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Carrollcroft
2003
Stanstead, Québec

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In 1859, newlyweds Hattie Child and Charles Carroll Colby moved into a stately granite house on Stanstead's main street. Apart from a brief absence, successive generations of the Colby family lived in "Carrollcroft" until Helen Colby donated the building and its furnishings to the Stanstead Historical Society in 1992. Today, Carrollcroft houses the Colby-Curtis Museum
and the SHS Archives. Permanent displays give visitors a glimpse of the gracious lifestyle the Colbys enjoyed as local English-speaking gentry. Temporary exhibitions feature other fascinating aspects of regional history.

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Where It All Began
1817
Stanstead, Québec

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A one-room wooden school house, known as the Mansur School, is claimed to be the predecessor of Stanstead Academy that
evolved into Stanstead Wesleyan College and eventually Stanstead College. It was built in 1817 and local children received basic schooling here over the next 19 years. It was then replaced by a brick school house that still exists. It is the birth place of the Stanstead Historical Society in 1929.

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Pre-school training at home
1866
Stanstead, Québec

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This well preserved sampler is embroidered "Jessie M. Colby, aged 5 yrs, Stanstead, 1866". It is one of many exceptionally fine samplers among the Stanstead Historical Society collections of textile artefacts.

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Parliamentary coat
1880
Stanstead, Québec

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He was Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons from 1887-1889 and President of the Privy Council from 1889-91. His career as the representative of Stanstead County ended with the election of 1891 when he was defeated by T. B. Rider. He had been a Member of Parliament for twenty-four years and was in his sixty-fourth year. This coat is part of the costume collection of the Stanstead Historical Society.

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Carrollcroft c. 1910
1910
Stanstead, Québec

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The family enjoying tea in the garden. This event would be shortly after the death of John and Mary's first born daughter Mary
(1909-1910).
Most of the items seen on the tea table are now part of the Colby Curtis Museum collections.

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Carrollcroft's Victorian Garden
1925
Stanstead, Québec

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Through the years the gardens were always a special attraction at Carrollcroft. At some point, British specialists were involved with its design. In 1998, the Stanstead Historical Society launched a successful project of renovation for the garden.

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Harriet's sampler
1918
Stanstead, Québec

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This sampler made by Harriet, second born child of John Child Colby and Mary Spafford Williams, is part of the Colby Curtis
Museum collection of textiles and costumes.