Item is a photograph of the employees of Belding-Corticelli in Coaticook taken in 1938 on the occasion of the company's diamond jubilee.
Item is a photograph reproduction of the employee Christmas party of Bell Telephone in Coaticook in 1949 or 1950. Pictured in the photograph are Lucille Meunier (5th from right), Marie Blanche (2nd from right), Madeleine Brulotte (1st on left), Lorraine Brulotte, Jeanne Bédard (black dress, in front), Leatrice Dresser (kneeling at left), and unknown Fortin (light-coloured dress).
Item is a photograph of the Cameron grocery store, situated St-Marc Street in Coaticook, with a delivery wagon and horses for Laiterie Coaticook (Dairy) parked in front from about the 1940s.
Series consists of maps of Coaticook and an the surrounding areas of the Eastern Townships from the 1830s to the 1880s. It consists of the following maps: “Map showing the different railways by which the Eastern Townships can be reached” (J.H. Buffords, ca. 1880), “Map of the Eastern Townships of Lower Canada” (Dean & Mundy, ca. 1835), and sections of the “Map of the District of St. Francis, Canada East” (Putnam & Gray, 1863).
Item is a photograph of delivery wagons, pulled by horses, for the Laiterie Coaticook (Dairy) in Coaticook from about the 1940s.
Item is a photograph of the Coaticook fire brigade, including equipment, in front of Weaver's Cash Store from 1885. The photograph was taken in an unknown location. Among those pictured are: Aaron Hall, Joseph Meade, Robert Ackhurst, Proctor Otis, George Haw, George Fletcher, unknown Johnson, Harry Andrews, Thomas Pickett, Henry Edwards, Captain Samuel Moyle, Bert Morgan, Theo Edwards, Fred Varney, Alfred Smith, Daniel Doyle, Dennis Rainville, Charles Ladd, John Keenan, Allan Moyle, Fred Brown, Del Ellis, and Ajutor/Adjetor Paré.
Collection presents information on the educational institutions, community, cultural events, religious institutions, businesses, industries, and history of Coaticook from about 1830 to 2014. It consists largely of programmes, historical articles, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, maps, certificates, and correspondence. The collection is composed of the following series: Textual documents, Iconographic documents, Cartographic documents, and Scrapbooks.
File presents information on the economic history of the Coaticook region from 1875 to 2014. It consists of an account book for James Williamson for R.C. Baldwin’s store (1875), an invoice from Charles H. Bryan (freight delivery) for Belding-Corticelli (1917), a poster for J. H. Knapp’s ambulance and funeral service and a wedding book printed to J. H. Knapp ([192-?]), a flyer for Georges Vaillancourt's store (date unknown), three promotional posters for Cercle de Couture Pfaff, Felix I. Lajoie (Coton Wabasso) and J. B. Dionne (dates unknown), two wallpaper sample catalogues from W. E. Dionne & Fils (dates unknown), a programme for the Penman's employee picnic held at Jacques-Cartier Park (22 August 1953), a promotional brochure for Massey-Harris owned by Kenneth Walker (1953), a poster for Fernand Riendeau's ambulance service (ca. 1955), an article “Scientific fish culture in Quebec since 1945” by Louis-Roch Séguin (1957), an article “Étude d’un important projet pour la promotion touristique de la Station Piscicole du Lac Lyster” (1957), a brochure “Eastern Townships Fish Hatchery/Station piscicole des Cantons de l’Est” (1958), a brochure for Camping Piskiart at Lake Lyster (1960s), a ribbon from the Penman's employee picnic held at Crystal Beach in Magog (26 August 1961), two flyers for the Marché Suprême Benoit (1963) and Coaticook Pharmacy, a promotional poster for Michael Élias & Co. (ca. 1964), an article “Trout rearing with the minimum of fresh make-up water possible/Élévage de truites avec le minimum d’eau fraîche de compensation possible” by Louis-Roch Séguin, Benoit Dion and Raymond Charbonneau (1978), a commemorative photo album and medallion celebrating Niedner's 100 years in Coaticook (2014), a profile of H.L. Boisvert mill in "Le Meunier" (1990), and a cabinetry catalogue from Cabico (2014).
File contains images of schools and students in Coaticook from the 1910s to 1959. It consists of photographs of the École Gendreau elementary school, the playground at École St-Michel elementary school, and students (largely identified) of École Gendreau, École St-Michel, École Marie-Rivier St-Marc, and the students and teacher (Myrtle Glidden) in front of a one-room schoolhouse in Martinville.
File presents information on education in Coaticook from 1923 to 1971. It consists of a prize list for Marie Blanche Boisclair from the Présentation de Marie Pensionnat de Coaticook in 1923, correspondence with Romuald Dumont during his role in the planning committee for the Academie du Sacré-Coeur reunion (“l’amicale”) in 1940, two issues of the Coaticook High School Banner yearbook (1955, 1960) and statistics (school census) for the Commission scolaire de Coaticook from 1960 to 1971.
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-?]).
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.
Item is a photograph of Gendreau Street from St-Jacques sud Street in Coaticook from about the 1940s.
Item is a photograph of Gilberte Lafond in front of the Eastern Townships Telephone Company office in Coaticook, located on Main Street, taken on the 25 February 1935.
Item is a photograph of an unidentified young girl dressed for communion, in Coaticook from about the 1930s.
Item is a photograph of a group of women and a man in the Coaticook area, probably taken around the 1930s.
Item is a photograph of haying scene with horses, wagon, and farmers, near Coaticook from around the 1940s. Possibly the farm of Émile Faucher or Pierre Rodrigue.
Item is a photograph of haying scene with horses, wagon, field and river visible, near Coaticook from around the 1940s. Possibly the farm of Émile Faucher or Pierre Rodrigue.
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).
Series presents people, schools, activities, businesses, and town scenes from the Coaticook region from 1885 to 1959. It consist of photographs. The series is composed of the following files: Education, Views of Coaticook, Events, Religion, People, Military, Industry and commerce, and Transportation.
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.
Item is a souvenir programme for the musical performance of "Lolita" by the Société Musicale de Coaticook (Coaticook Musical Society) in 1934, on the occasion of the centennial anniversary of the founding of Coaticook. Included in the programme are advertisements for local businesses and an historical sketch of the Société Musicale de Coaticook.
Item is a photograph postcard of Lucille Fournier, sitting in a wheel chair, from around the 1940s.
Item is a photograph of an unidentified man in a bathing suit from Coaticook taken the 28 July 1936.
Item is a reproduced map showing towns, rivers, lakes, and township divisions of the Eastern Townships from about the 1830s. Also included are two tables of distances.
Item is a reproduced map showing the railway lines of the Eastern Townships, southern Quebec and the northern part of New England in about the 1880s. The railways lines included are those of the Grand Trunk Railway, St. John's & Montreal Railway, Otttawa & Prescott Railway, Stanstead Shefford & Chambly Railway as well as some American railroads.
File contains images of soldiers from the Coaticook area from about 1918. It consists of a reproduced photograph of two soldiers, one identified as Osias Dupuis (enlisted with the 2nd Depot Battalion, 2nd Quebec Regiment).
File presents information on men from the Coaticook area that served in the military from 1917, 1969 and the 1990s. It consists of a discharge certificate for Private John J. Forest, enlisted with the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles, and a service certificate for Sergeant J.P. G.E. Géurin, and a list of men who died in action during World War I (WWI) and World War II (WWII).
File presents information on arts and culture in Coaticook from 1930 to 1950. It consists of a souvenir programme for "Dolly (I love you)" (1930), sheet music and a souvenir programme for “Lolita” (1934), a souvenir programme for “Le Trouvère” (1935), sheet music for “Chant de ralliement” (1950), poems by Victor Péloquin/Victor de Grand-Pré ([195-?]), a programme for a conference and concert organized by the Société du Bon Parler Français and the Société St. Jean-Baptiste (1951), a programme for the annual concert for the Symphonie Vocale including a photograph of the choir (1957), and a programme for the 22nd festival of the Fédération des Fanfares Amateur de la Province de Québec organized by the Harmonie de Coaticook (1962).
Item is a catalogue of properties (farms, houses, businesses) for sale by Nunns & Moulton (agents of land, insurance and buildings) in Coaticook, Milby, Ladd's Mills, Stanhope, Barnston Township, Compton and Barford Township.