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McGeachie Conservation Area

  • CA ON00156 2014-13
  • Item
  • 2012

Booklet produced by the Friends of McGeachie about the McGeachie Conservation Area on Steenburg Lake in Limerick Township, Hastings County, Ontario.

Friends of McGeachie

McKeown family photograph album and snapshots

  • CA ON00156 2007-36
  • Collection
  • c.1869-1910

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.

Melody Bells scrapbooks and video tape of Quinte Arts Awards

  • CA ON00156 2014-25
  • Collection
  • 1990-2008

Two scrapbooks of photographs and newspaper clippings relating to the Melody Bells vocal group of Belleville, Ontario. Video cassette of the Quinte Arts Awards presentation of 1999, at which Dorothy Aitchison and Eugene Lang received awards.

Aitchison, Dorothy

Memoirs by Rose and Richard Gosse

  • CA ON00156 2011-45
  • Collection
  • c.1980

Self-published family memoirs:
1) Papa Was A Preacher by Rose Gourlay Gosse
This volume describes the life of the writer's father, Reverend John J. L. Gourlay, who worked in Dauphin and Thornhill, Manitoba; Lloydminster and Namao, Alberta; Leed's Village, Quebec; Lunenburg, Stormont, Lancaster, Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie and Trout Creek, Ontario.
2) I'm a Newfie, And That's No Joke! by R. E. Gosse
A memoir of life growing up in Petites, Newfoundland.

Gosse, Rose Maud

Memorial (Hume) Arena materials

  • CA ON00156 2018-053
  • Collection
  • 1959-2004

Three registration certificates for the refrigeration plant at the Hume Arena in Belleville, Ontario: 1959, 1969, 1970.
Newspaper clippings: Benzie Sangma article 'Memorial Arena memories' published 4 October 2003 and article from 'Hockey Reporter' Fall 2004 edition on historic Ontario arenas, including the Memorial Arena in Belleville.

Memorials

  • CA ON00156 2021-092
  • Item
  • 2021

A compilation of short character sketches about soldiers of the First and Second World Wars from Hastings County who died but are not memorialized at the cenotaph, monument, or memorial park where they were born.

Brearley, Donald T.

Memories of a Farm Boy

  • CA ON00156 2021-102
  • Item
  • 2021

A series of memories of the author's childhood on a farm in Wallbridge, Ontario.

McNaught, Alexander D.

Menu collection

  • CA ON00156 MG 639
  • Collection
  • 2004-2007

Belleville, Ontario, restaurant menus collected by the Hastings County Historical Society.

Hastings County Historical Society

Miles family correspondence

  • CA ON00156 2013-43
  • Fonds
  • 1916-2012

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

Military book collection

  • Collection
  • 1882-1936

Collection of books, most formerly owned by William Nisbet Ponton, some from the collection of Grace B. Waters.

Ponton, William Nisbet

Military items of Clifford Adair LeBlanc

  • CA ON00156 2023-062
  • Collection
  • 1940-1951

Items relating to Clifford Adair LeBlanc, of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment.

  1. Three photographs of Clifford Adair LeBlanc taken during the Second World War.
  2. Two leave passes in LeBlanc's name from 1944 and 1951
  3. Penknife and clip owned by LeBlanc
  4. Legion medal for Past Offficer, Executive Committee - on back is "C. LeBlanc, BR. #414 1974-1975"

Military photographs from World War I

  • CA ON00156 2017-58
  • Collection
  • 1916

Two photographs:

  1. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 155th O.S. Battalion at Barriefield, July 6, 1916 . A cropped version of the same image is available online here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/155th_Battalion%2C_Barriefield%2C_July_6%2C_1916._No._498_%28HS85-10-32556%29.jpg
  2. Unidentified military unit standing on a large parade ground in an unnamed city, with a water tower in the background carrying an advertisement for Sweet Caporal Cigarettes. This image has been scanned and is available online at https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/35460399302/

Minute book of Canadian Order of Foresters, Court Quinte No. 1

  • CA ON00156 2016-88
  • Item
  • 1893-1906

Minute book of the Canadian Order of Foresters, Court Quinte No. 1. The fraternal society met in Deseronto, Ontario. The minutes record applications for membership of the society, payments of bills and notes of people who addressed the group. There are some loose papers inside the volume, mainly applications for admission, with reports of character committees on the back.

Canadian Order of Foresters, Court Quinte No. 1

Minute book of Christian and Missionary Alliance Gospel Tabernacle, Belleville

  • CA ON00156 2018-082
  • Item
  • 1928-1935

Minute book of the local committee of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Gospel Tabernacle, Belleville, Ontario between October 1928 and April 1935. The organization's address was 148 Front Street, Belleville and their pastor was the Rev. W. Willoughby.

Christian and Missionary Alliance Gospel Tabernacle, Belleville

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