Henri Bourassa's speech, La Langue Française au Canada: ses droits, sa nécessité, ses avantages, given at the National Monument in Montréal, 19 May 1915. The speech was printed that same year by the Imprimerie du Devoir in Montréal.
Cover of a school yearbook from the Collège Sainte-Croix for the 1905-1906 school year, published by the Librairie Beauchemin in Montréal. Félix Gatineau attended the school c. 1870s, and his daughter's name (Ida Gatineau) is inscribed on the cover, although she didn't attend the school.
Invitation from S. Alphonse Daudelin, representing the 3rd Year students at Lavel. The invitation is directed towards the 2nd Year students, to play a game of baseball on an upcoming Saturday.
A letter S. Alphonse Daudelin wrote to his parents Casimir Daudelin and Flavie Thibeault documenting a trip to New York City, 12 October 1896. Written while traveling back north, it details the sights seen in New York City, as well as the return voyage- including stops at various New England cities.
A familial agreement regarding artwork, most notably drawings of family members, multiple frames, and a wedding gift. A type of will, this agreement gives S. Alphonse Daudelin the artwork once belonging to Casimir Daudelin and Flavie Thibeault. Executed in Montréal, 24 April 1896.
Debt Acknowledgment between S. Alphonse Daudelin and his father Casimir Daudelin. The acknowledgment was witnessed by S. Alphonse's sisters Delia and Anna Daudelin.
This event program details the various acts that were part of the evening's entertainment. Daudelin played the role of skipper Captain Nat. Skillings, in the one act farce "My Uncle, the Captain."
Map with the adjacent parts of New England and Canada, composed from a great number of actual surveys; and other materials regulated by many new astonomical observations of the longitude as well as the latitude.
And the district of Gaspe Exhibiting the true range of highlands dividing the waters of the St. Lawrence and the Atlantic and the imaginary ranges claimed by the British for the boundary of the state of Maine.
From the best existing materials; by authority of the provincial legislature with Adjacent parts of Canada, Nova Scotia and Maine compile and drawn by John Wilkinson, surveyor and civil engineer, associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers. A.D. 1859
This is one of two known manuscript collections created by Prudent L. Mercure sometime between 1890 and 1913. Deposited in 1985 at the Centre de documentation et d’étude madawaskayennes (CDEM), Centre universitaire St-Louis-Maillet, Edmundston, New Brunswick. The other collection is deposited at the Manuscript Division of the National Archives of Canada (N.A.C.) in Ottawa, Ontario. (N.A.C. Collection MCC,96- 00134) (See also "Prudent L. Mercure Papers, and MCC,00146)
This collection consists of research materials collected and transcribed by Beatrice Craig. Included are notes on the Haldimand papers with references to the Saint John Valley and people who moved to the Valley; notes on "Cour des Playdoyers Communs" vs. the district of Quebec, arranged by docket number and included transcription of the trial to 1790; notes on the trial of an "Indian murderer;" notes on microfilm concerning New Brunswick Crown Land papers, land petitions, and Kennebecassis and the lower Saint John Valley; a list of contents and transcription of an account of Acadians by Simon, Hazen, and White; and miscellaneous notes. Also included are transcriptions by former Acadian Archives/Archives acadiennes archivist, Nick Hawes, as well as his general notes on the articles originally included in the collection, "info about people who went to Madawaska or people connected to Madawaska."
The research collection of Béatrice Craig (b. 1949), historian, professor, and author, consists of data on the history of the Upper St. John Valley for the period ca. 1785-1870. In 1992, Béatrice Craig offered to loan the Acadian Archives her collection for the purpose of creating a photocopy version. Additional materials were added the following year.
Consists of 16 manuscripts, Professor Craig’s scholarship on the Upper Saint John River Valley of Maine and New Brunswick. Includes publications, working papers and research data.
Extracts from the orders issued by General James Wolfe during the Quebec campaign, dated April 30-September 12, 1759, and by Generals George Townshend and James Murray at Quebec, dated September 14, 1759 through April 28, 1760. These extracts appear to be in a contemporary hand. They include orders not found in John Knox's Journal (London, 1769) and the text often differs from that given by Knox. At the end of the volume is a short account of Wolfe's death, and of the landing of his body at Portsmouth
