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Abel family fonds
CA BCHS BCHS360 · Fonds · 2002

The fonds contains secondary source information on the Abel family, including a letter (BCHS) dated February 1, 2002.

Aiken family fonds
CA BCHS BCHS363 · Fonds · [ca. 1966]-1996

The fonds consists of primary and secondary source information regarding the Aiken family, living in the Mansonville region.

Achilles family fonds
CA BCHS BCHS361 · Fonds · 1957-1959

The fonds contains primary and secondary source information concerning the Achilles family, including correspondence from Walter B. Smith to Mr. Shuffelt and from Michel Sarrazin to Mr. Smith. The fonds also contains an extrait from the Early Settlers of Brome County, P.Q., detailing the life of Charles Baum Achilles (1790-1835[?]) dated July 28, 1958, as well as brief genealogies of the Achilles family.

CA BCHS BCHS1093 · Fonds · 1955-2000

The fonds consists of primary and secondary source administrative documents relating to the Brome County Farm Forum Association. It includes the minute book (not bound) from 1955 to 1968, correspondence, financial documents, activity reports and printed handbooks.

Brome County Farm Forum Association
CA BCHS BCHS1094 · Fonds · 1949-1991

The fonds consists of primary and secondary source administrative records relating to the Brome County Cooperative Medical Service. This includes minute books from 1949 to 1986, correspondence, financial records, reports and medical claim forms [FULL RESTRICTION ON THIS FOLDER].

CA BCHS BCHS1092 · Fonds · 1949-1955

The fonds consists of primary source documents relating to the Sutton Farm Forum Association, a non-profit organization aimed to propose forum meetings and conferences about the agricultural world, for the farm owners of the Sutton region. The first board of directors included Maurice D. Hastings, Chairman; Lynn Reid, Vice-Chairman; G. F. Knights, Secretary-Treasurer; and Herbert McElroy, Secretary Assistant.

Dryburgh family fonds
CA BCHS BCHS535 · Fonds · 1942

The fonds consists of primary source information relating to the Dryburgh family. It includes an official document and a certificate for a Victory Loan, owned by James Arthur Dryburgh (1875-1969) and his daughter-in-law Ruby Geraldine Dryburgh (1900-1987).

William E. Pettes fonds
CA BCHS BCHS291 · Fonds · 1939-1988

The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents relating to William Edward Pettes (1885-1988), married to Lettie Mizener. The textual records concerns his career as the Quebec Central Railway Company and the numerous honors received on his 100th, 101th and 102nd birthdays.

Knowlton Grove Hotel Fonds
CA BCHS BCHS1106 · Fonds · [1930]-2000

The fonds consists of a souvenir folder created by Hugh McVittie of Ridgetown, Ontario, who came to stay at the Knowlton Grove Hotel during his childhood around 1940 to 1946. It contains information about the hotel, a hand drawn map of the different buildings and many photographs taken during that period. The Knowlton Grove Hotel used to be operated by the Knowlton Conference Association.

Edward Charles Gladding
CA BCHS BCHS1105 · Fonds · 1927-1929

The fonds consists of primary and secondary source information relating to Edward Charles Gladding, who came to Canada through the British Home Children program, and was shortly sheltered in Gibbs home in Sherbrooke. It includes a personal document and a photograph of him, and digitized copies of newspaper articles about his violent death.

Homer M. Blackwood
CA BCHS BCHS312 · Fonds · 1924-1999

The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents relating to Homer Mitchell Blackwood, son of James Blackwood and Bertha May Tibbits. The textual records include documents about James Blackwood, Bertha May Tibbits and the private and professional life of Homer M. Blackwood. An important file concerns the death of Homer Blackwood in 1999. The photographs depict official and personal portraits of the Blackwood/Tibbits family.

Blackwood, Homer Mitchell
Albert Bethune Carley
CA BCHS BCHS1098 · Fonds · 1915-1924

The fonds consists of two bulky souvenir albums containing primary and secondary documents relating to the period when Albert Bethune Carley was in Europe as a military volunteer during WWI and his return to Canada. It includes many military documents, invitations, events programs and an important collection of personal photographs and commercial postcards depicting places that A.B. Carley visited or scenes of the war.

Bert Edwin Phelps
CA BCHS BCHS1114 · Fonds · [ca. 1914]-1978

The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents relating to Bert Edwin Phelps, married to Gertrude Annie Wright. The textual records and photographs concerns his personal, professional and military life, including commercial information about the products that he sold on his farm in Foster, under the names "Sunset Farm" and "Rushbrook". The diaries cover most of his active life, from 1921 to 1978.

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
Cooper Family Fonds
CA BCHS BCHS494 · Fonds · [ca. 1910]-2002

The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents relating to the Cooper family, particularly the descendants of William Brill Cooper and Sarah Jane Davis who were born in Bolton.

Skinner family fonds
CA BCHS BCHS945 · Fonds · [ca. 1910, 1916]

The fonds contains secondary source information regarding the Skinner family, including Family Charts of Thomas Skinner (b. 1731).

Hon. Gerald DeCourcy fonds
CA BCHS BCHS031 · Fonds · 1908-07-23

The fonds consists of a statement of the military activities of the Gerald DeCourcy, dated July 23, 1908.

DeCourcy, Gerald
Slade family fonds
CA BCHS BCHS946 · Fonds · [1908]

The fonds contains secondary source information regarding the Slade family, including information on Edward and Euphemia Tuder Slade and on the Black Lake American Asbestos Mines.

CA BCHS BCHS186 · Fonds · [ca. 1902-1932]

The fonds consists of primary source information relating to the Knowlton Conference Association, including a scrapbook-style binder containing administrative and communication documents, and a collection of glass positives depicting the Knowlton Conference activities through the years.

Knowlton Conference Association
Sisco Bros. fonds
CA BCHS BCHS235 · Fonds · 1892-1917

The fonds consists of primary source information regarding the Sisco Bros. business and legal activities in the Eastern Townships from 1892 to 1917. The fonds contains the following series and sub-series: 1) Business (1892-1902): Ottawa Hotel, Lake View House, Mansonville Hotel, Miscellaneous; and 2) Legal (1892-1917): Personal, Business, Successions and Estate.

Sisco Bros.
Sally E. Wood fonds
CA BCHS BCHS202 · Fonds · [ca. 1890-1917]

The fonds consists of glass negative photographs taken by Sally Wood (1857-1928), Knowlton Photographer. The negatives showcases Brome County and the many picturesque countryside scenes and architecture of the area.

Wood, Sally E., 1857-1928
Harris G. Shufelt
CA BCHS BCHS1100 · Fonds · 1889-[ca. 1950]

The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents relating to Harris G. Shufelt of East Farnham. It includes family souvenirs kept by Mr. Shufelt, such as the diaries of Ruth Ingalls Brimmer, Mary Eliza Brimmer Collins and Harry Wyatt, and genealogical research documents written by his wife Carol McCaw Shufelt. The photographs contains many pictures of personal and professional activities of Mr. Shufelt, and an interesting photo album of the Shufelt, Collins and Brimmer family members, including many portraits done by John Austin Wheeler, as his wife was a Collins.

Capt. Eli W. Hall fonds
CA BCHS BCHS268 · Fonds · 1887-01-12-1889-02-15

The fonds contains primary source documents relating to Captain Eli W. Hall of East Farnham. The documents consists of two invitations addressed to Captain E.W. Hall and Ladies, to attend annual ball ceremonies in Sweetsburg.

Eli Wanton Hall
CA BCHS BCHS1110 · Fonds · 1886-[ca. 1946]

The fonds consists of primary source documents relating to Rev. William Adolphus Fyles, son of Rev. Dr Thomas William Fyles and Mary Myers. It includes a biography of the man, perhaps handwritten by Viola Hurlbut Beaudoin, and photographs of W.A. Fyles and the Anglican Church of Iron Hill that was built by his father Rev. T.W. Fyles.

Hazel Jones
CA BCHS BCHS1099 · Fonds · 1886-1977

The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents relating to Hazel Jones of East Bolton. It includes mostly the collection of diaries that she wrote from 1910 to 1970, and photographs of her family, with children and grandchildren souvenirs.

George Reed fonds
CA BCHS BCHS107 · Fonds · 1881-1891

The fonds consists of a deed from Gardner Kneeland to Hannah Arnitage, Wife of Geo. Reed, dated September 1, 1881, at Waterloo, an obligation and mortgage to Otis W. Hills, dated June 16, 1884, at Waterloo, and a commutation of interest and receipt, dated January 10, 1891, at Waterloo.

Reed, George
MacDonald Family
CA BCHS BCHS748 · Fonds · [1881-1915]

The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents relating to Dr. Robert Tyre MacDonald of Sutton, consisting mostly of photographs of him at different moments in his adult life.

Robert Tyre MacDonald
Lace Family Fonds
CA BCHS BCHS1078 · Fonds · [ca. 1880-1930]

The fonds consists of primary source information relating to the Lace family that lived in Foster. It includes framed portraits and a little photo album containing pictures of William Henry Lace (1864-1948) and Ruth Lucinda Whitehead (1870-1942) family, including John Edwin Lace (1897-1977) and Fred Ambrose Lace (1892-1959).

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.

Fordyce Corner School Fonds
CA BCHS BCHS184 · Fonds · 1877-1938

The fonds contains Thomas Kearns' school journal for 1877, recording the names of the male scholars and their attendance, with an added biography of the teacher, by his son J. Homer Kearns, and a letter from J. Homer Kearns explaining why the document should be preserved.

Thomas Kearns