The fonds contains source material mainly on the activities of the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles Association from 1934 to 1967 and is also of value for information relating to the activities of Eastern Townships soldiers and veterans during World War I, Quebec Branch No. 10 of the Canadian Legion of the British Empire Service League; the 117th Eastern Townships Battalion Association; and the 53rd Sherbrooke Regiment. It is comprised of the following series: Minutes (1934-1966), Correspondence (1953-1967), Membership Lists (1934-1967), Accounting and Financial Documents (1961-1966), Newspaper Clippings ([191-]-1975), Iconographic Documents ([191-]-[198-?]), Cartographic Documents (1910-1942), Personal Documents (1916-1958), Minutes of the Quebec Branch of the Canadian Legion of the British Empire Service League (1930-1942), Artefacts ([191-]-[1940?]), and Miscellaneous Documents (1915-1965).
5th Canadian Mounted Rifles Association (Sherbrooke, Que.)
The fonds contains source material on Church management, the congregation's affairs, and the Church's women's organizations for Abbotsford United Church from 1835 to 1992. It consists mainly of minutes, registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials, church histories, and photographs. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Church Boards (1930-1989), Financial Resources (1992), Annual Reports (1979), Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials (1835-1836, 1865-1879), Historical (1916-1989), Organizations (1922, 1937-1991), and Photographs ([197-?]).
The fonds contains secondary source information about the Abbott family, including a letter from Louise Abbott to the BCHS regarding lecture tapes and containing a photograph of Bill Abbott as a farmer from 1952. The fonds also contains two newspaper clippings; one concerning the death of Bill's wife, Margaret (Marnie) Langley Griggs dated January 30, 2004 and one article written by Nancy Nourse from The Record about Louise Abbott dated October 24-30, 2003.
The fonds consists of an Inventory of the property of the late Abram Goddard, with a memo of the date of birth, marriage and death of Mary Caroline Goddard, dated June, 1825.
The fonds contains four account books of general merchants at Newfane, Vt., for the years 1754 to 1793 inclusive, twenty-five books kept by general merchants at Brome, Knowlton, Stukely, Stanbridge, Bolton and Shipton, for which in most cases the name of the merchant is not recorded but the years are from 1815 to 1890, with 1820-1825 and 1883-1884 missing, and one account book of Dr. Stephen Sewell Foster for the years 1846-1850, who settled at Frost village in 1821, one of the earliest physicians in the Eastern Townships.
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.
The fonds contains source material on the Church management and the congregation's affairs for the Acton Vale Circuit from 1889 to 1927. It also provides information on the Bethany Methodist Cemetery. It consists of minutes, a deed, a register of baptisms, marriages, and burials, and a photograph. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Church Boards (1898-1922), Buildings and Property (1889), Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials (1915-1927), and Photographs ([189-?]).
The fonds contains source material on the history of the Adderley Presbyterian Church from 1960 to 1983. It consists of church histories, newspaper clippings, an order of service, and photographs. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Session (1973), and Congregation (1960-1983).
The fonds contains source material on the management and members of the Advent Christian Church of Danville from 1857 to 1934. It consists of minutes, registrations, civil status records. The fonds is comprised of the following two files: Management (1875-1932), and Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials (1857-1934).
The fonds contains source material mainly on railway development and settlement in Clinton, Hampden, Ditton, and Marston townships in Compton County and around Lake Megantic from 1873 to 1888 and on the role of the Glasgow Canadian Land and Trust Company, managed at the time by Aeneas McMaster. The fonds consists of letters sent to McMaster from 1873 to 1888 by businessmen and shopkeepers, municipal councillors or mayors, employees of the Glasgow Canadian Land and Trust Company, men in search of work, and settlers and includes a proposal for building a mill; letters signed by McMaster; and a few other documents. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Railway Companies (1876-1888), Settlement (1873-1876), Municipal Affairs (1873-1881), Miscellaneous Documents (1875-1881) and Correspondance (1876-1882).
The fonds consists of information on the history of the descendants of Joseph Haddock, from the family's settlement in Ireland in the 19th century to the departure of the last Haddocks from Kingsey Falls in 1907. It provides information on the family's Atlantic crossing, their settlement in Kingsey Falls, their genealogy, and what happened to some members of the family who emigrated to other parts of Canada and to the United States. It consists of one item, which reconstructs the Haddock family's history.
The fonds contains source material on Church management and the congregation's affairs from 1884 to 1920. It consists of minutes, financial reports, a register of baptisms, marriages, and burials, and a membership register. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Church Boards (1889-1920), Financial Resources (1888), Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials (1894-1909), and Membership (1884-1906).
The fonds contains information on the research interests of A.J.H. (aka Jack) Richardson on the Eastern Townships in 1937. It consists of one letter from Jack Richardson to doctoral advisor regarding a possible PhD dissertation topic and list of available archival (primary) sources on land settlement and geography in the Eastern Townships.
Fonds contains information pertaining to Bishop's University Polar Bear Womens' Hockey Team records, consisting of schedules, reunions, statistics (1960-1982), correspondence, memos, game/score sheets and photographs.
Series 01 pertains to a proposal to publish a Festschrift to celebrate the 50th anniversary in 1981 of the Summer School for Teachers organized by the Graduate School of Education of Bishop's University.
Series 02 pertains to Professor Alan W. Jones' publication of Lyulph Stanley : a study in educational politics. (Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1979), and includes drafts and correspondence.
"Albert & Natalie Munster 16 mm Home Movies": a 16 mm. home movie (transferred onto DVD), a detailed index is included, scenes of growing up in the Eastern Townships, particularly Sherbrooke and Lennoxville, during the 1930's into the mid-1950's. Family members filmed in these home movies: Albert and Natalie Munster. Their children: Nancy, Jim and Harry Nancy's children: Mark, as a baby. Harry's children: Elizabeth, Andrew and Cynthia.
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.
The fonds contains source material on Albert C. Skinner and his family. It also contains information mostly on the current events of Sherbrooke from 1934 to 1954, but also of Canada. It consists mainly of a scrapbook, a diary, a guest book, a book of remembrance, correspondence, two addresses, photographs, press clippings. The fonds is comprised of the following nine files: Civil Status (1964), Anniversaries (1949, 1961), Family ([18--]-[195-]), Jeweller (1954), Mayor of Sherbrooke ([193-]-[195-]), Diaries (1911-1912), Correspondence (1932-1934), Certificates (1960), and Scrapbooks (1934-1954).
The fonds contains information on the colonization of the Eastern Townships in the 19th century and source material on Mgr. Gravel's work as a historian. It consists of an album of clippings of his writings; a manuscript; two lectures given before the Eastern Townships Historical Society by Leonard A. Auger and Adolphe Fournier, respectively, and annotated by Mgr. Gravel; and a text written by Mgr. Maurice O'Bready on the Hale family. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Press Clippings (1958), Historical Writings ([195-?]) and Eastern Townships Historical Society (1960).
The collection contains primary source materials relating to Alberta Everett (née Ross), her family, and the cultural heritage of the Eastern Townships from about the 1920s to 2017. It consists primarily of photographs, audiovisual recordings, and artefacts documenting events and celebrations around Eaton Township (Bulwer, Birchton, Bury), Lennoxville, and Hatley. It also consists of some textual records attesting to the personal lives of Alberta and her family. The collection is comprised of the following series: Family History ([ca. 1920s]- [ca. 1980]), Personal Life (1944-[ca. 1990]), and Townships History ([ca. 1930]-2017).
The fonds contains information on the butcher shop owned by Leeman Mackey and also on the Mackey family. It consists of several account books (1879-1938), a calendar (1926), a schoolbook (1908), a piano method (1969) and a few photographs (1909 & 1969). The photographs show T.S. Chapman in front of "Good Cheer Lodge" in 1909 and Kathleen Mackey with classmates at the Bishopton Intermediate School in 1969 (the last class before the closure of the school). The school book is autographed "Cora Brown". Among the account books are one for the Megantic Rifle Association (1879-1902), one that appears to be for a boarding house (1889-1892), and the others are from Leeman Mackey's butcher business.
The fonds contains primary source information on the life of Alfreda Joan Leech in Sherbrooke from 1927 to 1948. It consists of piano certificates, piano reports from the Institut des Soeurs des Saints Noms de Jesus et de Marie, recital programs from the Mitchell School in Sherbrooke, an award from the Schubert Club Scholarship, a Sunday School certificate, and a marriage certificate for Henry W. Leech and E. Lily Symons.
The fonds contains primary and secondary source documents relating to Alice Maude Smith, born in Abercorn. The primary source documents are mostly family and professional photographs inserted in three photo albums.
Contains university yearbooks: 1930, 1931, 1932; photographs: COTC, No.1 Platoon, Winners of the McMurtry-Ross Cup, 1928-29; COTC 1928-1929; COTC 1930-1931; Diploma, Divinity House Certificate, 1932, signed F.G. Vial and Philip Carrington; Hood: B.A.
