**** Hemmingford Historical Archives - ARCHI-LOG - catalogue of holdings (to January, 2024)

*BOOKS FOR SALE ~ Archives Hemmingford ~ LIVRES  A VENDRE*

    contact hfordarchives@gmail.com  ,  450-636-8686  (frais de port en sus  / shipping extra)

- "Hemmingford. 200 Years of Hope and Challenge 1799-1999"

        Archives Hemmingford, Betty McKay Mackenzie, 1999, 605 pages,

        Online index: https://sites.google.com/site/hemmingford200yearsindex

        Prix/Price: $10. 

- "Hemmingford. 200 ans d'espoir et de défi 1799-1999". Témoignage du passé et de la confiance en l'avenir.

        Archives Hemmingford, Betty McKay Mackenzie, 1999, 537 pages.

        Prix/price: Reprinted 2023 - $10.

- "Images of Hemmingford en Images"

            Mary Anne Ducharme, Heritage Hemmingford, 2010, 60 pages + CD, bilingual/bilingue.

            Index here

          Prix/Price: $10.

- "Hemmingford Then and Now"

            Alister Somerville, 1985, 232 pages, 

           Prix/Price $10.

            Online index:  http://www.rocler.qc.ca/d.mark/prev/hemindex.htm

- "Huntingdon County and Town"

            Alister Somerville, 1987, 231 pages, 

            Prix/price $10. 

- “Les Voix de Hemmingford Voices" (2015)

Livre (55 pages) et DVD qui est le résultat d'un projet d'entrevues de 25 personnes  de notre région, impliquant un long processus d'enregistrements, transcriptions, traductions et corrections du son des enregistrements originaux. Sur le DVD, on peut entendre les voix des personnes qui ont été enregistrées.  Le DVD contient aussi une sélection de photos fournies par ces gens. 

55 page book and DVD set that is the result of a project of  interviews of 25 seniors from our region, involving a long process of recordings, transcriptions, translations and sound engineering of the original recordings. On the DVD, one can hear the voices of the people who were interviewed and see a selection of photos that they have provided.  

Index here

Prix/price: $10.

"Commémoration du 25e anniversaire de la tempête du verglas - Hemmingford 1998 - Commemoration 25th Anniversary of the Ice Storm"  (2023)  89 page book. 

Prix/price: $5.

* Books online:

- "The Coin 1960-1961" Hemmingford High School yearbook

- "The Coin 1961-1962" Hemmingford High School yearbook

- "The Coin 1962-1963" Hemmingford High School yearbook (ads omitted)

- "The Coin 1963-1964" Hemmingford High School yearbook

- "Times Remembered: History of the BROWNLEE, FARR, McKAY Families" by Betty McKay MacKenzie (170 MB pdf file - *searchable*)

*Index online:

"Mémoires de la Société généalogique canadienne-française" 91 numéros de 1980-2002  

   Index des articles des MÉMOIRES (1980-2002) ici

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- Hemmingford Historical Archives archilog  catalogue (1997)

- Huntingdon County business and farmers directory (1889, includes Hemmingford village and township)

- "List of lands granted by the crown in the province of Québec from 1763 to 1890" (Hemmingford on pages 483 to 491)

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Letters:

- Seven newly available letters written by a young Irish widow named Frances (Armstrong) Simpson, stranded in Canada (Hemmingford) in 1831 with her two young children.Her husband was sea captain William Simpson. The letters were addressed to her father-in-law Captain David Simpson in North Shields, Northumberland UK.

The letters may be viewed online here:  https://sites.google.com/site/lettersfromhemmingford18311842/--the-transcribed-letters?authuser=0 .

Many thanks to Peter Donn in England for providing and transcribing these letters in 2012.

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PHOTOS;

ALBUM -   HEMMINGFORD OLD AND NOT SO OLD PHOTOS  (over 180 photos)

Hemmingford High School Reunion, Oct. 9, 2010

Old photos of Havelock Township, which was part of Hemmingford Township before 1864.

Russeltown church and cemetery photos (and cemetery listings)

McCrea-Kingsbury Cemetery, Hemmingford, QC

Henrysburg Methodist Church and Cemetery, Henrysburg, QC

Old Henrysburg Cemetery, Henrysburg, QC

Odelltown Methodist Cemetery, Odelltown, QC

Douglass Cemetery, Napierville QC

Jackson Cemetery, St-Bernard-de-Lacolle, QC

More local cemetery photos at Hemmingford Cemetery Records

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Videos:

1998 Hemmingford Ice Storm documentary by Randal Merlin (115 minutes)

Archives Hemmingford Grand Opening/Grande Ouverture 05/05/2018 (57 minutes)

Moving the old Hemmingford fire station 05/12/2010 (9 minutes)

Hemmingford Gaetan Fortin Museum tour 29/08/1998 (62 minutes)

Hemmingford Bicentennial Parade 15/08/1999 (56 minutes)

Hemmingford Keddy Museum tour 04/08/2000  (80 minutes)

Lacolle English Settlers (Mickey Maynard) 24/08/2005 (90 minutes)

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Maps:

-  Hemmingford Township 1800 map showing owners of granted lots.

- Hemmingford 1836 map of Crown Reserves (NE part of the township) showing owners of lots.

- Official plan of Hemmingford Village1888, showing owners of lots and dimensions.

- Hemmingford village, 1909. Charles Goad insurance map...good building details.

- Hemmingford Township list of grantees of lots: "Hemmingford Land Grants 1798" document.

- Official plan of Hemmingford Township 1888, showing owners of lots and dimensions.

            * Oct, 2012: Archives Hemmingford  has acquired a high resolution image of this map.

- Joseph Bouchette's 1815 map - (zoom in for great detail)

"Topographical map of the Province of Lower Canada, shewing its division into Districts, Counties, Seigniories, & Townships"

- Huntingdon County 1881 Belden Atlas map, including good map of lots, Hemmingford Township.

- Hemmingford-area cemeteries Google Map (Street View has photos of most cemeteries)

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Vous pouvez lire les articles passés dans Info Hemmingford par Archives Hemmingford - voici le lien :

 https://infohemmingford.org/category/patrimoine-histoire/

You can read past articles by Archives Hemmingford in Info Hemmingford - here's the link:  

https://infohemmingford.org/en/category/history-heritage/

Sites de généalogie locale - Useful local genealogy sites

- Hemmingford Cemetery Records - also has several useful local genealogy links.

- The English Settlers of Lacolle, Quebec "Their influence will forever be etched in the character of the seigniory and the history of its British community"

- Anglicized French surnames

- The McNaughtons of Hemmingford  This site is devoted to the genealogical writings of Charles Arnold McNaughton (1930-1979)

- Huntingdon County GenWeb    A collection of genealogical information on the former county of Huntingdon, Quebec. Huntingdon County GenWeb is part of the Quebec and Canadian GenWebs.