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Pagé Family Fonds
CA BCHS BCHS1068 · Fonds · ca. 1880-2003

The fonds consists of primary and secondary source information about the Pagé family, originally from Quebec City, who came to live in the Eastern Townships through Louis Gustave Pagé (1856-1948) and Élise Gingras (1854-1894). They had six children: two daughters and four sons. Henri-Arthur Pagé (1887-1929) and his wife Catherine Moquin (1890-1990) setlled in Knowlton, along with the youngest son Ernest Pagé (1894-1978), who became a well-known commercial printer after buying the business of Henry F. Smith in Knowlton. The fonds include documents and photographs inserted in a big photo album that was created by the children of Jean-Paul Pagé, son of Henri-Arthur, and Madeleine Vézina. It contains four generations of portraits of the Pagé Family and some documents about André Pagé, who was a missionary in Africa.

Orlando John Soles Fonds
CA BCHS BCHS118 · Fonds · 1840 - 1902

The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents relating to Orlando John Soles, and members of his direct family, such as his parents Charles Soles and Sophronia Westover, his wife Henrietta E. Dow, and one of their daughter, Sarah Ellena Soles.

Orlando John Soles
CA ETRC P108 · Fonds · 1918-1955

The fonds contains source material on the organization, the activities, and the philosophy of the Orford Women's Institute from 1918 to 1955. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Minutes (1928-1954), and Accounting Books (1918-1955).

Orford Women's Institute (Orford, Que.)
CA ETRC P117 · Fonds · 1965-1968

The fonds contains source material on the organization and the activities of the North Hatley Women's Institute during the last three years of its existence (1965 to 1968). The fonds is comprised of the following series: Minutes (1965-1968), Accounting Books (1965-1968), and Correspondence (1968).

North Hatley Women's Institute (North Hatley, Que.)
CA SHS P003 · Fonds · (1919-1965)

This fond contains files from the North Hatley Women's Institute from 1919 to 1965. History and Minute books.

CA ETRC UC013 · Fonds · 1955-1987

The fonds contains source material on Church management, the congregation's affairs, and Church organizations for the North Hatley United Church from 1955 and 1987. It consists mainly of photographs, minutes, and account books. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Church Boards (1959-1978), Financial Resources (1969-1979), Orders of Service (1987), Funds (1965-1972), Organizations (1955-1982), and Photo Album ([195-]-[197-]).

North Hatley United Church (North Hatley, Que.)
CA ETRC P112 · Fonds · 1891-2011

The fonds contains primary source information on Church management and activities from 1891 to 2011. It also provides information on the New Hampshire Vermont District of Unitarian Universalist Societies, on the Canadian Unitarian Council, and on the Huntingville and Moe's River Universalist churches. It consists primarily of minutes; registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials; correspondence; membership lists; directories; newsletters; reports; and press clippings. It is comprised of the following series: Administration and Management (1899-2009), Financial Resources (1892-[1992?], [2000-2010?]), Buildings and Property (1957-1991, 2009), Membership (1891-2009), Ministry ([193-?]-1993), Worship (1927-2011), Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials (1897-2001), Organizations (1903-1992), External Organizations (1901-2010).

North Hatley Unitarian Universalist Church (North Hatley, Que.)
North Hatley Playhouse fonds
CA ETRC P139 · Fonds · 1943-1961, [199-]

The fonds contains source material on the artistic activities of the North Hatley Playhouse in North Hatley from 1956 to 1961. It is also of value as a source of information on the productions of the Community Club Players. The fonds is comprised of the following files: Programmes (1943-1962), Posters (1946), History ([199-]), Scrapbook ([1948]-1957), Correspondence (1956) and Photographs (1950 [copied 2011]).

North Hatley Playhouse (North Hatley, Que.)
CA ETRC P155 · Fonds · 1898-2010

The fonds contains source material on the history, administration, finances, activities, Board of Lady Managers, committees, subscription, accession, visitation, and construction of the North Hatley Library Association and its Library from 1898 to 2010. It consists of the Articles of Incorporation, by-laws, minutes, financial records, reports, correspondence, subscriber records, accession records, a specification for construction work, and a visitor book. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Administration of the Association (1898-1998), Administration of the Library (1901-2010), Special Events and Projects (1974-2000).

North Hatley Library Association (North Hatley, Que.)
CA ETRC P156 · Fonds · 1937-2009

The fonds contains source material on the management and activities of the North Hatley Community Centre from 1937 to 2009. It consists mainly of minutes, a charter, financial records, correspondence, membership list, member information, rental and use of the community centre, and fundraising. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Administration (1937-2007), Financial Resources (1957-2008), Membership (1979-2009), Buildings and property (1947-2007), and Photographs ([198-?]).

North Hatley Community Centre (North Hatley, Que.)
Norman Edson Fonds
CA BCHS BCHS219 · Fonds · 1910-1968

The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents relating to Norman Edson. The textual records include many secondary source documents relating to the career of Norman Edson. The photographs are the most important documents in the fonds as they are original reproductions printed by the artist and given to different clients and friends. Some of the photographs are originals that he colorized and framed. He also wrote the title on the back of the pictures.

Norman Stewart Edson
Noni Howard Collection
CA BU MG014 · Fonds · 1974-1996

Fonds contains:

  • Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Vol.1, Nos. 2 and 3, 1980
  • San Francisco's Appeal to Reason, Vol.1, No.1, 1982.
  • Books: Almost Like Dancing, by Noni Howard, Sandy Florence, Sandra Sutherland, New World Press,
    San Francisco, 1975; The Politics of Separation, by Noni Howard, New World Press, Vancouver, 1974.
    Both copies inscribed by Noni Howard to Ralph Gustafson, North Hatley, 1976
  • Publicity brochure for New World Press
  • Award certificate for Artists Embassy International, Third Prize awarded in the Third International
    Dancing Poetry Contest to Noni Howard, 1996
  • newspaper clipping, book announcement, and poetry (one signed copy)
  • book: signed copy of Share My Fantasies, by Noni Howard, 1996.
Howard, Noni
CA ETRC P255 · Collection · 1883-2006

**Box 563- Box 1:
Binder “School Reports, etc.”
-2 photographs, Bury High School, 1931, 1947
-lists of students and school districts in Bury, 1873-1881
-school fair report, 1931
-newspaper clippings, 1925-2007
-class lists, 1983-1992
-Pope Memorial School prize programme, 1960-1968
Folder: lists of schools and students, 1847-1953; public speaking 1990
Binder (red, unidentified)
-copied newspaper clippings on natural disasters, 1938-1943
Binder: Index Ch. Bks, TBT Bury Anglican church (St. Paul’s)
Binder (red); Obituaries of Bury people
a. Those written by Mrs. George Parsons, c1920s, retyped by Nina Rowell
b. Written by Nina Rowell
Photo Album; Clippings of interest: Sawyerville 1921 - 1940s, Scotstown, Sherbrooke and vicinity
Binder “nostalgia”; Typed articles from the Sherbrooke Daily Record by Nina Rowell
Binder (yellow); "Highlights and Changes in Bury in 1970", Mrs George Parsons
Bundle "History of Bury", Clippings, manuscript documents written by Nina Rowell and Mrs George Parsons, outline for the celebration of Bury's 125th anniversary.
Book of Remembrance; Donald William MacCaskill, September 3, 1957, Gould
Family trees, letters: E, F, G, H, L, P, Q

**Box 564- Box 2
Ledger: Mr. Cooper, East Angus, 1925
Folder: Bill Forms; Bury business, c1930s to c1950s, includes; Thos Stokes, J.H. Saunders, Thomas Bown; and calendars
Folder (green): Misc. documents (includes Hand written original article by Mrs. George Parsons for "Special" to the Record - June 30, 1966; Pamphlet; Exposition Cookshire Fair, 2004; International Railways history handwritten)
Folder: writings by Mrs. George Parsons and Nina Rowell
-Hand written original article by Mrs. George Parsons for "Special" to the Record - June 30, 1966
-Document; 1 page, hand written history of Memorial Park in Bury, Nina Rowell
-9 parts consolidated history of Bury Schools, Nina Rowell, 1977
-Original typed pages. "Nostalgia" by Nina Rowell - 1921 -24. Articles for The Record
Folder: Bury Athletic Association, programs (1938, 1982) and committee list (1966)
Folder: List of negatives of Photographs by H.H. Weedon : Bury
Binder (red); Bury Cem. inventory "Bury Cemetery, Bury in Action", by Stuart Coates, 1982
Binder; "Churches in the ET"; clippings and history, compiled by Nina Rowell, INCLUDES 9 photographs + 1 postcard

**Box 565- Box 3:
Binder; Family Trees – Letter "A", Nina Rowell
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "B", Nina Rowell
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "B", Nina Rowell
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "C", Nina Rowell
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "C", Nina Rowell
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "D", Nina Rowell
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "J", Nina Rowell
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "K", Nina Rowell
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "M", Nina Rowell
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "W, Y, Z", Nina Rowell

**Box 566- Box 4:
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "N", Nina Rowell
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "O", Nina Rowell
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "R", Nina Rowell
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "S", Nina Rowell
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "T", Nina Rowell
Binder; Family Trees - Letter "U-V", Nina Rowell

Binder; Family Trees - Letter "W, Y, Z", Nina Rowell
Binder; "Bury Ranges 1, 2, 3 & 4"; lot ownership form and index. Compiled by Allan Rowell for the Committee to Celebrate Bury 1836-1986.
Document; Typed sheets, 11 pages, "East Clifton ... 1799 ... 1974", author unknown. Document appears to be the history of East Clifton.
Calendar; Rosaire Roy, Bury, 1981
Calendar; Richard Rothney, Cookshire, 1981 (used)
Calendar; Prangley & CO. Bury, 1988, (new)
Document; Pope Memorial School, 1997-98
Duotang; Municipality & Township of Bury – Excerpts, Minutes 1845-1891
Notebooks; Bury Council Minutes, 1912 to 1932; hand written copies,
Binder; Family tree and history of Robert Parson, 1660-1715 of Motcombe, England
Binder; compiled by Nina Rowell

  • Excerpts from old Town Minute Books, Bury; 1855-1888
  • Excerpts from old Town Minute Books, Bury; 1891-1911
    Binder; compiled by Nina Rowell
  • Excerpts from old Town Minute Books, Bury; 1917-1929

**Box 567- Box 5:
Box; S.B. C., Brookbury Women's Institute 1935, Letters from Brookbury Men who are serving overseas, 1940-42

  • Ray Everett, 1st Light Anti-Aircraft Reg't
  • Gordon Everett, 2nd Field Reg't
  • Wilfred Webb, 2nd Canadian Forestry
  • John Buttermer, 3rd Cdn Div. Signals
  • Austin Buttermer
  • Bruce Hooker, RCAF
  • Clayton Gray, RCAF
  • Buster Martin, 2nd Field Reg't
  • Emerson Martin, KIA
  • Bill Martin, RCAF
  • Letter from Red Cross re: Hong Kong parcel, 1942
    Book; "Memorial Trek 2004", Western Association of Leavitt Families" (Hatley)
    Booklet; "Island Brook School, Grade 6 Yearbook, 1963-1964", with pictures
    Booklet; " 1968-69 OUA Year Book", Island Brook School, with pictures
    Notebook; "Missionary", Hand written story by Violet Wood, post 1894
    Calendar: Rosaire Roy, Boucherie, Bury 1992, (new)
    Document: History of Telephone System in Bury, Nina Rowell
    Document; Information on the Bury Telephone System, Donalda Parsons (a personal account)
    Document; War Time Memories, Nina Rowell, 2006
    Postcard; From Margaret R. Stoddard to Mr J Drennan, Cookshire c1950s
    Document; History of the Bury Branch #48, Nina Rowell, 2006
    Documents; Family Group Records; Allaire to Delinde
    Document; Canada Day in Bury, Nina Rowell, 1982
    Document; Float Results, Bury Parade, 1983
    Document; Pope Memorial School; Physical Education Awards, compiled by Nina Rowell, 1975
    Document; Severe storm of 1901 ... Bury, Mrs George Parsons, 1967
    Various loose documents from scrapbooks that were not retained
    Scrapbook; Clippings, "Bits of Nostalgia" Articles written by Nina Rowell for the Record, 1984¬
    Map; Ontario (hand-drawn), undated, rolled
    Map; Quebec (hand-drawn), A.J. Cascadden, Cookshire P.Q., rolled
    Map; Nova Scotia (hand-drawn), undated, rolled
    Photos; Quebec Women Institute, Symposium at MacDonald College 1957-58. Some annotated with names. Mrs. George Parsons collection.
    Photo; Old farm house with 4 people (unnamed), circa 1920s (in bad shape)

**Oversized documents
• Map; Bury, Comte de Compton, Ministere des terres et forets, 1939: blue print showing lot and range lines, pre 1802, 1862 and 1903. (rolled and in a tube)
• Map; Village of Bury, hand drawn Nina Rowell. (rolled)
• Map; Plan of St. Paul's Cemetery; 1960 drawn by W.W. Bake (rolled)
• Map; Island Brook; 1860 to 1993, by Ruth Burns Morrow (rolled)
• Map: Township of Bury 1855, Lots and Ranges, showing ownership, hand drawn by Nina Rowell (rolled)
• Map: Township of Bury 1863, Lots and Ranges, showing ownership, hand drawn by Nina Rowell (rolled)
• Map: Township of Bury 1917, Lots and Ranges, showing ownership, hand drawn by Nina Rowell (rolled)
• Map: Official Map of the Township of Bury, 1894, updated 1897, 1903, 1929..(Card stock -old, flat)
• Calendar backs for:
o R.N. Mayhew, Bury Meat Market 1928
o A.J. Barter, Meat Market, Bury, 1931
o Lizotte Bros., Flour and Feed Merchants, Bury, c1930s
o R.J. Mackay, Groceries, Bury, Quebec, c1938 with pencil notes on the back
• Photos; 10 ea 16" x 20", the photos make up the contents of "Map of the District of St. Francis", Putnam and Gray, 1863, reproductions. Photos come from the National Map Collection, Public Archives Canada 1980. (transferred to OL, map cabinet, drawer 1)
• Posters: 4. Cookshire Academy class pictures with positional drawings for each person with number. Years 1890s to 1930s (INCLUDES 7 photographs)
• Poster: 2. Large with various old letter head, billing headers, old cheques of the various merchants of the village of Bury, circa 1920 to 1940.

Nina May Pickel Owens Fonds
CA BCHS BCHS1097 · Fonds · 1876-2001

The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents about Nina May Pickel, married to Owen Ernest Owens. The textual records contains personal and family documents but also documents about her professional career as a painter. The photographs include family portraits, some of them being ambrotype and tintype, and postcards.

Nina May Pickel Owens
CA BU MG031 · Fonds · 1805-1909

The fonds includes primarily correspondence, but also includes diaries, clippings, notebooks and various other items

Nicolls-Mountain
Nichols Family Fonds
CA BCHS BCHS812 · Fonds · 1859-1915; 1973

The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents relating to the Nichols family of Potton Townships. They include documents, photographs and diaries of Joshua Levi Nichols, his wife Jemima Carter and their son George Nichols.

Nichols, Joshua Levi
Nicholas Austin fonds
CA BCHS BCHS010 · Fonds · 1799 - 1810

The fonds contains primary source information regarding Nicholas Austin. The fonds contains the following series: Correspondence (1799-1807); Legal Papers (1810).

Austin, Nicholas
Newton Brookhouse fonds
CA ETRC P042 · Fonds · [189-?]

The fonds contains source material on daily life in the Georgeville area at the end of the 19th century and on the machinery in use at the Magog Textile Mill during that period. It consists of glass negatives of portraits (children, women, men), group and family pictures, exterior scenes (horses, buildings, landscapes), and the Magog Textile Mill.

Brookhouse, Newton, 1849-1917
Newport Township collection
CA ETRC P256 · Collection · 1790-1937

The collection contains primary source information on the administration of Newport Township, financial transactions in the Township, the lives of its citizens, legal affairs, military operations, and land division, from 1790 to 1937. It consists primarily of meeting minutes, correspondence, account statements, and land deeds, among many other types of records. The collection is comprised of the following series: Administrative (1791-1880), Financial Records (1790-1900), Correspondence (1799-1893), Legal Documents (1792-1834), Military (1792-1830), Land and Property (1799-1937), and Miscellaneous Documents (1815-1937).

Nelson Martin fonds
CA BCHS BCHS085 · Fonds · 1813

The fonds contains a family record of Nelson Martin and a birth certificate of Nelson Keene Martin.

Martin, Nelson
Nathaniel Call fonds
CA BCHS BCHS019 · Fonds · 1830-10-11

The fonds consists of quit claim to Lewis Frost, of Bolton, Lot No. 21, Range 1, Township of Stukely, dated October 11, 1830 at Stukely.

Call, Nathaniel
Nathan A. Fish fonds
CA BU MG101 · Fonds · 1918-1919

Diary kept by Nathan A. Fish while he was a student at Bishop's University. Begins January 1, 1918. Last entry January 13, 1919. Of particular interest is an account of the local (Lennoxville) celebrations of the Armistice on November 11, 1918.

Fish, Nathan A.
Nash Family fonds
CA BCHS BCHS092 · Fonds · 1795-1842

The fonds consists of primary source documents relating to the Nash family of Brattleboro, Vt, who came to live in Brome County. It includes documents relating to Ephraim Nash (1754-1816), married to Hannah Wells; their son Alfred Nash (1793-1861), married to Lucinda Knowlton Willard (daughter of Samuel Willard); and their son Ephraim Nash (1820-1851), married to Harriet Parker. Ephraim Nash and his grandson were official surveyor for the East Farnham region.

CA ETRC P083 · Fonds · 1856-1866

The fonds contains source material on the activities of the Municipal Council of Shefford County as well as the Townships of Ely and Milton between 1856 and 1866. The fonds consists of two court settlements, a public notice, a summons notice, two oaths and seven letters related to the affairs of the aforementioned Council and Townships.

Municipality of Shefford County (Shefford, Que.)
Municipality of Ascot fonds
CA ETRC P095 · Fonds · 1831-1891

The fonds contains source material on the development of roads, education, and land ownership in the Municipality of Ascot from 1830 to 1890. It relates mainly to the relations of Ascot Municipal Council with residents, other municipalities (Sherbrooke, Compton, Westbury), and provincial government agencies. The fonds consists mainly of reports and notices on road and bridge construction and maintenance, produced by the local surveyor and his assistants and by the Deputy Grand Voyer. Residents' petitions, Municipal Council correspondence, and land-sale contracts are also present. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Roads and Bridges (1845-1872), Real Estate and Taxation (1831-[1881?]), Education (1846-1851), and Miscellaneous Documents ([185-?]-1891).

Municipality of Ascot (Ascot, Que.)
Monique Nadeau fonds
CA ETRC P243 · Fonds · 1983-2017

The fonds contains information on the professional life of Monique Nadeau from 1983 to 2017. It consists of articles, reports, correspondence, prizes, research works, and photographs. It is comprised of the following series: Professional life, Honours and acheivements, Publications and writings, Education, Personal life, and Photographs.

Nadeau, Monique (1929-)
Mme. Nichols collection
CA SHC C037 · Collection · 1956, [197-?]

The collection consists of compiled transcripts and excerpts of documents from various women's groups and churches in the Coaticook area, including:
-letter of resignation as secretary for the Women's Missionary Society of the Coaticook United Church from Ethel Rogers (1956)
-Mission Band Report by Isabelle Wadleigh 1956
-compiled list of members of the United Church Women of the Coaticook United Church for 1946-1974
-documents for Young Ladies Circle Poetry -compiled list of the Membership roll (of the United Church? ) for the Compton area 1861-1854
-extracts from United Church Women minutes, 1960s
-list of burials at "Old Moulton Burying Ground" cemetery
-transcript of Young Ladies Circle financial accounts from 1898-1927
-transcript of various documents from women's organizations at Sisco Memorial United Church in Coaticook
-extracts from Coaticook Methodist Church Board of Trustees from 1877-1919

Mizener family fonds
CA BCHS BCHS790 · Fonds · [186?]-1976

The fonds contains primary and secondary source information regarding the Mizener family, including Karl A. Mizener.

Mitchell family fonds
CA BCHS BCHS789 · Fonds · [ca. 1870]-1981

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.

CA ETRC P142 · Fonds · 1915-1922

The fonds contains source material on the organization and activities of the Missisquoi County Anti-Alcholic League from 1915 to 1922 in the planning of an election under the Canada Temperance Act in the County of Missisquoi. It consists of minutes. The fonds is comprised of the following file: Minutes (1915-1922).

Missisquoi County Anti-Alcholic League (Missisquoi County, Que.)