains primary source material on photographs of unidentified people. The majority of the photographs are portrait photographs of men, women, and children, but includes some view in an apple orchard with a couple apple picking, people on an unidentified beach, a group at a picnic, men in a rowboat, a child with a teddy bear, and a man and young girl in horse and wagon.

The subseries contains source material on music in the Eastern Townships from 1863 to 1916. It contains copies of songs and various programmes for musical events. It includes the following files: Songs (1890-1913), and Programmes and Advertisements (1863-2004).

The fonds consists of primary and secondary source information regarding the Mitchell family. It includes documents and photographs relating to George Mitchell and Jane Armstrong descendants, and Malcolm M. Mitchell and Homer Acton Mitchell. The photo album is related to the Hagan-Mitchell family.

The series consists of photographs relating to the Mitchell family, including a Hagan-Mitchell family photo album and an anonymus sketch of Thomas Mitchell. There is also a file containing reproductions of photographs taken by John B. Mitchell (1922-2004) of Knowlton.

The fonds consists of a warrant creating George Harris, Baron of Seringapatam and Mysore in the East Indies, and of Belmont in the County of Kent (Great Britain), on parchment, dated August 8, 1815 at Westminster.

This file contains administrative document associated with the construction of a new fair building on the Sherbrooke Fairground in 1983. The file is composed of correspondence addressed to Donald MacMillan from representatives of Batiments Fafard, which includes preliminary descriptive plans for the building.