- CA ON00156 BOHP/16
- File
- 15 January 1975
Alec Gordon discusses his career as a music teacher at the Ontario School for the Deaf, radio programming and the Belleville Choral Society.
Gordon, Stanley Alec
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Alec Gordon discusses his career as a music teacher at the Ontario School for the Deaf, radio programming and the Belleville Choral Society.
Gordon, Stanley Alec
File contains a booklet case with a Gough's Clothier advertisement and a list of start and end dates for First World War knitting projects, and an original flyer advertising the prices of merchandise.
Reeves, Emma Maud
Part of Selma Bochnek collection
Recording of 'O Canada' made for the 1976 Olympic Games.
Government of Canada
Grace B. Waters photograph albums
The First World War photograph album contains about 164 black and white or sepia photographs, 1 cartoon entitled "The same old moon", 1 coloured pencil sketch of a nurse. The album is Kodak's "Gallia" model (32.5x26x2cm) in plain black, textured leatherette. The photographs vary greatly in size from 21 x 14.5 cm to 8.5 X5.9 cm. About 40 of the photographs are signed either "E.R. Owen" or "E.R.O.". The first photograph is marked in pencil, "Donor G.B.Waters". Many of the photographs depict the Duchess of Connaught Canadian Red Cross Hospital in Cliveden, England. Many images depict the hospital at the time of a visit by King George V and Queen Mary, a visit by Sir Robert Borden, and a visit by Winston Churchill. There are images of the hospital wards both indoors and out, the cafeteria, the linen supply, and many patients (a lot of the patients seem to be wearing special issue hospital shoes) and nurses. Subjects include: nurses of the Canadian Army Medical Corps; funerals; women ambulance drivers; trenches, military hospitals.
The second album dates from 1916 to 1921. Identified locations include: Athabaska Hall; Banff (Alberta); Red Deer; Lake St. Helena; Edmonton; Sylvan Lake; Mount Royal; Montreal (from M.G.H.); Fort William [Thunder Bay]; Lake of the Woods; Moose Jaw; Markerville; Innisfail; New York. There are several photographs of farm scenes and some of medical personnel in white coats, holding human bones.
The third album includes photographs taken at a graduation at McGill University in Montreal; scenes of Niagara Falls; photographs of cars; two photographs of hospital rooms.
This collection also includes an annual report for Kingston General Hospital, 1906; a brochure for Queen's University Hospital in Cairo, c.1915; five panoramic postcards of Le Tréport, France, c.1915; a letter from 'Elsa' of Dickson, Alberta to Ivy, Clifford and Lloyd, discussing her new job as head of a teacher training department in Ethiopia, dated 5 August 1946, and two sheets of song lyrics for the following songs:
Sheet 1
Cupid is the Captain of the Army
I've Said My Last Farewell
Those Songs My Mother Used to Sing
The Bull-Frog and the Coon
Poker Love
The Good Old U.S.A.
So Long Mary
The Tale of a Stroll
Lazy Moon
Sheet 2
Fishing
I Would Like to Marry You
As We Swing, Sweetheart
Drummer Song
Dear Old Johnstown
When I Rode on the Choo Choo Cars
I Fell in Love With Polly
Hey! Mister Joshua
Hiram Green, Good-Bye
It Makes Me Think of Home, Sweet, Home
Waters, Grace Brown
File contains original playbill; George Kleine Presents Antony and Cleopatra, Griffin Opera House, Belleville. The Griffin Opera House was demolished in 1933. http://vitacollections.ca/BellevilleHistory/2454173/data
Griffin Opera House
File contains programs, pamphlets, and advertisements for events, c.1923, for the Griffin Opera House. Also an electronic file containing research notes by Laurel Bishop on John Griffin.
Notebook recording shows at the Griffin Opera House held on dates between August 1913 and April 1914.
Griffin Opera House
Hanna, Edith Charlotte/McGuire, Ethel Mildred
Edith Hanna and Ethel McGuire discuss politics in Belleville, Marsh Engineering company, entertainment in Belleville and their life in Wales before coming to Canada.
Hanna, Edith Charlotte
Hastings County letter from mayor
File contains a letter from the Mayor Jones of Hastings and St. Leonards, England to Mrs. Ralph Plumpton, curator of the Hastings County Museum, thanking her for preparing the Hastings Shield for the Mayoral Ball in 1968.
Hastings County Manor 1951-, 1966-1969
File contains newspaper clippings about the construction of Hastings Manor, the Manor's official opening, and a craft show taking place at the Manor.
Hastings County Museum Official Opening 1961
File contains letters regarding the official opening of the Hastings County Museum in 1961, several invitations to the opening, and a newspaper article discussing the opening. There are two booklets listing artists in Hasting and Prince Edward County, a handout from the Hastings County Museum with directions to Glanmore House, and a poster from 1975 promoting a talk by Mary Beacock Fryer (author of Loyalist Spy). There is also an itinerary from 1961 for a trip to Upper Canada Village. There is also a pamphlet about Glanmore House.
Hastings, England 1968; Mayor's Ball & Hastings Shield
File contains a letter to Mrs. Plumpton, curator of the Hastings County Museum, and thanking her for her work in shipping a Hastings Shield to be used at the Mayoral Ball in England where the theme was Canada, a book about Hastings and St. Leonards was also sent.
Hewton, Randolph S. : Glen Miller artist
File contains a newspaper article profiling Randolf S. Hewton, painter and member of the Royal Canadian Academy, and former resident of Glen Miller, Ontario.
Historical Society of Lennox and Addington
File contains newspaper clippings, newsletters and mimeographed meeting announcements of the Lennox and Addington Historical Society, 1956-1961. Also contains a mimeographed resume of the Society's activities from 1956-1960.
Histories of the Belleville Art Association
Series of PDF files summarizing activities of the Belleville Art Association in the following years:
Paper and audio-visual files:
Morrow, Karen
File contains newspaper clipping about various Belleville residents and their hobbies/collections: Percy Gelsthorpe builds steam engine train models, Charles Morton took up whittling during retirement, and Wayne Hustins has a collection showing the rise and fall of the Nazis Empire.
Jerry Stapley prints depicting Ontario libraries
Eighteen mounted prints of pen-and-ink drawings of libraries in Eastern Ontario:
Stapley, Jerry
Collection of items formerly in the possession of Jessie Cunningham:
Cunningham, Janet 'Jessie'
John Macoun; Gilbert Parker; T.P.J. Power
The file contains a brief bio on John Macoun (professor at Albert College in 1868); a brief bio on Gilbert Parker died 1932, buried in Belleville; a photocopy of pages 82-83 from the Belleville Directory (1884-1885), information on Kilties Band from Belleville.
Biography - Captain John Walden Meyers, Loyalist Pioneer by General E.A. Cruikshank, Ontario Historical Society.