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Victoria Cheese and Butter Manufacturing Company records

  • Fonds
  • 1905-1963

Fonds consists of records pertaining to the Victoria Cheese and Butter Manufacturing Association including one folder of administrative documents containing real estate records and the company's charter. It also contains one volume of minutes from annual meetings.

Victoria Cheese and Butter Manufacturing Company

Moira-Schuster Coal Company records

  • CA ON00156 MG 664
  • Fonds
  • 1878-1978

The fonds contains a Daily Cash Transactions sheet with a hand-drawn layout of the coal yards, an envelope with the company name "The Schuster Co. Limited", miscellaneous materials copied from original documents including newspaper clippings from 1954; pages 62-66 of the Canadian Fuel Marketer ca. 1878-1978 issues; Weaver Liquifuels pages 55-60, 2 envelopes of negatives, and 110 photographs of various everyday operations at the Bill Schuster Coal and Lumber Company, as well as photographs of Bill Schuster and possibly his family. One is an aerial photograph of the site of the company.

Moira-Schuster Ltd.

Pitman family records

  • Fonds
  • 1932-1963

The fonds consists of two books plus banking records and statements, invoices, a postcard, phone bills and two flyers. Book 1 is an account ledger with name index spanning from 1932-1940. Book 2 is a notebook from 19 March 1940- 18 Sept. 1944. Other records include a statement from Sept. 21, 1936 plus 10 pages from an accounts ledger, no date, possibly recording household goods sold from the Pitman's store; two Canadian Bank of Commerce vinyl folders; seven "Long Distance Service" phone bill statements; two receipts; four loose pages from a petty accounts book; two envelopes; card from "Tuck" to Mrs. J. Churchill, no date; two flyers, one from "Charlinore Kennels" and one from "Director of Annuities".

Pitman (family)

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

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

Registers of Port of Belleville harbour dues

  • CA ON00156 RG 656
  • Series
  • 1939-1946

Three registers of Harbour Dues paid by ships offloading cargo at the Port of Belleville between 21 September 1939 and 5 December 1946. The registers record the date; the name of the ship; the quantity and nature of the cargo; the recipient; the dues owing and the date they were paid. Entries are signed by the harbour master: Joseph Waddell until 5 October 1945 and George Oliver Tice after that date.

Belleville Harbour Commission

Arthur Tufts collection

  • CA ON00156 2007-05
  • Collection
  • 1937-2000

Materials collected by Arthur Tufts (father of Marilyn Hughes), including:

  • Negative of a photograph of children and staff of Tweed Consolidated School, 1932-1933
  • Printed letter from Harold Walsh to the voters of East Hastings, 1 October 1937
  • 'A History of St. John's United Church, Tweed, Ontario 1957-1969' by Mrs C. R. Porritt, 1967
  • Printed photo directory of St. John's United Church, Tweed, Ontario, 2000
  • Printed 'seniority list' of names of 266 employees of Corby Distilleris Limited at 15 September 1974, with their date of starting work
  • Published history of 'Moira Lodge A.F. & A.M. No. 11 G.R.C. March 10th, 1801 to 1976' by H. S. Robbins
  • Published history 'Moira Lodge A.F. & A.M. No. 11 G.R.C. Bicentennial 1801-2001' by Paul Foster

Tufts, Arthur Herman

Kellaway family records

  • CA ON00156 2012-43
  • Collection
  • 1931-2012

Collection of materials relating to the Kellaway family of Belleville, Ontario, including:
1) File of certificates and ration books relating to Kenneth Alfred Kellaway (1917-1998)
2) File of typescript notes on the history of the Kellaway family, 2012, and a calendar from Ed Kellaway's Belleville store, 1955

Collection of Belleville-related materials

  • CA ON00156 2019-124
  • Collection
  • 1908-1975

Three items:
1) Clarke's drug store, Belleville, calendar, 1908 [Francis Clayton Clarke (1871-1951) had a drug store at 252 Front Street]
2) Flyer for J. & J. Cash labels, with sample ribbons, 1924
3) Yearbook for King George School, North Front Street, Belleville, 1974-1975

Breweries of Hastings County

  • CA ON00156 2022-061
  • Item
  • c.1990

Part of an unpublished history of Ontario breweries, covering breweries in Hastings County.

Mannen, Doug

Business diary of William Nisbet Ponton

  • CA ON00156 2023-011
  • Item
  • 1890
  1. Handwritten notes of daily business activities by William Nisbet Ponton
  2. Deed from Richard and Hannah Eliza Bamber to W. H. Maines of the northwest quarter of lot 6 in the ninth concession of Sidney Township, 21 February 1884
  3. Mortgage of the same property by Allan Edward and Alice Maud Maines to William Maines, 7 April 1897

Ponton, William Nisbet

Deseronto Archives photographic collection

  • Collection
  • 1860-

The photographs are arranged by subject matter and cover activities in and around the town of Deseronto, Ontario. The majority date from the late nineteenth century and many depict the lumber-related industries of the Rathbun Company in Deseronto. There are also photographs of school groups, churches, railways, First World War airfields and portraits of Deseronto citizens.

James Vincent Doyle legal papers

  • CA ON00156 2012-42
  • Collection
  • 1899-1948

Three items relating to James Vincent Doyle:
1) Apprenticeship agreement between Doyle and Alexander Ray of Belleville, 30 April 1899
2) Affidavit concerning the registration of a partnership by J. Vincent Doyle, 4 November 1943
3) Partnership agreement between James Vincent Doyle and Edmund O'Flynn Doyle [his son], 1 April 1948

Doyle, James Vincent

Sidney Cheese and Butter Factory Association records

  • CA ON00156 1999-01
  • Fonds
  • 1893-1930

This fonds contains one folder of real estate related material, a volume containing a ledger with the Association's rules and regulations, and two volumes of minute books.

Sidney Cheese and Butter Factory Association

W.H. Waldorf records

  • CA ON00156 1985-01
  • Fonds
  • 1904-1938

This fonds contains one folder of family records, twenty-seven folders of invoices from the following businesses:

  • W.M. Davies Pork Packers and Provision Merchants of Toronto, 1917
  • Dominion Sugar Companies Limited of Chatham, 1917
  • S. Domenico, Wholesale Fruit Merchants of Belleville, 1912-1917
  • Eby-Blain Limited, Wholesale Importing and Manufacturing Grocers of Toronto, 1916-1917
  • Grand Trunk Railroad System, 1917
  • R.B. Hayhoe & Company Importers of Teas and Coffees, Confectioners Supplies of Toronto, 1917
  • H.J. Heinz Company of Toronto, 1916-1917
  • Hodgens and Roberts Limited Tobacconists, Scales and Roberts Company Limited Tobacconists of Toronto, 1917
  • L.P. Hughes Flour and Feeds, Seeds, Rolled Oats and All Kinds of Breakfast Cereals of Belleville, 1917
  • Hydro Electric Power Commission of Ontario – Central Ontario System-Trenton, 1917-1918
  • P.C. Larkin and Company Tea Merchants of Toronto, 1917
  • S.B. McClung, Paints, Oils, Glass, etc. of Trenton, 1917
  • W.E. Mayhew – Trent Valley Mills of Trenton 1916-1917
  • William Patterson and Son Company of Belleville, 1916 to 1918
  • Wm. Rennie Company Limited Seeds of Toronto, 1916-1917
  • George A. Robertson and Son Limited, Wholesale Groceries of Kingston, 1908-1917
  • John Sloan & Company of Belleville, 1917
  • Swift Canadian Company of Toronto, 1917
  • Telfer Bros. Limited of Toronto, 1917
  • Trenton Garage, 1916 1917
  • White and Company Limited Fruit, Produce and Fish of Toronto, 1917
  • Dalley Products Limited of Hamilton, 1917
  • W.J. Crothers Company of Kingston, 1917
  • R.B. Cooper of Belleville, 1917
  • Belleville Creameries, 1917
  • Belleville Cider and Vinegar Company, 1917
  • Bell Telephone of Trenton, 1917
  • Armstrong and Paffard of Toronto, 1917

There is also: one folder containing pages from a ledger, one cash book volume, one folder of sales slips with a sales slip book, and one folder of receipts, orders and correspondence.
There is a folder containing land deeds and personal papers.

Waldorf, William H.

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)

Belleville Chamber of Commerce records

  • Fonds
  • 1890 - 1969

The Belleville Chamber of Commerce fonds is composed of:

  • one file of correspondence including a press release, a ballot for the election for the 1968 election
  • one file containing two newsletters from 1956 and the last page of another newsletter from 1958.
  • one file of industrial brochures and promotional material containing three brochures circa 1953.
  • one file has annual reports from 1922, 1954, 1955, and 1956 in it, and a better service survey from 1953.
  • one file contains three guides about Belleville from 1950, three information guides for visitors to Belleville from 1961.
  • one file of directories and maps from 1949 to 1963.
  • two files containing "The Highlands of Hastings" travel brochures from 1940 to 1967, and a Quinte Isle tourist directory.
  • one file containing files from the "Jaycees," also known as the Belleville Junior Chamber of Commerce.
  • one file of material from the Belleville Board of Trade for Hastings County period in the organizations history.
  • one file containing ephemera pieces including a sign indicating membership and a menu.
  • one file contains various newspaper clippings.

Belleville Chamber of Commerce

Belleville Harbour Commission records

  • CA ON00156 TR 3391
  • Fonds
  • 1840-1961

This fonds comprises documents pertaining to the Belleville Harbour Commission. Folders contain:

  • two copies of the By-Laws and Regulations of the Board of Harbour Commissioners and the amended Harbour Commissioners Act of 1889 from 1947
  • documents relating to the appointment of Harry Earle as a member of the Belleville Harbour Commission including the official certification from the Registrar General of Canada with the Great Seal of Canada impressed upon it
  • newspaper clippings

There are also a number of volumes included in this fonds:

  • volume containing documents relating to an account with the Mutual Insurance Company of the Victoria District, returns from the post of Belleville, and a series of timber licenses
  • two volumes of the harbour's imports dating from 1879 to 1931
  • two volumes of exports dating from 1889 to 1935
  • two volumes of commodities dating from 1873 to 1930
  • cash book from the Belleville Harbour with dates ranging from 1891 to 1953
  • three volumes of account books with Canada and Dominion Sugar Company Limited, National Grocers Sugar Stock, Union Elevator, and St. Lawrence Sugar respectively

Belleville Harbour Commission

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