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Photographs of Belleville Fire Department activities and personnel.

The collection consists of financial papers, genealogy books, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, postcards, business cards, music books, horoscope, poll book, address books, ledgers, notebooks, birthday cards, letters, photos/photo album, cartoons, highschool entrance exam, recipe book, stamp book, programs/brochures/concerts, dance cards, yearbooks, certificates, reciepts, invitations, membership cards and text book/teaching book.

The fonds consist of minute and cash books, newsletters, handbooks, reports and songbooks of the Tyendinaga East Women's Institute. Materials added in 2016 include six photograph albums, five volumes of Tweedsmuir histories, autograph books and memorabilia.

The collection also includes a school register for School Section Number 10, Tyendinaga Township, 1879-1921.

• Library minute books, 1885-1950

• Library minutes (bound file), 1950-1961

• Library minutes (file), 1976-1986

• File of Library minutes, 1989-1994

• Board Meeting Business file, 1988-1989

• Library catalogue, 1895

• Library statistics, 1902-1911

• Library cash book, 1907-1919

• Library cash book, 1920-1955

• Library disbursements, 1955-1960

• Library rolls (patrons and reference numbers of books borrowed), 1909, 1910 and 1911-12

• Library books issued, March-October 1921

• Library books issued, November 1921-December 1924

• File of Library correspondence, 1920s

• Deseronto Public Library Circulation Register (total numbers of books borrowed each day, by subject), 1951-1954

• Deseronto Public Library Circulation Register (total numbers of books borrowed each day, by subject), 1954-1957

• Deseronto Public Library Circulation Register (total numbers of books borrowed each day, by subject), 1957-1960

• Deseronto Public Library Circulation Register (total numbers of books borrowed each day, by subject), 1960-1963

• Deseronto Public Library Circulation Register (total numbers of books borrowed each day, by subject), 1964-1966

• Library scrapbook, 1964-1970

• File of library newsclippings, 2001

Photographs are principally of staff and patrons of the Deseronto Public Library and were apparently taken by staff of The Quinte Scanner newspaper. Other images include staff of Deseronto Public School and photographs of buildings in Deseronto, Ontario.

Materials collected by the Kellaway family.
Textual materials:
0) Photocopy of a letter written by Patrick Tighe from Virginia City, Nevada, on 3 January 1863
1) Printed Report of the County Valuators for Hastings County Council, 1866
2) Prospectus for Belleville Business College, c.1905
3) 'The Annual Announcement, Albert College, Belleville, Ontario', prospectus, 1913
4) '140 Years of Progress' U.E.L. souvenir, 1924
5) Program for 'The Girl in Red' musical comedy at the Empire Theatre, 9-11 July 1925
6) Share certificate for the Belleville Arena in the name of M. J. Callaghan, 1930
7) File containing folk songs collected from Tyendinaga Township by Bill Sipprell and Jim Downey in 1973
8) File of materials relating to a fur harvest and management course held in Napanee in 1982
9) 'Ellie Mae's Nifty Knits' volume of knitting patterns designed by Ellen Marie Kellaway (1961-2006), c.1992

Photographs:
10) View of south Front Street near the railway bridge, 1912
11) Photograph of children in confirmation clothes, c.1930
12) St. Mike's Regis Bowling League, April 1957
13) Boys in confirmation suits at the altar of St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church in Belleville, Ontario, c.1970
14) & 15) Photographs of the stone building (former axe factory) at Station Street in Belleville, c.1980
16) People (including Theresa Kellaway) marching in a St. Patrick's Day parade on Front Street in Belleville, (published in Quinte Weekly News on 19 March 1991)
17) Group of people outside the Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School Building, c.2000

Collection of Canada Department of Mines and Technical Surveys maps of the Quinte region (1:25,000):
1) Topographical map 30N/15f of False Duck Islands (Prince Edward County), 1965
2) Topographical map 30N/14a of Gull Bar (Prince Edward County), 1965
3) Topographical map 31C/3d of Ameliasburgh (Prince Edward County), 1966
4) Topographical map 30N/15g,h of Main Duck Island (Prince Edward County), 1966
5) Topographical map 30N/14b of Point Petre (Prince Edward County), 1966
6) Topographical map 31C/3a of Glenora (Prince Edward County), 1966
7) Topographical map 31C/4g of Wooler, 1970
8) Topographical map 31C/3e of west Belleville, 1971
9) Topographical map 31C/3f of east Belleville, 1971
10) Topographical map 31C/3h of Deseronto, 1971
11) Topographical map 31C/2e of Napanee, 1971

12) Canadian Hydrographic Service nautical chart (1:30,000), of Belleville to Telegraph Narrows, with Belleville harbour inset, 1982

13) Scrapbook of newspaper clippings relating to members of the Callaghan and Kellaway family, including Chris Simboli, Thomas Callaghan, Kay Callaghan, Don Kellaway, Ellen Kellaway, Frank Maloney, Michael Callaghan, Theresa Kellaway and Jack Bradford, 1983-1994

Items collected by Reverend A. N. Reid, including:

• six postcards of Stirling, Ontario views
• annual report for St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Stirling
• order of service for Easter Sunday, 5 April 1931, for St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Stirling
• obituary from the Stirling News-Argus for James Ralph, 1931
• two electricity bills from the Stirling Hydro Electric System, addressed to Reverend Reid, October and November 1931

Florrie Sexsmith earned $1.00 per week by writing a column for the Deseronto Post newspaper. They include advice, history lessons, decorating tips, travelogues and recipes.

Five copies of photographs showing Louise Fitchett's house in Deseronto and Ken Melhoff as a young boy, c.1944-1946. Photocopy of an article from Our Canada magazine by Carolyn Lori about Joseph Laverture of Green Street, Deseronto, and his miniature cannons. Lavature was at one time the projectionist at Naylor's theatre in Deseronto.

Collection comprises:

1. The Tribune, Dec 2 1898, report on death of F. S. Rathbun [very fragile]
2. The Tribune, Nov 27, 1903, report on death of E. W. Rathbun [torn and defaced with blue crayon]
3. Copy of Town of Deseronto deed granting the Long Dock and Ottawa Dock at Mill Street to the Deseronto Boating, Gun and Rod Club, Sep 26, 1957, with rough sketch of property
4. Summary of 1966 census of individuals in Deseronto, by age
5. Napanee Beaver, Nov 30 1966 (coverage of elections and death of Wilfred Hill, 47)
6. Napanee Beaver, Dec 7 1966 (coverage of election of Dorothy McCullough, first woman councillor in Deseronto)
7. Napanee Beaver, Jun 7 1967 (photo of Muriel Andrew’s painting of the ferry and bridge, on display in Deseronto Public Library, with Mrs Barney Thompson, Mrs Blake Moore and Mrs Jean Griffiths)
8. 1967 Special Centennial supplement [toNapanee Beaver?] on the history of Deseronto
9. ‘Centennial News’ vacation issue by Lake Ontario Development Council, covering ‘7 Holiday Regions’, 1967, 12pp.
10. Napanee Beaver, Jan 10 1968 (includes details of Deseronto Council committees)
11. Printed 1968 Deseronto Voters’ List
12. Napanee Beaver report on Naylor’s Theatre, Apr 28 1971, 1p.
13. The Quinte Scanner, Jun 16 1971, 100th birthday Deseronto special edition
14. The Intelligencer, Nov 9 1982 (report on Roger Cole’s election as Mayor of Deseronto)
15. Napanee Beaver, May 11 1983, report on Camps Mohawk and Rathbun, using information from J. Allan Smith, with photos
16. Napanee Beaver supplement, 1983, based on 1967 version, published for Summer Parade in Deseronto
17. Napanee Beaver, Dec 18 1985, including articles on Denny Tompkins’s plans as Mayor of Deseronto and article on Liva Grass of Tyendinaga, who campaigned for non-status Indians to regain their status

Collection comprises:

• Identity card of Ira Claus, aged 68, member of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte [c.1952]
• ‘In Memoriam’ book (supplied by White Funeral Home, Deseronto) for Ira Alfred Claus, died Mar 18, 1957, aged 73, Brant St., Deseronto, includes names of the bearers and visitors
• Particulars of War Veteran’s Allowance payable to Bertha Claus, widow of Ira, from Mar 19, 1958
• Statement of contents insurance coverage of Bertha Claus, Thomas Street, Deseronto, with the John S. White Insurance Agency, Deseronto, Feb 11, 1959
• ‘Souvenir Booklet published by the 1960-1961 Council of Tyendinaga Indian Reserve, Deseronto, Ontario, Canada’ [1961], front page torn
• Photograph of boy’s hockey team, sponsored by Sam’s Aluminum [after 1963]

Four 1965 issues of The Post Express (Napanee and Deseronto), June 16 (2 copies), June 23, July 28 .