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CA BCHS BCHS102 · Fonds · 1783-1886

The fonds contains primary source information regarding James Pettes and his son James Nelson Pettes, including Deeds, Last Will and Testament and agreements.

Pettes, James Nelson
William E. Pettes fonds
CA BCHS BCHS291 · Fonds · 1939-1988

The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents relating to William Edward Pettes (1885-1988), married to Lettie Mizener. The textual records concerns his career as the Quebec Central Railway Company and the numerous honors received on his 100th, 101th and 102nd birthdays.

Frost Brothers fonds
CA BCHS BCHS049 · Fonds · 1820 - 1832

The fonds contains primary source information regarding Jonathan and Richard, two brothers who settled in Shefford County, including deeds and legal documents relating to Charles and Lewis Frost, that could be sons of Richard Frost.

Call family fonds
CA BCHS BCHS452 · Fonds · 1902-[198?]

The fonds contains primary and secondary source information regarding the Call family, including documents and photographs.

Alice Maude Smith
CA BCHS BCHS1090 · Fonds · 1866-1938

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.

Smith, Alice Maude
CA BCHS BCHS234 · Fonds · 1940-[195?]

The fonds consists of primary source documents relating to the Scott Family of East Dunham, also known as Scottsmore, particularly the family of Frank Scott and Donna Scott.

Scott Family
Proper family fonds
CA BCHS BCHS865 · Fonds · 1827-1971

The fonds contains primary source information regarding the Proper family, including Peter Benjamin Proper, married to Sarah Traver, and their son Arthur Proper, married to Lillian Sears of Sutton.

Iron Hill Village Fonds
CA BCHS BCHS4045 · Fonds · [187?-189?]

The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents relating to the Iron Hill village, including photographs of people and scenes from the village.

Frosst family fonds
CA BCHS BCHS583 · Fonds · [185?-189?]

The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents relating to the Frosst family.

French family fonds
CA BCHS BCHS579 · Fonds · n.d.

The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents relating to the French family.

Hon. Sydney A. Fisher Fonds
CA BCHS BCHS259 · Fonds · [186?]-1991

The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents relating to the Hon. Sydney Arthur Fisher, who became member of Parliament from 1896 to 1911 for the Brome County, and Minister of Agriculture. He lived in a beautiful house beside Brome Lake, named Alva House.

Draper family fonds
CA BCHS BCHS533 · Fonds · [186?]-1946

The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents about the Draper family, particulary in relation with John Colburn Draper and his wife Harriet Alma Downs, and their son Dennis Colborne Draper, who became brigadier-general during WWI.

John McCorkill fonds
CA BCHS BCHS090 · Fonds · 1822

The fonds contains primary and secondary source information regarding John McCorkill, including notarial copies of Deeds and a copy of an Inventory of Property.

McCorkill, John
Boright family fonds
CA BCHS BCHS416 · Fonds · [185?]-1985

The fonds contains primary and secondary source information regarding the Boright family. The fonds consists of Boright family papers and an interesting collection of photographs, some of them dating back to the 1850's.

Atwell Family Fonds
CA BCHS BCHS373 · Fonds

The fonds contains primary and secondary source information regarding the Atwell family, including information on the death of Volney Gilmore Atwell as well as a photograph of Volney G. Atwell's Saw Mill in Mansonville.

W.H. Eldridge Fonds
CA BCHS BCHS040 · Fonds · 194?-194?

The fonds contains two copies of a genealogy of the Eldred or Eldridge family (12 pages), written by W.H. Eldridge, clothing manufacturer of Eldridge Clothing Co., Twin Falls, Idaho, and subsequently (1936) City Clerk of the City of Twin Falls, who spent twenty five years in collecting data on the Eldred-Eldridge Family.

Elisha Baker fonds
CA BCHS BCHS011 · Fonds · 1801/02/23

The fonds consists of an account of goods and receipt for £375-9-2, between Deacon Elisha Baker and Nathaniel Smith, dated February 23, 1801.

Baker, Elisha
Fordyce Corner School Fonds
CA BCHS BCHS184 · Fonds · 1877-1938

The fonds contains Thomas Kearns' school journal for 1877, recording the names of the male scholars and their attendance, with an added biography of the teacher, by his son J. Homer Kearns, and a letter from J. Homer Kearns explaining why the document should be preserved.

Thomas Kearns
West Brome Fonds
CA BCHS BCHS353 · Fonds · 1857/09/24, 1883/04/22

The fonds consists of a subscription list for the construction of an Episcopal Church, as well as other papers concerning construction and accounts, dated September 24, 1883, at West Brome, three Deeds from Stephen L. Hungerford and James N. Pettes to the trustees of the New Connection Methodists, at West Brome, dated April 22, 1857.

Brome West
Eaton Township fonds
CA BCHS BCHS156 · Fonds · 1792/04/30, 1792/06/20

The fonds consists of a copy of a Petition of Josiah Sawyer and Associated for the Township of Eaton, with list of Applicants, dated April 30, 1792 at Quebec and an order for survey and report signed by Samuel Holland, Surveyor General, that it has been completed, dated June 20, 1792 at Quebec.

Eaton Township
Skinner family fonds
CA BCHS BCHS945 · Fonds · [ca. 1910, 1916]

The fonds contains secondary source information regarding the Skinner family, including Family Charts of Thomas Skinner (b. 1731).

Slade family fonds
CA BCHS BCHS946 · Fonds · [1908]

The fonds contains secondary source information regarding the Slade family, including information on Edward and Euphemia Tuder Slade and on the Black Lake American Asbestos Mines.

Blunt family fonds
CA BCHS BCHS205 · Fonds · 1833-1914

The fonds consists of primary source information regarding the Blunt family, including Deeds of Sale, notes on family members deaths, insurance policies and recommendations.
The fonds contains secondary source information regarding the Blunt family, including David Blunt, David Blunt, Jr., and John B. Blunt. The fonds consists of Correspondence (BCHS), a Pedigree Chart of the family, a Blunt Family Record and three printed photos of Allen Blunt, Allen and Joyce Blunt and the Herbert Blunt Farm.

Blunt Family
CA BCHS BCHS204 · Fonds · 1931-1940

The importance of these letters is that they give an insight into the life at Glenmere, Bolton Township in the 1930's when the estate was occupied summertimes, at least, by Kenneth Erskine and family. This property was the home of Colonel George Harold Baker, Member of Parliament for Brome before he went Overseas and was killed in 1916. His life is well documented in the Brome County histories but we do not learn he had three sisters, one of whom was, Harriet, who wrote these fifteen letters.

The letters are written from places in France as she spent most of the 1930's travelling in France or England, but they are filled with details of what she hoped would get done at Glenmere by her tenant and friend, Mr. Erskine. Kenneth Erskine was manager of the Bank of Montreal in Knowlton in 1920's but he probably had retired by 1930's and probably spent winters in south. This home of the Bakers on Baker's Pond was very dear to her because it had been her brother's home. Perhaps, she felt closer to him when in France as he was buried at Poperinghe near Ypres.

Col. Baker's cavalry horse, Morning Glory, is mentioned and some discussions about where it was buried when it died in 1937 at 26 years of age.

She mentions a few times meeting Col. W. Rhoades, a personal friend of her brother, who had served in the War with Col. Baker and was with him when he was killed. The 1939 and 1940 letters from Cannes tell how "the catastrophe has fallen... but there is a great sustaining force in the Unity of the Nation". The story went around here in Brome that she just got out of France in time before the Germans took over there in World War II.

Baker, Harriet and Kenneth Erskine
Gilbert Hyatt fonds
CA BCHS BCHS070 · Fonds · 1800/09/20, 1800/12/17

The fonds consists of an account and receipt to Samuel Willard of £3-12-0 dated September 20, 1800 at Ascott and an order from Ebenezer Dorman to Gilbert Hyatt dated December 17, 1800 at Ascott.

Hyatt, Gilbert
George Sheldon fonds
CA BCHS BCHS115 · Fonds · 1864/08/09, 1865/10/17

The fonds consists of a deed from John Loukes to George Sheldon, from the Township of Brome, dated August 9, 1864 at Brome and a Deed from George Sheldon to Edward Patten, from the Township of Brome, dated October 17, 1865 at Brome.

Sheldon, George
George Reed fonds
CA BCHS BCHS107 · Fonds · 1881-1891

The fonds consists of a deed from Gardner Kneeland to Hannah Arnitage, Wife of Geo. Reed, dated September 1, 1881, at Waterloo, an obligation and mortgage to Otis W. Hills, dated June 16, 1884, at Waterloo, and a commutation of interest and receipt, dated January 10, 1891, at Waterloo.

Reed, George
George F. Whitfield fonds
CA BCHS BCHS137 · Fonds

The fonds contains notes on the family of Geo. F. Whitfield, who came to Canada from Ireland in 1818, settling at Farnham in 1829.

Whitfield, George F.
George Adams fonds
CA BCHS BCHS198 · Fonds · 1834-1924

The fonds contains primary source information regarding George Adams, including correspondence. The fonds contains the follow series: Legal Documents (1834-1924).

Adams, Georges, 1813-1883