Archive & Finding Aids

Collections held in public trust.

The following collections are currently processed and accessible to researchers, descendants, and member communities. Requests for consultation are routed through a member society or partner institution.

NHI-A-014

Hollister Farmstead Papers

Extent: 4.2 linear metres, 1871–1962
Summary: Correspondence, account books, and photographic negatives documenting four generations of a working dairy and maple operation in the upper watershed. Includes extensive correspondence with regional co-operative federations.
Access: Open; photographic reproduction restricted to non-commercial use.

NHI-A-027

Eastern Townships Parish Register Transcriptions

Extent: Eleven bound volumes plus digital transcription, 1798–1921
Summary: Transcribed registers of baptism, marriage, and burial from seven small rural parishes, prepared in partnership with the parishes of record. Includes name indices and geographic cross-references.
Access: Open; certified extracts prepared on referral.

NHI-A-041

Pérec Carpentry Notebooks

Extent: Nineteen pocket notebooks, 1962–2003
Summary: Working notebooks of a regional timber-frame carpenter, comprising joinery studies, material lists, sketches of historic framing encountered in repair work, and day-by-day records of twenty-three major restoration engagements.
Access: Open; consultation in reading room only.

NHI-O-003

Watershed Oral History Series

Extent: 1,174 recorded sessions with full transcriptions, 1998–ongoing
Summary: Interviews with long-resident families and tradespeople of the upper watershed on subjects including seasonal labour, parish life, timber trade, and domestic craft. Master recordings in broadcast-standard digital audio.
Access: Mixed; per-session terms determined by the consent record on file.

NHI-S-002

Ridge Barns Survey Records

Extent: Ninety-two structural records, 2022–2026
Summary: Measured drawings, condition reports, photogrammetric data, and supporting oral testimony for ninety-two ridge-pole barns surveyed under the current four-year programme. Release anticipated autumn 2026.
Access: Restricted pending final publication; partner institutions may consult with prior arrangement.