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Collection comprises 22 photographs showing people hunting and fishing on Georgian Bay (1894-1897) and Samuel George Beatty's orange grove in California. Also an example of a Bay of Quinte tartan sash made by Olwen Sherman for members of the YMCA Y's Men and Menettes (c.1967).

Two pairs of glasses made at the Canada Optical Company in Deseronto, with paper casings. Models: Lana Brown Silk and Lana Black (both made of plastic with seven diamanté stones over each eye).

Postcard promoting the Hastings County Museum when it was housed in the former Registry Office building on Church Street in Belleville. The postcard has a sketch of the museum on the front and "One of Ontario's finest small museums" on the back.

The fonds consists of 10 boxes of textual and graphic material about the Hutton-Ponton family. The fonds is organized chronologically by the following categories: Military and Civilian. The fonds consists of the following categories:
Boxes 1-3 files 1-26 (1879-1916 15th Battalion Argyll Light Infantry- correspondence: telegrams, financial/inspection reports, inventory lists, medal applications, order books, sergeant's mess meeting minutes, service rolls and how the infantry was named)
Boxes 3-5 files 27-46 (1896-1903 Belleville Rifle Range, 1896-1900 Bicycle Corps, 1900 Canadian Patriotic Fund, Deseronto Militia Company, Militia Headquarters-Ottawa: 1895-1906 discharge and pension documents, 49th Hastings Rifles Battalion order book, 1879-1917 infantry tests and military schools: applications, notebook of notes about Toronto School of Musketry, invitations to various events, letters, documents, militia orders and newspaper articles)
Box 5 files 46-53 (empty envelopes, documents about Queen Victoria's Jubilee, The Red Cross: booklet, The School for the Deaf: letters, the South African War: letters, applications and militia orders, World War 1 and "Wrinkles": letters and wall posters, pamphlets and newspaper clippings)
Box 6 files 54-64 (family papers: certificates, letters, notebook, family history:Hutton/Putton house, wills, estate matters and journal/travel/address book)
Boxes 6-7 files 65-76 (family accounts from 1869-1903)
Box 7 files 77-90A (Belleville Industrial Committee: minutes from meetings, letters, newspaper clippings and various documents about opening different factories in Belleville)
Boxes 7-8 files 91-101-2 (Land and Estate Papers: grants, deeds of land and mortgages and sale of part of a cricket field)
Box 9 files 102-106 (Legal papers: daily journal and legal documents)
Boxes 9-10 files 107-112-4 (Programs and invitations to various programs and events)
Box 10 files 113-117-2 (misc correspondence and newspaper clippings: letters, certificate, and notes)
Box 10 files 118-127 (misc business and other items: reports, letterheads, advertisements, postcards and brochures)
3 red books (The Quarterly Militia List:1897-1900)
small reddish brown book (Infantry Drill by Authority-1889)
2nd larger reddish brown book (Field Artillery Training-1914)
greyish book (The Militia Lists-1886)

Three items:

1. Photograph of the staff of the Reliance Aircraft & Tool Company Limited in Belleville, Ontario, 1943
2. Flyer for the Bridge Street Drive-In Theatre in Belleville, 1956
3. Card for Jack Hollyoake, proprietor of the Hotel Belvedere, c.1965

Schedule of activities held in Belleville, Ontario during Railway Week, June 22-28, 1964. Includes photographs of locomotives. "Debbie Wade 1964" is written in ink on the front cover.

Six digital reproductions of photographs relating to Roy Wardle's time in the Belleville Fire Department, Belleville, Ontario.

Collection comprises the following items:

Maps

1. Plan of part of the Town of Deseronto, before 1898 (the Terra Cotta works are still standing), showing roads, railways, buildings and lot numbers for properties south of Dundas Street, east of College Street (which has no name on the map) and west of Boundary Road. The map is hand-coloured to show the blocks and railways.

2. Negative photocopy (in 4 parts) of a plan of Mill Point village, 1875

Volumes

3. Bank of Montreal account book for A.S. Valleau, Collector of Customs. 1901 March 26 – 1905 December 30. Includes six official Customs Canada cheques, one for the salary of Thomas Maloney.

4. Auditors’ Report, Financial Statement and Minutes and Bylaws for the year 1947, the Corporation of the County of Hastings

5. 1950 Municipal directory, Department of Municipal Affairs, Province of Ontario. Includes brief details on towns and villages. Mayor of Deseronto was R.K.Jackson, clerk Miss M.C. Maher, population 1,473.

6. Minutes of the Local Board of Health, 1920, May 14 - 1941, Nov 18. Includes loose papers – correspondence, some annual reports

7. ‘Record’, Local Board of Health minutes, 1942, February 23 – 1966, May 25, includes copies of correspondence and draft minutes

8. ‘Docket No. 2’ Court register, 1932, July 29- 1933, July 18, giving name of defendant, details of offence and outcome of hearing. Indexed by surname of defendant

9. Division Court judges’ list for sittings, 1933, July 26 – 1944, March 7, includes names of plaintiffs, defendants and garnishees, with the amount owed and a brief record of the outcome of each case.

10. County of Hastings report and statements, December 31, 1946, by Garrett D. C. Morton, certified General Accountant. Typescript auditor’s account.

11. Bound ‘Population Census’ summary, 1951-1953, showing number of individuals in each lot by age.

12. Bound ‘Population Census’ summary, 1954-1955, showing number of individuals in each lot by age.

13. Bound ‘Population Census’ summary, 1956-1964, showing number of individuals in each lot by age.

Various items donated to Glanmore National Historic Site between 1974 and 2000. See attached list for details.

Ontario Hydro maps for parts of Hastings County and copies of Grand Trunk Railway plans from Library and Archives Canada. Includes a photograph of Canadian National Railway employees at Belleville, Ontario (online at https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/39400300370/) and booklet C.T. 405 from Penn Central with "Special Instructions Governing Operation of Signals and Interlockings", 1968

Three additional Hydro maps were added from David Pershick's estate in January 2024 (2024-007/1-3), with two aerial photographs of railway yards in Toronto (2024-007/4-5, in poor condition).

Scanned copy of an aerial photograph of the Ontario School for the Deaf, looking north from Dundas Street West in Belleville, Ontario.

Booklet published by the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests, written by W. J. (Jack) Christie.

Collection of photographs from the Scott and Cooney families of Belleville, Ontario:
1) Streetcars and Tickell furniture factory on Foundry Street in Belleville, c.1895
2) Photograph of horses at the Quinte Exhibition grounds, c.1900
3-10) Photographs of the Quinte Exhibition (James Scott (1879-1947), the donor's grandfather, was the groundskeeper), c.1925
11) Page 9 and 10 of the S-A Conveyor, with photos from the Stephen-Adamson Christmas party, 1945
12) Photograph of children with Santa at a Stephens-Adamson Christmas party, c.1950
13) Photograph of Stephens-Adamson baseball team in front of the fountain at the Quinte Exhibition grounds (including Gordon Cooney, 1912-1968), c.1950
14) Gordon Cooney (father of Fay Bradshaw) and two other men having their hair cut at Seely's barber shop on Front Street in Belleville, c.1963

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

Various maps, plans and diplomas relating to Belleville and Hastings County, Ontario

Printed report on the activities of the Moira River Conservation Authority in Ontario, including maps and photographs.

Seven maps:

1. Belleville Sun map of Hastings and Prince Edward Counties, 1898
2. Canada Department of the Interior, Physical Map of Canada, 1928
3. Canada Department of Mines and Resources, Map of the Dominion of Canada, 1937
4. Ontario Topographic Map, Sheet 31 C3, Belleville Sheet, 1938
5. Canada Department of Mines and Resources, Map of the World, 1938
6. The Copp Clark Co. Ltd., Map of Canada and Newfoundland, 1945
7. Lipton Tea, Map of the World, [1961-1964]

Book:

8. Canadian Cheeses, Fact and Fancy by the Dairy Bureau of Canada (from Ivanhoe Cheese Inc.), 1987

Pen-and-ink drawing of the former Bakelite plant in Belleville.

Green ashtray awarded at the Lucky Strikes Lanes in Deseronto, Ontario, for a bowling score of "320 & Over in 5-Pins".

The Lucky Strikes Lanes were at 358 Main Street, where Deseronto Public Library was later located.