Display materials and digital files relating to the Great Escape from the Stalag Luft III prisoner-of-war camp in Germany. Includes digital copies of Arthur Sherwin's pilot log book, letters home, and album of photographs recording a Royal Air Force tour of duty to Aden in January 1947.
The Wanamaker fonds consists of textual records and graphic materials of genealogical histories of various families. The fonds also contains records, brochures, pamphlets, publications, books, and other textual records from towns and cities throughout Ontario, predominantly from the Quinte Area and Hastings County.
Family Photographs of the Sayers family, Ralph Wanamaker's family, the Hodgen family, of Loral Wanamaker's family, Parliament family, Van Cott family, Post family, as well as loose photographs of the Parliament family, the McTaggart family, various snapshots and negatives of scenery and views, as well as 2 boxes of slides
1 box of Books and Binders with genealogical records, as well various records of various towns in Ontario ca. 1816 - 1957
Genealogical notes, histories, birth records, death records, pages from family Bibles, receipts, and other textual records for over 40 individual families
Genealogical charts, and ancestral charts
Genealogical correspondences *Newspapers, and News clippings from Hastings County, Hastings County Museum, Historical Society, Lennox and Addington, Prince Edward County, Trenton, Tyendinaga, and United Empire Loyalists
Legal documents, seals and original deeds, and land records ca. 1803 - 1848
Genealogy forms, research materials, reference materials
Various artworks and postcards (of Hastings County, the Quinte Region, the British Military and Navy, the Belleville Art Association, and travel)
Quinte region, Belleville, Trenton, and Prince Edward County miscellaneous publications, newspaper clippings, brochures, pamphlets, notes, directories, histories, records, and tourism guides and publications
Ontario, New York , and Canada pamphlets, magazines, calendars, and an Ontario Liquor License Act, 1891
Land Abstracts for Prince Edward County
Maps and plans: 1778-1779 Blue Print Surveys from General Washington, New York Historical Society; 1784 Ontario (printed by Ministry of Natural Resources), 1984; 1860-1861 Hastings County, 1860-1861 from the Hastings County Directory; 1928 Lloyd's Map of Hastings County; c. 1930 Belleville Post Office Carrier Route #8, North Front and North Park Streets
Scrapbooks ca. 1958-1972
Miscellaneous Publications (almanacs, newspaper clippings, miscellaneous pins belonging to Loral Wanamaker, blue print surveys)
Printed card advertising Scott's Emulsion at Scott & Bowne, Belleville, Ont.
Printed bookmark with Grocery and Wine List on reverse and coloured print of a bird and flowers on the front, with compliments of Geo. S. Bonter & Co, Trenton
Two printed cards with pen-and-ink portraits of a man on one and a woman on the other, both advertising J. H. Nulty's Square Dealing Store, Front Street, Trenton
Funeral card for Gordon G. D. Valleau who died on 24 March 1915 at Deseronto, aged 79 years, 7 months and 24 days
Dominion of Canada note worth 88 cents on 1 December 1944
Materials gathered by Muriel Belcour (b. 1928) and Donald Dafoe (1927-1993) of Belleville, Ontario. They were married in Belleville in 1948.
Reproduction photograph of Muriel and her classmates at Turner School (S.S. No. 16, Sidney Township). People identified are: Floyd MacInnes, Frank Smith, Doug Prest, Gordon Reid, Don De Mille, Evelyn Bleecker, Ruth Wannamaker, Muriel Belcour, Keith McLelland, Harvey Smith, Lois McLelland, Norma Belcour, Elizabeth Laughlin (teacher), Lugo Prest, Mary Carter and Albert Cadman. Taken Oct 18, 1935
Items relating to Muriel's 30-year career at Northern Electric (Nortel) in Belleville, including photographs, press clippings and newsletters, 1959-1986
Belleville Junior Chamber of Commerce materials, including newspaper clippings about Don Dafoe's time as president of the group, 1961-1965
Photographic portrait of an unknown woman, possibly a member of the Reid or Kerr families, c. 1900
History of the family of Orris Clifford Reid and Rose Eleanor Kerr by Kathryn Trotter, 2024 (possible candidates for the identity of the woman in the photograph are identified)
Scrapbooks, diaries, estate papers, military commissions and photographs relating to the Holton family of Belleville, Ontario and particularly to George Harold Holton (1885-1957), son of Charles Phillip Holton and Caroline Harriet Bowell.
Copies of photographs taken outside 183 John Street North in Belleville, Ontario, showing three different Studebaker Commander cars. In the early 1950s this house was owned by George (1890-1965) and Mary Edith Harron (1891-1994).
This collection contains three volumes and a bundle of deeds and mortgages relating to properties in Hastings County.
'Patent Record': volume arranged by township, concession, and lot number, recording the original patent holder and the date of granting for each lot in Hastings County, 1800-1947
'Liber A': the earliest land register book for Hastings County, covering instruments 1-110, 1800-1811
Printed 'New Topographical Atlas of the Province of Ontario, 1879'
