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
File contains 18 negatives of Belleville, Ontario buildings (mainly on Front Street: Woodley furs, the Belmont Restaurant, Whalen music) and copies of Lois Foster's notes on the early history of downtown buildings.
File contains invoices for St. Charles & Pringle Belleville business ca. 1894 and a news clipping about Alderman James St. Charles receiving the contract for painting and repairing the wagons of the Pullman & Hamilton Show and building five new ones, at a cost of $1,200.
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.
Photogelatine Engraving Co. Ltd., Ottawa postcards showing aerial views of Belleville, Ontario and a notecard of the Tabernacle United Church on Church Street, printed by Alex Wilson Publications of Dryden, Ontario.
Photographs of participants and guests in events held on 16 October 2021 to mark the unveiling of the Dr. James Bertram Collip Reflective Gardens in Belleville, Ontario. Guests included Dr. Alison Li, author of a biography of Collip, and Major Charles Wyatt, Collip's great-grandson. Also present were MP Ryan Williams, MPP Todd Smith, Mayor Mitch Panciuk, Warden Rick Phillips, Rihanna Harris, and Collip Committee members Richard Hughes and Ian Sullivan.