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Collection of materials relating to the Kellaway family of Belleville, Ontario, including:
1) File of certificates and ration books relating to Kenneth Alfred Kellaway (1917-1998)
2) File of typescript notes on the history of the Kellaway family, 2012, and a calendar from Ed Kellaway's Belleville store, 1955
Scrapbooks compiled by Mary Roberts Haig
Two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, invitations and cards compiled by Mary Elizabeth Roberts (later Mary Elizabeth Haig).
Roberts, Mary Elizabeth
Collection of items formerly in the possession of Jessie Cunningham:
Cunningham, Janet 'Jessie'
Collection comprises:
Materials added to the Community Archives' newspaper holdings: Belleville Intelligencer recipe supplements, 1964-1987
Short, Ethel
Genealogical research materials on members of the Van Blaricom family, United Empire Loyalists and early settlers of Hastings and Prince Edward Counties in Ontario.
Van Blaricom, Earl Winfield
Walter Aselstine photographs and scrapbooks
Scrapbooks and family photographs compiled by Walter Aselstine of Belleville, Ontario.
Aselstine, Walter
This collection represents materials originating or used by W.C. Mikel.
The first folder contains three speeches delivered during his time as Police Magistrate and Mayor.
The next series of folders contains references and sources for his volume The City of Belleville History: the second folder contains correspondence regarding the book. Folders three through ten contain the notes Mikel used for each chapter (folder 5 includes an obituary for George Benjamin).
Folder eleven contains the plans for “Quinte City" and documents from the Town Planning Institute among others. Folder twelve contains unattributed reference material and general research for the book. Folder thirteen contains Mikel's collection of material for the 1924 United Empire Loyalist celebration which was held during his first term as Mayor. Folder fourteen contains Mrs. Mikel's obituary, a letter from Mikel to the Bank of Montreal, and a letterhead from the period he served as Police Magistrate. Folder fifteen contains three copies of his book, Godlove Mikel. The sixtenth folder contains a variety of newspaper clippings.
Mikel, William Charles
Registration certificate for Sampson Clarke
Certificate of registration for the national purposes of Canada of Sampson Clarke of Deseronto, Ontario.
Canada Registration Board
Scans and digital photographs of images relating to Dr Elgin Vandervoort and his family, taken from an album belonging to his family and loaned for the purpose. Include pictures of May Vandervoort and her husband, Hugh Rothwell, who met her when he was installing electricity to Deseronto. They married on September 1st, 1917 in Deseronto.
Letter to Mrs McAfee of Deseronto on the death of her son
Letter to Hester McAfee about her son, Harold, who had died of pneumonia in hospital in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England on 11 March 1917.
Lyne, Arthur S.
The fonds consists of 48 letters written during World War I, transcriptions of the letters, 1 CD and a book titled 'Just a Few Lines: A Memoir of William Thomas Miles from the Great War, 1916-1919'. The book is written by Thomas N. Miles and William J. Miles, Will Miles' sons and is based on this collection of letters. 47 of the letters are from Will Miles to his mother and 1 is from his cousin Maud to Will Miles. The letters are written between Sept. 30, 1916 and Feb. 18, 1919. Most of the letters are sent from France with a few of them sent from England, Barriefield Camp and Bramshott Camp. The letters discuss Will Miles' day to day life being a soldier during WWI, Flanders mud, lice, hunger and poison gas, meeting girls, complaining of the the food he eats, people being injured or sick, himself being injured, the weather, thanks for receiving parcels, running into old friends and looking forward to coming home in 1918.
Miles, William Thomas
Cornell family photograph album
Photographs taken by members of the Cornell family of 47 John Street in Belleville, Ontario. Family snapshots, photographs of boats in Belleville Harbour, Presqu'ile lighthouse, cars, Billy Bishop's float plane.
Letter from Frederick Manlis Miller and research materials
Letter from Frederick Manlis Miller to Thomas Henry Coppin, agent, informing him that Miller had enlisted for active service. Several pages and printouts of 2013 research by Richard Hughes on Miller's family history. Also a copy of a newspaper article on a family history story relating to Hughes' grandmother in England and Belleville mayor George Zegouras, with a copy of a photograph of Zegouras and Hughes.
Hughes, Richard M.
Photograph album of James Robert Byron Ketcheson
Album of family photographs compiled by James R. B. Ketcheson. Many of the people in the pictures are identified. Names listed include:
Places pictured include:
Ketcheson, James Robert Byron
Fonds consists of records pertaining to Earl Gilbert Wheeler of the 13th Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery, Canadian Expeditionary Force. The folders are composed of personal letters to Gunner Wheeler's friends and family written while he was stationed at various posts throughout World War I. It also includes financial documents, educational certificates and other professional and personal papers. In addition to these records, documents containing correspondence about his injury, the search for his whereabouts, as well as his death certificate.
Wheeler, Earl
Various items, including:
1) Receipt from McLaughlin Carriage Company addressed to Patrick T. Tighe, June 1st, 1912
2) Operating Rules, Welland Ship Canal Construction Railway, 1914
3) Rules of the Electric Power Company Limited, Belleville, Ontario, c. 1916
4) Notice of Disposition Claim for Exemption, under the Military Service Act, 1917 for Thomas Tighe of Read, Ontario
5) Returned Soldiers' Handbook, May 1918
6) Leave or Duty Ration Book, Thomas Tighe, November 1918
7) Western Scales of Prices Governing Wages in Rolling Mills, June 30, 1920
8) Western Scales of Prices Governing Wages in Rolling Mills, of Maurice Callaghan, June 30, 1921
9) Callaghan's Ice & Wood Tickets, not dated
10) The Navy League of Canada Dominion Council, Seamanship Pocket Manual, 1944
11) 13 colour photographs of a model of a proposed park behind Belleville City Hall, not dated [c. 1980]
12 and 13) Program and song sheet for Victory in Europe concert by the Trentones, May 12th and 13th 1995
14) Unemployment insurance stamps
15) 'The Cooks' Companion' recipe book published by the St. Andrews Club of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, Belleville, 1932
16) Prize List for World's Fair, Shannonville, September 18th and 19th, 1942
17) Preliminary list of electors for Urban Polling Division No. 9 of Belleville, 1972
18) Agenda and papers of the School Closure Committee of the Hastings County Board of Education, 1992
Kellaway, Don
Photograph of unidentified man and woman
Photograph of seated man and standing woman, taken by W. S. Clarke of Belleville, Ontario.
Clarke, W. S.
The fonds contains 12 postcards with images of various locations throughout Ontario, mailed to members of the Morrison family in Tweed, Ontario.
Morrison (family)
Letters given to the donor by the administrators of the estate of Myrtle Winnifred Peck of 267 Ann Street, Belleville (1894-1983).
Peck, Myrtle Winnifred
Palmer family photograph album
Photograph album with snapshots of children and pets. Some of the images show cars, trains, and manufacturing sites in and around Trenton, Ontario. One photograph shows Harry Palmer after winning the Deacon Road Race between Trenton and Belleville on 7 September 1908.