St. James Anglican Church, Stanbridge East, Quebec

Mystery of President Chester Arthur's birthplace ...

The original "birther" controversy CBS interviews Missisquoi Historical Society : http://cbsn.ws/1MvS7JN

Mystery of Chester by Nancy

Stanbridge and Stanbridge East old postcards

A generic source for all 77 notaries held by the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) for district judiciaire of Bedford.

Thanks to Howard Jackman for working on a guide for notary records in our area.

Source:Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec.
District judiciaire de Bedford.
Greffes de Notaires Source District judiciaire de Bedford.
Greffes de notaires Author Bibliothèque et


Archives nationales du Québec Coverage Year range 1799 - 1956
Subject Deed/Land records, Legal/Court records,
Will/Probate records Publication information Type Miscellaneous Citation Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.
District judiciaire de Bedford. Greffes de notaires. Repositories Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/notaires/index.html

Howard's page 
http://bit.ly/1tpmBEu

Cowansville Sloggett Family Mystery

Ethel writes... Here's the photo of Hattie Sloggett Fuller b. 1855 who did the painting. She was 17 in this one. I added the furniture store belonging to her father or parents Thomas and Lucretia Slogget in Cowansville.









Here are the two paintings done by Hattie Sloggett b. 1854 from Cowansville. She was married to a William H. Fuller also from the same place.
  
If you know anything about the Sloggett family please contact Ethel : paulethel.dessert {at}comcast.net

Saddlebag Preacher by Jacques Gagne

   Saddlebag Preachers 2 by Nancy

http://genealogyensemble.com/

Directory County of Missisquoi and Town of St Johns for 1879, 1880 and 1881

COUNTY OF MISSISQUOI AND TOWN OF ST. JOHNS DIRECTORY for 1879, 1880, and 1881 by cunningb

Look at transcript here
Thanks Mary Anna !

Eastern Township Directory 1889 - Missisquoi County section

Eastern Township Directory 1889 Missisquoi section by cunningb

Transcription here

Farnham old postcards

Bedford Churches - great photos and history

Bedford Pastoral Charge web page : http://www.bedfordpastoral.org/historical-facts.html

Includes history of 4 area churches Mystic United Church, Bedford United Church, Stanbridge East United Church , Philipsburg United Church  

Family happenings in Missisquoi county by Moore

Family happenings in Missisquoi county by Nancy

Stanbridge and Stanbridge East old postcards

Farnham old postcards

History of the former Missisquoi County , Quebec

History of the former Missisquoi County , Quebec        

'Missisquoi County' is an historical county in Quebec.

The name of the county is derived from an Algonquin Abenaki word meaning "lots of waterfowl". Missisquoi County, part of the Eastern Townships (one of roughly 12 regions in Qubec), is located on the western fringes of the Appalachian foothills, giving it a rolling landscape on its eastern part. The western part of the county is situated on the Richelieu River plains. Missisquoi County is bound entirely on the south for 51 km by the Canadian-American border (45 degrees N) from 72 degrees W 40.5' to the middle of the Richelieu River (73 degrees W 20.8'), to the east by Brome County for 23 km along the meridian defined by 72 degrees W 40.5', to the northeast by Brome County and the northwest by Rouville County, and to the west by Iberville County and the Richelieu River ( Saint-Jean County is on the other side of the river). The northernmost point of the county is at 45 degrees N 21' and 73 degrees W and is also the junction of the borders of Missisquoi County, Rouville County and Iberville County. The westernmost point of the county is on the Richelieu River on at the Canadian-American border at 45 degrees N and 73 degrees W 20'. The county is divided onto 4 townships, and there 2 discontinuous zones along its western fringes without any township designation divided under the pre-1760 French parochial framework. The 4 townships are the Township of Farnham in the north, Township of Dunham in the east and Township of Stanbridge to the west, and Township of Saint Armand along the Canadian-American border. The county seat is the Town of Bedford located at 45 degrees N 7' and 72 degrees W 59' in the southwestern part of the Township of Stanbridge. Other major towns in the county are Farnham in the township of the same name and Cowansville in the northeastern corner of Dunham Township. A prominent feature of the county is Lake Champlain that juts into its western part and that separates Saint Armand Township from the western part of the county that divided according to the pre-1760 parochial framework.

In the early 1990s Quebec abolished its counties. Much of Missisquoi County became the Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality except the southwestern part was transferred to Le Haut-Richelieu Regional County Municipality.

Boating on PIke's River Stanbridge East postcard