This fonds contains information on the history of Stanstead College from 1872 to 2024. It consists of Documents, Pictures, Yearbooks and Artifacts.
Rock Island & Derby Line
Lovers Lane Stanstead
Homer Ayer's Hotel
Methodist Church/Centenary United Church
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).
Christ Church Stanstead
Stanstead South Church Rock Island
Kilbourn's Mills Rock Island
The fonds contains source material on Church management, the congregation's affairs, and Church organizations for the Wesley United Church in Beebe from 1875 to 2018. It also provides partial information (minutes, annual reports, etc.) on Graniteville United Church. It consists mainly of minutes, annual reports, correspondence, certificates and licences, and account books. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Church Boards (1875-2009), Legal (1933-1940), Buildings and Property (1876-2014), Financial Resources (1908-2010), Annual Reports (1919-1978, 2007), Baptisms, Marriages and Burials (1879-1992), Orders of Service (1930-2007), Funds (1936-2006), Membership (1876-2018), Historical (1897-2007), Organizations (1901-2016), Committees ([after 1890]-1968), Photographs (1877, [192-?]-1991) and Miscellaneous ([195-?] and after) .
Wesley United Church (Beebe, Que.)The fonds contains source material on Church management, the congregation's affairs, and Church organizations for Centenary United Church in Stanstead from 1831 to 2018. It consists mainly of minutes, account books, annual reports, a calendar, and civil registers. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Church Boards (1833-2013), Buildings and Property ([186-?]-2012), Financial Resources (1864-1973), Annual Reports (1912-1981, 1997, 2003, 2006, 2008), Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials (1831-1860), Orders of Service (1919-1987), Funds ([19-]-2013), Membership (1858-2018), Historical ([After 1894]-2004), Newsletters ([Between 1931-1954]), Organizations (1902-1998), Committees (1864-1983), and Press Clippings (1923-1994).
Centenary United Church (Stanstead, Que.)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 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.
The subsubseries contains information about the fair organized by the Stanstead County Agricultural and Horticultural in 2008. It consists of a programme.
The fonds contains of research done by W. Gillies Ross on the following subjects: the mines at Eustis, Capelton and Albert Mines, asbestos mining at Asbestos, the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic, the Stanstead granite industry, and covered bridges in the Eastern Townships and surrounding areas. It consists largely of research notes, research documents, photographs, and oral histories. The fonds is organized i the following series: Interviews (1944-1996), Harvard’s Baker Library Trip and Research (1887-1996), Jo Cooper (1977-1987), Newspaper Index (1971-1975), National Archive of Canada Research (1903-1921), Publications (1890-1938), Granite Project (1898-1900, 1976), Copper / Pyrite Mining Studies (1867 [Photocopied] -1996), Asbestos Mining and Landscape Research (1897 [Photocopied]-1965), Spanish Flu Research (1918 [Photocopied] -2006), Photographs (1888-1972), Maps and Plans (1767 [Photocopied] - 1979), Asbestos Mining (1950-2004), Mining Study – Correspondence (1883 [Photocopied]-2005), Book Translation (1995), Cookshire (1979), Research on covered bridges ([ca. 1990?]).
Ross, W. Gillies (1931-2019)The fonds contains information on the Stanstead North Women's Institute in Stanstead East from 1929 to 2005. It consist of Minutes, guest books, financial records, newspaper clippings, membership list. This Fonds is composed of the following series: History, Minutes, Annual Reports, Treasurer's Reports, Financial Reports, Property, Programs, Correspondence, Guest Books, Membership List, Newspaper Clippings, Scrapbooks.
The file contains primary and secondary source information on the documentary project on the Soeurs Ursulines (nuns) convent and school in Stanstead, created by Stéphane Tremblay in 2004. It consists of original digital and copied photographs of the convent, the personnel, the students, and their activities from about the 1880s to 2004. The file also includes interviews with the nuns and various community members.
Ce fonds fournit de l'information sur la gestion financière et le patrimoine de la paroisse et sur le développement de son territoire. Le fonds contient des documents financiers, les plans du territoire, un compte rendu d'une visite pastorale ainsi que des demandes et décrets d'érection pour les mouvements spirituels. Une fiche d'inventaire de l'église et des photographies complètent ce fonds.
UntitledThe file consists of photographs taken and collected by Barbara Verity, largely in the course of her work as a journalist, probably from the 1970s to the 1990s. It consists of photographs of the following: Iris Brown, Hugh Auger, Yves Comtois, Duncan McLeod, Lowell Naeve, Serena Naeve, Gérald Leduc, Tom Matthews, David Palmer, country singer Debbie unknown, Louise Abbott, Nick Nicholson, Joe Ford, Bishop Tim Matthews, Judge Abbott, St. Armand covered bridge, St. Mark's Chapel door, Huntingville Universalist Church, Massawippi Union Church, Dunham Anglican Church, Stanbridge Ridge Chapel, Philipsburg United Church, Knowlton Anglican Church, Hatley United Church, Milby covered bridge, Huntingville covered bridge, Lennoxville covered bridge, Ayer's Cliff covered bridge, Rock Island covered bridge, two unidentified covered bridges, Martin Rosengarten, Don Patriquin, and two unidentified women. Several of the photographic prints and negatives of covered bridges date from 1937 and 1947 but have been reproduced.
The file contains information on the 13th Scottish Light Dragoons. It consists of documents pertaining to Herbert Derick's research on the cap badges of Dragoons and two photographs of members of the Dragoons from the early 1900s.
Item is a photo taken in 1989 of the Wesley United Church in Beebe.
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.
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 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.
La grange ronde de la Ferme Tétreault à Stanstead.