- CA ON00156 HCHS/6/2/11
- File
- c.2009
Display panels with information about famous citizens of Belleville.
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Display panels with information about famous citizens of Belleville.
Display panels on various Belleville buildings, assembled by Donna Fano for the Jane's Walks held in Belleville, Ontario, in 2016.
Fano, Donna
Ponton : letters from Gilbert Parker, 1900
File contains manuscript and typescript correspondence from Sir Gilbert Parker to W.N. Ponton concerning visits of the former to Belleville in 1900 and 1911.
Ponton (family)
Ponton, W.N. : address as President of Ont. Associated Boards of Trade, February 24, 1914
File contains a typescript transcript of a presidential address by William Nisbet Ponton, President of the Ontario Associated Board of Trades, 24 February 1914, concerning economic indicators, development and investment in Ontario.
Ponton (family)
Rawdon Township : diary of W. Hambly, 1793-1794
File contains a reproduction of a manuscript diary of W. Hambly, surveyor, for the period 6 December 1793 to 1 May 1794. The diary entries discuss the survey process in Thurlow, Sidney, Huntingdon and Rawdon Townships. Also present is a typescript transcript of the diary with an appended footnote section which contains a glossary of terms.
File contains original playbill; George Kleine Presents Antony and Cleopatra, Griffin Opera House, Belleville. The Griffin Opera House was demolished in 1933. http://vitacollections.ca/BellevilleHistory/2454173/data
Griffin Opera House
"The History of Burris School" S.S. #9, Madoc Twp. H.C.H.S. Student Essay Contest
A report on the Burris School written by 6th grader Sarah Ketchson for Madoc Township. Includes photographs.
Ketcheson, Sarah
File contains several newspaper articles from the Ontario Intelligencer about the Shannonville Fair and the closing of the Old Shannonville Store.
Murder/Hangings – James Kane 1891
File contains a newspaper article about the hanging of James Kane in Belleville in 1891.
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.
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.
Education : Queen Mary Public School history, 1947
File contains a newspaper clipping on the history of Queen Mary School, Belleville ca. 1914-1947.
File contains a newspaper article about an election in 1842, the “Most Violent Election in the City”.
Boyce, Gerry
Frankford – Cemetery – Wesleyan Methodist Church
File contains a transcription of the Old Frankford Cemetery (Wesleyan Methodist Church).
Jones, Mrs. Eliza, Deed of Land, Eliza Wife of Rev. Sept. Jones 1868
File contains a Deed of Land Sale between Agnes Fitzgibbon of Toronto and Eliza Jones of lots one and two on Bridge Street in Belleville, Ontario.
File contains two copies of “The Kilties: Souvenir Route Book” from 1910 when the Kilties toured the world, a postcard of the Kilties on tour, and paper with the Kilties of Belleville, Ontario letter head. There is also a newspaper article written in 2010 about the history of the Kilties and their tour.
Kilties
Limerick Township : history since 1888 / Mrs. Thomas Ham
File contains a photocopy of a printed by law concerning animal control in Limerick Township, 1887. Also contains a photocopy of a printed article entitled History of Limerick Township since 1888, by Mrs. Thomas Ham, Steenburg, Ontario. First published in The North Hastings Review ca. 1955.
Madoc : Hannah family genealogy
File contains a typescript extract from the Hastings County Court Registry Office concerning the ownership of a piece of land in Madoc Township, granted to C. Gordon Hannah in 1861. The lot is not identified, but information from the land index maintained by the Marilyn Adams Genealogical Research Centre suggest that it is lot 24 in the seventh concession of Madoc Township.
Marysburgh; settlement 1784-1850
File containing booklet on the history of the founding of Marysburgh and township council records from 1850-1.
Rebellion Losses Claim #94 : Peter Davidson, Sidney
Files contains a manuscript statement of damages submitted to the Provincial Government in 1845 by Peter Davidson for damages incurred while imprisoned in December 1837. Also contains a manuscript letter from Billa Flint, J.P. to Peter Davidson and Aaron Hearns dated 5 May 1838 dismissing a case against them.