Digital photographs taken in the Quinte region in spring 2021
Photographs include COVID-19-related signs, building renovations on Front Street in Belleville, work on the Skyway Bridge, and damage to the concrete of the Bridge Street bridge in Belleville.
Lantz, Paul
Digital copies of photographs of house at 183 John Street North, Belleville
Copies of photographs taken outside 183 John Street North in Belleville, Ontario, showing three different Studebaker Commander cars. In the early 1950s this house was owned by George (1890-1965) and Mary Edith Harron (1891-1994).
Letters to Cassie Robinson of Belleville and reproductions of Deseronto postcards
Letters to Cassie Robinson:
Reproductions of Goyer family sports photographs
Photographs of members of the Goyer family and teams of which they were members.
Digital copy of photograph album
Photograph album of Stuart Hilton Plante's time as a member of the Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force stationed at Camp Mohawk near Deseronto, Ontario.
Plante, Stuart Hilton
Blotters advertising:
Digital scans of family photos
Children of Riggs School, Madoc (S.S. #13) circa 1920. Top row, seventh child is Cecil Willis. Second row, seventh child is Elizabeth Jane Willis. Bottom row: third child is Bert Willis, sixth child is Edward Willis, last child is Oliver Willis. School was at the NE corner of Riggs and Pigden Roads in Madoc Township.
Harry Harrington and Joyce Dunk outside Cecil Willis and Frances WIllis's grocery store at 27 Front Street, Trenton, Ontario, circa 1943. Harry was Frances's father.
The Gilbert Parker collection consists of three folders. The first contains pieces of correspondence, primarily to Col. W.N. Ponton. Amoung the items he sent to Ponton were two propogandist pamphlets by Reverend H.M. Gwatkin and William Archer respectively. The second folder contains two of his publications, of which the poem "Was it Some Golden Star" was put to music by Edward Elgar, and two publications directed towards the United States with the aim of bringing them into World War I on the British side. The final folder contains items from the Gilbert Parker Banquet in 1902 with items including a menu and an invitation.
Parker, Sir Gilbert
John Fairbairn Anderson negatives
Negatives of photographs taken by John Fairbairn Anderson. They include images of dams, electricity generating plants, the Beal family cottage on Stoney Lake and photographs of places Anderson visited, including Orillia, Los Angeles, Peterborough, Young's Point, Sulphide, Port Hope, Muskegon (Michigan), Chicago and Trenton (Ontario).
Many of the negatives are associated with an index card, on which Anderson wrote the number of the negative, the subject of the photograph and the date it was taken. There were also a number of negatives with no associated card.
Anderson, John Fairbairn
Survey plans of Victoria Park area, Belleville and programmes for official openings
Survey plans of Victoria Park and Meyers Pier area, Belleville Ontario, 1954-1981. Official opening programmes for the Wally Dever Arena, 21 September 1996 and for the Parrott Riverfront Trail Entrance, 10 September 2005.
City of Belleville
Materials relating to Santa's Village, Belleville, Ontario
Two photographs, a colouring book, a Quinte Weekly News newspaper of 22 December 1987 and 'What's Happening' magazine November/December 1993. The publications have features on the 'Santa's Village' Christmas display of Bruce and Marjorie Nickle of Marsh Street, Belleville, Ontario, set up in memory of Billy Foster. One photograph shows a snow-covered toadstool house and two gnomes, the other shows the 'Santa's Workshop' structure made by students of the Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf.
Nickle (family)
Photograph of schoolchildren at Tweed, Ontario
Photograph of 39 children and one woman underneath a window to a brick wall. The photograph was taken by Thomas Donoahue of Tweed, Ontario.
Donoahue, Thomas
Minute book of Canadian Order of Foresters, Court Quinte No. 1
Minute book of the Canadian Order of Foresters, Court Quinte No. 1. The fraternal society met in Deseronto, Ontario. The minutes record applications for membership of the society, payments of bills and notes of people who addressed the group. There are some loose papers inside the volume, mainly applications for admission, with reports of character committees on the back.
Canadian Order of Foresters, Court Quinte No. 1
Ontario Business College Special Penmanship Class
Photograph of the Special Penmanship Class of Ontario Business College, Belleville, Ontario, 30 March 1895, taken by D. A. Weese, photographer. Names:
W. R. Johnston, Renfrew, Ont.
J. W. Gillissie, Kenmore, Ont.
A. R. Eason, Keene, Ont.
T. J. Lancaster, Birdsall, Ont.
M. Smith, Parrsboro, N. S.
P. D. Sprung, Mountain View, Ont.
C. H. Eplett, Coldwater, Ont.
H. L. Durrant, St. Vincent, B. W. I.
J. D. Payne, Port Stanley, Ont.
S. Hilton, Montreal, Que.
R. K. Goodill, Rolling Dam, N. B.
W. Walmsley, Waupoos, Ont.
George p. McGowan, Rolling Dam, N. B.
E. D. Miller, Royalton, N. B.
A. E. McLaughlin, Bass River, N. S.
A. C. Baker, Teacher
J. W. Johnson, F. C. A., Principal
W. J. Osborne, Teacher
W. B. Robinson, Principal
Jessie Anderson, Teacher
A. M. Loucks, Morrisburg, Ont.
Agnes McKinnon, Lake Talon, Ont.
E. E. Bradford, Wilmington, Del.
M. E. Ostron, Rednersville, Ont.
*W. McVay, St. Stephen, N. B.
Weese, Durwood Alexander
Photograph of staff of H. Corby Distillery, Corbyville, Ontario
Photograph of staff of H. Corby Distilleries Limited, Corbyville, Ontario. The photograph was taken outside the distillery, with two of the company's trucks in the background.
H. Corby Distillery Company Ltd.
Three sheets of paper used for wrapping pound weights of 'Alpha brand Creamery Butter, First Grade' produced by Alpha Dairies Limited of 57 Cannifton Road, Belleville, Ontario. The dairies are listed at this address in the 1949 Vernon's directory of Belleville.
Alpha Dairies Ltd.
Reproduction photograph of Belleville Station and locomotive 6027
Reproduction of a photograph showing the station at Belleville, Ontario, with Canadian National locomotive 6027.
Photograph of Upper Bridge and Henderson Building, Belleville
Photograph of the Upper Bridge and 399 Front Street, Belleville, Ontario. The building served as a Masonic temple between 1875 and 1952.
Foster, Paul
Aerial photograph of Belleville, Ontario
Aerial view of Belleville from the Bay of Quinte, looking north, with the Corbin Lock factory on the left and Bridge Street United Church on the right.
Lumbers, Richard
Quinte Skating Club Ice Show program
Program for an ice show held on 21 February 1947 at the Memorial/Hume Arena in Belleville, Ontario, with advertisements from local businesses.
Quinte Skating Club