Collection of reports on environmental issues: 1) Zwick's Island Landfill Environmental Investigations Final Report by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, October 1991 2) Interim Status Report South Front Street Reconstruction and Meyer's Pier Park Development by Golder Associates, March 1994 3) Phase I-IV Environmental Site Assessment of the Meyers Pier Park Development, Draft Final Report Volume I, by the City of Belleville Parks and Recreation Department, September 1996 4) Bayshore cleanup newspaper clippings, 1995-1998
Materials collected by the Belleville Fire Department from members and former members of the department. They include photographs, correspondence, press clippings and fire call logs.
Items include reproduction photographs of nine Belleville Fire Chiefs: William J. Brown (1915-1929), William Lynch (1929-1948), Gerald Vance (1948-1965), Thomas E. Poste (1965-1969), Leo Culhane (1969-1977), Fred Hosking (1977-1985), Raymond Reid (1985), Gordon Gazley (1986-2008), Rhéaume Chaput (2008-2013); print of a hand pump, 1925; typescript information about automatic sprinkler systems, c.1960; photograph of St. Thomas's Church, Belleville, in flames, 1975.
This fonds contains a variety of documents relating to the Belleville Fire Department which include, but are not entirely composed of, official policies relating to officer's reports, fire logs, 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.
A heart-shaped publication of mini-postcard images of Belleville produced by Charles B. Scantlebury in 1907. Two photo-postcards of Belleville, Ontario, during spring flooding [possibly 1936], one showing the broken footbridge, the other taken on Bridge Street West.
This fonds comprises documents pertaining to the Belleville Harbour Commission. Folders contain:
two copies of the By-Laws and Regulations of the Board of Harbour Commissioners and the amended Harbour Commissioners Act of 1889 from 1947
documents relating to the appointment of Harry Earle as a member of the Belleville Harbour Commission including the official certification from the Registrar General of Canada with the Great Seal of Canada impressed upon it
newspaper clippings
There are also a number of volumes included in this fonds:
volume containing documents relating to an account with the Mutual Insurance Company of the Victoria District, returns from the post of Belleville, and a series of timber licenses
two volumes of the harbour's imports dating from 1879 to 1931
two volumes of exports dating from 1889 to 1935
two volumes of commodities dating from 1873 to 1930
cash book from the Belleville Harbour with dates ranging from 1891 to 1953
three volumes of account books with Canada and Dominion Sugar Company Limited, National Grocers Sugar Stock, Union Elevator, and St. Lawrence Sugar respectively
an incomplete set of original newspapers (Weekly Intelligencer, Daily Intelligencer, Ontario Intelligencer and Belleville Intelligencers) from 1834 to the present day
negatives and photographs from the Intelligencer, 1949-2001
'Remember When' local history supplements, 1991-1995
an incomplete set of microfilms of Intelligencer newspapers, 1846-2008
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.
These are transcripts of tape-recorded interviews conducted in 1975 by Robert Miller, Nancy Foster, Evelyn Sine and Dave Masters. The initial group of interviews were recorded in the mid-1970s with senior citizens of the Belleville and Quinte area. No interviews were conducted in rural areas, but several interviewees had been farmers, or were raised on a farm. They also recollected times when lumbering was still an important industry and many saw-mills provided employment. Three women had been servants in the grand house Glanmore, now the Museum. Many had been teachers. A venerable clergyman gave insight into the activities of the Anglican Church earlier in the century. Wars were recollected, as well as ongoing militia activity. Twenty-seven supplementary interviews were conducted in 2007-2009. These transcripts exist as electronic files only.
Four items: 1) Chief Constable's Order Book, 1920-1934, with brief reports of meetings, personnel matters, kept by Alex Kidd 2) Log of reported incidents, 1 January to 6 May 1945, with brief notes on outcomes 3) 'The Great Mac Attack!' published book of cartoons by Tony MacKinnon, 1993 4) Photograph of Tony MacKinnon with Sharon White, 2011
Contains 5 volumes of prescription order books kept by Belleville pharmacists. The volumes contain orders for prescriptions with names of pharmacists, (or chemists/druggists), doctors, and patients, as well as the medications/ingredients they prepared. Three volumes were used for a different purpose prior to their use by the pharmacists, but most of the earlier information is obscured by prescription orders, which are glued onto the pages over the writing.
The collection contains: The Second Legislature of Upper Canada, 1796-1800; a Moira Conservation Report from 1955; postcards and photographs of Belleville and the surrounding area (c. 1920s); a bible from the Ketcheson family; and newspaper clippings about Bay Bridge.