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Albert College was established as Belleville Seminary in 1857; its name was changed to Albert College in 1866, and it affiliated with Victoria University in 1884 and gave up its right to grant degrees, becoming a high school. Wikipedia article: Albert College

The volunteers of the Friends of Glanmore National Historic Site support the work of the museum. They were formed as the Hastings County Museum Auxiliary in 1973.

The Hastings County Museum opened in the former Hastings County Registry building on Church Street in Belleville in 1961.

The Hastings District Women's Institute was formed by the amalgamation of the Hastings West, Hastings East and Hastings North districts in 2011. Website: https://www.hastingsdistrictwomensinstitute.ca/

The first meeting of the Ivanhoe Women's Institute took place in the Orange Hall in Ivanhoe, Ontario, in 1910.

Queensborough Women's Institute was first organized in 1912 and then re-organized in 1948 after a meeting at the schoolhouse in Queensborough, Ontario.

Hastings North District covered the Women's Institutes in the north of Hastings County, Ontario. These included the following branches:
Bannockburn and Eldorado
Cooper and Remington
Carlow
Detlor and L'Amable
Harts and Riggs
Ivanhoe
Madoc
Marmora
McArthur's Mills
Paudash
Queensborough
Rylstone
Springbrook
Wellman's

Hastings East District first met in 1901. It was an umbrella organization for Women's Institutes branches in the east of Hastings County, Ontario.

The branches covered by the District and their dates of foundation were:
Melrose, March 1902
Quinte, August 1907
Roslin, December 1908
Plainfield, March 1910
Bethel Zion, 1912
Tyendinaga East, February 1929
Moira, April 1946
Carmel, March 1949
Foxboro, May 1949
Cannifton, April 1950
Chapman's, May 1950
Parkdale, November 1953

See http://fwio.on.ca/structure/hastings-district for information on the institutes currently covered by its successor, Hastings District.

The Hastings West Women's Institutes District was organized on 8th January 1901. It covered the Women's Institute branches of Bay of Quinte, Chatterton, Pine Grove, River Valley, Sidney South, Stirling, Uniondale and Wallbridge in Sidney Township, Ontario.

The Alumnae Association of the Belleville General Hospital was organized on 31 December 1919, with Mrs. Charles Graham as the first president. Its aim was the promotion of unity and fellowship among graduates of the nursing training school of the hospital.

Bethel-Zion Women's Institute was organized in Phillipston, Ontario, in January 1912.

Principal Investments Ltd. was a general construction firm based in Toronto, Ontario.

The Belleville Weavers Guild was established in February 1956 by Hazel Hayes, Ida Godden, Florence Ayling, Helen Sulman, Lil Watson, Lily Moult, and Janet Gilroy. Its aim was to "further interest in weaving by sharing ideas and information and by planned programs.” The organization's interests were expanded to include spinning, felting, dyeing and basketry and the word Spinners was added to the name in 1982. By 2002 the Guild's membership had grown to 80 members.

The Building Research Committee was a group of the Hastings County Historical Society which researched the history of buildings, mostly in Belleville. It was originally called the Historic Structures Committee. The work of the group resulted in the publication of two illustrated volumes called 'Belleville's Heritage', published in 1978 and 1983. In 1991 Heritage Belleville produced the Heritage Buildings East of the Moira River volume, which also grew out of the activities of this committee. A second edition was published in 2012 and the volume was made available on the Internet Archive in 2024.

The Belleville Advertiser was a newspaper published in Belleville, Ontario.

The Stirling News-Argus was a newspaper published in Stirling, Ontario. The first publisher of the paper was John H. Thompson. Other owners were:

• 1884-1924 James Currie
• 1924-1926 Allen Donnell
• 1926-1934 A. E. Dobbie
• 1934-1964 H. R. Tompkins
• 1964- [?] Robert and Helen Hulin