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Framed items removed from Belleville City Hall Council Chambers during renovations in January 2021.

1. Framed reproduction of a photograph of members of the last council of the Town of Belleville, 1877
2. Letter from the First Clerk Assistant of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario certifying that a photocopy of the Act for the Incorporation of the Town of Belleville as a City was a true copy of the act of 2 March 1877, 24 June 1977 [2 copies]
3. Framed reproduction of the City of Belleville armorial bearings, 8 January 1982
4. Frame containing four photographs of the former City of Belleville Council Chambers, 1987 [Note that this item was returned to City Hall for reframing and display in the refurbished Council Chambers on 24 August 2021.]
5. Framed photograph of Queen Elizabeth II donated by Lyle Vanclief MP, c.1990
6. Framed photograph of Prince Philip donated by Lyle Vanclief MP, c.1990
7. Framed photograph of Governor General Ramon John Hnatyshyn donated by Lyle Vanclief MP, c.1990
8. Framed registration of armorial bearings in the Public Register of Arms, Flags and Badges of Canada, 1 May 1992
9. Framed photograph donated by the City of Lahr, August 2009
10. Framed photograph of Queen Elizabeth II, 2010

Collection of photographs and postcards:

1. Photograph of unidentified soldier, nurse and man in naval uniform, taken by Miss F. Maxwell of 187 Rosemount Place, Aberdeen, c.1918
2. Five photographs of Belleville flooding, 1936
3. Souvenir postcard folder of Ste. Anne de Beaupre, Quebec, c.1937
4. Souvenir postcard folder of Chaffey's Locks, Ontario, c.1943
5. Postcard of Lakeview Cottages, Gilmour, Ontario, c.1960
6. Postcard of Fleming's Fishing Lodge 'Twin Oaks', Elgin, Ontario, c.1960
7. Postcard of Hotel Dock at Opinicon Resort Hotel, Chaffey's Locks, Ontario, sent by Helen on 20 August 1963
8. Envelope addressed to John Edward Murphy in Ottawa, with 5c Churchill stamp, c.1965

Photograph of G. Graham Fields, a supervisor with Bell Canada who lived in Belleville, Ontario.

Twelve digitized copies of films previously donated to the Hastings County Historical Society by Pat Isaacs and Stan Else.

Films donated by Pat Isaacs of Roslin, Ontario:

1. Parades with the Shriners, family events including children feeding a captive bear, aftermath of a fire at Robertson Block on Main Street, Belleville, Ontario, in 1954, the exterior of the Shrine Club in Belleville, a fire at a vehicle collision, a military parade and a track and field day. [running time: 15:19] https://youtu.be/J-9GAcoP6TA
2. Parades, including one at the Shannonville Fair and one on Front Street, Belleville, Ontario, and footage of family events and gatherings, c.1955 [running time: 13:28] https://youtu.be/_aJ5b29fzqQ
3. General Motors picnic at Silver Lake, 14 June 1948 (including sports and games); speed boat races at the Government Dock, Belleville (with brief glimpse of City of Belleville ship); and the fire that destroyed Trudeau Motors on 20 December 1948 [running time: 12:02] https://youtu.be/geFPx2Auxi8
4. Family vacation in Florida, with footage of the James Melton Autorama museum, the Sandy Shores Motel in Miami Beach, boat trips, pelicans, Zane Motel, Spook Hill road sign, orange trees, women in Victorian clothing in gardens, c.1950 [running time: 10:54] https://youtu.be/ZvjGzMUaqEY
5. Animals and birds in a zoo and a visit to Ireland and Paris, c.1955 [running time: 4:06] https://youtu.be/ESe_Ay9rQc4
6. RCMP musical ride at Belleville fairgrounds, 1957 and 1959 [running time: 7:34] https://youtu.be/g3_cX0JYe-E
7. Vacation in California, parades with the Shriners, family scenes, an event at the opening of the Kinsmen outdoor pool in Belleville, Ontario, with a band and a synchronized swimming display, crowds at the railway station for the royal visit to Belleville, Ontario in 1951 [running time: 13:29] https://youtu.be/Wa_Z6SMApNU
8. Picton and Belleville Santa Claus parades of 1954 [running time: 11:16] https://youtu.be/Y_WqZbWxFZA
9. Bus tour of UK including Meikleour Beech Hedge, Edinburgh, Durham, York, London, c.1955 [running time: 11:28] https://youtu.be/XxyPehC2oao

Films donated by Stan Else (teacher at Moira Secondary School):

10. Geneva Park YMCA project in Orillia, c.1966 [running time: 3:52] https://youtu.be/0fbFiwVVrz8
11. Women with car, nurses strike at Belleville General Hospital, c.1970 [running time: 4:05] https://youtu.be/Kfb8c4-RNWg
12. Geology dig in Mohawk Valley, Fort Klock, c.1970 [running time: 4:23] https://youtu.be/Hm5Is9UnmYw

Three postcards of Belleville views, sent to Grace McCreery (1882-1956) by her mother, Ada Mary Stewart (1859-1932):

1. Bridge Street
2. St. Thomas's Anglican Church
3. Bridges over Moira River

Three mounted newspaper clippings with printed illustrations of Belleville institutions:

1. Deaf and Dumb Asylum, November 1870
2. Albert College, December 1870
3. Marchmont House, 1876

Also a reproduction of HC01468 (view of Bridge Street West in 1840). This item was originally donated to Glanmore National Historic Site by Edith Clapp in March 2015 (as 005.502.005).

Postcards of Belleville floods (mainly 1936), mostly duplicates of others in the collection.

Copy of a photograph of Mrs Morris's class at Deseronto Public School.

Photographs showing closed-off aisles and displays of non-essential items in Walmart, Belleville, after the Ontario government's stay-at-home order which took effect on April 8th, 2021 in an effort to stem the rise in COVID-19 cases in the province.

Screenshot of an emergency text message alert sent by the Government of Ontario on 8 April 2021 about the stay-at-home order which came into effect on that day to suppress the spread of the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Photograph of the front of the building at 232 Front Street, after steel cladding had been removed from the façade.

Slides made by Rudolf Donninger during his time in Belleville, Ontario, working at Northern Electric. They include photographs of buildings in Belleville, rural scenes, cars, a parade and the Belleville Fair in 1970, winter scenes, Ottawa and Kingston views, and aircraft at the Trenton Air Show.

Window display at the Belleville Public Library in the week after the news of a mass grave at the Kamloops Residential School was made public.

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.

Photograph of staff and students of Grier Street School in Belleville, Ontario. Includes James Edward MacDonald and his sisters, Violet and Marjorie.

Photographic copies of pages of an album of Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force photographs taken at Camp Mohawk near Deseronto, Ontario, and Benbrook in Texas. The collection also contains a photograph of Sikorsky S-40 'Southern Clipper' flying boat NC752V on display at an airfield, c.1935.