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CA ETRC P020-003-06-D002b-P449 · Item · [1890?], copied 1979
Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of the Clough Company Wholesale Store, which also served as a grain and feed store, located on College Street in Lennoxville (where the Co-op used to be), with people and horses pulling sleighs in front.

Peony Garden
CA ETRC P020-003-06-D002b-P075 · Item · [1910?], copied 1977
Part of Eastern Townships Heritage Foundation fonds

Item is a photograph of H. A. Norton's peony and lilac garden with Lake Massawippi in the background. People came from as far as California to see her three-hundred flower varieties.

CA ETRC P088 · Fonds · 1923-1979

The fonds contains source material on the affairs of the Sherbrooke Ploughmen's Association from 1923 to 1979, particularly its annual plowing match. The fonds also assembles certain documents pertaining to the Stanstead County Ploughmen's Association, the Missisquoi County Plowing Association, and the St. Francis Valley Ploughmen's Association. It consists of minutes, statements of revenues and expenses, financial statements, correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, programs, public notices, lists of prizes and other documents. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Minutes and Related Documents (1923-1968), Financial and Accounting Records (1932-[1946?]), Annual Plowing Match (1934-1979), Newspaper Clippings ([1929?]-[1967?]) and Miscellaneous Documents ([1945?]-[1969]).

Sherbrooke Ploughmen's Association (Sherbrooke, Que.)
Fairs
CA ETRC P997-004-01-003 · File · 1893-1983
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Textual Records collection

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.

J Omer Dionne
CA ETRC P036-007-008-007-008-005 · Item · [ca. 1957]
Part of Donald J. MacMillan fonds

Item is a photograph of J Omer Dionne checking seed potatoes from around the year 1957

Stanley Taylor
CA ETRC P036-007-008-007-008_008 · Item · [ca. 1957]
Part of Donald J. MacMillan fonds

Item is a photograph of Stanley Taylor standing outside of a barn holding a sap bucket, from around 1957.