Scanned image of a photograph of the house at 153 Victoria Avenue, Belleville, Ontario. The house was built by Charles Frederick Smith in around 1878 and sold by Smith to John Wesley Johnson in 1889 for $4,250. Johnson was the Principal of the Ontario Business College in Belleville and Mayor of Belleville, 1897-1900, and Member of the Provincial Parliament for Hastings West, 1908-1919.
Hastings County Historical Society. Building Research Committee
Deseronto Cemetery Company out-letter book (some entries too faint to read), 1888-1898 ‘The Cemetery Lot Book’ List of cemetery lot numbers (1-900) and the price per lot, [1888] Deseronto Cemetery Company ledger. Includes names of stock-holders, lists of expenses and lots sold (by date), 1888-1907 Deseronto Cemetery Company ledger, including plot-owners’ names and some addresses. Front board detached (has printed schedule of fees attached to it from 1 June 1930), 1928-1954 (2008.07/1) Deseronto Cemetery Company journal of receipts and expenses from 1 June 1928 to 27 Feb 1950 (2008.07/2) Deseronto Cemetery receipts and disbursements from 1 Jan 1950 to 5 Feb 1960 (2008.07/3) Deseronto Cemetery receipts and expenditure, 24 Jan 1966 to 4 July 1977
1) Newspaper clipping about the opening of Century Place in Belleville, Ontario, 26 March 1976 2) Brochure for Century Place, c.1976 3) Instructions for employees starting work in the Century Place building on 29 March 1976 4) Text of a talk on 'Hastings County & the Telephone' by R. W. Carleton, given to the Hastings County Historical Society on 15 February 1977
Airmail letters sent by Stewart Masson to Hazel and Oswald Scott of William Street, Belleville, Ontario from England, Scotland, the Netherlands, Brussels, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, France, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Yugoslavia. Masson describes the places she visited.
Transcript of interview with Stewart Masson made in March 1977.
Belleville Yardmen Benefit Fund lottery ticket, photograph of six members of the Board of the Fund and fifteen colour slides of the Quinte Sports Centre under construction.
Order of service for the 100th anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone of Tabernacle United Church in Belleville, Ontario, held on Sunday 22 May 1977. Includes a leaflet with a brief history of the church and a reproduction of an 1875 pamphlet asking for assistance in raising funds for the Building Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The cost was estimated to be $26,000 to $30,000.
Three prints of pen-and-ink drawings of: 1) Roman Catholic Church, Ormsby, 1973 2) Unidentified brick church, 1973 3) Corby Public Library, Belleville, 1976
1) Order of Service for the inauguration of the Foresters’ Orphanage on Foresters' Island, Deseronto, August 5, 1905 2) Scanned photograph of Herbert Joseph Howard (1864-1920), accountant at the Bank of Montreal, Deseronto between 1906/7-1920 3) Scanned photograph of Florence Ashworth, wife of John P. Ashworth, manager of the Bank of Montreal, Deseronto, 1903-1923 (c.1914) 4) Scanned photograph of John Brian Ashworth, son of John P. Ashworth, manager of the Bank of Montreal, Deseronto, 1903-1923 (c.1914) 5) ‘Souvenir and Programme’ of the 1929 Loyalist celebrations in Deseronto 6) Article on the history of the Layer Cake Hall in Bath, Ontario, by Muhammad Arif, Larry Pearson and Godfrey Spragge, September 1976
Four photographs of St. Mark’s Church, Deseronto, Ontario: 1) Interior of church, taken by A. V. Richardson of Deseronto, early 20th century 2) Exterior of church, taken from Dundas Street, looking northwest, early 20th century 3) Interior of church, looking towards the altar, c.1940[?] 4) Exterior of church, taken from Dundas Street, looking north, dated December 1976
Black and white photographs of archaeological sites and Indigenous artifacts recorded by archaeologist Russell J. Barber in his archaeological survey of the Moira Valley in 1975.
Tintypes and photographs taken or collected by members of the Lazier family of Belleville, Ontario. There are 10 tintypes, all showing groups of two or more young men. The other photographs were taken in Belleville between 1900 and 1975.