The French Canadian Champagne brothers, Philias, Octave, and Eusebe settled in Lowell, Massachusetts around 1890. By the early 1900s, their music was so well known and appreciated throughout New England and Canada they began publishing and selling it, and the celebrated Eusebe, violin in hand, became the Strauss of the region. In the late 1970s the Lowell Historical Society purchased this collection of their sheet music.