- CA ON00156 2020-047
- Collection
- 1911-1912
Postcards showing street scenes and buildings in Deseronto, Ontario. The cards were mailed to Dora Mater (later Marr) by Cassie and May, friends of Dora's in Deseronto.
Marr, Ella Dora
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Postcards showing street scenes and buildings in Deseronto, Ontario. The cards were mailed to Dora Mater (later Marr) by Cassie and May, friends of Dora's in Deseronto.
Marr, Ella Dora
Grace B. Waters photograph albums
The First World War photograph album contains about 164 black and white or sepia photographs, 1 cartoon entitled "The same old moon", 1 coloured pencil sketch of a nurse. The album is Kodak's "Gallia" model (32.5x26x2cm) in plain black, textured leatherette. The photographs vary greatly in size from 21 x 14.5 cm to 8.5 X5.9 cm. About 40 of the photographs are signed either "E.R. Owen" or "E.R.O.". The first photograph is marked in pencil, "Donor G.B.Waters". Many of the photographs depict the Duchess of Connaught Canadian Red Cross Hospital in Cliveden, England. Many images depict the hospital at the time of a visit by King George V and Queen Mary, a visit by Sir Robert Borden, and a visit by Winston Churchill. There are images of the hospital wards both indoors and out, the cafeteria, the linen supply, and many patients (a lot of the patients seem to be wearing special issue hospital shoes) and nurses. Subjects include: nurses of the Canadian Army Medical Corps; funerals; women ambulance drivers; trenches, military hospitals.
The second album dates from 1916 to 1921. Identified locations include: Athabaska Hall; Banff (Alberta); Red Deer; Lake St. Helena; Edmonton; Sylvan Lake; Mount Royal; Montreal (from M.G.H.); Fort William [Thunder Bay]; Lake of the Woods; Moose Jaw; Markerville; Innisfail; New York. There are several photographs of farm scenes and some of medical personnel in white coats, holding human bones.
The third album includes photographs taken at a graduation at McGill University in Montreal; scenes of Niagara Falls; photographs of cars; two photographs of hospital rooms.
This collection also includes an annual report for Kingston General Hospital, 1906; a brochure for Queen's University Hospital in Cairo, c.1915; five panoramic postcards of Le Tréport, France, c.1915; a letter from 'Elsa' of Dickson, Alberta to Ivy, Clifford and Lloyd, discussing her new job as head of a teacher training department in Ethiopia, dated 5 August 1946, and two sheets of song lyrics for the following songs:
Sheet 1
Cupid is the Captain of the Army
I've Said My Last Farewell
Those Songs My Mother Used to Sing
The Bull-Frog and the Coon
Poker Love
The Good Old U.S.A.
So Long Mary
The Tale of a Stroll
Lazy Moon
Sheet 2
Fishing
I Would Like to Marry You
As We Swing, Sweetheart
Drummer Song
Dear Old Johnstown
When I Rode on the Choo Choo Cars
I Fell in Love With Polly
Hey! Mister Joshua
Hiram Green, Good-Bye
It Makes Me Think of Home, Sweet, Home
Waters, Grace Brown
Photographs of military personnel, taken during the First World War. Some are signed 'R.G.S.', including a photograph of the Halifax Explosion. The collection also includes a set of Ottawa street scenes.
Individuals identified in the photographs include: Jim Parm, Petty Officer Pace, Ted Lazier, Ted Wallbridge, Keith Petepiece, Reg Stevens [probably Reginald Garnet Stevens, 1896-1971, the R.G.S. who took the photographs], P. Domville, Colonel W. J. McEllinny.
Ottawa street scenes depict: Parliament Hill, Lovers Walk, Government House, Chateau Laurier, the Eastern Departmental Block, Interprovincial Bridge, City Hall Square, the Rideau Canal locks.
Reverend A. Newton Reid collection
Items collected by Reverend A. N. Reid, including:
Reid, A. Newton
Copies of correspondence and historical notes on the Stone Church of Sidney Township
Poor quality photocopy of history of the Stone Church in Sidney Township, with order of service for 75th anniversary event held on 19 October 1930 (the scan of this item was made from the original in file TR 3875). Three letters with government of Ontario officials concerning the installation of a plaque to commemorate the church in the early 1970s.
Records of Ontario Business College
Textbooks, exercise books, student registers, photographs and press clippings relating to the Ontario Business College and its courses.
Ontario Business College (Belleville)
Cross the Bay Swim group photograph
A photograph showing the participants of a swim across the Bay of Quinte in Ontario sometime in 1925.
Included in this photo, starting in the back row: Donald Row, Morley Stork, Bub Galloway, Norman Clarke, Fred Brown, Les Smith, George Oliphant, ? Semark, ??; middle and front row: Cliff Barber, Elmer LaBarr, Jessie Barbart, George Drummond, Margaret Walker, Larry Wray, Marj McGuire, Ken Grills, George Brown.
Copy of Old Hastings Road photograph
Photograph of five people on a wooden bridge.
Moira Secondary School 'Moirambler' publications for:
Moira Secondary School
Digital copy of photograph of the steamer Brockville
Scanned copy of a photograph of the steamship Brockville at the wharf of the Ontario School for the Deaf in Belleville, Ontario.
Article on the industries of the Rathbun Company by Ken Brown and newspaper copy of the published version from The Intelligencer of 25 October 2008 (titled 'Back to the Future').
Brown, Kenneth Murray
Printing block for 'Elevator' magazine
Printing block for the front cover of the 1936 Jubilee edition of Elevator magazine.
Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School
File of papers relating to 35 Linton Park Road, Belleville
Papers relating to the purchase and mortgaging of the property at 35 Linton Park Road, Belleville, Ontario. Includes a flyer on the different styles of houses available in Elmwood Acres from Lambert-Rollins Construction Ltd, available through Gerald W. Joyce, sales agent.
Kilpatrick (family)
Hubble family business and municipal records
Faraday (Township)
Fleming family collection of Ivanhoe materials
Clements, William
Scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, papers of the Dafoe, Lloyd and Reid families
Papers collected by members of the Dafoe, Lloyd and Reid families of Thurlow and Sidney Townships, Hastings County. The collection includes:
Dafoe (family)
Certificate of registration for a boiler at Hume Arena
Certificate of registration for a boiler at Hume (later known as Memorial) Arena.
Ontario. Department of Labour
Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School publications
Publications of Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School:
Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School
Topographical maps and Callaghan family scrapbook
Collection of Canada Department of Mines and Technical Surveys maps of the Quinte region (1:25,000):
1) Topographical map 30N/15f of False Duck Islands (Prince Edward County), 1965
2) Topographical map 30N/14a of Gull Bar (Prince Edward County), 1965
3) Topographical map 31C/3d of Ameliasburgh (Prince Edward County), 1966
4) Topographical map 30N/15g,h of Main Duck Island (Prince Edward County), 1966
5) Topographical map 30N/14b of Point Petre (Prince Edward County), 1966
6) Topographical map 31C/3a of Glenora (Prince Edward County), 1966
7) Topographical map 31C/4g of Wooler, 1970
8) Topographical map 31C/3e of west Belleville, 1971
9) Topographical map 31C/3f of east Belleville, 1971
10) Topographical map 31C/3h of Deseronto, 1971
11) Topographical map 31C/2e of Napanee, 1971
12) Canadian Hydrographic Service nautical chart (1:30,000), of Belleville to Telegraph Narrows, with Belleville harbour inset, 1982
13) Scrapbook of newspaper clippings relating to members of the Callaghan and Kellaway family, including Chris Simboli, Thomas Callaghan, Kay Callaghan, Don Kellaway, Ellen Kellaway, Frank Maloney, Michael Callaghan, Theresa Kellaway and Jack Bradford, 1983-1994
Kellaway, Don