Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1896-2003 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
2 boxes
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Bruce William Bedell was born in Belleville in 1936. He was an educator with a love of history, dramatic arts and the outdoors. He was a graduate of Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School and served a year in the Royal Canadian Air Force before becoming a teacher. His first classroom was in Wilberforce, between Haliburton and Bancroft. Bedell lived in Dryden, Sault Ste. Marie and London before setting back in Belleville in 2004. He became Town Crier for Belleville in 2004 and a member of the Hastings County Historical Society. He died in 2014
Obituary in the Belleville Intelligencer: http://www.intelligencer.ca/2014/10/07/belleville-loses-biggest-voice
Archival history
This material was donated to the archives on May 7th, 2012 by Bruce Bedell.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
This collection consists of:
family photographs
postcards
Chrsitmas cards
Valentine card
deeds and mortgages for a property in Tyendinaga Township on the north side of lot 6 in the first concession
Shredded Wheat cereal box cards (see http://rolandanderson.se/injun-uity_cards.php)
Imperial Oil Limited History of Canada portfolios
plate depicting Shannonville United Church
*Hastings County Historical Society banner
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
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Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Open
Conditions governing reproduction
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Script of material
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Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
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Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Hastings County Historical Society (Subject)
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Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
2015-06-22
Language(s)
- English