This file contains a copy of a school project written by Wendy Rowbotham from Foxboro Sr. Elementary School. It is titled The Wallbridge Family and contains information about the genealogy of the Wallbridge Family.

Original newspaper clippings of obituaries for: J. Wesley Glass, Orlean Glass, E. Carl Bleeker, Tom Ketcheson, Marjory K. Grass, Sussana Green nee Hart, Howard Bleecker Ketcheson, Charles Ketcheson, Mrs. Nancy Victoria Green, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Ketcheson nee Whitley. Photocopies of pages from family bible recording the deaths of: Arthur Ketcheson, Howard Bleecker Ketcheson, Tom Ketcheson; the births of : Howard Bleecker Ketcheson, Arthur Ketcheson, Tom Ketcheson and Mary Jane Glass. Old handwritten note recording births of: Nancy Victoria Glass, Mary Jane Glass, Orlean Glass, Frankie Alberta Glass, Emaly Glass and James Wesley Glass. Memorium cards and church membership cards.

This fonds contains eleven folders. The first folder consists of genealogy records, family records and ephemera. This folder contains: a list of the births and deaths of members of the Bickford family from 1795 to 1877; three lists regarding deaths of Bogart family members David D. and Emma Virginia; the marriage certificate of David D. Bogart and Harriet Bickford from 1845 in Oswego, New York; hair samples of David D. Bogart, Harriet A. Bogart, and Emma V. Bogart; Harriet Bogart's account book with the Bank of Montreal; religious ephemera; and one unattributable piece of paper.

The second folder contains correspondence from 1868 to 1898. The addressed parties in these letters are: David D. Bogart, Harriet A. Bogart, W.D. Smith, J. Bickford, M.W. Forward, A.J. [Northrupe], John Bell, A.L. Bogart, Alexander Robertson, C.W. Bell, Alexander Robinson, [M.D.] Smith, E. Guss Porter, R. Richardson, W.R. Richardson, [G.] Mollison, and Y.B. Couch.

The third folder contains property records. It consists of: of a mortgage with dower and power of sale between John Canniff Phillips and Albert L. Smith; an indenture of bargain and sale between John Canniff Phillips and Anna Cornelia Phillips; a deed of land between Hester Morden and D.D. Bogart; a deed from the Oswego Rural Cemetery Association to Warren D. Smith and Harriet A. Bogart; six copies of the notice of exercising the power of sale between Harriet Bogart and William Henry Melburn; the original and a copy of a re-mortgage between [W.H.] Melburn and [Nancy] Garrison; a bill of costs for the power of sale from Harriet Bogart to Sexsmith; and a slip indicating a mortgage between Harriet Bogart and Wallace.

The fourth folder contains insurance information. Included in this folder are receipts and policies between Harriet Bogart and the Royal Insurance Company, a receipt from The Liverpool London Globe Insurance Company to Harriet Bogart after a sum was payed by J. Wallace, and a slip indicating that a new roof was put on a property that Harriet Bogart owned from T.C. Lazier to the Royal Insurance Company.

Folder five contains legal papers and records relating to various estates. It includes: a description of the results and potential penalties from an unknown case from 1876; a receipt issued from J.H. Mitchell indicating that an account had been settled after the death of D.D. Bogart in 1878; a receipt from the Riverside Cemetery in New York from Edwin Bell; a receipt from a settled account after the purchase of a monument and a headstone at Riverside Cemetery, Oswego, New York; the estate of the William [Winsby]; two receipts from the Oswego Rural Cemetery Association indicating that an account had been paid regarding the upkeep and maintenance of the Bogart and Smith burials; and a bill of costs relating to the estate of Harriet A. Bogart.

The sixth folder contains Bogart family stock information. It includes information relating to D.D. Bogart's stock holdings with the Grand Junction Railroad. Folders seven, eight, and nine contain numerous receipts from merchants and vendors including those in Belleville, Oswego, New York, and elsewhere.

The tenth folder contains papers relating to an 1874 Sheriff's sale of D.D. Bogart's goods. The twelfth folder contains two copies of an article from the Thursday, January 13 edition of the Daily Intelligencer recounting the experiences of A.L. Bogart in the city of Belleville. The folder also contains two copies of an article written by Billa Flint to the Daily Intelligencer disputing the claims of Bogart on January 17, 1881.

This fonds contains 22 folders. It consists of A. McLean Haig's biographical data which includes a brief summary of his life. The second folder contains his incoming correspondence which includes letters from: Assistant Deputy Minister of national Defence James A. Sharpe; a copy of a letter forwarded to Haig from C.C. Wimperly of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs to Mr. A.B. Sprague; two letters between Wimperly and Haig, one with statistics concerning Northumberland and Durham Counties, the communities of Campbellford and Seymour, and the former District of Newcastle; one from A.R. Wilson, the Belleville Superintendent of the Canadian National Railway; one telegram and one business card congratulating Mayor Haig on his election in 1962 from Quebec Premiere Jean Lesage – in the telegram, it is interesting to note that Lesage is spelled Lesarge; a letter from Trans-Canada Air Lines and Air Canada Vice President Howard Cotterell with a small picture sent from Cotterell to Haig from the air carrier's annual report; a letter from CNR Rideau Manager Keith Hunt that had a piece of the rail-track from Pinnacle Street in Belleville enclosed with it after the line had been pulled from the ground in 1964; and three Christmas cards received from constituents.

The are also pieces of Haig's outgoing correspondence including: four pieces of correspondence to CNR the St. Lawrence Region Vice President, W.H. Kyle and Belleville Superintendent A.R. Wilson respectively; and a letter thanking Premiere Lesage – again spelled Lesarge, for his congratulations on winning the 1962 Belleville municipal election.

There is a folder of his municipal papers consisting of: newspaper clippings; a press release from Postmaster M.A. Murray; a program from the opening of the new wing of the Belleville General Hospital in 1956; and a report on major accomplishments achieved by the Haig administration between 1960 and 1963 prepared by City Manager J.R. Reynolds. Additional folders in this fonds include: one folder of federal government papers, nine folders containing copies of his addresses and speeches; one folder of speeches given by other people that the Mayor kept; a folder with copies of the report of the Willmott Royal Commission which looked into the McFarlands hockey team scandal and the City Auditor's report of 1959; one folder of military related documents; one folder with items pertaining to the history of Belleville and Thurlow; a file with printed jokes and other items that Haig found humourous; one folder labeled miscellaneous by the original record keeper; and the contents of a scrapbook.

Photographs from World War Two, Philip Etter's identification cards, literature on the navy and military, correspondence with the Canadian Merchant Navy Veterans Association, newspaper articles, newspapers from World War Two, House of Commons releases, the journal "The Red Duster".

This series consists of textual records and graphic material accumulated during the life of Mabel Riggs, primarily from when she was living in belleville, Ontario.

• Marriage records, and marriage related documents, Newpaper clippings, Announcements, and Cards ca. 1901
• Newspaper Clippings ca.1901-1924 Address Books, and Ledgers ca.1930's Photographs of Mabel ca. 1880's-1956
  *Photographs

Collection comprises:

• File 1: Family photographs: mainly of farm scenes such as haymaking, corn harvesting, steam traction engines, horses. Two individuals are identified: George Avery and Will Roblin.
• File 2: Publications- newspaper clippings
• File 3: Nostalgic items and publications, newspaper clippings
• File 4: Miscellaneous publications and clippings
• File 5: Material relating to Belleville's 1978 Centennial

Materials added to the Community Archives' newspaper holdings: Belleville Intelligencer recipe supplements, 1964-1987

A binder of handwritten poems by William James Savage, written 1914-1964, with the last two pages containing an index of poems by title.

Collection of twelve photographs and one photograph album.

Description from transfer document:
1) Cartes de visite album of 43 photographs (some tintypes) by Belleville photographers [1870s], name inside cover Miss Mary Cowie, Belleville, Ontario
2) Photograph - window dressed by W. J. Hudson for the inauguration of the City of Belleville, 1878. Text around window reads "Foster & Reid Importers, Millinery & Dressmaking"
3) N2009-012 - Photograph - "Miss M. E. C. Johnson, Teacher at Belleville 1878"
4) N2008-009 - Photograph (Cassie, Belleville) [1880]
5) N2012-007- Photograph - lady with handbag [1885]
6) N2013.015.018 - three photographs - Elsie & Doris, group photo, girl with grandmother, Christmas tree, 1 photo-postcard - Elsie & Doris [1900s]
7) Two photographs - three children in winter, Trenton, 1923 and woman and child, Trenton, Ontario
8) N2013-009 Photograph - March past of Midland Regiment, 1940
9) N2013-011 Photograph - [House in Belleville, Ontario], 1942

File contains a completed printed registration of the last will and testament of Wellington B. Murney, Belleville, registered on 17 May 1858 before Her Majesty's Surrogate Court, County of Hastings. Also present are the manuscript bequests completed by W.B. Murney.

File contains a manuscript list of bequests related to the estate of Capt. John McIntosh, Belleville.

File contains a typed copy of a newspaper account from 1882 of weddings in Belleville between prominent families.

File contains the marriage register of Stephen Conger, J.P. Hallowell from 1803 to 1823.

File contains a typescript copy of a list of items including letters patent, posters, accounts and other printed and manuscript items of historical and antiquarian value.

File contains a letter from Miss H.M. Purdy, dated July 19, 1964 with a brief family history of the Purdy family.

File contains correspondence from the Public Archives of Canada (Ottawa) dated 1969 and addressed to Mary G. Plumpton, Curator, Hastings County Historical Society giving information for Robert Read, M.P. Senator. Tanner, distiller and farmer in Belleville. Director Grand Junction Railway; elected Legislative Council for Quinte Division. Elected House of Commons for Hastings East. Called to the Senate 1871.

File contains correspondence between E.S. Sherwood, The Hon. J.C. Anderson (The Court House, Belleville) and Gerald Boyce (Hastings County Historical Society). Mr. Sherwood was trying to locate a portrait of his grand uncle The Hon. George Sherwood.