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Parade, Coaticook
CA SHC C032-S002-D003-001 · Item · [189-?]
Part of Collection Société d’histoire de Coaticook

Item is a photograph of a parade with the fire brigade, including equipment, on St-Jean-Baptiste Street in Coaticook around the 1890s with the Casino Theatre, owned by Charles W. Kennedy, (later the Rivoli Theatre owned by Mr. Barzan followed by Mr. Charbonneau) and Dionne store in the background.

CA SHC C032-S001-D001 · File · 1888-2003
Part of Collection Société d’histoire de Coaticook

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).

Iconographic documents
CA SHC C032-S002 · Series · 1885-1959
Part of Collection Société d’histoire de Coaticook

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.

Events
CA SHC C032-S002-D003 · File · 1885-[191-?]
Part of Collection Société d’histoire de Coaticook

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.

Coaticook fire brigade
CA SHC C032-S002-D003-002 · Item · 1885
Part of Collection Société d’histoire de Coaticook

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.

CA SHC C032-S003-002 · Item · [188-?]
Part of Collection Société d’histoire de Coaticook

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.

Textual documents
CA SHC C032-S001 · Series · 1875-2014
Part of Collection Société d’histoire de Coaticook

Series presents information on various aspects of Coaticook history from 1875 to 2014. It consists of programmes, historical articles, newspaper clippings, maps, certificates, and correspondence. The series is composed of the following files: History of Coaticook and region, People, Military, Music and theatre, Religion, Commerce and industries, Education, Property and land, and Ephemera.

Commerce and industries
CA SHC C032-S001-D006 · File · 1875-2014
Part of Collection Société d’histoire de Coaticook

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).

CA SHC C032 · Collection · [183-?]-2014

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.

Cartographic documents
CA SHC C032-S003 · Series · [183-?]-[1880?]
Part of Collection Société d’histoire de Coaticook

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).