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The item contains information on the Sherbrooke Ploughmen’s Association activities. It is the programme for the ploughing match of 1956.

The item contains information on the Sherbrooke Ploughmen’s Association activities. It is the programme for the ploughing match of 1967.

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 fonds contains information on the butcher shop owned by Leeman Mackey and also on the Mackey family. It consists of several account books (1879-1938), a calendar (1926), a schoolbook (1908), a piano method (1969) and a few photographs (1909 & 1969). The photographs show T.S. Chapman in front of "Good Cheer Lodge" in 1909 and Kathleen Mackey with classmates at the Bishopton Intermediate School in 1969 (the last class before the closure of the school). The school book is autographed "Cora Brown". Among the account books are one for the Megantic Rifle Association (1879-1902), one that appears to be for a boarding house (1889-1892), and the others are from Leeman Mackey's butcher business.

Item is an issue of the Alexander Galt Regional High School newspaper from 1986.

The item are the lyrics to "An Original Hymn" composed by E.S. Orr for the Thanksgiving Service at the Cookshire Methodist Church (later of United denomination) to honour Queen Victoria on 20 June 1897.

The file consists of a letter by James Barnett about the battle at St. Stephens College Hospital in Stanley, in Hong Kong, during World War II, dated 1941 and an issue of the Montreal Standard that includes a profile the Heroes of Hong Kong, dated 1942. The documents provide information on the siege laid by Japanese troops to St. Stephens College Hospital where the Royal Rifles of Canada were established as well as published photographs of the Royal Rifles. Included among the officers shown in the photographs are: W. B. C. LeBoutillier, J. C. Gavey, E. E. Denison, M. A. Parker, C. A. Young, F. T. Atkinson, W. J. Home, J. H. Price, T. G. MacAulay, D. C. M., H. L. Lamb, W. A. Bishop, C. Baillarge, J. Barnett, K. R. Strang, P. L. MacDougall, W. A. B. Royal, F. G. Power, C. A. Blaver, W. E. Tulk, S. M. Banfill, W. F. Clarke, H. C. Laxson, R. F. Thorn, C. E. Price, F. D. Ross, J. S. McHarg, W. S. Fry, F. H. Royal, Ian Breakey, C. D. Johnston, F. N. Lyster, E. N. Denison, A. R. S. Woodside, R. E. Simons, J. F. Ross and G. M. Williams.

Official Telephone Directory including Sherbrooke, Coaticook, Richmond, Magog, Rock Island, Thetford Mines and surrounding territory, published by Bell Telephone Company in 1923.

Official Telephone Directory including Sherbrooke, Coaticook, Richmond, Magog, Rock Island, Thetford Mines and surrounding territory, published by Bell Telephone Company in 1929.

Official Telephone Directory including Granby, St. John's, Sorel, Huntingdon, St. Hyacinthe, Valleyfield and surrounding territory, published by Bell Telephone Company in 1930.

Official Telephone Directory including Sherbrooke, Coaticook, Richmond, Magog, Rock Island, Thetford Mines and surrounding territory, published by Bell Telephone Company in 1936.

Official Telephone Directory including Sherbrooke, Coaticook, Richmond, Magog, Rock Island, Thetford Mines and surrounding territory, published by Bell Telephone Company in 1941.

Official Telephone Directory including Sherbrooke and vicinity, published by Bell Telephone Company in 1950.

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.

Item is a bill of lading done in Quebec and dated 18 July 1826, addressed to Miss Charlotte Felton, care of Mrs. Ann Kitson of Sorel.

Item is a commission report issued by the Board of Transport Commissioners for Canada on 9 March 1966 relating to the termination of passenger train services in the Eastern Townships.

The item is a scrapbook compiled by Helen M. Emery with newspaper articles, poetry and other documents, largely from the Hatley (village) area from 1888 to 1899.

The item is a scrapbook compiled by Helen M. Emery with newspaper articles on the local community and organizations including the Stanstead County Women's Christian Temperance Union, poetry and other documents, largely from the Hatley (village) area, from 1915 to 1916.

The item is a scrapbook compiled by Helen M. Emery with newspaper articles, poetry and other documents, largely from the Hatley (village) area from 1941.

Item is letter from the Sherbrooke District Council Boy Scouts leadership requesting the Sherbrooke City Council for permission to host a "Council Fire" as part of their Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation Day celebrations.

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 a photocopy of a book entitled Photographic Record and Souvenir of the Canadian Guards Overseas Battalion Eighty Seven. The file contains the nominal roll of the officers of the First Regiment Canadian Grenadier Guards after its reorganization, and provides information on their records of service.

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.

The item is a nominal roll of officers, NCOs and men of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 117th Battalion (also known as the Eastern Townships Battalion) from World War I, dated 1917.