The fonds contains source material on a series of arts festivals held at Bishop's University during the 1970's, specifically Festival '70 and Festival '71. Included are programmes, announcements, correspondence, and newspaper clippings, in addition to handmade posters bearing the signatures of various prominent Canadian authors, poets, artists, etc.
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Collection consists of textile items consisting of university shirts, blazers, caps, crests, academic gowns, hoods, ties, letter patches, mortar boards, pennants.
The University Archives consists of all documents which give evidence and information about the University’s history, organization, function, and structure. The mission of the University Archives is to select, describe, preserve and make available for research those records which have enduring value to the University for administrative, legal, fiscal, and historical purposes. Archival holdings include records and publications of the administration, students, faculty, staff and alumni. Within these collections are a variety of media such as photographs, drawings, maps and plans, microfilms, and computer, video and audio tapes. Trophies, medals, badges, and other memorabilia are also collected by the archives.
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Material collected and preserved by the University Archives includes:
- Records of the official governing bodies of the University, such as Board of Governors and Senate, including minutes, reports, associated committees.
- Administrative records of the Officers of the University, including the Chancellor, Principal, Vice-Principal, the Deans, Vice-Principal - -- Administration, Registrar, Chief Librarian, and Dean of Student Affairs.
- Administrative records of the Students’ Representative Council (SRC).
- Minutes and correspondence of faculties and departments.
- Publications of administrative bodies of the University.
- Publications of faculty, staff, students and alumni.
- Theses.
- Personal papers of faculty and staff.
- Graphic materials relating to the University including photographs, maps, blueprints, and architectural plans.
- Audio-visual records such as microfilm, sound recordings, film and videotape associated with the University.
- Memorabilia connected with the University, including student trophies and awards, medals, posters, ephemera.
- Records of Associations such as the Alumni Association, Faculty Association etc.
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
Pennant. Felt with white lettering (Bishop's) on purple background. 29" long
Rugby badge made of felt. Purple and White. Intercollegiate Champions Junior Rugby. Eastern Section. 1927
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
Cap. Purple and white. Issued by the Alumni Office for the Class of 1962-63 30th Reunion held in 1993
Academic cap and gown having belonged to E. Joan Halls, (B.A. 1929).
Halls, E. JoanPennant. "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.
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
Academic gown, hood and mortar board having belonged to Phyllis Home (VanVliet) (B.A. 1929)
Tie. Distributed and sold by the Alumni and Development from 1985-1992
Academic hood having belonged to Peter A.H. Meggs
Peter A.H. MeggsHood having belonged to J. Gordon Holmes (L.S.T. 1925)
Pennant. Felt with white lettering ("Bishop's") on purple background. 27" long
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.
Bishop's University pennant, hand-made
Jacket and tie, Bishop's University, 1957
Mortar board having belonged to Jean Pearton (B.A. 1930)
Felt letter "B"'s. Purple and white. Assorted.
Hoods, Bachelor of Divinity, 1932 and Licentiate of Sacred Theology, 1944, having belonged to Bishop Timothy Matthews
Matthews, Bishop Timothy JohnAcademic hood having belonged to C.M. Jones B.A. 1957
3 sports shirts - soccer and hockey having belonged to Alain Hébert, '72, '73, '94
Hébert, AlainAcademic gown, colours cap (won through playing football for Bishop's) and Sherbrooke pennant having belonged to Charles Hampden Hobart, L.S.T. 1914.
Hobart, Charles HampdenBishop's College jacket (purple with crest) and trousers (cream) having belonged to Randolph Farley, B.A. 1937.
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.
Academic gown having belonged to J. Ray Stokes, Class of 1958
J. Raymond Stokes