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Postcards of Belleville floods (mainly 1936), mostly duplicates of others in the collection.

Photograph of the front of the building at 232 Front Street, after steel cladding had been removed from the façade.

Materials collected by Violet Elliot:

1. Postcard of the House of Refuge in Belleville. 1915
2. Township of Thurlow Auditor's Report for 1932
3. Two blotters advertising Leslie's Shoes in Belleville, c.1930

Photographs:

1. Ambrotype photograph of four houses on the west side of the Moira river in Belleville, c.1860
2. City of Belleville Chemical Fire Engine Group, 1882-1883
3. Front Street (looking south) decorated to welcome home the men who fought in the North-West Rebellion, 1885
4. Front Street (looking north) decorated to welcome home the men who fought in the North-West Rebellion, 1885

Copy of a photograph of Mrs Morris's class at Deseronto Public School.

Album with photographs commemorating the Belleville McFarlands hockey team's time in Prague, Czechoslovakia at the Ice Hockey World Championships, where they visited a glass factory and other local landmarks.

Two interior views of an unidentified butcher's store and a photograph of an Albert College hockey team from Belleville, Ontario.

Photograph of nine men, identified as:
J. G. D. Byant, Sherbrooke, Quebec; Centre (Captain)
George Masters, Napanee, Ontario; Secretary-Treasurer
A. C. Major, Sherbrooke, Quebec; Right Guard
G. Walsh, Port Arthur, Ontario; Left Guard (Manager)
H. F. Gibson, Danville, Quebec; Vice-President
J. H. Daigle, St. Jacques, New Brunswick; Right Forward
J. W. Johnson, F.C.A., Belleville, Ontario; Honorary-President
H. Camirand, Blind River, Ontario; Left Forward
I. L. Moore, Belleville, Ontario; President

A red and white quilt made in 1894 by the Steady Gleaners, a group of women affiliated with the Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer, Deseronto, Ontario, possibly with the aim of raising funds for missionary work. This quilt may have been made for such a purpose. The signatures of the women in the society are embroidered onto the squares of the quilt.

The names on the quilt are:
F.M.R.
Bella Smyth
Mrs Wm. Gamble
Florence A. Davis
Mrs F. S. Rathbun
Alice McGault
Mrs C. E. Ravin
Mrs J. W. McCaw
Mrs G. Genge
Mrs Wm. Mitchell
Mrs R. J. Craig, President
Mrs Frank S. Hall [Bessie]
Annie Hill
Mrs McCoy
Mrs F. H. Sims
Mrs J. D. Dulmadge
Mrs J. Douglas
Tillie Maxwell
Mrs D. Dant
Miss Mary Huff
Mrs G. Gordon
Ella Pegan
Mrs G. A. Grant
Mrs Joe Hopper
Mrs Wm. Geney
Gertrude R. Craig
Aggie Elliott
Mrs Mackie
Mrs A. D. Macintyre
I. Thornton
Mrs C. Forrester
Mrs R. Anderson
Ira B. Anderson
L. Smyth
Mrs R. Geddes
Mrs F. McMaster
Mrs J. M. Denmark
Mrs A. G. Knight
Mrs J. Buter
Clara McClain
Mrs C. Bennett
Mrs J. T. Garmon

Notes on Deseronto’s history and a number of postcards and photographs. Includes a collection of 43 calendars from firms in Napanee, Newburgh and Selby from 1941-1970.

Portrait of a man and woman.

Three postcards of Belleville views, sent to Grace McCreery (1882-1956) by her mother, Ada Mary Stewart (1859-1932):

1. Bridge Street
2. St. Thomas's Anglican Church
3. Bridges over Moira River

Twelve digitized copies of films previously donated to the Hastings County Historical Society by Pat Isaacs and Stan Else.

Films donated by Pat Isaacs of Roslin, Ontario:

1. Parades with the Shriners, family events including children feeding a captive bear, aftermath of a fire at Robertson Block on Main Street, Belleville, Ontario, in 1954, the exterior of the Shrine Club in Belleville, a fire at a vehicle collision, a military parade and a track and field day. [running time: 15:19] https://youtu.be/J-9GAcoP6TA
2. Parades, including one at the Shannonville Fair and one on Front Street, Belleville, Ontario, and footage of family events and gatherings, c.1955 [running time: 13:28] https://youtu.be/_aJ5b29fzqQ
3. General Motors picnic at Silver Lake, 14 June 1948 (including sports and games); speed boat races at the Government Dock, Belleville (with brief glimpse of City of Belleville ship); and the fire that destroyed Trudeau Motors on 20 December 1948 [running time: 12:02] https://youtu.be/geFPx2Auxi8
4. Family vacation in Florida, with footage of the James Melton Autorama museum, the Sandy Shores Motel in Miami Beach, boat trips, pelicans, Zane Motel, Spook Hill road sign, orange trees, women in Victorian clothing in gardens, c.1950 [running time: 10:54] https://youtu.be/ZvjGzMUaqEY
5. Animals and birds in a zoo and a visit to Ireland and Paris, c.1955 [running time: 4:06] https://youtu.be/ESe_Ay9rQc4
6. RCMP musical ride at Belleville fairgrounds, 1957 and 1959 [running time: 7:34] https://youtu.be/g3_cX0JYe-E
7. Vacation in California, parades with the Shriners, family scenes, an event at the opening of the Kinsmen outdoor pool in Belleville, Ontario, with a band and a synchronized swimming display, crowds at the railway station for the royal visit to Belleville, Ontario in 1951 [running time: 13:29] https://youtu.be/Wa_Z6SMApNU
8. Picton and Belleville Santa Claus parades of 1954 [running time: 11:16] https://youtu.be/Y_WqZbWxFZA
9. Bus tour of UK including Meikleour Beech Hedge, Edinburgh, Durham, York, London, c.1955 [running time: 11:28] https://youtu.be/XxyPehC2oao

Films donated by Stan Else (teacher at Moira Secondary School):

10. Geneva Park YMCA project in Orillia, c.1966 [running time: 3:52] https://youtu.be/0fbFiwVVrz8
11. Women with car, nurses strike at Belleville General Hospital, c.1970 [running time: 4:05] https://youtu.be/Kfb8c4-RNWg
12. Geology dig in Mohawk Valley, Fort Klock, c.1970 [running time: 4:23] https://youtu.be/Hm5Is9UnmYw

Photograph of G. Graham Fields, a supervisor with Bell Canada who lived in Belleville, Ontario.

Framed aerial view of the Corby's Distilleries complex at Corbyville, Ontario.

Collection of photographs and postcards:

1. Photograph of unidentified soldier, nurse and man in naval uniform, taken by Miss F. Maxwell of 187 Rosemount Place, Aberdeen, c.1918
2. Five photographs of Belleville flooding, 1936
3. Souvenir postcard folder of Ste. Anne de Beaupre, Quebec, c.1937
4. Souvenir postcard folder of Chaffey's Locks, Ontario, c.1943
5. Postcard of Lakeview Cottages, Gilmour, Ontario, c.1960
6. Postcard of Fleming's Fishing Lodge 'Twin Oaks', Elgin, Ontario, c.1960
7. Postcard of Hotel Dock at Opinicon Resort Hotel, Chaffey's Locks, Ontario, sent by Helen on 20 August 1963
8. Envelope addressed to John Edward Murphy in Ottawa, with 5c Churchill stamp, c.1965

Photograph of nine students and the Principal of Belleville High School. Names are: Fanny Curry (Finkle), Myrtle Peck, Annie Campbell, Stan Barber, Ruth Sinclair, Jack Milne, Lillian Armstrong, P. C. [Peter Crawford] MacLaurin (Principal), Irene Bartlett (Trumpour), Marguerite Roberts.

Photographs of Roy Bonisteel at Hastings County Historical Society events and beside the Moira River in Belleville with Doug Knutson.