The fonds contains primary source information on the work, property and education of Manda T. Cushing family, as well as on other early residents in the Stanstead and Barnston areas from 1820 to 1885. It consists of correspondence, land deeds, promissory notes, insurance papers and accounts. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Manda Thurber Cushing (1820-1885), Charles Jackson Cushing (1873-1884, 1906) and Miscellaneous (1806-1877).
Cushing, Manda Thurber, 1798-1885The fonds contains primary source material on organization, activities, and finances for the Bibliothèque Lennoxville Library from the 1950s to 2016. It consists of meeting minutes, reports, budgets, collections, accession ledgers, activities, membership lists, correspondence and graphic material. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Administration ([ca. 1900]-1918, 1937-2013), Human Resources ([1980?]-2013), Financial Resources (1959-2016), Immoveable and Moveable Property ([195-?]-2012), Public Relations ([198-?]-2016), Membership ([198-?]-2012) and 100th Anniversary (2010-2012).
Bibliothèque Lennoxville Library (Lennoxville, Que.)The fonds contains primary source information on the Jenks family from 1870 to 1947 in Coaticook and Barnston. It consists largely of correspondence, certificates, a dairy, and photographs. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Archie N. Jenks (1907-1919), Abbott C. Jenks ([1905]-1941), Photographs ([1883?]-[ca. 1920]), Leslie H. Jenks (1877-1914) and Miscellaneous (1870-1947).
Jenks (family)The fonds contains primary source information on the Ward family of Thetford Mines from 1904 to 1988. The fonds consists of photographs, land records, correspondence, which include information on the Royal Scots of Canada, 5th Battalion; mining in the area of Thetford and Black Lake; and includes photographs from Albion Ward's summer home Lower Ireland as well as Robert Grant Ward, boxer. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Business Documents (1925-1977), Births, Marriages and Deaths (1913-1986), Estates (1966-1988), Military (1904), Photographs ([1907?]-[before 1970]), Miscellaneous (1905-1973).
Ward family (Thetford, Que.)The fonds contains primary source material on the Lively Stone Chapter, No. 16 from 1913 to 1983 and 2002. It consists primarily of notices of meetings, correspondence, cash books, dues books and a membership register. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Administration (1981-1983, 2002), Finances (1913-1982), and Membership (1913-1978).
Lively Stone Chapter, No. 16, Freemasons (Stanstead, Que.)The fonds contains primary source material on the activities of the Holyrood Chapter No. 15 in Richmond from 1913 to 1983. It consists of minutes, notices of meetings, correspondence, annual returns, financial statements, membership registers, membership dues, membership lists and a book of marks. The fonds is comprised of the following series: History (1914, 1982, 2002), Administration (1913-1983), Finances (1913-1982) and Membership (1902-1983).
Holyrood Chapter, No. 15, Freemasons (Richmond, Que.)The fonds contains primary source material on the activities of the Friendship Chapter No. 13 in Cookshire from 1902 to 1996 and 2002. It consists of minutes, notices of meetings, correspondence, annual returns, financial statements, membership registers, membership dues and a book of marks. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Historical and Constituent Documents (1954, 2002), Administration (1920-1982), Finances (1926-1982) and Membership (1902-1996).
Friendship Chapter, No. 13, Freemasons (Cookshire, Que.)The fonds contains primary source material on the Golden Rule Chapter, No. 1, between 1858 and 2023 in Sherbrooke. It consists of minutes, notices of meetings, correspondence, attendence registers, financial statements, annual returns, membership lists and membership registers. The fonds is comprised of the following series: History (1876-2023), Constituent Documents (1876-1985), Administration (1858-2015), Finances (1882-2013), Membership (1859-2014), and Photographs (1992-1995).
Golden Rule Chapter, No. 1, Freemasons (Sherbrooke, Que.)The fonds contains primary source material on the Ascot Masonic Lodge, No. 30 from 1805 to 2003. It consists of minutes of meetings, letters of correspondence, membership lists, membership applications and semi-annual returns. The fonds is comprised of the following series: History ([1917], 1950-1978), Constituent Documents (1926-1958), Administration (1887-2003), Finances ([188-?], 1901-1994), Membership (1805-1819, 1867-1992) and Photos ([194-?]).
Ascot Masonic Lodge, No. 30, Freemasons (Lennoxville, Que.)The fonds contains primary source material on the Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers Limited in Lennoxville from 1922 to 1926. It consists of correspondence, financial statements and receipts, grading statements, price lists, purchase orders and membership applications. It is comprised of the following series: Administration (1922-1925) and Financial Resources (1922-1926).
Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers LimitedThe fonds contains primary source material on the music festivals organized by the Association du Festival du Lac Massawippi between 1981 and 2004. It consists of programs, correspondence, musician profiles, minutes, finances, contracts, media relations, and photographs. The fonds is promised of the following series; Administration (1981-2004), Musicians (1990-[200-?]), and Festival Programs (1990-2004).
Le Festival du Lac Massawippi (North Hatley, Que.)The fonds contains primary source information on the education and social activities of the Goodin family in Canterbury and Bury from the 1870s to 1950. It consists of largely of correspondence, school reports, exams, composition books and a photograph. Among the correspondence are two wedding invitations: one for the marriage of Augusta Bennett and Samuel Lake, and another for Lizzie Clark. The identified authors of the correspondence are: John and Lucy Goodwin - George's brother and sister-in-law, Allen Snelling, Robert Clark, and Janet Rowe. The fonds is comprised of the following files: George Goodin Corrsepondence (1883-1890), Edith Goodin Correspondence (1948-1950) and Education ([187-?]-1949).
Goodin (family)The fonds contains primary source material on the activities of the Speid-Motyer family from 1803 to 2011. It consists of correspondence, photographs, playbooks, travel memorabilia, and genealogical research.The fonds is comprised of the following series; Janet Speid-Motyer (1902-2011), Robert Speid (1828-1846) , James Speid (1852), John Speid (1853-1861), Henry Speid (1806-1887), Arthur T. Speid (1902-1961), Margaret Speid (1836), Isobel Speid (1803-1857), Mike Motyer (1978-1983), Stephen Motyer ([2003?]-[2004?]), Music and choir groups ([2001?]-2008), Sketches ([199-?]), Other families (1658-1983), Obituaries and death notices (1847-[1995?), Petition (1771), Eastern Townships pamphlets ([1889?]-[1977?]), Heritage Lennoxville (1996), Newspaper clippings (1872-1896), Misc. ([19--?]), and Photographs (1885-2008).
Speid-Motyer (family)The fonds contains primary source information on the career of Lois Ogilvie Blanchette. It consists of music manuscripts, recordings of choir performances, and oral interviews.
Blanchette, Lois Ogilvie, 1920-2022The fonds contains primary source material on the activities of the Henry family of Lennoxville from 1893 to 1944. It consists of photographs and postcards including two of Queen Street (then Main Street) in Lennoxville, one of Ned Henry's house in Lennoxville, seven of Bishop's University, one of Bishop's University's Church Summer School class of 1921, three of the St. Francis River and two showing members of the Henry family.
Henry (family)The fonds contains primary source material on the Eastern Townships Protestant Colonization Association from 1943 to the 1990s. It consists primarily of correspondence, minutes, reports, financial information and lists of colonists. The fonds is comprised of the following series: History (1955, [199-?]), Administration (1960-1962), Land Management (1945-1962), and Finances (1943-1963).
The fonds contains primary source material on the members of the Vaudry family that moved in Lennoxville in 1905, their ancestry and descendants. It consists mainly of documents pertaining to the genealogy of the family but also the writings of Mary Olive Vaudry (1870-1951), the education of Julia Helen Vaudry (1926-2015), contracts, correspondence, a testament, a patent, school albums and photographs. It is comprised of the following files: Genealogy ([1928?]-[1929?]), Mary Olive Vaudry (1900-1934), Julia Helen Vaudry (1943-1980), Olive Craig Warren (1913-1923), Manuscripts (1898-1937), Legal and business documents (1866-[19--]), Photographs (1887-1974).
Vaudry (family)The fonds contains primary source material on the affairs and activities of the Young Women's Christian Temperance Union of Milby from 1923 to 1963. It consists mainly of minutes, account books, correspondence and publications. It is comprised of the following files: Minutes (1923-1963), Account Books (1927-1963), Reports (1933-1961), Conventions (1947-1962), Correspondence ([19--]-1963), Miscellaneous ([19--]-[1963?]).
Young Womens' Christian Temperance Union of Milby (Milby, Que.)The fonds contains primary source material on the life of Bessie Jane Banfill from 1923 to 1998. It consists of articles, biographical notes, a leaflet of her graduation ceremony and photographs. It is comprised of the following files: Biography (1923-1998), Photographs and Postcards (1924-[1975?]).
Banfill, Bessie Jane (1899-1975)The fonds contains primary source material that reflects Mary Woodward Bean's interests as a teacher and writer. It consists of school reports, school censuses, minutes from school commissions, geneology, manuscripts, a scrapbook, and research. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Education (1842-1943), Geneology ([19--?]-1996), Writings ([197-?]-[200-?]), Julia Grace Wales Research ([1915?]-[1978?]), Map ([19--?]), Legder (1859-1866), and Historical Misc. (1967-1995).
Bean, Mary Jean Woodward, 1921-2011The fonds contains source material primarily on the business life of Frank Riff and his relations. It consists of land deeds, insurance and loan records, a ledger, a cerificate of burial for William Riff and a photocopy of a photograph of the antique store that Frank Riff owned. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Land Transactions (1905-1980), Finances (1911-1961), Certificate of Burial (1894), and Photographs [19-] photocopied 2012.
Riff, FrankThe fonds contains primary source material on the activities of the Sussex Preceptory, No. 9, in Sherbrooke from 1868 to 1996. It consists of correspondence, minutes, programmes, financial ledgers, membership ledgers, a photograph, and an object. The fonds is comprised of the following series: History (1967), Constituent documents (1874), Administration (1868-1996), Financial resources (1899-1954), Membership (1900-1977), Newspaper clippings (1967), Photographs ([19--]) and Objects ([1967]).
Sussex Preceptory, No. 9, Freemasons (Sherbrooke, Que.)The fonds contains primary source information on the family life; social, religious and economic activities; and education of various members of the Douglas family, Bridgette family, and other relatives during the 19th and 20th centuries. It also contains historical information on the Farnham area, as well as genealogy. The majority of the records were produced in the Eastern Townships, many come from the New England states as well as across Canada and worldwide. It consists primarily of personal and business correspondence, postcards and photographs, historical notes and family history. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Douglas family (1812-1984), Pearson family (1868-1941), Todd family, (1863-[197-?]), Bridgette family (1850-1983), Kirkpatrick family (1850-1957), Genealogy (1969-2006), and Miscellaneous Documents (1876-18-?).
Douglas-Bridgette (family)The fonds contains source material on H.L.Flannery's business from 1908. It consists of notices of overdue taxes, correspondence, and an invoice. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Personal Correspondence (1908) and Business Correspondence (1908).
Flannery, Homer L., b. 1874The fonds contains information on the Bradley, Ayer, Boynton, LeBaron, Bowen and Cogswell families from Sherbrooke, Hatley, Bolton, Compton and Stanstead from the early 1900s to the 1960s. It consists of family trees, correspondence, an obituary and family histories.
Bradley (family)The fonds contains source material on the organization, financial resources, funding activities and cemetery lots of Gisla Cemetery Inc. from 1877 to 1996. It consists of minutes, financial statements, a letters patent, a history, a newsletter, cemetery plans, correspondence, and documents pertaining to its designation as a historical site. The fonds consists of the following files: History and Letters Patent (1964, 1968, 1996), Minutes (1895-1946, 1970-1987), Correspondence (1971-1995), Financial statements (1970-1983), Funding (1970-1980), Newsletter (1977), Cemetery lots and plans ([197-?]-1979) and Immoveable Property (1877, 1913, 1925, 1967).
Gisla Cemetery Inc. (Gisla, Que.)The fonds contains source material on the life of Hally Carrington Brent and on tourism and summer residents of North Hatley and Lake Massawippi from 1902 to the 1960s. It consists of photographs and a hand-written partial manuscript of Brent's book "The North Hatley Story". The correspondence, written by Hally C. Brent and Duncan K. Brent relates events from North Hatley and includes interesting notes on the outbreak of World War I (WWI). The fonds is comprised of the following series: The North Hatley Story manuscript ([196-?]), The North Hatley Story photographs ([199-?], Newspaper clippings (1961-1979), Photographs ([187-]-1941), and Correspondence (1914-1927), Charest-de Lauzon-Bringier family history (1797, 1948).
Brent, Hally Carrington, 1879-1968The fonds contains source material on the activities, administration and financial resources as well was the history of the Sherbrooke Hospital Foundation and of the Sherbrooke (Protestant) Hospital in Sherbrooke from 1914 to 2012. It consists largely of minutes, financial reports, newspaper clippings, publicity, donations, grants, correspondence, and histories. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Administration (1914-2012), Financial Resources (1919-2011), and Photographs ([195-?]-2008).
Sherbrooke Hospital FoundatonThe fonds contains source material on the activities of the St. Francis Valley Naturalists' Club from 1955 to 2010. It consists mainly of minutes, annual reports, financial reports, the club history, field trips and bird count information, and photographs. The fond is comprised of the following series: Administration (1955-2009), Financial Resources (1965-1997), Activities (1963-2006), Memberships (1955-2010), Projects (1974-1999) and Public Relations (1979-1994).
St. Francis Valley Naturalists' Club (Lennoxville, Que.)The fonds contains source material on the Angus House, also known as the East Angus Hotel, from 1890 to 1896. It consists of a ledger book and a photograph.
Angus House (East Angus, Que.)