The Brome County Historical Society has been managing a private archives centre accredited by Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) since 2018, but the archives have been kept within our organisation since it opened to the public in 1901.
About the Archives
Service d'archives privées agréé (SAPA) by
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
Official member of the
Réseau des services d’archives privées agréés du Québec
Services offered (with pricing)
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On-site research support for our members, genealogists, students and other researchers;
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Off-site research support for historical topics related to Brome County and its residents (precise details necessary);
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Support and advice regarding the preservation and organisation of documents relating to an individual, family, or non-profit organization;
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Reproductions of documents, in digital or paper format, for research or publication purposes.
See Research Policy and Pricing for a list of prices and rates.
Textual Records: more than 52 linear metres dating as far as 1755;
Iconography Records: more than 10,000 items, including negatives, photographs, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, glass plates, and sketches.
Maps and drawings: more than 200 items, not counting many government topographical maps;
Audio Records: more than 900 minutes of analog recordings, including interviews conducted in 1977–1978 with 20th Century witnesses;
Moving Images: more than 160 minutes of audio/video recordings.
Private Archives
Reference Library: more than 6,500 titles covering several topics related to the history of the counties of Brome, Missisquoi, Shefford, and Stanstead, as well as the rest of Quebec, Canada, and the United States.
N.B. The collection is only partially catalogued, and documents may only be consulted on site.
Newspaper Collection: more than 64 titles covering the years 1830 to the present day.
Genealogical Research Collection: more than 300 research carried out by our volunteers and amateur and professional genealogists who wished to preserve their work, including several genealogical tables.
Cemetery Collection: more than 50 grave inventories of various cemeteries in Brome, Missisquoi, and Shefford counties.
Microfilm Collection: including church records, censuses, and newspapers from our collection, not yet digitized by BAnQ.
N.B. We have a microfilm reader but no printer.