Rock Island & Derby Line
Lovers Lane Stanstead
Homer Ayer's Hotel
Methodist Church/Centenary United Church
Christ Church Stanstead
Stanstead South Church Rock Island
Kilbourn's Mills Rock Island
The file contains primary and secondary source information on Henry Seth Taylor and his invention of the steam buggy in Stanstead in the 1860s, collected and created by Randy Piercey for the production of a podcast. It consists of research, interviews, photographs, and supporting recordings as well as a completed version of the podcast.
The subsubseries contains information about the fair organized by the Stanstead County Agricultural and Horticultural in 2008. It consists of a programme.
The file consists of a teen film project by the Stanbridge East Sports Association, titled "Asa's Red Sashes", on the subject of the Fenian Raids, as well as a grant report from 2007 to 2010 and a film by Louise Abbott, titled "Historic Georgeville: Walks and Talks with John Boynton," from 2011.
Item is a photo taken in 1989 of the Wesley United Church in Beebe.
The Union Meeting House was built in 1866 by Jeremiah Spear, inspired by the architecture of American "meeting houses". The Union Meeting House was used by several denominations, including the Methodists, but Adventists took possession of it in 1896, the people of that faith being the last in Beebe Plain not to have a church of their own.
Item is a postcard view of the a road leading up to the covered bridge in Fitch Bay, printed for the Beebe-Rock Island-Stanstead Chamber of Commerce, probably taken around the 1980s.
Item is a postcard of the Lee Farm property (built 1801) in Rock Island, printed for the Beebe-Rock Island-Stanstead Chamber of Commerce, probably taken around the 1980s.
Item is a postcard view of the covered bridge in Fitch Bay, taken from the water, printed for the Beebe-Rock Island-Stanstead Chamber of Commerce, probably taken around the 1980s.
La grange ronde de la Ferme Tétreault à Stanstead.
La grange ronde de Joseph Ruff à Beebe Plain, détruite en 1982.
Item is a documentary project researched and produced by Barbara Verity and narrated by Joyce Cochrane on covered bridges in the Eastern Townships, produced around 1977. Included in the documentary are images of the covered bridges at Fitch Bay (Narrows), Milby, Capelton, Coaticook (Drouin), Stanbridge East (Monaghan), Melbourne (Creek/Gibson), Highwater (Province Hill/de la Frontière), Gould (Fisher Hill/McVetty-McKenzie), Ste-Catherine-de-Hatley (Rexford), Cowansville (Freeport), Notre-Dame-de-Stanbridge (Pike River/des Rivières), and Island Brook (McDermott).
Item is a postcard featuring a boat with to passengers on Lake Memphremagog, with Mount Elephantus in background.
Item is a postcard featuring a orange leaf tree in front of Lake Memphremagog, with Mount Orford in the background.
The fonds contains primary source material on the activities, administration and membership of the United Steeples Pastoral Charge in the Stanstead area from 1969 to 2019. It consists primarily of minutes, registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, and reports. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Church boards (1981 -2018), Banns/marriage certificates (1978-2015), Annual reports (1972-2018), Baptisms, marriages, and burials (1994-2007), Membership (2013-2019), Organization (1990-2008), and Committees (1986-2002).
The item is a photograph of the Butterfield hockey team with Maurice “The Rocket” Richard at the new Border Arena in Stanstead in 1954.
The item is a photograph of the Centenary United Church in Stanstead in winter, taken around 1955.
Item a July 1st (Canada Day) parade float organized by the Wesley United Church from around the 1950s. Included are: Dave Grieve, Dol (Searles) Wilson, Harry Searles, (back) Hazel Laberee, (back), Richard Eryou, (front) Pat Taylor, (front) Marlene (Rediker) Sutton, (front) Della (Rediker) Goodsell, (front) Frances Grieve (Sutherland), (back) Mary Lees, (front) Irene Rediker, (back) Shirley (Hunter) Grieve, (front) unknown Carbonneau, (back) Janice (Denney) Sommerville, (back) Bob Denney, (back) Arlene Ewan, (front) Larry Meyette, (front) Reg Meyette, (front) Myrnie Nutbrown, (front) Ronald Ewan.
The item is a photograph of members of the Tomifobia Women's Institute, pictured holding refreshments in glass bottles, probably taken in the 1950s. Pictured are (seated, l-r) Jessie (née McIntyre) Soutiere, Lyn Bolduc, Olive (née Ticehurst) Emslie, (standing, l-r) Mildred (née Brown) Rever, Eva (née Hastings) Hibbard, and Eula Mosher.
Item is a postcard featuring a swimmer looking at the lake steamer Anthemis, on Lake Memphremagog, with Mount Elephantus in background. The Canadian Red Ensing can be seen on the rear of the boat.
The Union Meeting House was built in 1866 by Jeremiah Spear, inspired by the architecture of American "meeting houses". The Union Meeting House was used by several denominations, but Adventists took possession of it in 1896, the people of that faith being the last in Beebe Plain not to have a church of their own.