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'Corbyville 1991'

  • CA ON00156 2015-06
  • Item
  • 1991

Booklet produced at the time of the closure of the Corbyville plant of Corby's Distilleries, containing a history of the Corbys and photographs of employees and site buildings and vehicles.

Corby's Distilleries

Mounted photograph of window display of John S. McKeown's Rexall drugstore at 271 Front Street, Belleville

  • CA ON00156 2015-59
  • Item
  • c.1920

Mounted photograph of a "Rexall Week" promotional window display at John Spottiswood McKeown's drugstore, 271 Front Street, Belleville, Ontario, c.1920. Photograph taken by Robert McCormick of Belleville. The display features a range of Rexall products, including: Liver Salts, Rubbing Oil, Baby Laxative, Rexall Orderlies, Celery & Iron Tonic, Beef Iron & Wine, Cherry Bark and Dyspepsia Tablets.

McKeown was born in Belleville in 1871. He was the son of John McKeown senior (a boot and shoe merchant) and Mary Bullen. He married Caroline (Carrie) Lingham on October 5th, 1898 and they had one daughter, Helen, born in 1901. In 1921 the family were living at 16 Alexander Street, Belleville, with a maid called Florence Parks.

McKeown's Drug Store was at this location in Front Street from c.1915 to the late 1960s, when it was taken over as The Coach Room, part of Woodley's Furs. This photograph was found by members of the Woodley family in the basement of the building.

McCormick, Robert

Jack Butler in Drug Store

Man standing inside a drug store, with display counters on the right of the photograph and a phonograph to the left. The walls are lined with shelves and advertisements. A note on the back reads "Jack Butler (John Gay Butler) in drug store, 1926". "F. B. Butler, 331 Victoria Ave. Belleville, Ont." is stamped on the back three times.

Guide books

Three guide books:
1) 'Over the Hills of Hastings', 1923, including a sheet with two maps of Hastings County
2) Belleville Ontario industrial investment guide, 1983 [2 copies]
3) 'Bay of Quinte Region Guide Book', 1986

Reproduction photograph of Schuster Company wharf in Belleville, Ontario

  • CA ON00156 2016-54
  • Item
  • c. 1920

Reproduction of photograph taken on the waterfront of the Moira River/Bay of Quinte, in Belleville, Ontario, showing a steamship tied up to the wharf of the Schuster Company and looking north. The tower of City Hall is visible in the distance.

Livesey's Meat Market photographs

  • CA ON00156 2016-83
  • Collection
  • 1910-1940s

Reproduction photographs showing:

  1. Front Street, Belleville, Ontario, looking north from south of City Hall, with streetcar, 1910
  2. Four photographs of Livesey's Meat Market, with members of the Livesey family
  3. Interior of a grocery store on Front Street
    With a page of notes by Wendy Stevens on the history of the photographs. The store was at the corner of Bridge and Everett Streets in Belleville.

Livesey (family)

Photograph of staff of H. Corby Distillery, Corbyville, Ontario

  • CA ON00156 2016-96
  • Item
  • June 1954

Photograph of staff of H. Corby Distilleries Limited, Corbyville, Ontario. The photograph was taken outside the distillery, with two of the company's trucks in the background.

H. Corby Distillery Company Ltd.

Black Diamond Cheese and Belleville-Corbyville Rail line proposal

  • CA ON00156 2017-03
  • File
  • 1991-1994

Two files retrieved by Gerry Boyce from Thurlow Township materials destined for shredding in 2005:

  • File on Ault Foods' acquisition of Black Diamond Cheese, including a photograph of the factory and Labatt's annual report for 1991
  • 31 page proposal to restore 2.5 miles of railway line between College Street West in Belleville and the Corby Distillery in Corbyville, 1994

Township of Thurlow

Scrapbook of news clippings relating to Belleville, Ontario

  • CA ON00156 2017-72
  • Item
  • 13 Nov 1919 - 3 Mar 1920

Scrapbook containing news clippings from Belleville, Ontario newspapers The Daily Intelligencer and Daily Ontario relating to the Board of Trade reorganization and the purchase of the Bay Bridge.

Alpha Dairies butter papers

  • CA ON00156 2017-82
  • Item
  • c.1950

Three sheets of paper used for wrapping pound weights of 'Alpha brand Creamery Butter, First Grade' produced by Alpha Dairies Limited of 57 Cannifton Road, Belleville, Ontario. The dairies are listed at this address in the 1949 Vernon's directory of Belleville.

Alpha Dairies Ltd.

Photograph of Sears warehouse, Belleville, Ontario

  • CA ON00156 2018-011
  • Item
  • 1997

Aerial photograph by Richard Lumbers of the Sears distribution warehouse on College Street, Belleville, Ontario, taken on its fifth anniversary.

Lumbers, Richard

Digital copies of Bishop's Seeds catalogues

  • CA ON00156 2018-086
  • Series
  • 1950, 1965

Digital copies of Bishop's Seeds catalogues from 1950 and 1965, made from originals held by the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington, Ontario. The Royal Botanical Gardens also holds catalogues for 1951, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971 ,1974, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 in their collection.

Bishop's Seeds

Redi-Heat collection

  • CA ON00156 2018-099
  • Collection
  • 1938-1946

Collection consists of two items:

  • Digital copy of a photograph of the Redi-Heat building on Mill and Water streets in Deseronto, taken by Frederick Harold Ball in 1938
  • Financial statements for the Redi-Heat Electrical Appliance Company, 1946, prepared by W. S. Stone, Chartered Accountant, of Belleville, Ontario

Ball, Frederick Harold

Day books of John McKeown, shoe seller

  • CA ON00156 2018-108
  • Fonds
  • 1878-1917

Day books of sales made by John McKeown's boot and shoe business on Front Street in Belleville, listing customers' names and items purchased. There are four volumes covering the following dates:
1) July 1878 - April 1882
2) April 1882 - December 1884
3) May 1894 - August 1900
4) April 1912 - October 1917

A fifth volume contains an alphabetical index to customers' names.

McKeown, John

Ontario Business College exercise books

  • CA ON00156 2018-122
  • Series
  • 1917

Bookkeeping exercise books completed by Cyrus Fulford in his time as a student at the Ontario Business College in Belleville.

Ontario Business College (Belleville)

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