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Small collection of programs relating to Belleville, Ontario, comprising:
1) Card for Grotto's Taxi Service, 142 Front Street, c.1920
2) Program for Armistice Concert held on Monday 13 Nov [1922?] at Bridge Street Church, musical director Ernest MacMillan
3) Program for performance of 'The Crucifixion' by Sir John Stainer at Bridge Street Church, held on Good Friday, 2 April [1920 or 1926]
4) Program for recital at the Tabernacle Church by James Miles Booth, bass, and Edward R. Ransom, tenor, assisted by Gladys Pitcher, cellist, and Jessie B. Tuite, reader. Held Thursday 10 September [1925?]
5) Program for Belleville Men's Chorus, directed by Ross Hunter [1930s]
6) Program for Belleville Municipal Band Tattoo, 21 October 1936
7) Souvenir ticket of a steam train trip on 14 September 1969 in support of United Appeal causes
8) Program for Belleville's 4th Annual Canada Week Celebrations, 25 June to 1 July 1982

Materials collected by Ruth Boyce, comprising:
1) 1905 Supplement to Mail and Empire, with photograph of members of the 11th Ontario Legislature (including Marshall B. Morrison, Hastings West https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/36379548670/ ; Major E. Walter Rathbun, Hastings East https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/36637303291/ and Josiah W. Pearce, Hastings North https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/36379549210/ )
2) c.1910 'Greetings from Belleville' postcard brochure
3-4) 1911-1915 and 1917-1920 savings bank pass books for The Standard Bank of Canada, Belleville
5-6) 1912 Postcard of the Dominion Match Company factory in Deseronto, and undated postcard of Deseronto Public School
7) 1914 Book 'Manners: recommended by the Minister of Education for use in School Libraries in Ontario': etiquette guide published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, Toronto. Name of Ina M. Calbury, 142 Charles Street, Belleville written inside front cover
8) c.1930 photograph of Case tractors and staff outside Riggs Garage on Pinnacle Street in Belleville. Individuals identified from left as Jack Kent, saleman; Harry Moorman, general manager; Leo Riggs, owner; Roy Thompson, salesman; Cy Jones, Case tractor representative; Carl Gunter, tractor mechanic; George Vanner, tire repair and vulcanizer, Jack Mather, bookkeeper; Gordon Burley, mechanic; Don Brown, mechanic; Archie Brown, mechanic and Perc Hart, mechanic and foreman https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/36379548000/
9) 1945-1946 'Elevator' yearbook for Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School
10) c.1950s Flyer for Belleville Creameries 'Mountain Gold Belleville Better Butter Box 59 Belleville, compliments of Mack Robertson'
11) 1952 Booklet 'Story of Cannifton Church: 100th anniversary'
12) 1978 Printed sketch of Belleville Collegiate institute and Vocational School, with threads in the school colours
13) c.1979 'Booklet to commemorate the more than 70 years of service to the community provided by S. S. #6 Thurlow Cannifton Corbyville Public School
14) 1985 'Ratepayers Information' leaflet from the Township of Thurlow
15) c.1990 Printed article on Dr. W. M. Mather of Tweed, Ontario
16-17) c.2010 Two reproductions of photographs: a young Ethel and Nettie Ketcheson, and the same women in later life, with Jack Mather and Mabel Boyce

Five files of newspaper clippings, Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School yearbooks and ephemeral materials.

Collection includes three files:
1) Six early 20th century photographs of women, one identified as Ethel Shampagne of Peterborough, 1902; news clipping about the death of Dr. Sam Cronk in March 1974
2) Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario application and salary scale; 34 postcards of Belleville, Sandbanks, Foxboro, Stirling; one postcard of Olga Nethersole
3) 'Elevator' BCIVS publication, 1947-1948; Publication on the centennial of Bethany School (S.S. #7) in Thurlow, 1964; Programme for dinner at the Ramada Inn for Corby's Distilleries retirees, 1992

The fonds consists of 3 boxes of textual records and graphic material about the Ruttan family and Maud Ruttan Way (1889-1952) of Wooler, Ontario, in particular. Includes; diaries, photos, memorial cards, letters, Albert College items, and financial letters.

A series of 34 student assignments featuring transcripts of interviews with people who experienced the Great Depression in Hastings County, Ontario. One interview was with a veteran of the Second World War.

Contents of scrapbooks compiled by Cecil Hardwick from articles in the Belleville Intelligencer.

Typescript history of the Belleville Senior Citizens Club No. 94, written by Pearl Holmes.

Two wooden plaques with brass plates recording the names of past presidents of the Senior Citizens Club #94. The plaques were originally on the walls of the Recreation Centre at 116 Pinnacle Street, Belleville, Ontario.

Plaque one reads:
"Senior Citizens Club #94
Chartered Nov. 24th. 1953
Past Presidents
Leslie Field 1953-54
Fred Cooke 1955-56
James Brennan 1957-58
Harry Scales 1959-160
Charles Hyde 1961-62
James Brennan 1963
Marjorie Clapp 1964-65
Harry Taylor 1966-67
Mabel Doyle 1968-69
Kathleen Adams (Moon) 1970-72
Lulu Longhurst 1973-74
Hilda Brookes 1975-76
Pearl Holmes 1977-78
Bernice Tryon 1979-80
Ruby Bertrand 1981
Arthur Gilroy 1982-83
Percy Ray 1984-85
Harold Outingdyke 1986-87
Winnifred M. Parks 1988-89
Dorthy Keitel 1990
Winnifred M. Parks Sept. 1990 - Sept. 1991
J. Phillip Poulin Sept. 1991 - Sept. 1993
Blanche Fisher Sept. 1993 - Sept. 1994
Marguerite Sine Sept. 94 - Sept. 96
Presented by the Committee
Alderman George Zegouras

Mrs. Pearl Holmes
President Senior Citizen Club #94

Mrs. Wilma Summers
Deputy Director Recreation Arena Dept.

At the Official Opening May 17, 1979"

Plaque 2:
"Senior Citizens Club #94 Chartered Nov 24, 1953
Past Presidents
Ruby Shortt Sept. 1996 - Sept. 1999
Don Cameron Sept. 1999 - Sept. 2000
Blanche Fisher Sept. 2000 - Sept. 2001
Don Cameron Sept. 2001 - Sept. 2004
Ruby Shortt Sept. 2004 - Sept. 2005

Presented by
City of Belleville
Mayor G. A. Zegouras

Parks and Recreation Chairman
Councilor Doug Parker
June 6, 2001"

Fonds consists of one volume of the financial secretary's membership book covering 1938-1964. Also part of a letterhead with a logo.

Records of Sidney South Women's Institute, including minutes and Tweedsmuir history.

This fonds comprises two accessions. Materials donated by church officials in 2002 include:

• 36 annual reports dating from 1898 to 2000
• 'St. Andrew's Church Weekly News', 1888-1890
• 'St. Andrew's Church News', 1968-1969
• 'Open Door', 1972-1983
• 'St. Andrew's Newsletter', 1984-1994
• 'The Lamp and the Thistle', 1995-2001
• 100th Anniversary Services, 1927
• History of the church (4 pages)
• Correspondence
• Report: Hastings-Prince Edward Children's Services Committee, 'Directory of Services for Children in Hastings and Prince Edward Counties', 1980
• Report: Community Care for Seniors, 'A Study of the Needs of the Disabled in the Belleville Area', 1980
• Report: Community Development Council of Belleville and District, 'Task Force on Hunger Report', 1992

The remaining materials were extracted from the Hastings County Historical Society's textual records in the summer of 2014:

• File of documents relating to the church's history such as a 1901 article in the Daily Intelligencer and a history of the church written by Kenneth S. Hill
• File of correspondence and newsletters
• 15 assorted annual reports and financial statements up to 1970, with a fund-raising proposal.
• Minutes from the St. Andrew's Society from February 12, 1885 and a menu from the St. Andrew's Day anniversary from 1890
• File of notices, a program from a service dedicated to Queen Victoria's funeral; a list of soldiers from the congregation who fought in World War One; a program from Sunday, December 4, 1932; programs from Stainer's "The Crucifixion" from 1958, 1959, and 1961; the itinerary from the 1959 annual council meeting of the Women's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in Canada; the list to elect the church's elders from 1959; a program from the church choir's production of Handel's Messiah in 1960; a program from the Girl Guide – Brownie Sunday service in 1961; a catalogue of art painted by Allan and Donnah Cameron for an exhibit held in 1964; a program and an advertisement for an organ recital from 1968; there is also a 1968 retelling of a performance by the Ladies of St. Andrews Church from 1889; and a copy of Talk 405 given by Gerald Boyce on Anniversary Sunday 2006
• File of newspaper clippings

Items formerly owned by Stanley Watkins relating to:
1 & 2) Notes and papers relating to the construction of a house on Maitland Drive in Belleville (including 133 scans of colour slides of the project and building plans), 1960
3) Quinte Unitarians newsletters, 1962-1963
4) Belleville Toastmasters publications and bulletins, 1962-1963

Records of Stirling Women's Institute, including minutes and Tweedsmuir histories.

Two scrapbooks of photographs and programs recording the activities of the Mohawk Loyalist Council (1970-1994) and the Belleville Life Member Club (1988-2000) of the Telephone Pioneers of America.