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Diary, photographs and papers relating to Robert Wallace

  • CA ON00156 2016-65
  • Collection
  • 1878-1930

"Mathison's Life Diary", photographs, documents and press clippings relating to Robert Wallace, director of the Marchmont Home in Belleville for 31 years. Includes photographs of members of the Wallace family, of the Marchmont Home in Belleville. The 'life diary' records key moments of Wallace's life in a summary form. The documents include an obituary of Wallace written by the Council of the China Inland Mission.

Wallace, Robert

Digital copies of 8mm films held by the Community Archives

  • CA ON00156 2021-009
  • Collection
  • 1948-1970

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):

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

Scally, Sean

Digital copies of badges and postcards

  • CA ON00156 DA 2013.04
  • Collection
  • 1906-c.1975

Scanned copies of Deseronto Police and Deseronto High School patches, with 13 postcards of Deseronto scenes and buildings.

Digital copies of materials from Quinte West Public Library

  • 2023-057
  • Collection
  • 1867-1925

Materials donated are:

  1. 1867 map of Trenton, showing lots
  2. Trenton assessment rolls for 1884 and 1918
  3. Fire insurance map of Trenton, 1924

Materials loaned for scanning are:

  1. Map of Trenton, 1913
  2. Map of Trenton, 1917
  3. Panoramic view of Frankford, c. 1925
  4. Group of Trenton soldiers, c.1915

Digital copies of materials relating to Dr John Maracle Kenwendeshon

  • CA ON00156 DA 2013.01
  • Collection
  • 1880s-2013

Digital materials relating to Dr John Maracle Kenwendeshon:

  1. 1880s photo of Lillian Maracle, Kenwendeshon’s daughter. Lillian married John Stewart.
  2. Letter from John Stewart II written while in Deseronto
  3. Photo of Bert Maracle and Edna (Hill) Maracle
  4. 1953 letter to Lillian from the London Library Museum
  5. Oct 12, 1953 notes by Lillian Maracle about Dr Kenwendeshon
  6. Note from Bert Maracle to Lill[ian] about not calling on the Gray Lady
  7. Memories of visiting Deseronto written in an email by John Stewart II’s son, John Stewart III
  8. Photograph of marriage certificate of Lillian Maracle and John Ross Stewart
  9. Photograph of newspaper articles about the marriage of Lillian and John Ross Stewart and about Stewart’s theatre business
  10. Notes by Karen Lewis of the Kanhiote Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory Public Library on Dr. Kenwendeshon’s life, January 2013

Digital copies of materials relating to Harty Wilson Morden

  • CA ON00156 DA 2014.17
  • Collection
  • 1917-1919

Copies of textual materials relating to Harty Wilson Morden, a First World War veteran born in Deseronto: a letter of recommendation written by Morden about Barry Barnes’ father (Morden’s batman) and copies of British Army materials relating to Morden.

Digital copies of photographs of former bank in Frankford

  • CA ON00156 2019-054
  • Collection
  • 1900-1955

Five reproductions of photographs of Frankford, Ontario, showing the area around Mill and Trent Streets and the Molsons Bank and Bank of Montreal building at 1 Mill Street.

Digital files of Deseronto match company research materials

  • CA ON00156 DA 2014.18
  • Collection
  • 2014

Research notes compiled by Edward Wright on the history of match manufacturing companies in Deseronto, particularly the Dominion Match Company, with extracts from minutes of the Council of the Town of Deseronto , copies of advertisements from the Canadian Grocer, 1911-1922 and scans of match boxes.

Wright, Edward

Digital images of blueprint of Gibson Infirmary

  • CA ON00156 2016-43
  • Collection
  • 1893

Elevations and plans of the Gibson Infirmary building on the site of the Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf.

Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf

Digital materials relating to the McGreer family of Deseronto and Napanee

  • CA ON00156 DA 2013.07
  • Collection
  • c.1900-1973

PDFs of:

  1. McGreer family history by Eric McGreer of Calgary, Alberta, November 1973
  2. Family tree report on the descendants of Daniel McGreer (1719-1805) of County Antrim, Ireland

8 low-resolution JPEGS of McGreer family members, St. Mark’s Church exterior and bayview of Deseronto:

  1. Aunt Annie Mrs Thomas Stanton (born Anne Portt, lived 1837-1918, her mother was Mary Anne McGreer) ,Mr & Mrs Egar
  2. Aunt Annie Mrs Thomas Stanton Mrs Egar
  3. Aunt Rose Mrs Thomas Stanton Aunt Annie
  4. Deseronto Church [St. Mark's Anglican]
  5. Mrs Thomas Stanton
  6. Nephews and Nieces of Mrs Thomas Stanton 1882
  7. Stanton McGreer and Mrs Thomas Stanton abt 1910
  8. View of Deseronto

Digital photographs of a Toronto Police scrapbook of wanted people

  • CA ON00156 2017-70
  • Collection
  • 1929-1931

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.

Toronto Police Service

Digital photographs of architectural drawings of proposed home in Deseronto

  • CA ON00156 DA 2015.12
  • Collection
  • 1892

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.

Langley & Burke

Digital photographs of items relating to the Murphy and Gaulin family of Deseronto

  • CA ON00156 DA 2015.24
  • Collection
  • c.1900-1960

Scanned photos relating to the Murphy/Gaulin family of Deseronto:

  1. Scan of photograph of James Gaulin (1870-1920, former postmaster of Deseronto) taken by Richardson of Napanee
  2. Scan of photograph of James Gaulin, taken by James Fairbairn of Deseronto
  3. Scan of photograph of James Gaulin and his wife, Elizabeth Jane Nealon and two others (possibly Mary Flood and Edward Gaulin)
  4. Scanned copy of photo of Marie Murphy’s first communion – along with Carol Lord, Joseph Smith, Tom Dowling and Colleen ? – priest was Father Martin
  5. Scanned copy of photo of first communion – same children with Nora Fox, who prepared them for communion
  6. Scanned copy of Deseronto Public School grade 1 class photo, c.1953 (duplicate of DA 2009.30 (1)).
  7. Photo of Nora Rathbun’s woven placemats
  8. Photo of Red Cross buttons from Deseronto Public school
  9. Photo of front of school Coronation medal
  10. Photo of reverse of school Coronation medal

Fairbairn, James

Digitized videos of Belleville Fire Department operations

  • CA ON00156 2018-019
  • Collection
  • 1991-1999

Digitized videos of fires and other activities involving the Fire Department of Belleville, Ontario:

  1. Chemical fire at Durabla Canada Limited, Belleville
  2. Fire at 188 Dundas Street East, Belleville, 16 March 1991
  3. Fire in the tower of City Hall, Belleville, 14 March 1993
  4. Fire at the Canadian Tavern, Belleville, 2 August 1993
  5. Fire at Holy Rosary Catholic School
  6. Rum Runner fire, 11 October 1995
  7. O.F.C. Certification
  8. Belvedere Fire, 24 November 1994
  9. 309 Front Street, Belleville (Ed Kafka law office)
  10. Quinte Secondary School Computer lab, 18 April 1996
  11. Quinte Exhibition, 29 August to 2 September 1996
  12. Quinte Exhibition 1997 Fire Fighters Night
  13. Belmont Restaurant fire, 5 May 1998
  14. Fire at 171 University Avenue, Belleville, 13 July 1999
  15. Fire at 37 Albion Street, Belleville
  16. Fire at 39 Great St. James Street, Belleville, 1 January 1996
  17. Fire at Journey's End warehouse, Belleville

Photograph of the former Galleons Restaurant at 135 North Front Street, closed for renovations, c.1992.

Belleville Fire Department

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