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Arts

A Raisin in the Sun Poster - 2010	Balconville Playbill and Program, Centaur Theatre - 1979	Chinese Dragon - 2008	Chisasibi Cree Hunter’s Snowshoes	Drop Curtain, Haskell Free Library & Opera House - 1904	Elsie Reford’s Fishing Book - 1923
Executioner’s Block (theatre prop) - 2007	Hugh Allan’s Bookcase/Mantlepiece - 1861	Meikle’s Model Sailboat - 1930s	Nativity Stained Glass Window - 1938	Notman Camera - c. 1900	Sampler by Adela Hyatt - 1851
Songs of Leonard Cohen (LP vinyl featuring Suzanne) - 1970	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1st edition) - 1959	Two Solitudes Papers - 1941-1948	“The Plough” by Anne Savage - 1931 - 1933

Business

Banknote - 1817	Beaver Medal - 1766	Cashier’s Cage Door - c. 1908	Golden Sheaf Whole Wheat Meal Package - c. 1920s	Molson Plaque - 1936	Montreal Pool Room Sign - 2012
Montvic Ribbons - 1934	Notman Camera - c. 1900	Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, Montreal Star, Montreal Gazette, Roverarts - 1764	Shipbuilding Calliper - c. 1850s	True Red Cranberry Pole Bean (heritage seed) - 2012	Wedding Dress - 1847
Whaler’s Try Pot - 1800-1840	Yard of Silk - 1922

Education

Atlas of Congenital Cardiac Disease, by Dr. Maude E. Abbott - 1936	Chisasibi Cree Hunter’s Snowshoes	Circulation Desk, Atwater Library - 1920	Dr. Wilder Penfield’s Recording Electrodes - c. 1970	Drop Curtain, Haskell Free Library & Opera House - 1904	Eligibility Certificate - 1999
Home and School News, “New Era” issue, May 1, 1963	Hugh Allan’s Bookcase/Mantlepiece - 1861	James McGill Monument - 1813	Sampler by Adela Hyatt - 1851	Theban Mummy, Male (332-30 BCE) - 1859

Ethnicity

Industry

Broad Axe - 1860-1900	Chrysotile Asbestos - 1881	Copper Anode - 1927	Grand Trunk Locomotive No. 713 - 1900	Lachine Canal Pay List - 1822-1824	Lennoxville Brick - 1930s
Molson Plaque - 1936	Nativity Stained Glass Window - 1938	Saguenay Cook Book - 1944	Slate Cutter - 1860s	Two-Man Felling Saw - c. 1900	Whaler’s Try Pot - 1800-1840
Yard of Silk - 1922

Leisure

Curling Block - 1886	Elsie Reford’s Fishing Book - 1923	Executioner’s Block (theatre prop) - 2007	Helm of the Norvic Ferry - 1923	Jacket, Sherbrooke Snow Shoe Club - c. 1880s-1890s	Lawn Bowling Balls - 1900
Maple Leaf Trail Marker - 1930s	Meikle’s Model Sailboat - 1930s	Montreal Canadiens Hockey Sweater and McGill University Hockey Team Stick - c.1878 (stick); c. 1930s (sweater)	Swizzle Sticks, Rockhead’s Paradise - 1928

Media

Balconville Playbill and Program, Centaur Theatre - 1979

Microphone, CHNC Radio Station - 1930s

Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, Montreal Star, Montreal Gazette, Roverarts - 1764

Smartphone (personal electronic devices) - 2013

Migration

BLOKE Quebecois T-Shirt - 1991	Book: The Principal Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries of the English Nation - 1598	Broad Axe - 1860-1900	Cashier’s Cage Door - c. 1908	Celtic Cross - 1909	Chinese Dragon - 2008
Chisasibi Cree Hunter’s Snowshoes	Copper Anode - 1927	Curling Block - 1886	Expo ’67 Passport - 1967	Grandmother’s Bracelet - 1950s	Gravestone of Sir John Johnson - 1830
Gravestone, Donald Morrison - 1894	Home Child Box - 1912	Key to first Jewish Cemetery in Quebec City - c. 1850s	Krutz Brothers Hay Rake - c. 1920s	Lachine Canal Pay List - 1822-1824	Land Deed of Henry Copping - 1860
Loyalist Coat - c. 1770	NON MERCI Button - 1980	Olde Craig’s Road - 1810	Shipbuilding Calliper - c. 1850s	Smoke House, Schwartz’s - 1928

Politics

Balconville Playbill and Program, Centaur Theatre - 1979	BLOKE Quebecois T-Shirt - 1991	Book: The Principal Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries of the English Nation - 1598	Celtic Cross - 1909	Copper Anode - 1927	Drum and Flag from the 1837-1838 Rebellions
Eligibility Certificate - 1999	Gravestone, Donald Morrison - 1894	Home and School News, “New Era” issue, May 1, 1963	Iroquois War Club - c. 1760	Loyalist Coat - c. 1770	Minnie H. Bowen Canadian Flag - c. 1920s
NON MERCI Button - 1980	Olde Craig’s Road - 1810	Rubber Stamp - c. 1950s	Statue of Horatio Nelson - 1808-1809	Statue of Major General James Wolfe - 1779	Swizzle Sticks, Rockhead’s Paradise - 1928
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1st edition) - 1959	Two Solitudes Papers - 1941-1948	Victoria Loyal Orange Lodge No. 69 Banner - 1860s

Religion

Baptismal Font - 1929	Book: The Principal Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries of the English Nation - 1598	Boyle Family Bible - 1855	Celtic Cross - 1909	Home Child Box - 1912	Nativity Stained Glass Window - 1938
Owl’s Head Basket, Golden Rule Lodge No. 5 - 1900 - 1920	Presbyterian Silver Trowel - 1867	Quaker Cupboard and Library - 1830	The Burnt Angel - 1906-1907	Victoria Loyal Orange Lodge No. 69 Banner - 1860s

Rural

A Horse Called Farmer (children’s book) - 1984	Boyle Family Bible - 1855	Curling Block - 1886	Fisher Woods Entrance - 2011	Golden Sheaf Whole Wheat Meal Package - c. 1920s	Gravestone of Sir John Johnson - 1830
Gravestone, Donald Morrison - 1894	Home Child Box - 1912	Horseshoe - c. 1900	Krutz Brothers Hay Rake - c. 1920s	Land Deed of Henry Copping - 1860	Microphone, CHNC Radio Station - 1930s
Montvic Ribbons - 1934	Olde Craig’s Road - 1810	Quaker Cupboard and Library - 1830	Quilt, Hurdman Family - 1890s	Railway Land Agreement - 1848	Recycled Cloth Blanket - 1940s
Shipbuilding Calliper - c. 1850s	Slate Cutter - 1860s	Snowmobile - 1963	Stagecoach, Stanstead County - 1880	Symmes Haystack Cap - 1889	The Burnside Cup - 1942
True Red Cranberry Pole Bean (heritage seed) - 2012	Victoria Loyal Orange Lodge No. 69 Banner - 1860s	Women's Institutes Banner, Compton County - 2011

Science

Atlas of Congenital Cardiac Disease, by Dr. Maude E. Abbott - 1936	Bethune Pneumothorax Machine - 1920s	Dr. Wilder Penfield’s Recording Electrodes - c. 1970	Hugh Allan’s Bookcase/Mantlepiece - 1861	Microphone, CHNC Radio Station - 1930s	Montvic Ribbons - 1934
Theban Mummy, Male (332-30 BCE) - 1859	X-Ray Machine - c. 1934

Social

A Horse Called Farmer (children’s book) - 1984	A Raisin in the Sun Poster - 2010	Atlas of Congenital Cardiac Disease, by Dr. Maude E. Abbott - 1936	Balconville Playbill and Program, Centaur Theatre - 1979	Baptismal Font - 1929	Beaver Medal - 1766
Bethune Pneumothorax Machine - 1920s	BLOKE Quebecois T-Shirt - 1991	Boyle Family Bible - 1855	Chinese Dragon - 2008	Chisasibi Cree Hunter’s Snowshoes	Copper Anode - 1927
Curling Block - 1886	Doll from the Warsaw Ghetto - late 1930s	Dr. Wilder Penfield’s Recording Electrodes - c. 1970	Drop Curtain, Haskell Free Library & Opera House - 1904	Eligibility Certificate - 1999	Elsie Reford’s Fishing Book - 1923
Executioner’s Block (theatre prop) - 2007	Expo ’67 Passport - 1967	Grandmother’s Bracelet - 1950s	Gravestone of Sir John Johnson - 1830	Gravestone, Donald Morrison - 1894	Home Child Box - 1912
Horseshoe - c. 1900	Hugh Allan’s Bookcase/Mantlepiece - 1861	Iroquois War Club - c. 1760	Jacket, Sherbrooke Snow Shoe Club - c. 1880s-1890s	Key to first Jewish Cemetery in Quebec City - c. 1850s	Krutz Brothers Hay Rake - c. 1920s
Ladies’ Protestant Home Plaque - c. 1860s	Land Deed of Henry Copping - 1860	Lawn Bowling Balls - 1900	Maple Leaf Trail Marker - 1930s	Meikle’s Model Sailboat - 1930s	Microphone, CHNC Radio Station - 1930s
Minnie H. Bowen Canadian Flag - c. 1920s	Molson Plaque - 1936	Montreal Canadiens Hockey Sweater and McGill University Hockey Team Stick - c.1878 (stick); c. 1930s (sweater)	Montreal Pool Room Sign - 2012	Notman Camera - c. 1900	Olde Craig’s Road - 1810
Owl’s Head Basket, Golden Rule Lodge No. 5 - 1900 - 1920	Prisoners’ Graffiti, Quebec City Common Gaol	Quaker Cupboard and Library - 1830	Quilt, Hurdman Family - 1890s	Railway Land Agreement - 1848	Recycled Cloth Blanket - 1940s
Rotary Telephone - 1950-1984	Rubber Stamp - c. 1950s

Sports

Curling Block - 1886

Jacket, Sherbrooke Snow Shoe Club - c. 1880s-1890s

Lawn Bowling Balls - 1900

Montreal Canadiens Hockey Sweater and McGill University Hockey Team Stick - c.1878 (stick); c. 1930s (sweater)

Urban

Baptismal Font - 1929	Circulation Desk, Atwater Library - 1920	Expo ’67 Passport - 1967	Hugh Allan’s Bookcase/Mantlepiece - 1861	Key to first Jewish Cemetery in Quebec City - c. 1850s	Lachine Canal Pay List - 1822-1824
Lennoxville Brick - 1930s	Molson Plaque - 1936	Montreal Pool Room Sign - 2012	NON MERCI Button - 1980	Prisoners’ Graffiti, Quebec City Common Gaol	Smoke House, Schwartz’s - 1928
Swizzle Sticks, Rockhead’s Paradise - 1928	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1st edition) - 1959	The Burnt Angel - 1906-1907

War

Bethune Pneumothorax Machine - 1920s	Doll from the Warsaw Ghetto - late 1930s	Drum and Flag from the 1837-1838 Rebellions	Fokker D.VII Airplane - 1918	Gravestone of Sir John Johnson - 1830	Iroquois War Club - c. 1760
Loyalist Coat - c. 1770	Recycled Cloth Blanket - 1940s	Saguenay Cook Book - 1944	Statue of Horatio Nelson - 1808-1809	Statue of Major General James Wolfe - 1779