Special projects

One-room Schoolhouse Project

A dedicated group of women have finished interviewing over 50 teachers and students of one-room schoolhouses. A Days to Remember book featuring biographies and memorabilia was released in November, 2007. Information and items such as teachers’ contracts, report cards and photographs have been archived in the Eastern Townships Research Centre of Bishop’s University. Grants have been received from the Bélanger-Gardner Foundation, the Scowen Foundation, the Howick Foundation and the Townshippers’ Research & Cultural Foundation. Generous donations have been made through a Townshippers’ Research and Cultural Foundation Partnership. Click here to read about the book launch. To see a list of the schools, click here.

During the early decades of the 1900’s, one-room schoolhouses dotted the rural landscape of the Eastern Townships. Days to Remember; One-room Schoolhouses in the Eastern Townships of Quebec offers a unique window into that world through recollections from teachers and students, touching and amusing anecdotes, evocative old photographs and reproductions of rare memorabilia.
Days to Remember is also a keepsake book for recording special dates.
Click here for an order form.



Grandmothers to Grandmothers

This initiative was inspired by the Stephen Lewis Foundation to assist grandmothers raising their orphaned grandchildren. Money is raised by selling bags of all sizes and black angel ornaments, lovingly crafted and named in honour of an African child affected by HIV/AIDS.

Click here to donate to the Stephen Lewis Foundation.

Summer Market

The club holds a fund-raising market annually in July or August to support the Public Speaking Contest and other club expenses, such as meetings. Articles sold include books, home-baked goods and household items.

Dutch Exchange

A group of club members travelled to the Netherlands in May 2003. Members of the Dutch Federation (VVAO) were hosted by the club in August 2001 and September 2005. The most recent visit included a civic reception at Sherbrooke City Hall, a book reading by local historian Mary Jean Bean and visits to the Sherbrooke University Geriatric Institute and the Bombardier Museum and Art Gallery.

Spring Baskets

CFUW Sherbrooke & District distributes fruit baskets to several of the smaller seniors’ homes in the spring.

More information on any of these projects may be obtained from the President.


Updated: March 11 2008