Photo of Lucinda Hill wiith her children (from left): Susan, Elizabeth and James, and her grand-daughter, Elsie (Elizabeth's daughter). Lucinda was born on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in around 1843, the daughter of Isaac and Catherine Hill and she married another Isaac Hill. By the time of the 1871 census she was a widow, living with her three children (Elizabeth, 10, James, 8 and Susan 5) in the household of her nephew, William Claus. Elsie was 15 at the time of the 1901 census, when she was living in Deseronto, Ontario with her mother and grandmother. In the photograph, she looks about five or six years old, which would date the portrait to around 1892. The photo was taken by Herbert A. Osborne, who was active in Deseronto in the mid-1890s. The image has damaged edges and is broken into two pieces.
Mounted photograph of the Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer and the Manse in St. George Street, Deseronto, Ontario. Taken by James Fairbairn, photographer (born 1866) in around 1910.
Photo of Deseronto High School
Photo album – none of the images identified. Inscribed “To Lizzie from a little fried Weber Featherstonhaugh Deseronto Ont”
Bible
Bible
Martine’s Handbook of Etiquette
Common Sense in the Household
Searchlights or Light on Dark Corners
The Victory Readers Book I
Pocket Ready Reckoner
Photograph of Cyril W. Bird [married in Belleville 1891, evangelist – died in Africa, 12 Feb 1896]
Letter from James Hill to his sister, Susan Maracle, 1904
Various loose papers: permit to leave Canada for William Smith, 1918, Christmas Card, newspaper cuttings of marriages and obituaries; ‘In Memoriam” 1898 publication on the death of Frederick Sherwood Rathbun; instructions on removing afterbirth from cows[?]; marriage certificate for William Smith and Lydia Claus, 1902; stub of marriage certificate of David Powliss and Harriet Baptiste, 1917; embroidery reading “Thou Art my Hope”
Two pairs of glasses made at the Canada Optical Company in Deseronto, with paper casings. Models: Lana Brown Silk and Lana Black (both made of plastic with seven diamanté stones over each eye).
Digital images taken on April 9th, 2015, of the Langley and Burke architectural plans of a proposed house on Stanley Avenue, Deseronto, Ontario, for Edward Wilkes Rathbun, made May 20th, 1892. The original plans are held at the Archives of Ontario.
Scans and digital photographs of images relating to Dr Elgin Vandervoort and his family, taken from an album belonging to his family and loaned for the purpose. Include pictures of May Vandervoort and her husband, Hugh Rothwell, who met her when he was installing electricity to Deseronto. They married on September 1st, 1917 in Deseronto.
89 digtial scans of materials relating to Ralph Lawlor’s time in the Deseronto Fire Department and as Chair of the Deseronto Public Utilities Commission, 1960s–2014.
Photocopies of newspaper articles featuring Deseronto history/postcards.
Eight photocopies of pages of the Kingston Whig Standard, each featuring people and news from the Tyendinaga Reserve and published daily between February 22, and February 27, 1965.
Profile of Sacred Feathers, or Rev. Peter Jones (1802-1856) by Donald Smith, published in Touchstone, vol. 33, no.1 (February 2015), 59-66
Chapter 2 from Macdonald at 200 (published 2014), ‘Macdonald’s Relationship with Aboriginal Peoples’ by Donald Smith (21 pages)
Outline of Professor Donald B. Smith's forthcoming book The Blind Spot: Canada and the "Indians" in Canada's First Century. A Study of non-Indigenous Canadians' perspectives on the First Nations from 1867 to the White Paper of 1969, with copies of some research materials including:
'The Indian in "the Great" Canadian Society: A Newspaper Series on People of Tyendinaga': series of articles in the Kingston Whig Standard, February 22nd to 27th, 1965
'As A Teacher On The Reserve She Came To Know The Indians': photocopied article from the Napanee Beaver of October 12th, 1966 by Celia File
Collection comprises photographs of the two First World War Royal Flying Corps training camps at Deseronto, Ontario and notes for an unpublished book, 'Wings Over Deseronto', on the history of the camps. Camp Mohawk and Camp Rathbun were in operation between May 1917 and November 1918, training men to be pilots for the Western Front. The photographs in this collection are originals and reproductions depicting the aircraft, staff and cadets of the Royal Flying Corps, principally in the Deseronto camps, but also at Camps Borden and Leaside (Ontario) and Camp Taliaferro, in Fort Worth, Texas.
Five photographic reproductions of sketches of Belleville by Edwin Whitefield taken from a Royal Ontario Museum sketchbook with views of "Lake Ontario & St. Lawrence River' (ROM: 958.70 A-AG). The photographs were purchased by Don Kellaway and these copies were made by Lois Foster.
Files relating to plans to create a community archives service for Belleville and Hastings County and to create a facility in which to hold the archives' collections.
Agreements between the City of Belleville, Hastings County Historical Society and County of Hastings, 1999-2010
Proposal for Municipal Archives and proposal to move into new Belleville Public Library building, 2004
Newspaper clippings and Historical Society publications on archives project, 2004-2008
Proposal for Records Management Needs Assessment, 2005
Archives Relocation Committee business plan and concept document, with copies of agreements with City of Belleville and County of Hastings, 2008-2009
Correspondence and supporting documents for an application to the Ontario Trillium Fund, 2010-2011
Unlocking the Archives campaign materials (2 files), 2011-2012
Correspondence about plans to locate the Community Archives within the Belleville Public Library, 2013
Photographs of display panels on the uncovering of 1868 advertisements for minstrel shows on the side of the Greenley's bookstore at 258 Front Street, Belleville, in 1993.
The Community Archives has an extensive collection of original local newspapers, as well as microfilm copies of the Intelligencer, the Hastings Chronicle, and the Daily Ontario.
