Globe and Mail artice on Belleville real estate
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- 6 April 1973
Globe and Mail article about progress and real estate development in Belleville, Ontario.
McAuliff, Gerald
Globe and Mail artice on Belleville real estate
Globe and Mail article about progress and real estate development in Belleville, Ontario.
McAuliff, Gerald
Good Bread: this book tells how to make good bread
Recipes for bread interspersed with advertisements for Vinol Cod Liver Oil and Iron, distributed by W. J. Malley, druggist, of Deseronto, Ontario.
Grace B. Waters photograph albums
The First World War photograph album contains about 164 black and white or sepia photographs, 1 cartoon entitled "The same old moon", 1 coloured pencil sketch of a nurse. The album is Kodak's "Gallia" model (32.5x26x2cm) in plain black, textured leatherette. The photographs vary greatly in size from 21 x 14.5 cm to 8.5 X5.9 cm. About 40 of the photographs are signed either "E.R. Owen" or "E.R.O.". The first photograph is marked in pencil, "Donor G.B.Waters". Many of the photographs depict the Duchess of Connaught Canadian Red Cross Hospital in Cliveden, England. Many images depict the hospital at the time of a visit by King George V and Queen Mary, a visit by Sir Robert Borden, and a visit by Winston Churchill. There are images of the hospital wards both indoors and out, the cafeteria, the linen supply, and many patients (a lot of the patients seem to be wearing special issue hospital shoes) and nurses. Subjects include: nurses of the Canadian Army Medical Corps; funerals; women ambulance drivers; trenches, military hospitals.
The second album dates from 1916 to 1921. Identified locations include: Athabaska Hall; Banff (Alberta); Red Deer; Lake St. Helena; Edmonton; Sylvan Lake; Mount Royal; Montreal (from M.G.H.); Fort William [Thunder Bay]; Lake of the Woods; Moose Jaw; Markerville; Innisfail; New York. There are several photographs of farm scenes and some of medical personnel in white coats, holding human bones.
The third album includes photographs taken at a graduation at McGill University in Montreal; scenes of Niagara Falls; photographs of cars; two photographs of hospital rooms.
This collection also includes an annual report for Kingston General Hospital, 1906; a brochure for Queen's University Hospital in Cairo, c.1915; five panoramic postcards of Le Tréport, France, c.1915; a letter from 'Elsa' of Dickson, Alberta to Ivy, Clifford and Lloyd, discussing her new job as head of a teacher training department in Ethiopia, dated 5 August 1946, and two sheets of song lyrics for the following songs:
Sheet 1
Cupid is the Captain of the Army
I've Said My Last Farewell
Those Songs My Mother Used to Sing
The Bull-Frog and the Coon
Poker Love
The Good Old U.S.A.
So Long Mary
The Tale of a Stroll
Lazy Moon
Sheet 2
Fishing
I Would Like to Marry You
As We Swing, Sweetheart
Drummer Song
Dear Old Johnstown
When I Rode on the Choo Choo Cars
I Fell in Love With Polly
Hey! Mister Joshua
Hiram Green, Good-Bye
It Makes Me Think of Home, Sweet, Home
Waters, Grace Brown
Photographs from the Grimson family. The collection contains images of families, couples, and individuals outdoors and in studio settings.
Group photograph of young women
Photograph of 49 young women in white skirts and shirts, with dark scarves, sitting on rugs in a garden. Possibly students of St. Agnes School, Belleville, Ontario.
Collection comprises:
Harrison, Hannah Mary
Harold McMurrich Rathbun negatives
Two negative-holders with annotations by Harold McMurrich Rathbun for negatives he took between 1907 and 1914, with loose negatives from 1920-1940. Most of the photographs were taken in and around Deseronto, Ontario, but they also include photographs taken on a journey by rail to Alberta in 1907.
Rathbun, Harold McMurrich
Hastings County Historical Society map collection papers
Notes on the organization of the map collection of the Hastings County Historical Society, written by Gerry Boyce in September 1981. Includes a copy of the classification schemes used by the National Map Collection, dated 1969 and 1973.
Hastings County Historical Society
Hastings County Junior Farmers materials
Materials relating to the Hastings County Junior Farmers, including:
Hastings County Junior Farmers
Herbert 'Burt' Rathbun glass negatives
A group of glass negatives associated with Herbert 'Burt' Rathbun (1861-1897) and his family.
Rathbun, Herbert
Text of Historic Hastings, Volume 2 by Gerry Boyce, edited and updated by Orland French.
Boyce, Gerry
Hobbs family Royal Flying Corps photograph collection
Album of photographs compiled by a member of the Hobbs family. Teddie Hobbs appears in one of the photographs and there is also a photograph of the grave of J. E. Hobbs. The majority of photographs are of the First World War Royal Flying Corps training camps in North America: Camps Borden and Mohawk in Ontario and Camp Taliaferro in Texas.
Honour rolls for members of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church
One framed and four unframed honour rolls from the Second World War, recording the names of members of St. Andrew's Presbyterian who served in the armed forces.
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Belleville)
1) Order of Service for the inauguration of the Foresters’ Orphanage on Foresters' Island, Deseronto, August 5, 1905
2) Scanned photograph of Herbert Joseph Howard (1864-1920), accountant at the Bank of Montreal, Deseronto between 1906/7-1920
3) Scanned photograph of Florence Ashworth, wife of John P. Ashworth, manager of the Bank of Montreal, Deseronto, 1903-1923 (c.1914)
4) Scanned photograph of John Brian Ashworth, son of John P. Ashworth, manager of the Bank of Montreal, Deseronto, 1903-1923 (c.1914)
5) ‘Souvenir and Programme’ of the 1929 Loyalist celebrations in Deseronto
6) Article on the history of the Layer Cake Hall in Bath, Ontario, by Muhammad Arif, Larry Pearson and Godfrey Spragge, September 1976
Images of the sun taken during the 2024 solar eclipse in Belleville
Three images of the sun taken during the eclipse of 8 April 2024 and time-lapse video of solar totality period over Belleville.
Lantz, Paul
Images taken during the 2024 solar eclipe in Belleville
Seventeen digital photographs of people viewing the solar eclipse at Meyers' Pier in Belleville and six photographs of artists taking part in the Quinte Arts Council "Plain Air in the Path of Totality" event at the pier.
Fraiberg, Gerry
"Indian Land Sale" Grant of land for Deseronto High School
Grant of three acres in Deseronto, Ontario, part of the territory of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte, to the Board of the Deseronto High School (John Newton, Frederick Sherwood Rathbun, Thomas Roach, Arthur Stanley Valleau, Herbert Burt Rathbun and Thomas Hamlin Nasmith), for the sum of $2,500. A stamp on the reverse of the deed states that it was registered on 12 May 1965.
Government of Canada