- CA ON00156 TR/1085
- File
- [1965]
File contains photocopied typescript notes on the history and development of Detlor and surrounding district by Mary J. Hennessy, Detlor and L'Amable Women's Institute.
File contains photocopied typescript notes on the history and development of Detlor and surrounding district by Mary J. Hennessy, Detlor and L'Amable Women's Institute.
Hastings North Township History general info
File contains a copy of “In Those Days: A History of North Hastings and of South Nipissing,” compiled by Alexander W. Smith, Inspector of Schools at Bancroft. Also contains photocopies of newspaper articles about historic Belleville.
Smith, Alexander W.
Canadian Dyno Uranium (Bancroft) : mining
File contains a newspaper clipping from the Ottawa Journal of 27 March 1920 concerning iron ore deposits in Canada, including Hastings County. Also contains two newspaper clippings concerning management-labour relations regarding the planned closure of the Dyno Uranium Mine, Bancroft, dated 28 January and 1 February 1960.
File contains a typescript item on “Deseronto and the Rathbun Company” written by T. Dane Martin and edited by Gerry Boyce. Also a copy of the final printed version.
Chapelle, Joseph Hungerford illicit still 1923
File contains a newspaper clipping about the discovering of an illegal still on Joseph Cappelle's farm, north of Tweed in Hungerford. The clipping was taken from the Daily Ontario newspaper.
County of Hastings Administration Building
Crime : hangings in Hastings - summary
File contains a typsecript letter to W. J. Therriault, Governor of the Hastings County Jail from Mary G. Plumpton, Curator, Hastings County Museum, with a list of hangings by date and name of the convicted from 1835 to 1941.
Elzevir Township Actinolite History
File contains a copy of a written history of Actinolite (Bridgewater) written by Lloyd 'Bud' Price and obtained by Gerry Boyce in 1964.
Price, Lloyd 'Bud'
File contains a written history of settlement and development of Elzevir and Grimsthorpe community, compiled in 1964 in response to a call for contributions to a history of Hastings County by the Hastings County Historical Society and the County of Hastings (Historic Hastings).
Double Murder Worst Tragedy in City's History
Newspaper article reporting the murder of Clayton Williams and Jack McGie by the alleged shooter David Arthur Moon in a Belleville drug store on April 6, 1925.
Daily Ontario
Field Notes of the Township of Faraday
Photocopied cover of manuscript field notes by Quintin Johnston, Provincial Land Surveyor concerning resources and quality of land in Faraday Township in 1857. Published by Ontario Department of Crown Lands.
Johnston, Quintin
Old Market School Pinnacle St. 1959
File contains a newspaper clipping from 1959 discussing the history of the Belleville Memorial Arena and how it was once a public school.
File contains a police report from 1922, published in the Intelligencer.
Murder/Hangings – James Kane 1891
File contains a newspaper article about the hanging of James Kane in Belleville in 1891.
Thain murder case : letter from Fred E. Thain 1941
File contains a letter from Fred E. Thain to Mr and Mrs Clarence Cornell, written five days before his execution by hanging for the murder of Arnold and Nancy Wellman.
Thain, Frederick Earl
A Last Appeal to County Councils for Pecuniary Aid
Letter of appeal to county council members for financial aid to the Deaf and Dumb Institution which includes an account abstract for 1865 and the treasurer's, W.M. McMaster, balance sheet for 1862.
McGann, John Barrett
File contains a petition to the Councillors of Hastings County from the inhabitants of Dungannon and Faraday Townships concerning the division of the townships into three school sections. Also contains a directive from the Municipal Council, Hastings County concerning fencing in Dungannon and Faraday Townships.
Frankford – Cemetery – Wesleyan Methodist Church
File contains a transcription of the Old Frankford Cemetery (Wesleyan Methodist Church).
Hastings County Council Papers; Reports of County Surveyors 1855
File contains an 1855 letter from provincial land surveyor John Haslett to verify work has been done to allow for a road from the townships of Sidney to Thurlow.