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
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.
Collection includes: 1) File of copies of newspaper articles on Frank Morse Robb and copy of the patent for his electronic wave organ. Also includes research notes on the William Finkle Machine business at 393 Sidney Street in Belleville (Bristol Aircraft Products during the Second World War) and an article from 'Remember When' on the Argue family home at 338 Charles Street. 2) File of research notes on Belleville buildings constructed by City Hall builder John Forin, c.1988-1898 3) Copy of paper by Gerry Boyce on 'Conflict and Cooperation: The Cemeteries of Belleville, Ontario', 2003 4) Copy of article by Peter Meehan 'The East Hastings By-Election of 1936 and the Ontario Separate School Tax Question', published in 'Historical Studies' 68, 2002 5) Electronic files of research notes on buildings in east Belleville 6) Electronic files of research notes on buildings in west Belleville
DVD of promotional film made by Westminster Films for Corby Distilleries in 1977. CD purchased from ArchiveCDBooks with PDF file of the 1940 Vernon's Directory of Belleville, Ontario.
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.
These volumes were compiled by the Historic Structures Committee of the Hastings County Historical Society in 1978 and 1983. They contain photographs and descriptions of some of the older buildings in Belleville, Ontario.
Photocopy of an article by Stella-Marie Brown, a student at Napanee Secondary School, on the history of the Marlbank Cement Plant, written for an essay contest sponsored by the Lennox and Addington Historical Society and published in The Tweed News on 23 August 1978.
File contains 176 black and white negatives, 40 colour 35mm slides and one black and white print of ice boats and motorcycles racing on the Bay of Quinte near Belleville, Ontario. Photographer not identified.
Photographic prints showing: 1) City Centennial events in Belleville, Ontario, including the Mayor's Levée, Arts in the Park, Centennial Parade and double decker bus, Railway Week, Ethnic Festival [71 photographs] 2) Burrell's axe factory building (known as Meyer's Mill) before restoration, 1979 and Centennial log cabin in Front Street location [6 photographs] 3) Aerial views of open pit mine at Marmora, 1990 [3 photographs] 4) Views of Queensborough, spring 1993 [7 photographs] 5) Aerial views of downtown Belleville taken from Remax hot air balloon and the tower of Bridge Street United Church, 1993 [13 photographs] 6) People at Fort Kenthe, 1994 [2 photographs] 7) Ruth Burrows receiving the Order of Canada, 1999 [1 photograph] 8) Prince Edward's visit to the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment at the Belleville Armouries, June 2005 [2 photographs]
Contact prints of images taken during the Railway Week train excursion of May 1978 and negatives of houses in Tweed, Ontario, taken in April 1991. Two slides of buildings in Belleville, Ontario.
