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Staff of Shannonville Canning Ltd., Shannonville, Ontario, in September 1938.

Names supplied:

Back row: Nellie Howard, Maggie Brant, Maggie Maracle, Mae Hill, Ethel Bardy, Georgina Rupert, Edna Maracle, Beatarice Brant, John Weese, ?, Mac FitzGerald, Lena FitzGerald, Edna Fuller, Harold Burtt, Mavis John, ?, Beatrice Smart, ?, Blanche Hill, Ivan Hill, Cora Maracle, Harold Elmy, Mr. Rightmyer, Tommy Howard and Percy "Diner" Howard

Second row: Marjorie FitzGerald, Dorsey Brant, Josie FitzGerald, Ethel John, Lydia Marion, Winnifred Maracle, Julia Maracle, Lydia Maracle, Kathleen Louis, Sadie Maracle, Gladys Brant, Eva Burtt, Anita Goodfellow, Stella Breadman, ?, Mrs Burtt, Winnie Howard and Marjorie Brant

Third row: Vincent Bardy, Madeline Spencer, ?, Pearl Brant, Leola Brant, Evelyn Noye, Muriel Hill, Alice Dow, Marjorie Elmy, Marion Hill, Reta Conley, Edna McCarthy, Helena Sager, Maggie Hill, Bertha Reed, Flossie ?, and Helen Fuller

Front row: Austin Fuller, Ross Brant, Clifford Hill, Eugene Maracle, Lorne Maracle, Harry Uens, ?, William Hill, ?, Carmon Spencer, Laural Burtt, Gerald Louis, Blake Cook and Roy Sager

Scanned copy of a photograph of the steamship Brockville at the wharf of the Ontario School for the Deaf in Belleville, Ontario.

Photograph of Stanley (Stan) McTaggart (1924-2007) and Lalia Histed (1921-2014) on their wedding day in November 1942 at their home on Dundas Street, Deseronto, Ontario. St. Mark's Anglican Church is visible in the background. Stan worked at Gibbard's in Napanee and later was a police officer in Deseronto for five years.

The individuals have been identified as:

Back row: Stan Sigsworth, Clarence Taylor, Stan Mastin, Elanora Histed, Mrs Robinson, ?, Mrs Mastin [?], ?

Front row: Katherine McTaggart, Herb Histed, Stan McTaggart, Lalia Histed, Blennet Histed, Annie ?, Pastor Leach.

Donated by Esther Wood, September 2015.

Scanned copy of a photograph of William Donaldson, Chief of Police in Deseronto, Ontario, in 1916.

Copy of a series of photographs of the 1919 Belleville Grand Trunk Railway baseball team, winners of the Central Ontario League Amateur Championship.

Players identified are: J. Kelleher; J. L. Casey; G. V. Weir; H. Whalen; J. S. Smith; S. Simmons; A. G. Meagher; F. Goyer; W. Gerow; W. Mills; Doug Simon; J. W. Ross.

Diploma from the Commercial Department of Albert College, awarded to John W. Richardson on 12th April 1900.

Photograph of members of the Hawley family on the occasion of the baptism of the youngest member. From left to right are: Olive Esther Delmage Hawley (1878-1951); Mary Minetta Hawley MacDonald Selby (1916-2009); Howard Delmage Hawley (1908-1982); George Elmer Hawley (1875-1966); and George Rockwell Hawley (1914-1984). George and Olive moved with their family to Deseronto, Ontario,in 1930 and lived at what is now 317 Main Street next to the small park.

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

Photograph of a plaque commemorating the re-opening of Belleville General Hospital on 23 February 1969.

Text reads:

"BELLEVILLE GENERAL HOSPITAL
A CITY AND COUNTY-OWNED HOSPITAL
THIS PLAQUE COMMEMORATES THE OPENING OF THE NEW HOSPITAL
ON FEBRUARY 23, 1969, BY
THE HONOURABLE DR. MATTHEW B. DYMOND
MINISTER OF HEALTH OF ONTARIO

FEDERAL, PROVINCIAL, COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL CONTRIBUTIONS ASSISTED IN
THE CONSTRUCTION COSTS.

HARLEIGH A. HAMILTON
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS

RT. REV. J. P. SULLIVAN
CHAIRMAN OF THE PLANNING 8 PROPERTY COMMITTEE

PHILIP RICKARD
ADMINISTRATOR

ARCHITECTS:
HERBERT AGNEW ASSOCIATES

CONTRACTOR:
GREENINGTON LTD."

Window display at the Belleville Public Library in the week after the news of a mass grave at the Kamloops Residential School was made public.

Sign reading 'Schryver's' from former Schryver drugstore at 214 Front Street, Belleville, Ontario. City directories place this business at this location from 1959 to 1964.

Photograph of a ‘Quinte Fuel Co.’ promotional miniature coal scuttle. The company was listed in the Deseronto telephone directory in 1919 (with the telephone number 44, as on the scuttle). It was still in existence in the 1970s.

Plaque commemorating Simpson's Tavern, put up by the Hastings County Historical Society on Front Street, Belleville in 2017.

Text reads: "In 1797 James and Margaret Simpson had a small log tavern at the southeast corner of this intersection. In 1799 they built a frame tavern which became the hub of Meyers' Creek for political rallies, military recruitment, training and courts-martial, Masonic lodge meetings and social gatherings. After James died in 1802, Margaret continued the business and was the first woman granted a tavern license in Midland District. In 1820 Margaret build a frame Georgian-style inn on the northeast corner of the intersection. It was sold in 1825 to the Wallbridge family and was demolished in 1973."

Digital photograph of a City of Belleville Local Board of Health notice requiring residents of the city to clean their premises and empty and disinfect closets and privies before May 15. The poster was found in the basement of 280/282 Front Street in Belleville, Ontario.

Remains of property at 217 Pinnacle Street, Belleville, Ontario, after a major fire overnight on November 12-13, 2023.

Photographs of items at Gilead Community Centre, 420 Bronk Road, Corbyville, Ontario:

1. Plaque with text "In Grateful Thanks for Mr. Wilfred Clare & his wife Olive who donated this land-site to the Gilead Community, August 6, 1959"
2. Clock inscribed in memory of Carman Huffman, 1921-2013