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Newspaper and magazine collection

  • Collection
  • 1833-

The Community Archives has an extensive collection of original local newspapers and magazines, as well as microfilm copies of the Intelligencer, the Hastings Chronicle, and the Daily Ontario.

Newspaper clippings on former Rathbun family house

  • CA ON00156 DA 2008.15
  • Collection
  • 1981-2008

Collection comprises:

  1. Quinte Scanner of 27 November 1981
  2. Real estate listing for former Rathbun house at Dundas and Centre Streets in Deseronto, Ontario
  3. Clipping from Whig Standard about fire destroying the building in 2008

Newspaper supplements relating to the history of Foxboro, Ontario

  • CA ON00156 2013-49
  • Collection
  • 1976-1988

Various items relating to Foxboro, Ontario:
1) 'Historical Foxboro' newspaper supplement, 28 July 1976
2) 'There's something unique about a small town: Foxboro' supplement to Intelligencer, 23 June 1981
3) Newspaper article on the history of the Hopkins Garage at 236 Main Street, Foxboro, Ontario, 20 April 1988
4) Paper grocery bag printed with the name of Doucette's General Store

Newton Thompson collection

  • CA ON00156 2017-13
  • Collection
  • 1905-1965

Materials collected by Newton Thompson, including: list of high school graduates (including Thompson and his future wife, Fanny Strong); three receipts from Belleville businesses, 1905-1911; application to join the Corby Public Library for Fanny Strong, 1908; sketch by Fanny (Frances) Strong, 1913; Belleville Curling Club membership card, 1919-1920; news clippings from the Intelligencer, principally concerning weather, fires and the McNevin murder and including articles about the Intelligencer building under construction at Pinnacle and Bridge Streets, 1958-1965.

Thompson, Newton

Nick and Helma Mika collection

  • CA ON00156 MG 1
  • Collection
  • 1850-1999

The collection reflects the publishing interests of Nick and Helma Mika. It comprises four main series: photographic files, reference files, printing process files and other materials. The collection is strong in local history materials, particularly relating to the history of the United Empire Loyalists, railways, and the city of Belleville.

Mika, Helma

Northern Telecom publicity materials

  • CA ON00156 2019-075
  • Collection
  • 1983-1986

Promotional materials written by Ron Truman for Northern Telecom:
1) CompQuote (Montreal) Displayphone case study flyer
2) Slater Steels (Hamilton) Displayphone case study flyer
3) Health Care Telecommunications Meridian SL-1 flyer
4) The Canada Council Meridian SL-1 Application Report flyer
5) Meridian Report, Volume 1, Issue 1, December 1986

Nortel Networks

Old Boys Reunion pin and Elevator publications

  • CA ON00156 2019-035
  • Collection
  • 1905, 1967-1972

Brass pin reading "Belleville Old Boys Reunion, 1905" and three issues of the Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School 'Elevator' year book for: 1967-1968; 1968-1969; 1971-1972.

Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School

Orland French photographs

  • CA ON00156 2019-009
  • Collection
  • 2017-2018

Photographs of people and places in Belleville, Ontario:
1) Crowds enter Yardmen Arena for Senators first home game, Nov. 1, 2017
2) Gerry Boyce, Mr. History, January 1, 2018
3) Belleville Harbour, June, 2018
4) Chisholm’s Mills with millpond, August 2018
5) & 6) Unveiling of a commemorative boulder at Mount St. Patrick Catholic Cemetery, Stanley Street Belleville, Sept. 16, 2018
7) Porchfest: Male choir on porch of 246 Albert Street, Porchfest, Sept. 29, 2018
8) Demolition of former Stephens-Adamson property, fall 2018

French, Orland

Papers from Bev Boomhour

  • CA ON00156 DA 2012.11
  • Collection
  • 1998-2002
  1. Newspaper clipping from The Intelligencer of 15 November 1998 about Jim Graham, a 73-year-old marathon runner from Deseronto (brother-in-law to Bev Boomhour).
  2. Flyer for a children's musical production of 'Candy Cane Lane' and a demonstration by the Napanee Skating Club on 1 December 2002 in the Deseronto Community Centre on Mechanic Street, Deseronto.

Papers relating to Thomas Kelso's property at 161 George Street, Belleville

  • CA ON00156 2019-061
  • Collection
  • 1873-2019

Receipts and certificates addressed to Thomas Kelso from suppliers and contractors involved in building his property at 161 George Street, Belleville, Ontario. The work was carried out between 1873 and 1876 under the direction of John D. Evans, architect. This collection also includes notes on the Kelso/Roberts family tree, compiled by Trudi and Bob Banting, with reproduction photographs of family members.

The material has been arranged into the following files:
1) Invoices and receipts relating to the construction of 161 George Street, Belleville, 1873-1876
2) Contractor's certificates relating to the construction of 161 George Street signed by John D. Evans, architect, 1873-1875
3) Summary of expenses relating to the construction of the house at 161 George Street, c.1875; calculation of simple and compound interest, 1869-1882; bill for pine lumber from the Rathbun Company, 1888; specifications for construction work for the Sodus Point & Southern Rail Road, not dated
4) Legal papers relating to costs incurred by the Grand Junction Railway in 1877; a case against Henry Covert involving Kelso and Pitceathly in 1879; a report into the condition and affairs of the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company of Maine, 1884
5) Abstracts of title for lots 4 and 5, east side of George Street, Belleville, 1950; newspaper clipping announcing the designation of 161 George Street, Belleville, 1986
6) Reproduction photographs of 161 George Street and Kelso/Roberts family members, c.2019

Kelso, Thomas

Photocopies of publications used in Marchmont distributing home research

  • CA ON00156 2019-112
  • Collection
  • 1875-1925

Photocopies of publications relating to the Marchmont distributing home in Belleville, Ontario, used by James Gilchrist in research for his book on the home:
1) Photocopies of newspaper clippings relating to Marchmont, compiled by Dorothy Ashton, 1870-1983
2) ‘Canadian Homes for London Wanderers’ by Annie Macpherson, London, 1870
3) ‘Pauper Children (Canada): a report by Andrew Doyle, Local Government Inspector, as to the Emigration of Pauper Children to Canada’, 1875, with letters of rebuttal from Miss Rye.
4) ‘British Children in Canadian Homes’ by Ellen Agnes Bilbrough, Belleville, 1879 (and electronic version)
5) ‘God's answers, a record of A. Macpherson's work at the Home of industry, Spitalfields, and in Canada’ by Clara M. S. Lowe, London, 1882
6) File containing address of Robert Wallace to UK Parliament on the Importation of English Children, 1895; Marchmont request for information on potential guardians, 1920s; issue of ‘Marchmont News’, June 1925
7) ‘The Children’s Home-Finder: The Story of Annie MacPherson and Louisa Birt’ by Lilian M. Birt, London, 1913
8) Notes by Lois Foster on the Marchmont Home property, c.2000
9) Overhead transparencies used by James Gilchrist for presentations about the Marchmont Home, c.2004

Photocopies of railway timetable pages

  • CA ON00156 2019-083
  • Collection
  • 1917, 1948

Part of a letter from F. H. F. (Henry) Skill referring to photocopied pages of the Grand Trunk Railway System Timetable of 14 Jan 1917 and Canadian National Railways System Timetable of 28 Nov 1948 relating to trains through Anson Junction.

Photocopy of photograph of Deseronto Fire Department

  • CA ON00156 DA 2011.02
  • Collection
  • c.1965-2007

Letter from Gael Blake reminiscing about her childhood in Deseronto, 2006 and 2007. Photocopy of a photograph of the Deseronto Fire Departmen, c.1965, with list of names: Captain Jim McVicker, Percy Knight, Don Hubble, Bennie Brant?, Grant Venton, Don 'Buff' Whitton, Don Kimmett, Ralph Lawlor, Jack Hamilton, Mitch Roebuck, Vern Boomhower, Al Fraser, Frank Tinney.

Photograph albums and loose photographs

  • CA ON00156 2015-01
  • Collection
  • c.1860-1920

Two leather-bound photograph albums, one with the name Matilda (Tillie) Anderson on a label on the front, and 83 loose photographs.

Matilda Anderson's album contains 110 photographs, most of which are identified. An inscription in the front of the volume reads "Matilda (Tillie) Anderson, 6 Forin St. Belleville Ontario Presented this day to Miss Grace R. Graham, Belleville, Ont. March 3rd 1938". This album also contains photocopies of 5 photographs and of a newspaper clipping,and a pasted-in typewritten document outlining Anderson family ancestry. Repairs have been with sticky tape, some of which is on the images, and a few photographs are loose. Most photographs are partially identified and names used include: Bruce, Hazel, John, William, Frank, Martha, Ridley, Howard and Alex Anderson; James Redner; Elizabeth and Mary Wallbridge; John and Phillip Roblin; Morley Day (possibly became a Belleville doctor); David Southard (of East Lake Shore); Seymour Emmons. There is a group of 8 portraits of clergymen, surnames include - Knight, Wilson, McCauley, Bell, Cook, Wright, Carr. One image is of a young woman (surname illegible) who attended Ontario Ladies' College at Whitby (a Methodist institution). There is a portrait of a little girl (Fanny Bowsfield) in winter clothing with a sleigh and snowshoes. Two images are of uniformed men: a William Anderson is noted as having fought the Fenian raids.

The other album contains 132 photographs, mostly unidentified. The few people with names attached are: Dwight L. Moody, Mrs P. P. Bliss, Mr P. P. Bliss, William Lewis Jackson 1868, Princess Louise. Most of the portraits were taken by Belleville photographers.

The loose photographs are generally studio portraits (mostly taken by local photographers) and are unidentified. The images range over several decades and several image types. Most images were created in photographers' studios although there are several "snaps". Photographs are present in several sizes and are mainly studio portraits of unknown persons. There is a stock printed image of Queen Victoria; what appears to be a clipping of a much-published photograph of Justice Thomas Chandler Halibuton, the author of the "Sam Slick" stories; a small image of Rev. T. Jeffers; an image of Herbert James Noxon (11 months); an image of John Elvin, son of Edward Elvin by the J.H. Ford studio of Belleville, Ontario. There are two tintypes; 40 images from Belleville, and district i.e., Trenton, Madoc, Deseronto, Picton; 6 from other parts of Canada; 5 from the United States, i.e., New Jersey, Amsterdam, N.Y., Cleveland, Ohio, San Francisco; 29 with no known origin. The images include: a nurse in an early 1900's uniform; a man and woman in a poultry yard; little girls with bowling balls [c 1901]; man beside a car with a 1927 Ontario licence plate; group portait of rural school pupils.

Anderson, Matilda 'Tillie'

Photographic materials

  • CA ON00156 2019-078
  • Collection
  • c.1980

Four (apparently unrelated) items:
1) Negative of a printed photograph of a frame two-storey building with "St. George" on the side
2) Black and white photograph of George Hees (1910-1996)
3) Black and white photograph of Hugh O'Neil (1936-2015)
4) Black and white photograph of a painting of the iron bridge at Plainfield, Ontario

Photographs and clippings relating to The Trentones and A Cappella Quinte

  • CA ON00156 2018-042
  • Collection
  • 1973-2018

Photographs and newspaper clippings relating to barbershop groups The Trentones and A Cappella Quinte. Includes a program for the 1982 Annual Show: "A Decade of The Trentones", held at Trenton High School on May 7th and 8th.

A Cappella Quinte

Photographs and papers from Bev Boomhour

  • CA ON00156 DA 2010.27
  • Collection
  • c.1917-1958

Photographs, postcards, and school reports from members of the Covert and Cole families of Deseronto, Ontario. Some photographs are from the First World War training camps in Deseronto.

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