Bishop's University Archives Textiles Collection
- CA BU BUA994
- 1911-1992
Collection consists of textile items consisting of university shirts, blazers, caps, crests, academic gowns, hoods, ties, letter patches, mortar boards, pennants.
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Bishop's University Archives Textiles Collection
Collection consists of textile items consisting of university shirts, blazers, caps, crests, academic gowns, hoods, ties, letter patches, mortar boards, pennants.
Flag of Bishop's University. Bearing the old crest which was used for many years before the University was granted its official Coat of Arms at the Sesquicentennial Convocation, December 9, 1993
Bishop's University. Frosh Collection
Pennant. Felt with white lettering ("Bishop's") on purple background. 27" long
Bishop's University. "B" Letters
Felt letter "B"'s. Purple and white. Assorted.
Flag of South Africa (pre-apartheid)
Flag of South Africa (pre-Apartheid). Transferred to the archives at the time of Archbishop Desmond Tutu's visit to Bishop's University to receive an honourary degree, November 1998
Flag of Bishop's University. Presented by His Excellency the Right Honourable Ramon John Hnatyshyn, Governor General of Canada, at the special Sesquicentennial Convocation held December 9, 1993
Pennant. Felt with white lettering (Bishop's) on purple background. 29" long
Bishop's University. Badge. Rugby
Rugby badge made of felt. Purple and White. Intercollegiate Champions Junior Rugby. Eastern Section. 1927
Bishop's University. Pennant. [194-]
Pennant. "Bishop's": felt, purple and crest having belonged to Kenneth John Harwood, B.A. Math 1947. Harwood came to Bishop's in 1939. He enlisted as Radar Mechanic in 1941 and returned to Bishop's in 1945 with his wife Joan. Ken and Joan had a baby boy while at Bishop's and was the first to be baptized at St. Mark's Chapel.
Peter A.H. Meggs. Academic hood. 1963
Academic hood having belonged to Peter A.H. Meggs
Peter A.H. Meggs
J. Ray Stokes. Class of 1958. Academic gown
Academic gown having belonged to J. Ray Stokes, Class of 1958
J. Raymond Stokes
Bishop's University pennant, hand-made
Bishop's University. Sweater and letter patch (UBC)
Sweater and letter patch (UBC). This sweater and letter patch belonged to Jay Dunham Joslin, whose family ran American Biltmore Rubber in Sherbrooke for many years. His mother's family were Southwoods from the Sherbrooke area. J.D. graduated from Bishop's University in 1948 with a B.Sc.
Message on masking tape which arrived with the accession reads: “woven from the sheep that grazed on the land where Bishop’s University now stands” (on the brown blanket). The accompanying blue blanket is assumed to have the same or similar provenance. The donor's husband Thomas Farnsworth’s father was Raymond Harrington Farnsworth. His parents were Benjamin Farnsworth and Ella French. They lived in the Cookshire area; Ella lived in Quebec City with Raymond and his wife Constance Ford for several years after her husband died. In 1979 Raymond and Constance moved here to Portneuf to her Ford family home Edale Place.
Randolph Farley, (B.A. 1937). Jacket and trousers
Bishop's College jacket (purple with crest) and trousers (cream) having belonged to Randolph Farley, B.A. 1937.
Bishop's University. Liaison jacket
Liaison Jacket with University crest. Grey. Donor unknown
C.M. Jones B.A. Academic hood. 1957
Academic hood having belonged to C.M. Jones B.A. 1957
Alain Hébert, Classes '72, '73, '94. Sports shirts - soccer and hockey.
3 sports shirts - soccer and hockey having belonged to Alain Hébert, '72, '73, '94
Hébert, Alain