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Issue of 'Rushlight' publication with article on William Embury

  • CA ON00156 2018-132
  • Item
  • September 2005

Journal containing article 'On the Trail of William Embury, Lantern Maker: A Tale of Two Countries' by Mel Zaloudek. Embury worked for the W. W. Chown company in Belleville, Ontario, in the 1890s, manufacturing tinware and lanterns.

Rushlight Club, Inc.

Issue of 'The Tribune'

  • CA ON00156 DA 2010.12
  • Item
  • 26 August 1904

Issue of The Tribune, a Deseronto newspaper.

Issues of the Post Express newspaper

  • CA ON00156 DA 2007.06
  • File
  • 1965

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

Items found in 77 Brant Street, Deseronto

  • CA ON00156 DA 2011.27
  • Collection
  • 1931-1955

Found in file labelled “Old Papers Found 77 Brant Street, Deseronto, 1997”
Papers, including:

  1. Directory listing for a canteen in Deseronto for Miss A. Mungo, 1931;
  2. Chattel mortgage for Mrs Alice Freeman, 785 Princess Street, Kingston, 1949;
  3. Calendar of movies playing at the Bayview [Naylor's] Theatre, Deseronto, Ontario, during April [1952]. Includes advertisements for Ernie Luck's Plumbing & Heating, Burkitt's Groceteria, Moody's Men's Wear, Gerald Lott's Jewellery, and Rosebay Dairy. Movies include Hollywood Story, Illegal Entry, Texas Rangers, That's My Boy, Wing and a Prayer, Royal Wedding, Father's Little Dividend, The Mating Season, Fury of the Congo, The Great Caruso, Bird of Paradise, Tall in the Saddle and Wabash Avenue.
  4. Letter from Avis [Mungo?] on the S.S. Ralph Budd, heading for Fort William and Port Arthur [Thunder Bay], written October 29, 1955 (and envelope addressed to Mr Marshall Claus, 44 Johnston Street, Kingston, Ontario);
  5. Sheet of recipes for date bread, raisin rolls and basic muffins (undated);
  6. Card for Art Nelson, Parkdale wines, Toronto (undated)
  7. List of prices for various named items (including ‘inca tie tack’).

Items relating to Indigenous history

  • CA ON00156 2023-010
  • File
  • 1971-2002

"Tawow" magazine with article about Oronhyatekha, Summer 1971
"Kahkewaquonaby (Peter Jones) and the Great Spirit (Jesus)," paper presented by Catherine Stoehr at the Canadian Historical Association Annual Conference, May 2002

Items transferred from the Belleville Intelligencer

  • CA ON00156 2021-075
  • Collection
  • 1903-2017

Collection of materials comprising:

  1. Photograph of Intelligencer press room, 1903
  2. Framed and mounted front page of the Daily Ontario for 28 April 1924 (with Gwen Lazier story)
  3. Belleville Diesel Electric O.H.A. Senior Hockey Club programme, 1949-1950 (donated by Harm Bisschop)
  4. Framed aerial photograph of Belleville by Richard Lumbers, June 1965
  5. Printing proof for front page of The Intelligencer of 14 June 1977
  6. Quinte Air Show calendar, 2017

Intelligencer

J. Allan Smith Royal Flying Corps Training Camps Collection

  • CA ON00156 DA 2001.11-14, 16-33
  • Collection
  • 1917-1918, [ca. 1983]

Collection comprises photographs of the two First World War Royal Flying Corps training camps at Deseronto, Ontario and notes for an unpublished book, 'Wings Over Deseronto', on the history of the camps. Camp Mohawk and Camp Rathbun were in operation between May 1917 and November 1918, training men to be pilots for the Western Front. The photographs in this collection are originals and reproductions depicting the aircraft, staff and cadets of the Royal Flying Corps, principally in the Deseronto camps, but also at Camps Borden and Leaside (Ontario) and Camp Taliaferro, in Fort Worth, Texas.

Smith, James Allan

J. Ben Corke collection

  • CA ON00156 2018-037
  • Collection
  • 1963-1993

Photographs and certificates relating to J. Ben Corke's time on Belleville City Council: as Alderman and as Mayor.

Corke, J. Ben

J. Clarence Waddell photographs

  • Collection
  • 1913-1918

Photographs of scenes in and around Belleville, Ontario, including a circus parade, Lincoln Beachey's aircraft, the talc mine at Madoc and military groups.

Waddell, J. Clarence

Jackie Simpson file relating to Carman fountain

  • CA ON00156 2020-016
  • File
  • 1974-1997

File of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to the relocation of the Carman fountain from Glanmore National Historic Site to the Moodie cottage in Belleville, Ontario, in 1997, including notes on the history of the fountain. The fountain was at the Moodie cottage from 1997 to October 2019, when the City of Belleville removed the fountain into storage. It was located at Glanmore from 1984 to 1997 and was at Franklin Foley's ironworks from the late 1960s to 1984. It was moved to Fireman's Park at Dundas and Front Street in 1961. It was originally located at the Carman property at Dundas and Bleecker, which was built in 1876.

Simpson, Jackie

James Texts Catalogue No. 51

  • CA ON00156 2012-31
  • Item
  • 1943

Catalogue of educational publications available from the James Texts in Belleville, Ontario.

The James Texts

James Vincent Doyle legal papers

  • CA ON00156 2012-42
  • Collection
  • 1899-1948

Three items relating to James Vincent Doyle:
1) Apprenticeship agreement between Doyle and Alexander Ray of Belleville, 30 April 1899
2) Affidavit concerning the registration of a partnership by J. Vincent Doyle, 4 November 1943
3) Partnership agreement between James Vincent Doyle and Edmund O'Flynn Doyle [his son], 1 April 1948

Doyle, James Vincent

Jerry Stapley prints depicting Ontario libraries

  • CA ON00156 2021-018
  • Series
  • 1976

Eighteen mounted prints of pen-and-ink drawings of libraries in Eastern Ontario:

  1. Belleville (Corby) Public Library
  2. Campbellford Public Library
  3. Cobourg Public Library
  4. Deseronto Public Library
  5. Grafton Branch - Northumberland Union Public Library
  6. Kingston Public Library
  7. Lindsay Public Library
  8. Napanee Branch - Lennox and Addington County Public Library
  9. Newburgh Branch - Lennox and Addington County Public Library
  10. Norwood Public Library
  11. Margaret Breden Memorial - Odessa Branch - Lennox and Addington County Public Library
  12. Peterborough Public Library
  13. Picton Public Library
  14. Port Hope Public Library
  15. Stirling Public Library
  16. Sydenham Branch - Frontenac County Public Library
  17. Warkworth Branch - Percy Township Public Library
  18. Wellington Public Library

Stapley, Jerry

Jessie Cunningham collection

  • CA ON00156 2022-062
  • Collection
  • 1923-1938

Collection of items formerly in the possession of Jessie Cunningham:

  1. Diary of John Wesley Roblin of Picton for the year 1923, with observations on the weather and his daily activities
  2. Paintings and drawings created by Jessie Cunningham in art classes, 1932-1934
  3. Silver Jubilee souvenir booklet, 1935
  4. Scrapbook of newspaper clippings compiled by Jessie Cunningham relating to global news events, 1936-1938

Cunningham, Janet 'Jessie'

John Arnold Thomson architectural drawings

  • CA ON00156 2004-11
  • Fonds
  • 1938

Architectural drawings for a proposed Masonic Lodge at the northeast corner of Pinnacle Street and Victoria Avenue in Belleville, Ontario, with associated correspondence.

Thomson, John Arnold

John Barrett McGann, School Founder

  • CA ON00156 2021-081
  • Item
  • 2021

Printed booklet on the history of John Barrett McGann, founder of the Ontario School for the Deaf.

Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf

John Doran collection of photographs

  • CA ON00156 2016-22
  • Collection
  • 1950s

These images of Belleville, Ontario locations were used for teaching at the Ontario School for the Deaf (now the Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf), probably in the 1950s. The images depict:

  • Armouries
  • Government Dock
  • Deacon Brothers shirt factory
  • Victoria Park and harbour
  • Tabernacle United Church
  • Belleville Public Works building
  • Belleville City Hall and Council Chamber
  • Hastings County Shire Hall and Council Chamber
  • Belleville Police Station
  • St. Thomas Anglican Church
  • Belleville Pump House
  • Registry Office
  • Victoria Avenue Baptist Church

The collection also includes a colour print of 'Keep BCI in the Picture' a reproduction of 'East Side, West Side' by Eve Lucy, printed by Market High as part of the campaign BCIVS 2000, committed to keeping the Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School building as part of the Belleville landscape.

Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf

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