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Globe and Mail article about progress and real estate development in Belleville, Ontario.

Card printed for Shirley Sutherland's memorial service held in Tweed on 29 June 2024.

Blotters advertising:

1. Meadow Cream sodas from the Crothers Company Limited of Kingston, Ontario
2. Mentholatum from The Mentholatum Co. Bridgeburg, Ontario
3. Kant Krack Coated Linen Collars from The Parsons and Parsons Canadian Company, Hamilton, Ontario (2 versions)

Typescript notes on the history of the fire department in Belleville, Ontario. The name Robert Emerson is written on the first page.

Article about John Neal.

Photograph album of Stuart Hilton Plante's time as a member of the Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force stationed at Camp Mohawk near Deseronto, Ontario.

Three-panel exhibit on Black history in Belleville, produced for the Caribbean Festival in Belleville in August 2024.

A red and white quilt made in 1894 by the Steady Gleaners, a group of women affiliated with the Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer, Deseronto, Ontario, possibly with the aim of raising funds for missionary work. This quilt may have been made for such a purpose. The signatures of the women in the society are embroidered onto the squares of the quilt.

The names on the quilt are:
F.M.R.
Bella Smyth
Mrs Wm. Gamble
Florence A. Davis
Mrs F. S. Rathbun
Alice McGault
Mrs C. E. Ravin
Mrs J. W. McCaw
Mrs G. Genge
Mrs Wm. Mitchell
Mrs R. J. Craig, President
Mrs Frank S. Hall [Bessie]
Annie Hill
Mrs McCoy
Mrs F. H. Sims
Mrs J. D. Dulmadge
Mrs J. Douglas
Tillie Maxwell
Mrs D. Dant
Miss Mary Huff
Mrs G. Gordon
Ella Pegan
Mrs G. A. Grant
Mrs Joe Hopper
Mrs Wm. Geney
Gertrude R. Craig
Aggie Elliott
Mrs Mackie
Mrs A. D. Macintyre
I. Thornton
Mrs C. Forrester
Mrs R. Anderson
Ira B. Anderson
L. Smyth
Mrs R. Geddes
Mrs F. McMaster
Mrs J. M. Denmark
Mrs A. G. Knight
Mrs J. Buter
Clara McClain
Mrs C. Bennett
Mrs J. T. Garmon

Map showing the location, names and dates of shipwrecks around the shoreline of Prince Edward County.

Scanned copy of a photograph of Dr. Joan Bronskill (1924-1978), who spent most of her career as an entomologist at the Entomological Research Institute in Belleville, Ontario. She was well known for her support of the arts in Belleville, being a founder of the Quinte Ballet School, a member of the Belleville Theatre Guild, and a charter member of the Quinte Arts Council.

Photograph of a plaque commemorating the re-opening of Belleville General Hospital on 23 February 1969.

Text reads:

"BELLEVILLE GENERAL HOSPITAL
A CITY AND COUNTY-OWNED HOSPITAL
THIS PLAQUE COMMEMORATES THE OPENING OF THE NEW HOSPITAL
ON FEBRUARY 23, 1969, BY
THE HONOURABLE DR. MATTHEW B. DYMOND
MINISTER OF HEALTH OF ONTARIO

FEDERAL, PROVINCIAL, COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL CONTRIBUTIONS ASSISTED IN
THE CONSTRUCTION COSTS.

HARLEIGH A. HAMILTON
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS

RT. REV. J. P. SULLIVAN
CHAIRMAN OF THE PLANNING 8 PROPERTY COMMITTEE

PHILIP RICKARD
ADMINISTRATOR

ARCHITECTS:
HERBERT AGNEW ASSOCIATES

CONTRACTOR:
GREENINGTON LTD."

Listing of surnames and collecting institutions in the Quinte and surrounding regions where further information on the genealogy of that family could be found. Compiled by Belleville Public Library.

Photocopy of First World War discharge certificate for Edward Joseph Heffernan (1898-1970) of Peterborough, Ontario.

Certificate for 300 shares in the Trenton Electric and Water Company Limited in the name of Henry M. Pellatt.

Text reads: "To Mrs Margaret Johnston - Belleville =
On behalf of The Hon. John Robarts, Prime Minister, - and the Government of Ontario - I extend heartiest congratulations on your Ninetieth Birthday.
May you enjoy many more anniversaries in good health and happiness.
Parliament Buildings
Toronto
January 23, 1967
[signed] Robert Welch
Provincial Secretary
and Minister of Citizenship
Presented by W. E. Sandercock M.P.P"