25th anniversary re-recording of a recital by S. Alec Gordon held at the Victoria Avenue Baptist Church in Belleville, Ontario, on 1 June 1980. Original recording by David Long. Re-recorded by Doug Knutson. Track listing:
Opening & Humn - "Praise to the Lord! The Almighty"
Scripture - Psalm 103: v1-22
Presentation of Organ by Alec Gordon
Reception of Organ - Bill Hales, Mrs. MacFarland, Rev. MacFarland & Congregation
"Lamentation" - Guilmant
"Prelude & Fugue" - Back
"Mortify Us by Thy Grace" - Back
Demonstration of Organ Functions
"Now Thank We All Our God" - Zwart
"Nam Danket Alle Gott" - Zwart
"The Swan" - Saint-Saens
"The Flight of the Bumblebee"
"The Temptation" - Malling
"Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"
Hymn - "Praise My Soul, The King of Heaven" and Benediction
Autograph book of Maggie Maud Mary Simmons of Frankford, Ontario (1868-1923). Includes signature of Horatio Gilbert Parker (Parker's mother was Samantha Jane Simmons).
Scrapbook pages with 20 colour photographs of the opening of Glanmore on 7 July 1973, with subsequent newspaper reports on the occasion, invitations and commemorative booklet.
Recording of a talk on the Royal Flying Corps training camps near Deseronto, Ontario, given by J. Allan Smith to the Hastings County Historical Society.
Album of photographs and tintypes taken between 1869 and 1874, mainly by photographers in Belleville, Ontario. Two individuals are identified by name: Rev. William Craig and Miss Bogart. Also 21 snapshots from 1900 to 1910, including photographs of Helen McKeown's uncle Arthur, who was undertaking medical training as a nurse. One photograph shows 'prisoners at work' taken from Arthur's room in a hospital.
The collection contains: The Second Legislature of Upper Canada, 1796-1800; a Moira Conservation Report from 1955; postcards and photographs of Belleville and the surrounding area (c. 1920s); a bible from the Ketcheson family; and newspaper clippings about Bay Bridge.
List of names scanned from an autograph book owned by Agnes Sexsmith in 1929. Names are: Olive Hewitt Frank McCable Thelma Melburn Ralph Melburn Walter Winter Harold Winter WIlfrid Winter Eileen McAllister Percy Marshall Ross Marshall Andrew Tulluch Donald Tulluch Vincent Sexsmith
Printed newsletter from the Ritchie Company's store in Belleville, Ontario. The front cover has a photograph of the store's 47 members of staff. The donor identified Sam McGuire as the second man in the second row and Eliza Hunter (later married Percy Ranson) as the fifth person in the same row.