This file contains a letter and nine page document, dated April 26, 1960 from G.L. Long, Historian for The Bell Telephone Company of Canada, sent to Catherine Mann at the Ontario School for the Deaf. It outlines the history of the telephone development in Belleville and of the Ontario Institute for the Deaf's close association with Professor Alexander Melville Bell and his son Dr. Alexander Graham Bell.
Two scrapbooks of photographs and programs recording the activities of the Mohawk Loyalist Council (1970-1994) and the Belleville Life Member Club (1988-2000) of the Telephone Pioneers of America.
Telephone Pioneers of America: Mohawk Loyalist Council
File contains a printed poster advising municipal residents to vote for the reduction of licensed drinking places in various municipalities, including Belleville. Also present is a newspaper clipping announcing an upcoming talk entitled “The Man that Rum Makes,” by Dr. W.J. Fairfield on 21 November 1887, and a clipping about a horse theft in Sidney after a drinking episode by the perpetrator.
File contains a newspaper obituary of Major John Fortin Templeton, who served with the Argyll Light Infantry in the 1890s and the 48th Highlanders of Toronto during World War One.
File contains a letter from Fred E. Thain to Mr and Mrs Clarence Cornell, written five days before his execution by hanging for the murder of Arnold and Nancy Wellman.
The Women's Canadian Club of Belleville was formed January 31, 1914 to foster Canadian patriotism and presumably dissolved in 1970. It was a member of the Association.
The file contains a copy of the Application of The Bell Telephone Company of Canada for an order under section 380 and all other relevant sections of the Railway Act, approving revisions of the Applicant's Tariffs for Exchange and Long Distance Services and Equipment.
File contains copies of "The Belleville Project" completed by the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University in Hamilton, the project contains lists of burials, baptisms, and marriages performed at St. Thomas' Anglican Church in Belleville from 1821 to 1874.
The file contains two copies of the September 1986 issue of the magazine "What's Happening" published 8 times a year by Susan K. Bailey Enterprises Ltd. Belleville. Pages 18-21 contains an article titled "The Belleville Young Men's Christian Association (Y.M.C.A.)" with picture, written by Elaine Preston, Researcher, Hastings County Historical Society.
File contains a one-page typescript history of a commemorative cairn at Tyendinaga Reserve, erected in 1924 to mark the landing of the Mohawks and the establishment of the settlement in 1784.
File contains a printed copy of the Canadian Agriculturalist, July 1852. Includes a Report on the State of Agriculture in Hastings County by William Hutton, with information on the extent and types of agriculture practised in Hastings County, and crop production in 1852.
File contains a paper titled "Conflict and Cooperation: The Cemeteries of Belleville, Ontario" prepared by Gerry Boyce for presentation at Session 5: "Nineteenth-Century Built Environments" at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS May 2003.
