Report of talk on the Grand Trunk Railway strike in Belleville 1877
- CA ON00156 TR/0693-1
- File
- c.1964
File contains a newspaper clip about a talk to the Historical Society on the 1877 Belleville Riot after the strike of Grand Trunk Railway workers.
Report of talk on the Grand Trunk Railway strike in Belleville 1877
File contains a newspaper clip about a talk to the Historical Society on the 1877 Belleville Riot after the strike of Grand Trunk Railway workers.
Digital photographs taken in the Quinte region in spring 2021
Photographs include COVID-19-related signs, building renovations on Front Street in Belleville, work on the Skyway Bridge, and damage to the concrete of the Bridge Street bridge in Belleville.
Lantz, Paul
Shannonville Railway Accident, 1872
Part of Records of the Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County
Reproductions of newspaper articles relating to the 1872 Grand Trunk Railway accident at Shannonville, Ontario.
Celebrating the Bay Bridge of 1891
Display panels with photographs of the various bridges across the Bay of Quinte.
Display panels about railways, prepared for the Hastings County Historical Society's annual banquet in November 2006.
Albert Scriven discusses his immigration to Canada, and his farming experience followed by his work in the filtration plant and gas works in Belleville.
Scriven, Albert W.
Captain Jack Buchanan describes his childhood in Wales, immigration to Canada and his life on the Great Lakes freighters.
Buchanan, John Albert
Railway : Grand Trunk Railway strike at Belleville, 1876-1877 / by Gerald E. Boyce
File contains a manuscript paper entitled “The Grand Trunk Railway Strike at Belleville, 1876-1877 : a brief outline,” presented by Gerald E. Boyce at a winter, 1965 meeting of the Belleville Rotary Club. The paper discusses the strike action by trainmen and the dispatch of police and companies of the local battalion to deal with strikers and their supporters.
Belleville Grand Trunk Railway Riot 1877
File contains a c.1877 copy of a telegram to Col.Powell in Ottawa, report of the Queen's Own suppressing railway mob in Belleville, c.1877 copy of telegram from Belleville City Council to Lt.Col. Durie of Toronto re military presence required to suppress uprising at Grand Trunk railway, and other miscellaneous documents on the c.1877 railway uprising of workers in Belleville.
The 'Monck' Road : colonization road, 1863
File contains newspaper articles concerning the history of the Monck Road, a colonization road primarily, but also intended as a less vulnerable military route between the Upper Great Lakes and the Ottawa Valley, passing near Bancroft, Ontario. The road was surveyed in 1864-1865 and named in honour of Governor-General, Lord Monck. Also included is typescript transcript of an article entitled "Was the Monck Road for Military Use?" / by Dr. J. J. Talman, first published in the Orillia Packet and Times, 27 June 1940
Cornell family photograph album
Photographs taken by members of the Cornell family of 47 John Street in Belleville, Ontario. Family snapshots, photographs of boats in Belleville Harbour, Presqu'ile lighthouse, cars, Billy Bishop's float plane.
Part of Deseronto Archives subject files
Newspaper clipping with photograph of Skyway Bridge under construction, and McNews magazine of McNamara of Canada, June 1965, with an article on the construction project.
File contains two 1960 newspaper clippings looking back to May 6th and 7th, 1910 with news of the Carmen Opera House and purchasers of cars.