Fonds illustrates the activities and membership of the golden age club "Sourire à la vie St-Marc" in Coaticook from 1974 to 1987. It consists of the club's newsletter, titled Sourire Saisonnier.
Sourire à la Vie Golden Age Club of St-Marc'sFonds illustrates Jeanne Lesieur's education and training as a nurse from 1908 to 1918. It consists of two certificates, one from the nursing school of the St-Vincent-de-Paul Hospital and the Victorian Order of Nurses, and a photocopy of a book dedication received as a school prize.
Lesieur, JeanneItem is a map drawn by Yves Robillard showing the roads, properties, industries and residents of Baldwin's Mills at about 1900.
Series contains information primarily related to the funeral and ambulance service operated by the Lefebvre family in Coaticook from the 1930s to the 1950s. It also contains items relating generally to the family from 1910 to 1951. The series consists of posters, advertisments, a newspaper article about the golden anniversary for Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lefebvre, an extract of a baptismal record for David Lefebvre, and a newspaper reprint of a Coaticook hockey time.
Series presents information on the life of Wilbrod Labbé from around 1935 to 2001. It consists of an unaddressed letter to a love interest, auction announcements, and two anniversary souvenirs for Mr. Labbé and his wife, Clara.
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.
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 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.
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.
Collections presents coroner's inquests for cases from the Coaticook area from 1867 to 1984. It consists of coroner's inquests reports.
The file consists of a digital reproduction of the East Clifton Busy Bees' Cook Book, probably from the late 1970s. The Busy Bees were first organized as a Sunday School class of the East Clifton Methodist (later United) Church for teenage girls.
The file consists of one poem composed by Reverend Alfred Bright in 1928 in which he includes the name and the cooking speciality of each member of the Society.
The file consists of a digitized PDF image of the artwork “Notre-Dame-de-Sherbrooke Reine de l’Estrie” with a prayer on the verso.
The item is a reproduced album showing the relocation of houses, businesses, services, and the Quebec Central Railway tracks to accommodate the expansion of the open-pit asbestos mines in Thetford Mines from 1953 to 1956.
The file consists of two postcards to Alice Schoolcraft of Hatley, written to her from Gordon and Margaret in 1912 and 1919, including references to school, teachers, and Santa.
The file consists of the diary of a young teacher named Mabel during the time of the settlements in the Eastern Townships. The diary is titled "Leaves from the Diary of a Canadian Teacher in 1836". It follows the twelve-week period in which Mabel travels to a town or village to be a teacher (maybe Bondville, Knowlton). It contains information on everyday life, such as the way the houses were built in that area, the accommodations where Mabel was boarding, the type of food she ate and the way religion was celebrated and perceived by some. The author also gives information on many families such as the Furniss', the Burtons, the Carnes, the Murrays and the Wests. She also speaks of a Mr. Gardner, who is later arrested and thrown in the Sherbrooke jail and of a "brother Clifton" who owns a small grist mill. There is also a passage on the economy of the region, in which Mabel explains the process of making "Salts" (a.k.a. potash and pearlash). She mentions some of her students and their academic background, but all in all, there is little information on school life.
Item is the programme for the festival Hommage aux premiers arrivants écossais / Honor to the first Scottish Settlers which took place in Lake Megantic in 1996.
The file consists of a recipe book compiled by the Cookshire Women's Institute from before 1949. It also includes brief historical notes on the town and region.
The file contains a skit, title "Train on the Podunk", which was probably performed in the Brome Lake area around the 1890s. The author is unknown.
The item consists of a programme for "A Shamrock Evening", which included music and theatre production, performed at Mont-Notre-Dame in Sherbrooke on 13 April 1913.
The item consists of a programme for an evening of music and dancing held to benefit the 1st Lennoxville Volunteer Rifle Corps at the Albion Hotel in Lennoxville in 1863.
Item is a copy of the lyrics and music sheet for the song "Where the Upper Mississippi Winds It's Way", words by Arthur E. Randel, music by Burt Wallace, 1913.
Item is a photocopy of the song "Sherbrooke", written and composed by A. E. J. McCreary as a souvenir of the visit to Sherbrooke of the Dowager Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava.
Item is a photocopy of "Chansons d'autrefois, collection de bonnes vieilles chansons."
Item consists of lyrics and music sheets for the song "In the Good Old E.T.", words and accompaniment by Bertha Weston Price, Woodland Bay, Quebec.