- CA ON00156 TR/3047
- Item
- c. 1965
File contains a number of newspaper articles about Ontario's smallest jailhouse in Tweed, Ontario
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File contains a number of newspaper articles about Ontario's smallest jailhouse in Tweed, Ontario
Chapelle, Joseph Hungerford illicit still 1923
File contains a newspaper clipping about the discovering of an illegal still on Joseph Cappelle's farm, north of Tweed in Hungerford. The clipping was taken from the Daily Ontario newspaper.
Crime : hangings in Hastings - summary
File contains a typsecript letter to W. J. Therriault, Governor of the Hastings County Jail from Mary G. Plumpton, Curator, Hastings County Museum, with a list of hangings by date and name of the convicted from 1835 to 1941.
Digital copies of photographs of Belleville Police Service members
Two photographs:
Six police officers and a motorcycle. Individuals identified as:
Inspector J. C. Hayes
Constable Jim MacDonald
Constable Harry McKee
Constable Ken Redding
Sergeant Douglas Ellis
Constable Jack Bolyx
Police hockey team at the Memorial Arena in Belleville, 23 March 1960. Individuals identified as:
Inspector J. C. Hayes
Glenn Jacques
Bill Armstrong
Leo Kent
Richard (Dick) Lewis
Roy Wood
Donald Thoms
Donald Yearwood
Bob Wright
Robert Begbie
Lorne Maclinton
Bill Stephenson
Harry McKee
Charlie Peters
? Fullerton
Donald Martin
Rebellion, 1838 : Battle of Shannonville
File contains a newspaper article dated February 23, 1899 recounting an unidentified veteran's recollection of the Battle of Shannonville on February 22, 1838 when Hastings Regiment militia members engaged in a brief military engagement with rebels and American sympathizers.
File contains a newspaper article from The Tweed Newsconcerning the disinterment and theft of the body of the late Stephen Conger Johnston and an ensuing controversy involving Kingston medical students in November 1889.
Double Murder Worst Tragedy in City's History
Newspaper article reporting the murder of Clayton Williams and Jack McGie by the alleged shooter David Arthur Moon in a Belleville drug store on April 6, 1925.
Daily Ontario
Solmes, Sheriff Thos. Obituary
This file contains a clipping of the obituary for former county Sheriff, Thomas William Solmes. He was appointed Sheriff in October, 1947. He died at the age of 69.
Rebellion Losses Claim #94 : Peter Davidson, Sidney
Files contains a manuscript statement of damages submitted to the Provincial Government in 1845 by Peter Davidson for damages incurred while imprisoned in December 1837. Also contains a manuscript letter from Billa Flint, J.P. to Peter Davidson and Aaron Hearns dated 5 May 1838 dismissing a case against them.
Belleville and Hastings County Colourful Stories
Part of Bill Hunt collection
Notes, photographs and newspaper articles in relation to local ghost stories and rum running practices.
Prostitution - Hastings County and Belleville
Part of Bill Hunt collection
Notes on prostitution for a planned Outlook article.
Part of Bill Hunt collection
Notes and newspaper articles in relation to true crime stories in Hastings County.
Belleville and Hastings County Gambling
Part of Bill Hunt collection
Notes, photographs and newspaper articles in relation to local gambling and rum running practices.
Part of Bill Hunt collection
Notes on Front Street properties for a walking tour, conducted by Bill Hunt.
Request for subpoena for John Bell
Request for subpoena of John Bell in a dispute over land in lots 17 and 18 on the west side of Rear Street in Belleville, Ontario.
File contains a photocopied, typescript essay entitled “ The Report of the Commissioners on the removal of the Penitentiary from Kingston to the Marmora Iron Works...” by Nancy M. Dushaw, Carleton University, 1972. The undergraduate essay examines a government proposal to relocate the prison to Marmora and the reasons for the rejection of the plan.
Hastings Court House Official Opening
File contains a commemorative book for the opening of the new County of Hastings Court House & Administration Building.
File contains the Letter of Administration with will, of Emma Agnes Pierson, of Belleville, died 4 September 1916.
Papers relating to the Belleville Legal and Literary Society
Correspondence and 'Acts of Parliament' relating to the operation of the Belleville Legal and Literary Society. The President of the society was J. Earl Halliwell.
Belleville Legal and Literary Society
Belleville Police Service materials
Four items:
1) Chief Constable's Order Book, 1920-1934, with brief reports of meetings, personnel matters, kept by Alex Kidd
2) Log of reported incidents, 1 January to 6 May 1945, with brief notes on outcomes
3) 'The Great Mac Attack!' published book of cartoons by Tony MacKinnon, 1993
4) Photograph of Tony MacKinnon with Sharon White, 2011
Belleville Police Service