This quiz was created by Record reader and former Townshipper Don Martin.
Give it a try and send your answers (either stop by the office at 6 Mallory in Lennoxville, or email your answers to mmccully@sherbrookerecord.com) to The Record by Tuesday, Oct. 24 at noon.
We will publish the answers next week, and a prize will be awarded to the person who gets the most answers right.
- Who was the first woman to have a driver permit in the province of Quebec?
- Who started the first broadcasting station in the Eastern Townships?
- What famous silent movie theatre was located where the Luxor restaurant was located on Wellington Street North?
- What famous Olympic Figure Skater came to Sherbrooke in 1952?
- What famous actor from the Sound of Music spent a lot of his youth in Knowlton, Quebec?
- What famous children’s movie which prior to 1956 didn’t allow children under the age of 16 to go to movie theatres was shown at the Premier Theatre on King Street in Sherbrooke?
- What is the oldest Church of any denomination in Sherbrooke?
- What two famous breweries were located in Sherbrooke?
- What famous Father of Confederation and his Mother attended Plymouth Church?
- What famous President from the American Civil War in 1865 lived in Lennoxville for a while?
- What is the name of the oldest nine-hole golf course in Canada?
- What is the oldest active Snowshoe Club in the world?
- What is the name of the oldest municipal Water Ski Club in the world?
- What was the name of Canada’s first Olympic Gold medallist in Alpine skiing at Squaw Valley in 1960?
- Who from Lennoxville attended the Olympics in shooting?
- Where were once the largest copper mines in the British Empire located to supply copper to the Union Army during the American Civil War?
- What is the oldest working Hotel in the Eastern Townships?
- Where is the oldest ”rural” Public Library in the Province of Quebec?
- Who invented Canada First Gasoline powered vehicle?
- Who also of Sherbrooke flew Canada’s first commercial aircraft in 1922 called La Viligance?
- Who invented Canada’s first ‘Steam Powered Carriage?
- Who invented some of the parts of the Remington Repeating Rifle in the late 1880’s
- Who in Coaticook invented the famous “Norton Jack”?
- What is one of the oldest Fish and Game Club incorporated under the laws of the State of Maine and the province of Quebec in 1887?
- Where was the Central School located in Sherbrooke?
- Where is Canada’s oldest active Cadet Corp located?
- Where was Quebec’s first microbrewer located in 1986?
- What was the name of the oldest weekly newspaper in Quebec until May 30, 2019?
- Where was the first Dairy in Canada located?
- Where in the Townships was the first cheese factory started?
- What is the oldest stone structure in Sherbrooke and the third oldest public building?
- What is the oldest schoolhouse in Ascot County?
- What is the name and location of one of the first Post Offices in the Eastern Townships?
- Who introduced the first telephone in Sherbrooke and formed the Sherbrooke Telephone Company? (He also installed the first fire alarm system of 23 boxes for the City)
- What was the name of the Distribution Home for the Home Boys and Girls in Melbourne
- What was the name of the Distribution Home for Boys and Girls in Knowlton?
- What was the name of the Railroad in Sherbrooke that was one of the first railways to experiment was gas electric cars in the 1920’s?
- What were the Quebec Central Railroad shops in Sherbrooke converted to during the Second World War?
