File contains photocopied typescript notes on the history and development of Detlor and surrounding district by Mary J. Hennessy, Detlor and L'Amable Women's Institute.
Digital copy of a Smith Photo photograph of children in the Grade 1 class at Queen Alexandra School, Belleville, Ontario. Individuals identified are: Row #4: The teacher is Miss Evelyn Lockhart Row #3: 2nd in from left - Jane Freeman (Father was CEO of Stephen Adamson MFG) 3rd in from left - Carol Wishart 5th in from left - Anne Burton (grew up 144 Albert St)
The file contains a booklet titled "A Sherry Family of Canada; the descendants of George and Susanna Sherry early settlers of Hastings County. Complied and written by Robert Dean Sherry. 1789-1967" A supplement to the volume was published in 1981 by Robert Sherry.
File contains a printed spiral-bound booklet entitled “The Descendants of Alexander and Grace McInroy, early settlers of Hastings County-Ontario Canada,” compiled by Robert Dean Sherry, great great grandon of the couple, Also present is a supplement to the genealogy produced by Robert Dean Sherry, 1973.
The file contains funeral memorial books for Alice Gertrude Joyce (formerly Mays) born 2 Feb 1870, died 17 Sept 1958; William James Joyce born 18 July 1880, died 24 April 1966. Also newspaper obituary for George H. Harris (age 80) born 22 Sept 1895 husband of Argena Tousignant.
A red and white quilt made in 1894 by the Steady Gleaners, a group of women affiliated with the Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer, Deseronto, Ontario, possibly with the aim of raising funds for missionary work. This quilt may have been made for such a purpose. The signatures of the women in the society are embroidered onto the squares of the quilt.
The names on the quilt are: F.M.R. Bella Smyth Mrs Wm. Gamble Florence A. Davis Mrs F. S. Rathbun Alice McGault Mrs C. E. Ravin Mrs J. W. McCaw Mrs G. Genge Mrs Wm. Mitchell Mrs R. J. Craig, President Mrs Frank S. Hall [Bessie] Annie Hill Mrs McCoy Mrs F. H. Sims Mrs J. D. Dulmadge Mrs J. Douglas Tillie Maxwell Mrs D. Dant Miss Mary Huff Mrs G. Gordon Ella Pegan Mrs G. A. Grant Mrs Joe Hopper Mrs Wm. Geney Gertrude R. Craig Aggie Elliott Mrs Mackie Mrs A. D. Macintyre I. Thornton Mrs C. Forrester Mrs R. Anderson Ira B. Anderson L. Smyth Mrs R. Geddes Mrs F. McMaster Mrs J. M. Denmark Mrs A. G. Knight Mrs J. Buter Clara McClain Mrs C. Bennett Mrs J. T. Garmon
Video footage and still images gathered for a documentary on the Belleville Christmas light display initiated by the Foster family after the death of Billy Foster and Art 'Sonny' Culloden on 24 December 1958. Includes the final documentary: In Thy Dark Streets Shineth by Sean Scally.
Minutes of the Belleville Ladies Lawn Bowling Club
1910-1928
1929-1946
1946-1959
1960-1988
Account book of the Belleville Lawn Bowling Club (the men's club) with lists of members, 1939-1949
Notes from the first minute book, rules of bowling and a newspaper clipping from the Intelligencer on the 100th anniversary celebration of the Belleville Ladies Lawn Bowling Club, 13 August 2010
This file contains the original copy of the marriage certificate, dated 22 October 1846 for William McCulloch and Rebecca Inglish, married in Tyendinaga.
A certified reproduction of the Plan of Ponton's Block, being Lots # 21 & 22 on the south side of Bridge Street West, Belleville, for William Hamilton Ponton, on the Commercial Bank Plan. Surveyed by John J. Haslett P.L.S. in 1853.
This copy was made in 1972 of plan #27, as registered in the Hastings Land Registry Office.
File contains a manuscript history of Glen Ross from its founding ca. 1859 as the settlement of Tupperville to ca. 1918, by Mrs. Arthur Pyear. Also present is a letter from Mrs.Arthur Pyear to Gerry Boyce, 3 June 1965 accompanying the history.
Letters written by members of George Sherry's family concerning his stay in hospital in Toronto in 1898. Letter from Canadian Explosives Limited to G. C. W. Sherry of Halston (Tyendinaga Township), Ontario, concerning the price of dynamite stumping powder and mentioning a publication: Farming with Dynamite, 1912.