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CA ETRC P997-001-04-024 · File · [191-], [198-?]
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Textual Records collection

The file consists of a scrapbook page compiled by Mildred Waldron showing many members of the McBurney and Forgrave families as well as members of the Willing Workers group from the Sawyerville Presbyterian Church from the Sawyerville area, probably taken around the 1910s. It also includes a letter from Mildred to Marjorie Goodfellow.

Joseph R. Ball family
CA ETRC P997-001-04-022 · File · ([ca. 1900]-1907)
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Textual Records collection

The file consists of a book of poems by Joseph Rice Ball and Lillian Stuart Ball, titled "Greetings from Mapleside", which also includes photographs, from around 1900 and a custom Christmas greeting card from Henry S. Ball, dated 1907. Mapleside was the Ball family property in Waterville.

Caroline Parsons Coombs
CA ETRC P997-001-04-013 · File · 1954
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Textual Records collection

The file contains source information on the life of Caroline Parsons Coombs (1818-1907) and her family's immigration and settlement experiences in Bury, Sherbrooke and Orford, Quebec. Caroline immigrated to Canada with her family in 1836. She married John Coombs in 1837. The file consists of a memorial booklet written by Eva A. Coombs, Caroline's grand-daughter.

CA ETRC P997-005-07-009 · File · 1902-1948
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Textual Records collection

The file consists of two scrapbooks containing clippings from the newspaper News and Eastern Townships Advocate, mostly from the St. John's news section from 1911 to 1930 (possibly written by Arthur Henry Moore) and of the St. John's Centenary Edition of the newspaper The Eastern Townships Advocate, Vol. 100, No. 10, dated 29 January 1948. It also consists of a partial issue, dated 27 June 1902.

Yearbooks
CA ETRC P997-007-03-006 · File · 1946-1972
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Textual Records collection

The file consists of information on the graduates from the Sherbrooke Hospital School of Nursing from 1946 to 1972. In consists of three yearbooks, titled "Invictus". Found in the pages of yearbooks are newspaper clippings: a photograph of the graduating class of North Hatley High School from 1969, a photograph of the graduating class of Sherbrooke Hospital School of Nursing from 1948, various obituaries of past graduates and an undated 'card of thanks' article from Pearl Robinson.

Bertha Ralston's notebook
CA ETRC P997-007-03-002-006 · Item · 1891-1902
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Textual Records collection

The item is a school notebook, consisting of lesson notes and plans, kept by Berth Ralston from 1891-1902 in West Bolton and following her move to New Hampshire. Bertha B. Ralston was the daughter of Edward Ralston and Carrie Williamson of West Bolton; she was born in 1868, died 1957. Bertha Ralston married Arthur Foster Sumner in 1894 in West Bolton, Quebec. The later moved to Concord, New Hampshire, where they lived until sometime after 1910.

117th Battalion reunion
CA ETRC P997-003-01-001-005 · Part · 1965
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Textual Records collection

The item is a photograph from a reunion of the 117th Battalion at the Chateau Frontenac in Sherbrooke on 14 August 1965. Among those pictured in the photograph are James McCallum (front row, second from left ), Ed Kingsland (front row, centre), E.P. Hall (front row, third from right), and Fred Evans (back row, far left).