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Two files:

1. Materials relating to teaching needlework classes at the Ontario School for the Deaf, 1941-1945
2. Information concerning subscriptions to the 'Echoes' publication of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of Empire, with list of Belleville subscribers, 1946-1949. Includes handwritten recipes for cocktails

Printed booklet on the history of John Barrett McGann, founder of the Ontario School for the Deaf.

Postcard with photographs of former and current buildings on the site of the Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf.

These images of Belleville, Ontario locations were used for teaching at the Ontario School for the Deaf (now the Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf), probably in the 1950s. The images depict:

• Armouries
• Government Dock
• Deacon Brothers shirt factory
• Victoria Park and harbour
• Tabernacle United Church
• Belleville Public Works building
• Belleville City Hall and Council Chamber
• Hastings County Shire Hall and Council Chamber
• Belleville Police Station
• St. Thomas Anglican Church
• Belleville Pump House
• Registry Office
• Victoria Avenue Baptist Church

The collection also includes a colour print of 'Keep BCI in the Picture' a reproduction of 'East Side, West Side' by Eve Lucy, printed by Market High as part of the campaign BCIVS 2000, committed to keeping the Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School building as part of the Belleville landscape.

Printed brochure with key events in the school's history noted.

Photocopies of two articles published in 'The Canadian' publication of the Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf concerning the appropriation of the school by the Commonwealth Air Training Programme in 1941.

Elevations and plans of the Gibson Infirmary building on the site of the Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf.