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Maureen Phillips collection

  • CA ON00156 2017-08
  • Collection
  • 1940-1981

Materials collected by Maureen Phillips and her mother, Phyllis Neal:

  • Ration card for Maureen Neal, 1940
  • Scrap book compiled by Phyllis Neal, including news clippings on the Dionne quintuplets and the royal family, correspondence relating to the death of her husband George Neal, who died while on active service in 1941 and news clippings relating to Mountain View, 1937-1963
  • Scrap book compiled by Phyllis Neal on Prince Edward County and Trenton history (including a story called 'Policemen are human too'), 1960-1963, 1988
  • Shopper's Market 50th anniversary souvenir edition on CFB Trenton

Neal (family)

McKeown family photograph album and snapshots

  • CA ON00156 2007-36
  • Collection
  • c.1869-1910

Album of photographs and tintypes taken between 1869 and 1874, mainly by photographers in Belleville, Ontario. Two individuals are identified by name: Rev. William Craig and Miss Bogart. Also 21 snapshots from 1900 to 1910, including photographs of Helen McKeown's uncle Arthur, who was undertaking medical training as a nurse. One photograph shows 'prisoners at work' taken from Arthur's room in a hospital.

Melody Bells scrapbooks and video tape of Quinte Arts Awards

  • CA ON00156 2014-25
  • Collection
  • 1990-2008

Two scrapbooks of photographs and newspaper clippings relating to the Melody Bells vocal group of Belleville, Ontario. Video cassette of the Quinte Arts Awards presentation of 1999, at which Dorothy Aitchison and Eugene Lang received awards.

Aitchison, Dorothy

Memoirs by Rose and Richard Gosse

  • CA ON00156 2011-45
  • Collection
  • c.1980

Self-published family memoirs:
1) Papa Was A Preacher by Rose Gourlay Gosse
This volume describes the life of the writer's father, Reverend John J. L. Gourlay, who worked in Dauphin and Thornhill, Manitoba; Lloydminster and Namao, Alberta; Leed's Village, Quebec; Lunenburg, Stormont, Lancaster, Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie and Trout Creek, Ontario.
2) I'm a Newfie, And That's No Joke! by R. E. Gosse
A memoir of life growing up in Petites, Newfoundland.

Gosse, Rose Maud

Memorial (Hume) Arena materials

  • CA ON00156 2018-053
  • Collection
  • 1959-2004

Three registration certificates for the refrigeration plant at the Hume Arena in Belleville, Ontario: 1959, 1969, 1970.
Newspaper clippings: Benzie Sangma article 'Memorial Arena memories' published 4 October 2003 and article from 'Hockey Reporter' Fall 2004 edition on historic Ontario arenas, including the Memorial Arena in Belleville.

Menu collection

  • CA ON00156 MG 639
  • Collection
  • 2004-2007

Belleville, Ontario, restaurant menus collected by the Hastings County Historical Society.

Hastings County Historical Society

Military book collection

  • Collection
  • 1882-1936

Collection of books, most formerly owned by William Nisbet Ponton, some from the collection of Grace B. Waters.

Ponton, William Nisbet

Military items of Clifford Adair LeBlanc

  • CA ON00156 2023-062
  • Collection
  • 1940-1951

Items relating to Clifford Adair LeBlanc, of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment.

  1. Three photographs of Clifford Adair LeBlanc taken during the Second World War.
  2. Two leave passes in LeBlanc's name from 1944 and 1951
  3. Penknife and clip owned by LeBlanc
  4. Legion medal for Past Offficer, Executive Committee - on back is "C. LeBlanc, BR. #414 1974-1975"

Military photographs from World War I

  • CA ON00156 2017-58
  • Collection
  • 1916

Two photographs:

  1. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 155th O.S. Battalion at Barriefield, July 6, 1916 . A cropped version of the same image is available online here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/155th_Battalion%2C_Barriefield%2C_July_6%2C_1916._No._498_%28HS85-10-32556%29.jpg
  2. Unidentified military unit standing on a large parade ground in an unnamed city, with a water tower in the background carrying an advertisement for Sweet Caporal Cigarettes. This image has been scanned and is available online at https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/35460399302/

'Moirambler' yearbooks

  • CA ON00156 2016-40
  • Collection
  • 1982-1989

Moira Secondary School 'Moirambler' publications for:

  • 1982
  • 1983
  • 1984
  • 1985
  • 1986
  • 1989

Moira Secondary School

Mortgages

  • CA ON00156 2016-56
  • Collection
  • 1840s-1959

Mortgages for Hastings County properties, found in the house at 1773 Blessington Road, Corbyville, whose former owner was a land registry employee.

Nan Branscombe materials

  • CA ON00156 2016-38
  • Collection
  • 1904-1973

Ron Robertson's reminiscences of Nan Branscombe and her cousin, Gena Branscombe, with two printed musical scores. Photos of Earl and Lady Grey, photo of Mary [?], 1904.

Robertson, Ron

Needham Throop collection

  • CA ON00156 2017-38
  • Collection
  • 1955-1998

Reports and publications relating to Northern Electric and their Belleville operation. Includes:

  • 'Northern News', 14 Mar 1955
  • Résumé for W. J. Needham Throop, 1965
  • 'Look What's Going On in Belleville' publication, 26 October 1970
  • 'Look What's Going On in Belleville' publication, 25 January 1971
  • 'Northern Electric now...and the future' publication, 1974
  • Proposal for Business Systems to assume responsibility for the office service function, 1980
  • Suggestion Plan Manual for the Subscriber Switching Division, 28 January 1983
  • Certificate of membership in the Telephone Pioneers of America for W. J. Needham Throop
  • Nortel Belleville 50th Anniversary publication, 1997

Other items:

  • Four postcards of the Ontario School for the Deaf; Front Street and United Empire Loyalists monument; Bay Bridge; Moira River, c.1940s
  • Belleville McFarlands decal, 1959
  • Promotional card for Dixie Inn Barbeque on Bridge Street West in Belleville, owned by George A. De Vuyst, c.1959
  • Belleville-Trenton directory published by F & N Directories, 1962-1963

Throop, (William James) Needham

Negatives and prints of Belleville Fire Department and waterworks map

  • CA ON00156 2019-052
  • Collection
  • c.1965

Eight negatives of older photographs, with thirteen prints made from the negatives. Six of the prints show a map of the Belleville Water Works, made in 1883 by Moffet, Hodgkins and Clarke of Watertown, New York. The other seven prints are of photographs of members of the Belleville Fire Department, fire trucks, the 1936 flood, and the fire at the Cities Services Oil site on John Street in Belleville in 1948.

Belleville Fire Department

Negatives from Madoc Public Library

  • 2021-063
  • Collection
  • c. 1900s-1910s

The collection contains 8 glass negatives depicting group portraits of men, women and children in farmland and indoor settings. There are also images of farmhouses.

News clippings relating to Belleville clubs

  • CA ON00156 BPL/Clubs
  • Collection
  • 1940-2007

Newspaper clippings relating to clubs and organizations of Belleville, Ontario. These clippings were compiled by staff of the Belleville Public Library.

Belleville Public Library

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