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Local inventors
CA SHC C029-D003 · File · 1994
Part of Collection Bernard Marcoux

File illustrates local inventors in the Barnston area in the late 19th century. It consists of copied extracts from the book "Les premières inventions québécoises" by Guy Giguère, which includes descriptions of inventions by James B. Watt, Napoléon P. Dion, Austin Berry, Alba Wyman, Dorwin D. Pennoyer, George C. Hanson, William Moore, George H. Pierce, George O. Doak, Riley Wyman, John Ewing, and Orin Webster.

CA ETRC P995-2023-017 · File · 2021
Part of Eastern Townships Research Centre Special Media collection

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-
Lévesque
CA SHC F013-S002-D015 · File · [200-?]
Part of Fonds Yves Robillard

File presents information on the Lévesque family in the Coaticook region. It consists of research documents and notes.

Letourneau-Fréchette
CA SHC F013-S002-D014 · File · [200-?]
Part of Fonds Yves Robillard

File presents information on the Letourneau-Fréchette family in the Coaticook region. It consists of research notes.

Landscapes and Buildings
CA ETRC P006-010-003 · File · 1840-[194-?]
Part of Minnie Hallowell Bowen fonds

The file contains primary source information on landscapes and buildings, mostly in the Sherbrooke area, from 1840 to the 1940s. It consists of photographs, engravings, and one postcard of the following scenes: aerial views of Sherbrooke ([194-?]); the Magog River rapids; Hallowell cottage; Lennoxville's bridge over the Massawippi River ([191-?]); Whitcher Rock in the St. Francis River with Sherbrooke in the background (1866); views of the St. Francis River; the Long Pine; the Clark family home in Sherbrooke ([ca. 1900]); W.H. Bartlett engravings: Bridge at Sherbrooke, Copp's Ferry, Mills at Sherbrooke, View from the Capital of Quebec, Montmorency Falls, Owl's Head, Davis Clearing, view from R. Shirreff's house, and Quebec City; Hallowell train station which was located near Picton, Ontario; ice castle in Montreal; Hallowell Cottage, located on Queen Street in Sherbrooke; a view of the McGreer and Divinity House buildings at Bishop's University, Lennoxville; and the old mill dam in Fitch Bay.

Ladd’s Mill
CA SHC F013-S004-D006 · File · [199-?]
Part of Fonds Yves Robillard

File presents information on Ladd’s Mills, near Coaticook, in the 20th century. It consists of a photocopied article on Ladd’s Mills.

Kingscroft
CA SHC F013-S004-D007 · File · 1976-2003 [reproductions]
Part of Fonds Yves Robillard

File presents information on Kingscroft in the 20th century. It consists of research documents, including photocopied extracts from histories of Coaticook and St-Wilfrid-de-Kingscroft.

Judge Rhéaume
CA SHC F013-S001-D005 · File · [200-?]
Part of Fonds Yves Robillard

File presents information on Judge Rhéaume and his cottage in Baldwin Mills in the 19th century. It consists of research notes.

Jonathan Slater
CA ETRC P997-001-04-026 · File · 1881-1896
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Textual Records collection

The file contains primary source information about Jonathan Slater (ca 1816-1889) and his wife, Rebecca Walker (ca. 1818-1890) in Barnston from 1881 to 1896. It consists of an invoice addressed to Jonathan Slater, register extracts for their marriage and deaths, and Rebecca Walker's will. Rebecca Anglisa Walker was the daughter of Joseph Walker and Mary McCaw. Together, Jonathan Slater and Rebecca Walker had at least six children: Frances, Mary, Jane, Jonathan Henry, Emma, and Retinah.

Industry and commerce
CA SHC C032-S002-D007 · File · 1934-[195-?]
Part of Collection Société d’histoire de Coaticook

File contains images of businesses and industries in Coaticook from 1934 to about the 1950s. It consists of photographs of the the employees of Penman’s, the employees of Belding-Corticelli, and a photograph of the interior of an unidentified factory.

Immoveable property
CA SHC F033-S002-D006 · File · 1957-1984
Part of Fonds Belding-Corticelli

File presents information on the properties owned by Belding-Corticelli in Coaticook from 1957 to 1984. It consists of a correspondence regarding the possible sale of the Cutting Street plant and land rented from the Town of Coaticook, as well as lot descriptions and a plan.

Hydroelectric power plant
CA SHC F033-S002-D001 · File · 1952
Part of Fonds Belding-Corticelli

File presents Belding-Corticelli's opinion on the matter of the sale of the Town of Coaticook's hydroelectric power plant to Southern Canada Power in 1952. It consists of correspondence between the Coaticook office and the head office in Montreal.

Houle
CA SHC F013-S002-D013 · File · 1989 [reproduction]-[200-?]
Part of Fonds Yves Robillard

File presents information on the Houle family in the Coaticook region. It consists of research documents and notes.

CA SHC C032-S001-D001 · File · 1888-2003
Part of Collection Société d’histoire de Coaticook

File contains information on the general history of Coaticook and surrounding region from 1888 to 2003. It consists of a charter for the Town of Coaticook (1888), a programme and souvenir book for Old Home Week (1914), a typed copy of “The Early History of Coaticook from its foundation to 1902” by B.N. Robinson and annotated by Mgr Prosper Durand (1993), historical articles by Romauld Dumond (1964), a description of the Exchange Censeau-Coaticook project ([1972?]), and an article by Ivy Hatch titled “History of the N-word River” (2003).

History of Baldwin Mills
CA SHC F013-S005-D001 · File · [200-?]
Part of Fonds Yves Robillard

File presents a compilation of Yves Robillard’s research on Baldwin Mills. It consists of a manuscript and printed copy “Histoire de Baldwin Mills.”

History
CA SHC C007-D005 · File · [198-?]-2001
Part of Collection Françoise Maurice

File presents historical summaries for the Coaticook area from about the 1980s to 1992. File presents historical summaries for the Coaticook area from about the 1980s to 1992. It consists of pamphlet from the Musée Beaulne, newspaper articles on Coaticook history, a pamphlet for the opening of the Pavillon des Arts et de la Culture in the old Sisco Memorial United Church, two newsletters "L'Avant-Courant" by the Coaticook Historical Society, and a book on three historical houses (Carrollcroft/Colby-Curtis Museum, Château Norton/Beaulne Museum, and Uplands) in the Eastern Townships.

Hill
CA SHC F013-S002-D012 · File · [199-]-[200-]
Part of Fonds Yves Robillard

File presents information on the Hill family in the Coaticook region. It consists of research notes and genealogical trees.

Hatley Township
CA ETRC P058-010-08-002 · File · 1906-1913
Part of Herbert Derick collection

The file contains information on the geography, architecture, businesses, and architecture from towns and villages in Hatley Township from 1906 to 1913. It consists of postcards of Ayer's Cliff, Massawippi, Lake Massawippi and North Hatley .

CA ETRC P997-010-01-004 · File · ([200-?])
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Textual Records collection

The file consists of a typed manuscript titled "Hatley Tales" by Garth E. Morrisette. Included within the table of contents are: Tales from the Backwoods of Hatley Township as told by Charlotte Little 1813-1897, The Scouts 1795, The Bear 1805, Xmas [Christmas] on the North Road 1821, Nervous 1937, A Mean Turkey 1938, Merry Christmas 1993, An Apple a Day 1910, Just a Little Green Frog, A Load Both Ways 1939, Gramp- Benjamin Franklin Fowler, The Voice- A biography of Zelda Humphrey Bowen, Hannad Lavers Fowler 1884-1949.

Hatley
CA ETRC P997-001-02-005 · File · [1823, photocopied 198-?], 1872
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Textual Records collection

The file contains primary source information on land transactions concerning Hatley in 1823 and in 1872. It consists of a photocopy of a sale and conveyance by Ebenezer Hovey to Simon Kezar for the northwest quarter of lot 7, range 3 in Hatley Township, in 1823. Appended to the photocopy of the deed is a hand-drawn plan of the land concerned. It also consists of a receipt for a final mortgage payment received from Benjamin Burland by F.D. Gilbert in 1872, for part of lot 5, Range 1 and part of lot 7, Range 2 in Hatley.

Goyette
CA SHC F013-S002-D011 · File · 1926 [reproduction]-[200-?]
Part of Fonds Yves Robillard

File presents information on the Goyette family in the Coaticook region. It consists of research notes and documents, obituaries, and newspaper articles. The file is also a source of information on the Keeble, Bouldman, Shelden, Buzzell, and Blake families.

Goldie
CA SHC F013-S002-D010 · File · [200-?]
Part of Fonds Yves Robillard

File presents information on the Goldie family in the Coatiook region. It consists of research notes and biographical sketches.

CA ETRC P996-2022-013 · File · 1942-1945
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Cartographic Material collection

This file is comprised of three geological surveys produced by the Canadian Department of Mines and Resources - Mines and Geology Branch between 1942 and 1945. The surveys Preliminary Maps of Orford, Stanstead and Brome Counties, and Mansonville, Quebec, They also each have corresponding descriptive notes either written directly on the map or as a separate document.

Government of Canada, Department of Mines and Resources, Mines and Geology Branch
Françoise Maurice
CA SHC C007-D006 · File · 2003
Part of Collection Françoise Maurice

File contains information on the accomplishments and contributions of Françoise Maurice to the community in Coaticook. It consists of a collection of newspaper articles published in 2003.

Forests and Clearings
CA ETRC P997-001-04-023 · File · 1874, 1939.
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Textual Records collection

The file contains a thoroughly annotated version of B.F. Hubbard's "Forests and Clearings," by Walter F. Beattie with additional family information and updated histories pertaining the Stanstead County area. The volume also includes original photographs of: Albert L. Knight, P.B. Wilcox, Abel Johnson, Wilder Pierce, Benjamin Pomeroy

Fish farming
CA SHC F013-S004-D012 · File · 1955-2003
Part of Fonds Yves Robillard

File presents information on fish farming in the Barnston area in teh 20th century. It consists of copies of journal articles, research documents and notes, as well as information on Louis-Roch Séguin.

Events
CA SHC C032-S002-D003 · File · 1885-[191-?]
Part of Collection Société d’histoire de Coaticook

File contains images of parades in Coaticook from about 1885 to 1925. It consists of photographs of parades in the streets of the town of Coaticook, including some showing the fire department. Streets pictured are Chartier, St-Jean-Baptiste, Gérin-Lajoie, and Cutting.

Euclide Ducharme
CA SHC F013-S001-D004 · File · 2004-2005
Part of Fonds Yves Robillard

File presents information on the lives of Euclide and Florence Ducharme in the Coaticook area from 2004 to 2005. It consists of notes from an interview with Florence Ducharme and an obituary of Antonio Tanguay.

Ephemera
CA SHC C032-S001-D009 · File · 1945-[198-?]
Part of Collection Société d’histoire de Coaticook

File presents aspects of the history of the Coaticook region from 1845 to the 1980s. It consists of a commercial gasoline ration coupon booklet (1945), a car care information book distributed the Texaco in Coaticook (1974), and patches for Baldwin and Étoile de l’Est snowmobile clubs ([198-?]).