Photographic copies of pages of an album of Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force photographs taken at Camp Mohawk near Deseronto, Ontario, and Benbrook in Texas. The collection also contains a photograph of Sikorsky S-40 'Southern Clipper' flying boat NC752V on display at an airfield, c.1935.
Sign reading 'Schryver's' from former Schryver drugstore at 214 Front Street, Belleville, Ontario. City directories place this business at this location from 1959 to 1964.
Fonds consists of 17 minute books of the Quinte Women's Institute and the group's Tweedsmuir history, which includes postcards, press clippings and photographs. Also included is a banner for the institute, history of the institute and files of loose papers for each minute book (letters, receipts, newspaper articles, reports, programmes and newsletters).
Minute books cover the following dates: May 1914 - April 1919 May 1929 - April 1936 May 1939 - April 1942 May 1942 - April 1947 May 1947 - April 1959 April 1950 - April 1953 April 1953 - April 1957 April 1957 - April 1961 April 1961 - March 1965 April 1965 - March 1968 April 1968 - March 1971 April 1971 - March 1974 April 1974 - March 1977 April 1977 - March 1980 April 1980 - March 1984 April 1984 - March 1989 April 1989 - March 1992
File 1: Family photographs: mainly of farm scenes such as haymaking, corn harvesting, steam traction engines, horses. Two individuals are identified: George Avery and Will Roblin.
File 2: Publications- newspaper clippings
File 3: Nostalgic items and publications, newspaper clippings
File 4: Miscellaneous publications and clippings
File 5: Material relating to Belleville's 1978 Centennial
Materials added to the Community Archives' newspaper holdings: Belleville Intelligencer recipe supplements, 1964-1987
25th anniversary re-recording of a recital by S. Alec Gordon held at the Victoria Avenue Baptist Church in Belleville, Ontario, on 1 June 1980. Original recording by David Long. Re-recorded by Doug Knutson. Track listing:
Opening & Humn - "Praise to the Lord! The Almighty"
Scripture - Psalm 103: v1-22
Presentation of Organ by Alec Gordon
Reception of Organ - Bill Hales, Mrs. MacFarland, Rev. MacFarland & Congregation
"Lamentation" - Guilmant
"Prelude & Fugue" - Back
"Mortify Us by Thy Grace" - Back
Demonstration of Organ Functions
"Now Thank We All Our God" - Zwart
"Nam Danket Alle Gott" - Zwart
"The Swan" - Saint-Saens
"The Flight of the Bumblebee"
"The Temptation" - Malling
"Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"
Hymn - "Praise My Soul, The King of Heaven" and Benediction
Four receipts from Belleville businesses, 1950-1958
Three blotters, advertising: Belleville Public Utilities Commission; George J. Tustin, Conservative Candidate for Prince Edward Lennox [1935]; George A. Lee House of Hobberlin store at 250 Front Street, Belleville
Saturday Evening Post magazine in memory of John F. Kennedy, 14 December 1963
Hastings County Board of Education report, 1969-1970
Fifteen files of material collected during Selma Bochnek's time on Belleville City Council, with videos of council meetings and miscellaneous publications.
Research notes and other materials relating to Beth Green's work for the Building Research Committee and the Archives Committee of the Hastings County Historical Society in Belleville, Ontario.
Three registers of Harbour Dues paid by ships offloading cargo at the Port of Belleville between 21 September 1939 and 5 December 1946. The registers record the date; the name of the ship; the quantity and nature of the cargo; the recipient; the dues owing and the date they were paid. Entries are signed by the harbour master: Joseph Waddell until 5 October 1945 and George Oliver Tice after that date.
Plaque commemorating Simpson's Tavern, put up by the Hastings County Historical Society on Front Street, Belleville in 2017.
Text reads: "In 1797 James and Margaret Simpson had a small log tavern at the southeast corner of this intersection. In 1799 they built a frame tavern which became the hub of Meyers' Creek for political rallies, military recruitment, training and courts-martial, Masonic lodge meetings and social gatherings. After James died in 1802, Margaret continued the business and was the first woman granted a tavern license in Midland District. In 1820 Margaret build a frame Georgian-style inn on the northeast corner of the intersection. It was sold in 1825 to the Wallbridge family and was demolished in 1973."
Scrapbook pages with 20 colour photographs of the opening of Glanmore on 7 July 1973, with subsequent newspaper reports on the occasion, invitations and commemorative booklet.
Recording of a talk on the Royal Flying Corps training camps near Deseronto, Ontario, given by J. Allan Smith to the Hastings County Historical Society.
This fonds contains a variety of documents relating to the Belleville Fire Department which include official policies relating to health and safety, arbitration, indemnity agreements with surrounding communities, uniform specifications, certificates and cards, labour-related issues, scientific studies, records of the city of Belleville and the Belleville Professional Fire Fighters Association in addition to newspaper clippings related to the fire department dated from 1907 to 2001.