The sub-series contains information on the Williams family in Foucault. It consists of notarized documents and a family tree.
The sub-series contains secondary and primary source material on the Vaughan family of Missisquoi County and Selkirk, Manitoba from 1778 to 1993. It consists mainly of photocopies of original correspondence, photographs, and certificates; research notes and correspondence; and family trees. The sub-series is comprised of the following files: Family Research (1785 [photocopied 1968]-1993), Amos H. Vaughan (1784 [photocopied]-[1965?]), Gershom Vaughan ([197-?]), Josephus Vaughan (1778 [photocopied]-1988), Lynds S. Vaughan (1865 [photocopied]-[198-?]), Reuben H. Vaughan (1839-[198-?]), and Benjamin Vaughan (1778[photocopied]-1853[photocopied]).
The sub-series contains information on the Townsend family from 1800 to about 1900. It consists largely of land deeds, marriage certificates, and correspondence.
The file contains a big black photo album relating mostly to the professional life of Dr. Alice Maude Smith, and some personal portraits of family members. The album also contains printed souvenirs of different events in Dr. Smith's life.
The fonds contains source material on Annie Fergusson's family history, her grandfather Captain Josiah Brown having settled in Windsor in 1805. The documents trace the history of property and financial transactions and lawsuits involving various members of the Brown family who lived in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and later Windsor. The time span covered is the late 17th century to the early 20th century. Most of the records, however, relate to Captain Josiah Brown. The fonds is also of some value as a source of information on the settlement of Windsor, Stoke, and Shipton; and on the Reverend James Fergusson, a minister in Richmond and Windsor in the late 19th century. The fonds consists mainly of sales agreements, correspondence, wills, accounting records, promissory notes, estate inventories, summonses, legal documents, lists of titles, and biographical and genealogical notes. It is comprised of the following series: Charles Browne (1671), Gershom Browne (1682), John Browne (1721), Abigail Browne ([17-?]), Samuel Brown (1736), Lieut. Josiah Brown (1741-1769), Capt. Josiah Brown (1785-1814), Joseph and Josiah Brown Jr. (1807-1849), Emily Brown (1839,1848), Shepard Joseph Brown ([186-?]-1908), Rev. James and Annie Fergusson (1859-1953), and Miscellaneous Documents ([17-]-1902).
Fergusson, Annie, b. 1868Glass negative portrait of an older man, identified in 2024 as O. Isman Coons.
Item is a short film, videoed by Rachel Garber and John Mackley, and produced and edited by John Mackley, on the life, works, and influence of the renowned poet Douglas Gordon Jones. Filmed in front of the D.G. Jones Writing Cabin in North Hatley in 2021, Steve Luxton, Poet in Residence of the Lennoxville Library, intertwines readings, discussions, and analyses to create a comprehensive narrative about Dudek's life and work.
Mackley, John, 1959-Item is a short film, videoed by Rachel Garber and John Mackley, and produced and edited by John Mackley, on the life, works, and influence of the renowned poet Ralph Gustafson. Filmed at the Bury Historical and Heritage Society Gazebo in 2021, Steve Luxton, Poet in Residence of the Lennoxville Library, intertwines readings, discussions, and analyses to create a comprehensive narrative about Gustafson's life and work.
Mackley, John, 1959-Item is a short film, videoed by Rachel Garber and John Mackley, and produced and edited by John Mackley, on the life, works, and influence of the renowned poet Louis Dudek. Filmed in front of Louis Dudek's Summer House in Way's Mills in 2021, Steve Luxton, Poet in Residence of the Lennoxville Library, intertwines readings, discussions, and analyses to create a comprehensive narrative about Dudek's life and work.
Mackley, John, 1959-Item is a short film, videoed by Rachel Garber and John Mackley, and produced and edited by John Mackley, on the life, works, and influence of the renowned poet Thomas Gray. Filmed against the backdrop of the Hatley Cemetery in 2021, Steve Luxton, Poet in Residence of the Lennoxville Library, discusses Thomas Gray's work "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" written in 1751. The film intertwines readings, discussions, and analyses to create a comprehensive narrative about Grays's life and work.
Mackley, John, 1959-The file contains four short films videoed by Rachel Garber and John Mackley, and produced and edited by John Mackley, on the life, works, and influence of four renowned Townships poets (Thomas Gray, Louis Dudek, Ralph Gustafson, and D.G. Jones). Steve Luxton, Poet in Residence of the Lennoxville Library, discusses their work and, as a younger poet, his encounters with them. Filmed in the areas where they lived in the Eastern Townships, the videos intertwine readings, discussions, and analyses to create narratives about each poet's life and work.
Mackley, John, 1959-The item contains information on Annie Ferguson’s ancestors. It is a deed of sale, dated 1671, from Charles Browne to his son John Brown in Essex County, Massachusetts.
This series contains the administrative documents related to various school committees, school boards, schools, and teachers that Donald MacMillan was involved in from 1961-1972, including meeting minutes, reports, regulations, agreements, newsletters, and financial documents. The series contains the following sub-series: Eastern Townships Regional School Board (1961-1972), Compton County Protestant Central School Board (1957-1972), Lennoxville School Board Provisional Council (1971-1972), Alexander Galt Regional High School (1970-1972), Correspondence with parents/guardians (1971-1972), Quebec Association of Protestant School Boards (1966-1972), and School boards and teachers (1965-1970).
The series contains source material regarding the history of Richmond County and other areas in the Eastern Townships from the 19th century to 1927. It contains the following files: Floods in Richmond (1906), Railroad in Drummondville ([18-?]), Railroad in Kingsey (1927), Village of Richmond ([1906?]), Village of Melbourne ([ca. 1900]), Bridges in Richmond ([188-?]-[1903?]), Jos. Bedard Store and St. Francis Hotel in Richmond ([18-?]), Dragoon Regiment in Waterloo (1908), and St. Francis College in Richmond ([18-?]).
The fonds contains source material mainly on the activities of the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles Association from 1934 to 1967 and is also of value for information relating to the activities of Eastern Townships soldiers and veterans during World War I, Quebec Branch No. 10 of the Canadian Legion of the British Empire Service League; the 117th Eastern Townships Battalion Association; and the 53rd Sherbrooke Regiment. It is comprised of the following series: Minutes (1934-1966), Correspondence (1953-1967), Membership Lists (1934-1967), Accounting and Financial Documents (1961-1966), Newspaper Clippings ([191-]-1975), Iconographic Documents ([191-]-[198-?]), Cartographic Documents (1910-1942), Personal Documents (1916-1958), Minutes of the Quebec Branch of the Canadian Legion of the British Empire Service League (1930-1942), Artefacts ([191-]-[1940?]), and Miscellaneous Documents (1915-1965).
5th Canadian Mounted Rifles Association (Sherbrooke, Que.)This series contains artifacts related to the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles which date from around 1910 to 1940. The artefacts include the tag from a gas mask, a cap badge, a ribbon, a plaque, and a leather folder.
The series contains information on the history of the celts in Compton County compiled approximately 1979. It includes information on the Celtic Research Group, the Isle of Lewis, resources for the research of the Celts of Lewis, the settlement of the Celts of Lewis to the Eastern Townships, and the future out-migration of these Celts. It contains a copy of the four volume work entitled, "Celts of Compton County" assembled by the Celtic Research Group.
Item is a photograph postcard of what is most likely the Kingsley General Store in Sawyerville after it burned down in September 1923. The postcard has labeled it as the Sawyerville Hotel in 1925, but this does not seem to be accurate.
The fonds contains source material on the circulation, distribution, production, and advertising of The Record from 1839 to 1997. It provides information on the subscribers in Sherbrooke and in the region; on carriers and dealers; and on service copies, number of produced and spoiled copies, pounds of paper used. The fonds consists of carriers' draw sheets and account summaries; newsdealers' draw sheets; carriers' route lists; circulation records; press room report of production; reports from the Audit Bureau of Circulation, photographs, buttons, a handbook for correspondents, a petition and a survey. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Newspaper Management (1932-1997), Newspaper Delivery (1956-1984), News Dealers (1936-1967), Public Relations (1914-1997), Special Events (1925-1997), Souvenirs (1839-1992), Photographs (1958-1997), and Human Resources (1960).
The Record (Sherbrooke, Que.)The fonds contains source material on the organization and activities of the Sherbrooke and District University Women's Club from 1968 to 2016. It is comprised of the following series: Historical and Constituent Documents (1968-2015), Administration (1968-2009), Reports (1971-2009), Committees ([197-?]-2010), Membership (1969-2009), Financial Documents (1970-2008), Conferences, Colloquia and Other Activities (1969-2009), Newsletters ([1973?]-2017), Subject Files ([197-?]-[1999?]), Correspondence (1968-2009), Newspaper Clippings (1973-2011), Provincial Council of Quebec of University Women's Clubs (1969-2009), Canadian Federation of University Women (1968-2008), International Federation of University Women ([1969?]-1989), Conseil régional de la promotion de la femme ([1977?]-[1981?]), Miscellaneous Documents ([1970?]-1994), One-Room Schoolhouse Project (1831-2009) and Scholarship Foundation (1994-2016).
Sherbrooke and District University Women's Club (Sherbrooke, Que.)The series contains primary source material on the Sherbrooke & District University Women's Club Scholarship Foundation from 1993 to 2019. It is also a source of information on the Lampe Foundation from 2009 to 2018. The file consists primarily of minutes, correspondence, reports, budgets, fundraising activities, speech texts, and photographs. It is comprised of the following files: History and constituent documents (1993-2003), Minutes (1996-2010), Correspondence (1998-2016), Reports (1995-2013), Financial resources (1994-2009), Fundraising ([1994?]-2008), Scholarships ([2002?]-2019), Mentors and personnel (2007-2008), Public relations (1999-[2010?]), and Lampe Foundation (2009-2021).
Sherbrooke and District University Women’s Scholarship FoundationThe file contains primary source information on the Lampe Foundation from 2009 to 2018. It consists of a timeline for the mentoring committee, the director's and council member's information handbook, a committee report, a foundation fact sheet, a draft of the Director's and Council Member's Information Handbook, and a report to the community.
The file contains primary source information on the activities of the Sherbrooke & District University Women's Club Scholarship Foundation from 1999 to about 2010. It consists of a blank survey, a newspaper clipping, press releases, a poster and report for an information event.
The file contains primary source information on the mentors and contract employees of the Sherbrooke & District University Women's Club Scholarship Foundation from 2007 to 2008. It consists of two lists of mentors and a contract for the creation of a web-based content management system.
The file contains primary source material on the Sherbrooke and District University Women's Club's Scholarship Foundation from about 2002 to 2019. It consists of programmes from awards nights, texts from speeches, lists of scholarships, guidelines, and photographs from awards ceremonies.
The file contains primary source information on the fundraising activities of the Sherbrooke & District University Women's Club Scholarship Foundation from 1994 to 2008. In particular, the activities include benefit theatre performances at the Piggery Theatre, silent auctions, and a summer market. It consists of posters and other publicity, correspondence, letters of agreement, and the text from a presentation.
The file contains primary source material on the Sherbrooke and District University Women's Club's Scholarship Foundation from 1994 to 2009. It consists of financial statements, budgets, and donation forms.
The file contains primary source material on the Sherbrooke & District University Women's Club Scholarship Foundation. It consists of reports on fundraising, activities, and scholarships from 1995 to 2013.
The file contains primary source material on the Scholarship Foundation of the Sherbrooke and District University Women's Club. It consists of correspondence.