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Levisconte papers

File contains manuscript probate documents relating to the estate of Henry Le Vesiconte [Levisconte], Captain in the Royal Navy and later gentleman farmer, and a manuscript last will and testament of Sarah Le Vesiconte, widow of Henry Le Vesiconte, 1856. Also contains a typescript excerpts from the Diary of Captain Le Visconte recounting his voyage to Belleville from England and describing conditions in Belleville upon his arrival in 1835.

Ontario Historical Society Records, Vol. LI, #4, 1959

File contains a print copy of Ontario Historical Society Records, Volume LI Number 4. This issue includes information about John Rolph, political reformer who was aware of the Upper Canada Rebellion; an 1837 letter from Government House, Toronto; Catholic Missionary Labours on the Lake Superior Frontier, 1667-1751; the Diary of Henry Ransford; Four Canadian Soldiers that Fought in the American Civil War; and functions and operations of the Historical Branch.

Ontario Historical Society Records, Vol. L, #3, 1958

File contains a print copy of Ontario Historical Society Records, Volume L Number 3. This issue includes information about Samuel Bealy Harrison, a political reformer; the Midewiwin, Ontario's first Medical Society; History of Froomefield, Moore Township; The War of 1812; Horse Thieves, Pirates and Witches; and minutes from the annual meeting.

Hay Bay Church, 1947, service & article re Sir J.A. Macdonald & church

File contains newspaper clippings from 1947 about the Hay Bay Methodist Church and other stories from the Hay Bay area, including where Sir John A. Macdonald grew up a child and a Loyalist family, with one child (John Roblin) having been shot in the knee during the American Revolution, he later fought and was killed in the War of 1812; Mr. Roblin's widow later owned grist and lumber mills.

Hobbies 1963-5

File contains newspaper clipping about various Belleville residents and their hobbies/collections: Percy Gelsthorpe builds steam engine train models, Charles Morton took up whittling during retirement, and Wayne Hustins has a collection showing the rise and fall of the Nazis Empire.

Digital copy of photograph of Henry Thompson of Belleville

  • CA ON00156 2017-25
  • Item
  • c.1900

Digital copy of a photograph of Henry Thompson, member of the 49th (Belleville) Regiment during the Fenian raids of 1866. His entry in the Canada General Service Medal Register, 1866-1870 (RG 9, II, A 5 Vol. 4 at Library and Archives Canada) is available online at http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?op=pdf&id=e008681734

Information provided by donor about this individual:
Born 1 May 1835 In Wexford Ireland
Arrived in Canada 1851
First daughter born Aug 1862
Served in military June 1866 Fenian Raids
Found on the 1871 Census in Thurlow
First wife Ann Casey died 1 Feb 1875
Married Mary Frances O'Conner 16 May 1876 in Belleville
Found on the 1881 census in Thurlow
Found on the 1891 census in York West,
Found on the 1901 census in Toronto Juction
Found on the 1911 census in York South
Died 6 March 1914 at home 2119 Dundas Ave (St) W

Hastings County Development Assoc.; Newspapers from 1919 re: events (postwar) attrocities; 1961 census data

File contains the draft copy of an invitation to a ball at the Belleville Armouries held by the Publicity Committee of the County of Hastings Development Association on 2 May 1919. There are also newspaper clippings about a Peace Assembly at the Armouries and an article about German objections of Peace Treaty. There is also 1961 census data for Hastings South.

Hastings East District Women's Institutes books of remembrance

Books of remembrance. One records the names and dates of death of Women's Institute members of the branches at: Roslin, Plainfield, Phillipston (Bethel) Zion, Quinte, Carmel, Cannifton, Melrose, Foxboro, Tyendinaga East, Moira, Chapman's, Parkdale, Lonsdale and Marlbank (1925-2013). The other is a scrapbook with photographs and brief biographies of men who had enlisted for the Second World War in the areas covered by the Women's Institute branches of: Melrose, Phillipston (Bethel) Zion, Plainfield, Quinte, Roslin and Tyendinaga East (May 1944).

Hastings East District Women's Institutes

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