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Digital copy of a photograph of George Hamilton Backus

  • CA ON00156 2022-005
  • Item
  • c.1890

Portrait of George Hamilton Backus (1830-1904). He worked for Brown's foundry in Belleville, and was a member of City Council in 1885 and a public school trustee. He was also a member of the volunteer fire brigade and associated with the 49th Hastings Rifles. He was a member of St. John's Presbyterian Church.

Mounted clippings with drawings of Belleville institutions

  • CA ON00156 2021-026
  • File
  • 1840-1876

Three mounted newspaper clippings with printed illustrations of Belleville institutions:

  1. Deaf and Dumb Asylum, November 1870
  2. Albert College, December 1870
  3. Marchmont House, 1876

Also a reproduction of HC01468 (view of Bridge Street West in 1840). This item was originally donated to Glanmore National Historic Site by Edith Clapp in March 2015 (as 005.502.005).

Belleville Central School and St. Thomas church photographs

  • CA ON00156 2015-13
  • File
  • 1891-1901

Four photographs:

  1. Class photograph of children at Belleville Central School (later Victoria School), c.1891
  2. Class photograph of children at Belleville Central School (later Victoria School), c.1891
  3. Choir of St. Thomas's Anglican Church, Belleville, 1893
  4. Helen Corby's Young Men's Class of St. Thomas's Sunday School, Belleville, 1901

Photograph of crashed car

  • CA ON00156 2021-100
  • Item
  • c.1955

Photo has the name "Stew Meeks" stamped on the back (possibly intended to refer to Stu Meeks, resident of Belleville and City Councillor).

Palmer family photograph album

  • CA ON00156 2021-093
  • Item
  • c.1908-1920

Photograph album with snapshots of children and pets. Some of the images show cars, trains, and manufacturing sites in and around Trenton, Ontario. One photograph shows Harry Palmer after winning the Deacon Road Race between Trenton and Belleville on 7 September 1908.

Ron Buskard collection

  • CA ON00156 2021-095
  • Collection
  • 1871-1978

Collection of items, including:

  1. Reproduction of a book on The Railways of Canada, originally published in 1871
  2. Valentine postcard of the Bay of Quinte Bridge, c.1910
  3. "Some Bay of Quinte Reminiscences" by W. C. Mikel, 1922
  4. Postcard of Belleville flood on Front Street, 1936
  5. Name tag from Belleville Centennial celebrations, 1978

Memorials

  • CA ON00156 2021-092
  • Item
  • 2021

A compilation of short character sketches about soldiers of the First and Second World Wars from Hastings County who died but are not memorialized at the cenotaph, monument, or memorial park where they were born.

Brearley, Donald T.

Memorial (Hume) Arena materials

  • CA ON00156 2018-053
  • Collection
  • 1959-2004

Three registration certificates for the refrigeration plant at the Hume Arena in Belleville, Ontario: 1959, 1969, 1970.
Newspaper clippings: Benzie Sangma article 'Memorial Arena memories' published 4 October 2003 and article from 'Hockey Reporter' Fall 2004 edition on historic Ontario arenas, including the Memorial Arena in Belleville.

Digital photographs of Collip memorial unveiling events

  • CA ON00156 2021-089
  • File
  • 16 October 2021

Photographs of participants and guests in events held on 16 October 2021 to mark the unveiling of the Dr. James Bertram Collip Reflective Gardens in Belleville, Ontario. Guests included Dr. Alison Li, author of a biography of Collip, and Major Charles Wyatt, Collip's great-grandson. Also present were MP Ryan Williams, MPP Todd Smith, Mayor Mitch Panciuk, Warden Rick Phillips, Rihanna Harris, and Collip Committee members Richard Hughes and Ian Sullivan.

Warren, Marilyn

Plan of subdivision in Plainfield

  • CA ON00156 2021-088
  • Item
  • 1877

Plan of subdivision creating Bay and Cross Streets in Plainfield, Thurlow Township, Ontario. Text reads: "Plan of Town lots laid out on the front of the East Half of lot number twenty three in the Seventh concession of the Township of Thurlow in the County of Hastings, Surveyed for the proprietor Josephy Fletcher Mackencie [Mackenzie] , By John Emerson P.L.S. October 1877. Scale one chain to an Inch. This plan is correct and is prepared under the provisions of the Registrations of Titles (Ontario) Act. John Emerson P.L.S. Duplicate Plan registered the first day of June A. D. 1878." The lot at the southeast corner is identified as "Halls Tavern Lot".

Emerson, John, P.L.S.

Sherman family collection

  • CA ON00156 2019-102
  • Collection
  • 1894-1897, 1967

Collection comprises 22 photographs showing people hunting and fishing on Georgian Bay (1894-1897) and Samuel George Beatty's orange grove in California. Also an example of a Bay of Quinte tartan sash made by Olwen Sherman for members of the YMCA Y's Men and Menettes (c.1967).

Quinte Weekly News records

  • CA ON00156 MG 644
  • Fonds
  • 1986-1992

Editions of the Quinte Weekly news, August 1986 to May 1992, with photographs and negatives.

Quinte Weekly News

Lazier family photographs

  • CA ON00156 2021-077
  • Collection
  • 1870-1975

Tintypes and photographs taken or collected by members of the Lazier family of Belleville, Ontario. There are 10 tintypes, all showing groups of two or more young men. The other photographs were taken in Belleville between 1900 and 1975.

Lazier, Alford Foster

'Corbyville 1991'

  • CA ON00156 2015-06
  • Item
  • 1991

Booklet produced at the time of the closure of the Corbyville plant of Corby's Distilleries, containing a history of the Corbys and photographs of employees and site buildings and vehicles.

Corby's Distilleries

Items transferred from the Belleville Intelligencer

  • CA ON00156 2021-075
  • Collection
  • 1903-2017

Collection of materials comprising:

  1. Photograph of Intelligencer press room, 1903
  2. Framed and mounted front page of the Daily Ontario for 28 April 1924 (with Gwen Lazier story)
  3. Belleville Diesel Electric O.H.A. Senior Hockey Club programme, 1949-1950 (donated by Harm Bisschop)
  4. Framed aerial photograph of Belleville by Richard Lumbers, June 1965
  5. Printing proof for front page of The Intelligencer of 14 June 1977
  6. Quinte Air Show calendar, 2017

Intelligencer

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