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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.

Photograph of members of the Hawley family on the occasion of the baptism of the youngest member. From left to right are: Olive Esther Delmage Hawley (1878-1951); Mary Minetta Hawley MacDonald Selby (1916-2009); Howard Delmage Hawley (1908-1982); George Elmer Hawley (1875-1966); and George Rockwell Hawley (1914-1984). George and Olive moved with their family to Deseronto, Ontario,in 1930 and lived at what is now 317 Main Street next to the small park.

Scanned image of a photograph of the house at 153 Victoria Avenue, Belleville, Ontario. The house was built by Charles Frederick Smith in around 1878 and sold by Smith to John Wesley Johnson in 1889 for $4,250. Johnson was the Principal of the Ontario Business College in Belleville and Mayor of Belleville, 1897-1900, and Member of the Provincial Parliament for Hastings West, 1908-1919.

Photograph taken outside the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Hall of members of the Order of Railway Conductors and Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen involved in the Grand Trunk Railway Strike of July 18 to August 2, 1910.

Fourteen postcards of scenes in Belleville, Ontario during the March 1936 floods.

Fan made of card with a wooden handle, advertising Sinclair's Dry Goods and Ladies' Garments. The store was on Front Street in Belleville, Ontario. The text on the back of the fan reads "Compliments of Sinclair's Dry Good and Ladies' Garment, Belleville, Ontario, the store where you get quality, style, service and economical prices. We invite your patronage. We study the wants of our customers and sell only standard high-grade goods". On the front of the fan is a drawing of a woman sewing a Union flag.

Colour photographs taken by Bobby-Jo Morris of two events:
1) Protests on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory concerning missing and murdered Indigenous women, 4 March 2014 (16 photographs and four pages of explanatory notes)
2) Flooding in Foxboro, Belleville and Millton, Ontario in April 2014 (30 annotated photographs)

Photograph of staff at Plant Number 5 of the Canada Cement Company Limited, Point Anne, Ontario.

Names provided by Jackie Gilbert (formerly Hull):
Back row: Peter Stalkovistch; Bud Doxtator; ?; Mr. Roluf; Franklin Bennett; Phil Loft; Mr. Basisty?; Walter MacDonald; Joe ?; Earl Wilson?; Mr. Moslo Sr; Leonard MacDonald; Reg File; Mike Basisty?; Charles Dedore; W. Akey; Joe Sutherby; ?; ?; Bill Insley; Cummings?; Murney Carter; ?; Mr Logue; ?; ?; ?; ?; ?; ?; ?; John Maher; ?; ?; ?
Second row: Daly Cummings; Sedore ?; ?; ?; Ned Campbell; Johnnie Bennett; Sam Belack; Mr. Pitt; Tommy Bennett; Raymond Bailey; Peewee; Mr. Gurnick; Mr. Horewood; Mr. Conly; Bert Lloyd; Mr. Rosebush; Bill Gray; ?; Mr. Deforge; ?; Art Whitehead; ?; ?; ?; Tom Bowler; Sonny Legate; Stan Luffman; Chester Shepherd; ?; Mr. Bonokowski; ?; ?; Dell McConnell; Mac McKay
Third row; Jimmy Sero; ?; Chuck Lloyd; Josh Maracle; Bill Hull; Maurice Bradshaw; ?; George King; Percy Akey; Hep Payne; Ralph Payne; Dorothy King; Mr. Gaulin; Mr. Hamilton; ?; J. H. Legate; George Armstrong; Pete Hart; Herb Scholar?; Fred Clark; Mr. Brown?; John McConnell; ?; Mr. Jenkins; Joseph Huck; ?; Elijah Brent; ?; Walter Hull
Front row: Peter Moslo; Earl Deforge; Jack Insley; Mike Yosepanko; Murney Green, jr; Jack Whitehead; Murney Green, sr; Dorothy Goodfellow; Dorothy Bennett; Evenlyn Loft; ?; Marion Deforge; Euretta Juby; Gertrude Payne; Lena Hull; Irene Derushie; Mary McTurney; Madeline Bennett; Mrs Bailey?; Mrs. Gurnick; Mrs. ?; Milton Bowers; Bill Juby; ?; ?; ?; John Zurgee

Nineteen photographs of the Norris Whitney bridge between Belleville and Rossmore, Ontario, under construction. Three were taken from the air when Ross Cummings was flying a Cessna 150 over the bridge.

Photograph of the Canada Cement Company Plant Number Five at Point Anne.

Photograph of the members of the Belleville Business College baseball team of 1913.

Names listed are: A. S. Patterson, R.F., of Cobden, Ontario; H. Aslestine, Capt., Ist Base, of Belleville, Ontario; A. Jackson, C. F. of New York; George Ferguson, Pitcher, of Perth, Ontario; H. Thomas, L. F., of Belleville; M. McMillan, Treasurer, of Inverness, Quebec; E. D. O'Flynn, Secretary; F. E. O'Flynn, President; T. W. Wauchope, Principal; H. Toner, 3rd Base, of Portage du Fort, Quebec; N. D. Lynn, S.S. of of Portage du Fort, Quebec; G. McAllister, Manager, Catcher, of Brownsburg, Quebec; L. Phillips, 2nd Base, of Belleville.

Materials relating to the Hastings County Historical Society's fundraising campaign to build an archives facility in Belleville, Ontario. Includes an 'Unlock the Archives!' flyer, press release, and introductory words by Peter C. Newman

Four reproduction photographs of military cadets at Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School in the 1930s.

Panoramic group photograph. Names supplied:
Front row
Corporal C. V. Wakely
Corporal A. Heatley
Corporal H. Paterson
Sergeant R. J. Stevenson
Acting Sergeant G. F. Low
2nd Lieutenant W. J. Scott
2nd Lieutenant R. Hamilton
Lieutenant F. D. Williams
Lieutenant S. J. Lee
Captain W. H. Marnell
Captain M. A. Seymour
Major J. Rubie
Brigadier General C. G. Hoare, C.M.G.
Lieutenant Colonel F. R. G. Hoare
Lieutenant Colonel A. K. Tylee
Major J. Inwood
Lieutenant G. J. Blackmore
Captain J. W. Langmuir
Captain B. F. Bainsmith
Captain F. H. Hawksford
Sergeant Major W. Manners
Flight Sergeant C. A. Hepworth
Flight Sergeant F. V. Tree
Flight Sergeant H. H. Atkinson
Sergeant F. A. Cassore

Second row
Mrs Russell
Miss Carmen
Miss Hennessy
Mrs Cody
Miss Newbury
Mrs Ratcliffe
Miss Russell
Miss White
Miss West
Miss Padbury
Miss Wilson
Miss Major
Miss Bullock
Miss Pugh
Miss Martin
Miss McEachern
Miss O'Biren
Miss O'Loane
Miss Harper
Miss Humphrey
Miss O'Brien
Miss McInnes
Miss Hogan
Miss Melville
Miss Steele
Miss Dwyer
Mrs Weiss
Corporal H. G. Wade

Back row
2nd Airman A. Dowell
2nd Airman C. T. Boughner
2nd Airman W. B. Cole
2nd Airman T. A. H. Morrow
2nd Airman L. Landymore
2nd Airman F. Aldridge
2nd Private G. T. Beatty
3rd Airman S. T. Walton
2nd Airman F. C. Baker
2nd Airman R. J. Derry
1st Airman R. Turner
1st Airman J. D. Brown
2nd Airman R. B. Abell
2nd Airman N. Stonehouse
2nd Airman M. D. Fauman
3rd Airman F. O. Basing
2nd Private G. Worrall
3rd Airman Stebbing
2nd Private H. J. McKenzie
2nd Airman J. Kingston
2nd Airman P. W. G. Willey
2nd Private A. Beecher
2nd Private R. J. Luton
2nd Airman M. H. McLean
2nd Private W. J. Lakeman
3rd Airman J. A. McEachon
1st Airman J. Preston
Corporal C. W. McPherson

Items include reproduction photographs of nine Belleville Fire Chiefs: William J. Brown (1915-1929), William Lynch (1929-1948), Gerald Vance (1948-1965), Thomas E. Poste (1965-1969), Leo Culhane (1969-1977), Fred Hosking (1977-1985), Raymond Reid (1985), Gordon Gazley (1986-2008), Rhéaume Chaput (2008-2013); print of a hand pump, 1925; typescript information about automatic sprinkler systems, c.1960; photograph of St. Thomas's Church, Belleville, in flames, 1975.

Photographs of members of the Winsor, Holgate and Searle families of Hastings County, Ontario and the Cannifton Mills of Charles Arthur Holgate.

Two scans of photographs of Adelia Leslie, a graduate of the Belleville General Hospital School of Nursing, and her classmates. Also her copy of the commemorative volume 'Belleville General Hospital School of Nursing 1893-1970 and Edith Cavell Regional School of Nursing 1968-1974'.

Collection comprises:

• album with 128 photographs of family scenes taken by Hannah Harrison of 64 Emily Street, Belleville, Ontario
• mounted photograph of the house at 64 Emily Street, c.1900
• photograph of six young women in naval costumes (Hannah Harrison bottom right), c. 1910
• Methodist Church annual ticket for 1902-1903 in the name of Hannah Harrison
• Canadian National Railways passes for David Harrison, blacksmith, 1935-1942
• 'Happy Birthday Sweetheart' card addressed to Hannah Harrison, 1939
• Wharf Street Debating Club membership card in the name of D. Harrison, 1941
• photographs of Hannah Harrison holding a baby, c.1970.

Scanned copies of negatives and one photograph taken by staff of the Ontario School for the Deaf (now Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf). They include photographs of children taking part in classes, sports and activities at the school. The photograph shows City Hall in Belleville, Ontario, decorated for the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in May 1939.

Photographs of Deseronto, Ontario dating from the 1970s to 2011, depicting a variety of Town events. They include a set of aerial photographs of the town from the 1980s; the interior of the former Home Hardware store in the Baker Block on Main Street; the O’Connor House on Main Street before its demolition; the 1989 100th Anniversary celebrations, photographs of Centennial Park and Rathbun Memorial Park; the opening of the Deseronto Public Library in its 358 Main Street location in 2001; the Ontario Provincial Police handover ceremony in 2001; an Easter Parade from the early 2000s; a Santa Parade; the 2002 New Year’s Levee; and the 2010 Olympic Flame run in Deseronto.

Most of the photographs appear to have been taken by Town staff. One envelope was donated to the Town by Irene Usher and contains photographs taken by her late husband, Tom.