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.
Photograph of a ‘Quinte Fuel Co.’ promotional miniature coal scuttle. The company was listed in the Deseronto telephone directory in 1919 (with the telephone number 44, as on the scuttle). It was still in existence in the 1970s.
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."
Digital photograph of a City of Belleville Local Board of Health notice requiring residents of the city to clean their premises and empty and disinfect closets and privies before May 15. The poster was found in the basement of 280/282 Front Street in Belleville, Ontario.
Digital photographs of pages of a scrapbook containing circulars about individuals suspected of crimes or escaped convicts, submitted by police departments across North America to the Toronto Police Service.
Digital images taken on April 9th, 2015, of the Langley and Burke architectural plans of a proposed house on Stanley Avenue, Deseronto, Ontario, for Edward Wilkes Rathbun, made May 20th, 1892. The original plans are held at the Archives of Ontario.
Photographs of participants and guests in events held on 16 October 2021 to mark the unveiling of the Dr. James Bertram Collip Reflective Gardens in Belleville, Ontario. Guests included Dr. Alison Li, author of a biography of Collip, and Major Charles Wyatt, Collip's great-grandson. Also present were MP Ryan Williams, MPP Todd Smith, Mayor Mitch Panciuk, Warden Rick Phillips, Rihanna Harris, and Collip Committee members Richard Hughes and Ian Sullivan.
41 digital photographs taken during the demolition of the former Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School building in Belleville, Ontario, in April 2004, and of the monument erected in November 2005.
Digital photographs recording events organized by or otherwise involving the Hastings County Historical Society, the Community Archives of Belleville and other local heritage organizations. The photographs are arranged in folders with the following titles: