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Military book collection

  • Collection
  • 1882-1936

Collection of books, most formerly owned by William Nisbet Ponton, some from the collection of Grace B. Waters.

Ponton, William Nisbet

Collection of ephemeral materials

  • CA ON00156 2019-086
  • Collection
  • 1882-1977

Collection of ephemeral items from Belleville, Trenton, and Prince Edward County. Includes:

File 1

  • page from the Ontario Commercial College Journal, 1873
  • receipts addressed to Hiram Snyder of Sidney Township, 1882-1904
  • prospectus of the Belleville Business College, c.1892
  • certificate and letter of recommendation from the Ontario Business College for N. B. McKibbon, 1883
  • 'Poems of the Turf' printed promotional booklet for D. H. Ackrill, veterinary, 1904
  • 'The Whaley-Royce Pianos' promotional flyer, not dated
  • sheet of advertisements aimed at students, c.1920

File 2

  • flyer for sale at Ritchie's clothes store, July 1920
  • receipt from Glenwood Cemetery Company to Guy Johnson for Lot 7 in Block 369 at the cemetery, 1922
  • card for Scott's Auto Bus Service, Picton and Belleville, not dated
  • paper bag for Geen's Drug Store, Belleville, not dated
  • negative envelope from Ed. A. Simmons drug store, Trenton
  • flyer for J. Sutcliffe & Sons store sale in Trenton, not dated
  • flyer for Crowe & Fairman store, Trenton, not dated
  • promotional item for George H. Cobley, furniture and funeral director, Trenton
  • flyer for an 87 cent sale at White's store in Trenton and Stirling, not dated
  • flyer for fall and winter sale at Vandervoort's store in Trenton, not dated
  • receipt from the Deacon Shirt Company [letterhead shows Coleman Street factory] to David J. White, 1925
  • programme for Old Boys' Reunion, 1925
  • souvenir postcard folder for Trenton, c.1930
  • Firestone promotional newspaper, May 1933
  • Constitution and By-Laws of the Belleville Agricultural Society, 1935
  • prize draw ticket from the Belleville Fair, 1938
  • Blue's Quality Foods coupons, c.1938
  • One Cent Sale flyer for Rexall Drug Store, 1949
  • programme for exhibition of pupils' work at the Ontario School for the Deaf, 1952
  • Ontario election flyer for Norris Whitney, Progressive Conservative candidate for Prince Edward-Lennox, 1955
  • Belleville fair prize list, 1960
  • Belleville Agricultural Society constitution and by laws, 1960
  • Quinte Driving and Riding Club race listing at the Belleville Fair, 1963

File 3

  • receipt for Rockland Slate, 1878
  • annual membership tickets for Mr & Mrs H. M. Reddick for the Main Street Methodist Church, Picton, 1907
  • various receipts for Charlie Wycott, 1926-1927
  • Platt's Marketeria, Wellington, coupons, c.1930
  • invitation to the Picton Centenary and Prince Edward County Old Boys' Reunion, 1937
  • Auditors' Reports for the Township of Ameliasburgh, 1937 and 1938
  • Laying up of the Colours of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment, Picton, 4 Oct 1964
  • Two Prince Edward County Centennial Year programmes, 1967
  • programme for official opening of H. J. McFarland Memorial Home, 20 Aug 1975

File 4 (all undated)

  • Wills Hardware promotional plastic ruler
  • 'Choose a Career' flyer for the International Correspondence Schools, Scanton, Pennsylvania, local representative H. C. Brown, Hotel Quinte
  • Moira Fuels promotional blotting paper sheets
  • 3 Belleville souvenir postcard sets
  • paper bag from Clint McGee hardware store, Stirling
  • song sheet for the Young Men's Conservative Club, Belleville

Page from 'Picturesque Canada' by George Monro Grant

  • CA ON00156 2018-111
  • Item
  • 1882

Page 645/646 from the publication 'Picturesque Canada', with coloured drawing of the Tabernacle and St. Michael's churches on Church Street and Madoc and iron mines.

Etching 'A View in Belleville - 1882'

  • CA ON00156 2017-66
  • Item
  • 1882

Etching of Church Street in Belleville, Ontario, looking south with the Tabernacle and St. Michael's churches on the left and right of the image, respectively. The McCurdy house is visible on the right of the image. Also a news clipping of a 'Time Capsule' from the Intelligencer, featuring the same image.

Deseronto Tribune volumes

  • Series
  • 1883-1900

The following volumes are held:

  • 1883, Sep 27 – 1884, Sep 11
  • 1883, Oct 4 – 1884, Sep 18
  • 1884, Sep 25 – 1885, Sep 11
  • 1885, Sep 18 – 1886, Sep 10
  • Sep 1886 – Sep 1887 MISSING
  • 1887, Sep 30 – 1888, Sep 21
  • Sep 1888 – Sep 1889 MISSING
  • 1889, Sep 27 – 1890, Sep 19
  • Sep 1890 – Sep 1892 MISSING
  • 1892, Sep 23 – 1893, Sep 15
  • 1894, Sep 21 – 1895, Sep 27
  • 1895, Oct 4 – 1896, Sep 25
  • 1896, Oct 2 – 1897, Sep 24
  • 1897, Oct 1 – 1898, Sep 23
  • 1898, Sep 30 – 1899, Sep 22
  • 1899, Sep 29 – 1900, Sep 21

St. Mark's Anglican Church collection

  • CA ON00156 DA 2020.16
  • Collection
  • 1884-2001

Collection consists of the following files:

  1. Items removed from a self-adhesive photograph album, including photographs and notes on the history of the church, 1884-1994
  2. Two issues of The Choir Herald publication from May 1901 and April 1904
  3. Newspapers and clippings with stories about St. Mark's, 1972-1980
  4. Order of service for Christmas 2001, with invitation to attend the church's deconsecration service
  5. Various dedication plates from windows in the church and two bags embroidered "St. Mark's Sunday School"

St. Mark's Anglican Church, Deseronto, Ontario

Digital copies of photographs relating to the Poitras family of Deseronto

  • CA ON00156 DA 2015.04
  • File
  • 1885-1896

Scanned photographs and newspaper cutting relating to the family of John Poitras, who lived in Deseronto from 1875 to around 1896 and worked for the Rathbun Company as a superintendent.

  1. Herbert 'Bert' Poitras, part of a Deseronto sports team
  2. Poitras home on St. George Street, north of the Presbyterian Church
  3. Same house from a more oblique angle
  4. ‘Sol Markle’
  5. Grace Poitras (b.1883) and her brother Bert as small children
  6. Deseronto Tribune article about the Poitras’s cottage and summer camp at Butternut Cove, Aug 24, 1894
  7. Grace Poitras in a nurse’s uniform, 1904, taken in Watertown, NY
  8. Man on an ice-boat
  9. Man on an ice boat, labelled ‘Tom Tierney, 1896’

Certificates from Tonic Sol-Fa College, London, for Joseph Canniff

  • CA ON00156 2012-29
  • File
  • 1885-1886

Two certificates for Joseph Canniff:
1) Elementary certificated in musical memory in time, in tune and in sight singing, 1885
2) Intermediate certificate in reading music, writing it from ear, and of eligibility for an advanced choir, 1886

Tonic Sol-Fa College

Ontario Business College collection

  • Fonds
  • 1885-1967

This fonds is composed of folders of records containing documents relating to the Ontario Business College:

  • correspondence including letters between: F.C.A. Johnson and E.H. Best; a Miss Nightingale and Michael J. Finnegan; and Miss Nightingale and Fred Jarrett
  • publications containing programs, pamphlets, and catalogues
  • items donated by Principal I. L. Moore such as a catalogue, an advertisement, a cheque to the school from the Farthey family from Johannesburg, South Africa from the Bank of Africa, and a scholarship granted to Adam Johnson
  • the college's rules and regulations, a legal document discussing the trial over the name of the Belleville Business College between that school and the Ontario Business College, and one invoice book from the Business Department
  • ephemera file containing three student records from Geoff Reeves, Maud Reeves, and Howard Frost respectively, as well as a coupon and a copy of the school song,

Ontario Business College (Belleville)

Deseronto Public Library records

  • CA ON00156 DA DPL
  • Fonds
  • 1885-1970
  • Library minute books, 1885-1950

  • Library minutes (bound file), 1950-1961

  • Library minutes (file), 1976-1986

  • File of Library minutes, 1989-1994

  • Board Meeting Business file, 1988-1989

  • Library catalogue, 1895

  • Library statistics, 1902-1911

  • Library cash book, 1907-1919

  • Library cash book, 1920-1955

  • Library disbursements, 1955-1960

  • Library rolls (patrons and reference numbers of books borrowed), 1909, 1910 and 1911-12

  • Library books issued, March-October 1921

  • Library books issued, November 1921-December 1924

  • File of Library correspondence, 1920s

  • Deseronto Public Library Circulation Register (total numbers of books borrowed each day, by subject), 1951-1954

  • Deseronto Public Library Circulation Register (total numbers of books borrowed each day, by subject), 1954-1957

  • Deseronto Public Library Circulation Register (total numbers of books borrowed each day, by subject), 1957-1960

  • Deseronto Public Library Circulation Register (total numbers of books borrowed each day, by subject), 1960-1963

  • Deseronto Public Library Circulation Register (total numbers of books borrowed each day, by subject), 1964-1966

  • Library scrapbook, 1964-1970

  • File of library newsclippings, 2001

Deseronto Public Library

Readers for Ontario public schools

  • CA ON00156 2022-088
  • File
  • 1885-1906

Three reading books authorized for use in Ontario public schools:

  1. First Reader Part I, by the Copp, Clark Company Limited, Toronto, 1884
  2. Morang's Modern Phonic Primer Part I by Morang & Co. Limited, Toronto, 1904
  3. Morang's Modern Phonic Primer Part II by Morang & Co. Limited, Toronto, 1906

These books have inscriptions relating to Archie Frank Anderson and Cassie E. Anderson of Mill Creek.

St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Belleville) records

  • CA ON00156 MG 29
  • Fonds
  • 1885-2006

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

St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Belleville)

Cole family collection

  • CA ON00156 DA 2014.01
  • File
  • 1885-1914

Items found during the renovation of a house on Mill Street
1) Large family studio photograph showing a man, woman, four boys and a girl
2) W. E. Johnson of Picton studio photograph of three children: Hazel Annie Cole, aged 3 years and 5 months; Murney Nelson Cole, aged 1 year, 9 months; Edna Kathleen Cole, aged 6 months. Hazel was born July 27 1910 in Milford, Prince Edward County – dating the picture to late 1913/early 1914.
3) Felted piece of wood with memorial plaque ‘The Gates Ajar’ and the name ‘Eliza Dodge, 42 years, 4 mons, 14 days’

Cole (family)

Digital copy of first communion and confirmation certificate

  • CA ON00156 DA 2014.14
  • Item
  • 1885

Scanned image of a certificate of first communion and confirmation for Virginia Houle (1874-1944), the donor's grandmother. She received her first communion in Deseronto, Ontario, in August 1885 [at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church] and was confirmed in Napanee, Ontario on November 3rd, 1887 [at St. Patrick's Catholic Church].

The certificate was printed by L. Turgis, 60 Rue Des Ecoles, Paris.

Auction poster for goods of L. W. Yeomans

  • CA ON00156 2020-078
  • Item
  • 21 August 1885

Poster for sale to be held on 28 August 1885 at the home of L. W. Yeomans in Queen Street, Belleville, Ontario.

Intelligencer

Digital copies of photographs of Rixen family members

  • CA ON00156 DA 2014.13
  • File
  • c.1885, c.1920

Copies of photographs:

  1. Ebenezer Arthur Rixen of Deseronto, Ontario. Rixen was born in London, England on February 5th, 1857, the son of James Rixen and Elizabeth (née Moore). He married Ellen Gault in Deseronto on November 5th, 1884 and died in Thomas Street, Deseronto on June 10th, 1928. He was buried in the Deseronto Cemetery. Rixen was an accountant and insurance agent. He served as Mayor of Deseronto in 1917 and 1918.
  2. Ellen Rixen (née Gault) of Deseronto, Ontario. Ellen was born in Mill Point (Deseronto) in 1862, the daughter of John and Sarah Gault. She married Ebenezer Arthur Rixen in Deseronto on November 5th, 1884. She died on April 4th, 1955 and was buried in the Deseronto Cemetery.
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