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HCHS Textual Records collection: Files 2000 to 2499 File With digital objects
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1885 Northwest Rebellion Campaign: list of “A” & “H” Company Belleville Veterans

File contains a photocopied typescript letter from Chas. S. Clapp to Lt. Col. William Nisbet Ponton dated October 29, 1914 concerning the A. and H Companies of the Midland Battalion at Batoche during the Northwest Rebellion of 1885. Also present is a photocopied typescript list of veterans from the two companies who served during the Rebellion.

Grand Trunk Railway Regiment, 1867

File contains typescript correspondence from Leslie Whitford to Mrs. J.W. Sargent Secretary, Hastings County Historical Society March 6-March12, 1964 concerning the 1871 annual inspection of the Grand Trunk Railway Brigade in Belleville under the command of Captains Nunn and Crowther. Also contains a photocopied article entitled “The Grand Trunk Railway Brigade” by Barbara Wilson, concerning special militia units composed of employees of the Grand Trunk Railway authorized by Canadian Order in Council in 1867 to act in states of emergency (published in the Canadian Army Journal 17 (2) in 1963).

Mining : Marmora Iron Works, 1823

File contains a typescript brief biography of Charles Hayes who was an early promoter of iron ore mining and smelting in Blairton, near Marmora, Ontario.

[This is the text of a plaque erected in Marmora by the Archaeological and Historic Sites Board, Department of Public Records and Archives of Ontario. For more on the location of the plaque, see https://hastingshistoricalplaques.ca/regional-maps/marmora-ironworks-1823/92 .]

Moira River Conservation Authority, 1960

File contains printed minutes of meetings of the Moira River Conservation Authority, June-August, 1960. Also contains printed and photocopied announcements concerning the official opening of The Colonel Roscoe Vanderwater Conservation Area; several newspaper articles regarding Lingham Lake on the Moira River watershed area; and a photocopied printed paper entitled Modernising an Old Dam'/ by Bruce H. Smith, Chairman of the Moira River Conservation Authority, concerning the rebuilding of the dam at Lingham Lake

Moira River Conservation Authority

Museum Project, Faulkner House 1967

File contains a mimeographed typescript proposal entitled “Belleville Project for the Canadian Centennial : a proposal submitted by certain interested citizens.” The proposal contains a brief history of Faulkner House [Glanmore], architectural drawings and a proposed budget for restoration and subsequent operations.

Ontario Flag

File contains:

  • Program of the Ceremony for the Raising of the Flag of Ontario at the Parliament Buildings, Queen's Park, Toronto on Friday, May 21, 1965. Sent to Mr. & Mrs. Earl W. VanBlaricom from Mr. Eldon Woolliams, M.P.
  • Printed illustration of the Arms of the Dominion and of the Provinces of Canada.
  • Post card from E.W. VanBlaricom of picture of Namur, Old houses on the Sambre.
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