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Belleville Collection
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Various items transferred from Belleville City Hall

  • CA ON00156 2023-100
  • Collection
  • 1918-c.2010

Comprises:

  1. Certified copy of the Voters' List for Belleville, 1918 (poor condition)
  2. Copies of Belleville Profile publication, produced by the Industrial Development Department/Economic Development Department, 1988-1996, 1999-2004, 2009
  3. Photographs and negatives of buildings and events in Belleville, including some by Rick Roluf and aerial views by Richard Lumbers, 1988-1991
  4. CD-ROMs with various photographic/documentary collections, 2002-c.2010:
    1. Quinte Economic Development Commission video by Floating Point, "We Mean Business", 2002
    2. Quinte Region Volume 1 and 2, 220 photographs by Crombie McNeill, 2002
    3. Downtown Belleville Master Plan, produced by Office for Urbanism, 4 PDF files, 2006
    4. Belleville Photos (unknown photographer), "First Impressions" 110 downtown views, taken in July and August 2006
    5. 247 photographs taken at Kellogg's groundbreaking, 27 October 2006
    6. 400 aerial photographs of Belleville, taken by Darko Zeljkovic in September 2007
    7. 50 photographs by Michael J. Brethour, 2007
    8. Slideshow of construction of the hydroelectric plant on the McLeod Dam in Belleville, photographs by Allen Montgomery, production by Doug Knutson, 2008
    9. Photos of visit by Kunpo delegation from Korea, taken by Euntaek Oh, 10-11 July 2008
    10. Belleville Christmas Tree photo by Gerry Fraiberg, December 2008: shared online at https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/53300566346
  5. Collection of video tapes:
    1. VHS video The Choice Location, c.1990
    2. Sketches of Our Town VHS video, 1992 (available online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2ApuMb7864)
    3. VHS video: Quinte We Mean Business, c.1999
    4. VHS video: The City of Belleville: Where Industry Comes to Grow, 1999 (by Keepsake Productions)
  6. Minutes of the City of Belleville's Economic Development Committee, 2000-2002

City of Belleville

Ruth Boyce collection

  • CA ON00156 MG 657
  • Collection
  • 1931-1981

Five files of newspaper clippings, Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School yearbooks and ephemeral materials.

Boyce, Ruth

Thompson Collection

  • CA ON00156 MG 652
  • Collection
  • 1820-1964

The collection contains materials relating to property on lot 26, concession 7 of Thurlow Township, Ontario first owned by John Latta:

  • History of the house compiled for the Plainfield Women's Institute Tweedsmuir History by Maude Harrison in 1976
  • WIll of Francis Van de Bogart, made 26 Feb 1825
  • House and farm leases, and quit claims c.1898-1912 for Lot 26, Concession 7
  • Agreement and sale of land documents c.1872-1932
  • Deeds and policies c.1874-1932
  • Mortgage and accompanying documents c.1901
  • Mortgages and agreements survey plan for lot 25
  • Fire insurance policies c.1901
  • Discharge of mortgage document c.1872
  • Legal documents for Thurlow Township lots c.1880-1964
  • Mortgages and deeds from Thurlow Township c.1876-1931
  • High Court Justice documents c.1872-1886
  • Commissioner of Agriculture loans and receipts and statements ca. 1940's
  • An original deed from June 22, 1820
  • Bound volumes of The Windsor Magazine, June-November 1911 and June-November 1915

Collection of Belleville-related materials

  • CA ON00156 2019-103
  • Collection
  • c.1980-2019

Collection comprises: three postcards with aerial views of Victoria Park in Belleville, Ontario, taken by Richard Lumbers; order of service for Remembrance Day ceremony in Belleville on 11 November 2019.

Lumbers, Richard

Collection of Belleville-related publications

  • CA ON00156 2023-031
  • Collection
  • 1977-2009

Collection comprises:

  1. Yachting on Belleville Waters by the Bay of Quinte Yacht Club, 1977
  2. What's Happening in Belleville and District, publication of the Belleville and District Chamber of Commerce, July - August 1978
  3. Belleville Centennial Souvenir Guide, 1978
  4. Belleville, Ontario, brochure published by the Belleville and District Chamber of Commerce, 1978
  5. The Quinte Advertiser Entertainer newspaper, 21 March 1979
  6. Floor plan of Bridge Street United Church, 2009

Bill Stovin collection

  • CA ON00156 2010-44
  • Collection
  • 1897-2010

Collection of materials from Bill Stovin, including:

  • Prize list and ticket for Bay of Quinte Exhibition, 1897 [damaged by 'Ponton fire' in July 1954]
  • Itinerary for train journey to Quebec City and hotel receipt, May 1946
  • Letter from Belleville Chamber of Comerce about a reception at the Hotel Quinte, 27 March 1947
  • Booklet of Rules and Regulations for No. 418 (Belleville) Wing R.C.A.F. Association, c.1950
  • Pocket calendar with birthstones and wedding anniversaries from Paul Mercier, jeweller for 1952
  • Kiwanis Club of Belleville bulletins for:
    • 27 April 1956 [top half only]
    • 14 March 1959
    • 18 July 1959
  • Photocopies of photographs relating to CJBQ staff, 1950s
  • Booklet about Canadian Forces Base Trenton, c.1974
  • Photocopy of press clipping about a plaque to Horice Stovin at the Delta Bessborough Hotel, 11 December 2000
  • Letter to Phil & Helen Flagler from Bill Stovin, 10 March 2001
  • Letter to Phil from Stovin, 25 August 2008
  • Undated letter from Stovin to Phil
  • Printed email correspondence between Stovin, Gerry Boyce, Phil Flagler, and Shelley Wildgen about memories of CJBQ, 2010

Oversized items:

  • 2 drawings by W. B. Mac of Belleville Sales & Advertising Club members, 1950s: Ted Schwab; Len Smith; Bill Stovin; Bill Riley, Ben Yanover; Brian Humphreys; Frank Murray; Phil Flagler; Ralph Plumpton; Fred Maund

Stovin, William Horace 'Bill'

Ruth Boyce collection

  • CA ON00156 2017-73
  • Collection
  • 1905-1985

Materials collected by Ruth Boyce, comprising:
1) 1905 Supplement to Mail and Empire, with photograph of members of the 11th Ontario Legislature (including Marshall B. Morrison, Hastings West https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/36379548670/ ; Major E. Walter Rathbun, Hastings East https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/36637303291/ and Josiah W. Pearce, Hastings North https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/36379549210/ )
2) c.1910 'Greetings from Belleville' postcard brochure
3-4) 1911-1915 and 1917-1920 savings bank pass books for The Standard Bank of Canada, Belleville
5-6) 1912 Postcard of the Dominion Match Company factory in Deseronto, and undated postcard of Deseronto Public School
7) 1914 Book 'Manners: recommended by the Minister of Education for use in School Libraries in Ontario': etiquette guide published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, Toronto. Name of Ina M. Calbury, 142 Charles Street, Belleville written inside front cover
8) c.1930 photograph of Case tractors and staff outside Riggs Garage on Pinnacle Street in Belleville. Individuals identified from left as Jack Kent, saleman; Harry Moorman, general manager; Leo Riggs, owner; Roy Thompson, salesman; Cy Jones, Case tractor representative; Carl Gunter, tractor mechanic; George Vanner, tire repair and vulcanizer, Jack Mather, bookkeeper; Gordon Burley, mechanic; Don Brown, mechanic; Archie Brown, mechanic and Perc Hart, mechanic and foreman https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/36379548000/
9) 1945-1946 'Elevator' yearbook for Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School
10) c.1950s Flyer for Belleville Creameries 'Mountain Gold Belleville Better Butter Box 59 Belleville, compliments of Mack Robertson'
11) 1952 Booklet 'Story of Cannifton Church: 100th anniversary'
12) 1978 Printed sketch of Belleville Collegiate institute and Vocational School, with threads in the school colours
13) c.1979 'Booklet to commemorate the more than 70 years of service to the community provided by S. S. #6 Thurlow Cannifton Corbyville Public School
14) 1985 'Ratepayers Information' leaflet from the Township of Thurlow
15) c.1990 Printed article on Dr. W. M. Mather of Tweed, Ontario
16-17) c.2010 Two reproductions of photographs: a young Ethel and Nettie Ketcheson, and the same women in later life, with Jack Mather and Mabel Boyce

Boyce, Ruth

Vernon's City of Belleville Directories

  • CA ON00156 VER
  • Collection
  • 1909-2004

Vernon's directories, containing street-by-street listings of residents and alphabetical listings for the City of Belleville for the following years:

  • 1909 (Held by Belleville Public Library)
  • 1911 (Held by Belleville Public Library)
  • 1913 (Held by Belleville Public Library)
  • 1915 (Held by Belleville Public Library)
  • 1918 (Held by Glanmore National Historic Site)
  • 1920 (Held by Glanmore National Historic Site)
  • 1924
  • 1926 (Held by Belleville Public Library)
  • 1928
  • 1930
  • 1932
  • 1934
  • 1938
  • 1940 (Held by Glanmore National Historic Site)
  • 1942 (Held by Glanmore National Historic Site)
  • 1944 (Held by Glanmore National Historic Site)
  • 1949
  • 1951
  • 1953
  • 1957
  • 1959
  • 1961
  • 1963
  • 1972
  • 1974
  • 1978
  • 1986
  • 1992
  • 1994
  • 1999
  • 2003
  • 2004

Henry Vernon & Son

Collection of Ontario Business College publications

  • CA ON00156 2020-052
  • Collection
  • 1893-1993

Collection of printed materials relating to the Ontario Business College, of which Annetta Brown was Principal in the 1970s.

  1. Belleville Business College Complete Book-keeping text book owned by Arthur C. Frost, 1893
  2. Official Directory of Association of Canadian Commercial Colleges, 1965-1966
  3. Programs for graduation ceremonies at the Ontario Business College, 1977, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998
  4. Ontario Business College prospectuses, 1968, [c.1972], 1974, 1975, 1978, 1989, 1993
  5. Programs for official opening of new premises, 29 September 1978
  6. What's Happening in Belleville publication of the Belleville and District Chamber of Commerce, with feature on Ontario Business College, January - February 1976

Brown, Oris Annetta

Needham Throop collection

  • CA ON00156 2017-38
  • Collection
  • 1955-1998

Reports and publications relating to Northern Electric and their Belleville operation. Includes:

  • 'Northern News', 14 Mar 1955
  • Résumé for W. J. Needham Throop, 1965
  • 'Look What's Going On in Belleville' publication, 26 October 1970
  • 'Look What's Going On in Belleville' publication, 25 January 1971
  • 'Northern Electric now...and the future' publication, 1974
  • Proposal for Business Systems to assume responsibility for the office service function, 1980
  • Suggestion Plan Manual for the Subscriber Switching Division, 28 January 1983
  • Certificate of membership in the Telephone Pioneers of America for W. J. Needham Throop
  • Nortel Belleville 50th Anniversary publication, 1997

Other items:

  • Four postcards of the Ontario School for the Deaf; Front Street and United Empire Loyalists monument; Bay Bridge; Moira River, c.1940s
  • Belleville McFarlands decal, 1959
  • Promotional card for Dixie Inn Barbeque on Bridge Street West in Belleville, owned by George A. De Vuyst, c.1959
  • Belleville-Trenton directory published by F & N Directories, 1962-1963

Throop, (William James) Needham

Papers relating to Thomas Kelso's property at 161 George Street, Belleville

  • CA ON00156 2019-061
  • Collection
  • 1873-2019

Receipts and certificates addressed to Thomas Kelso from suppliers and contractors involved in building his property at 161 George Street, Belleville, Ontario. The work was carried out between 1873 and 1876 under the direction of John D. Evans, architect. This collection also includes notes on the Kelso/Roberts family tree, compiled by Trudi and Bob Banting, with reproduction photographs of family members.

The material has been arranged into the following files:
1) Invoices and receipts relating to the construction of 161 George Street, Belleville, 1873-1876
2) Contractor's certificates relating to the construction of 161 George Street signed by John D. Evans, architect, 1873-1875
3) Summary of expenses relating to the construction of the house at 161 George Street, c.1875; calculation of simple and compound interest, 1869-1882; bill for pine lumber from the Rathbun Company, 1888; specifications for construction work for the Sodus Point & Southern Rail Road, not dated
4) Legal papers relating to costs incurred by the Grand Junction Railway in 1877; a case against Henry Covert involving Kelso and Pitceathly in 1879; a report into the condition and affairs of the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company of Maine, 1884
5) Abstracts of title for lots 4 and 5, east side of George Street, Belleville, 1950; newspaper clipping announcing the designation of 161 George Street, Belleville, 1986
6) Reproduction photographs of 161 George Street and Kelso/Roberts family members, c.2019

Kelso, Thomas

'Souvenir of Belleville' postcard set and loose postcards

  • CA ON00156 2017-61
  • Collection
  • c.1935

Six loose coloured postcards showing:

  • Front Street, Belleville, Ontario
  • Aerial View of R.C.A.F. Station, looking South, near Belleville, Ontario
  • Moira River, Belleville, Ontario
  • General Hospital, Belleville, Ontario
  • Albert College, Belleville, Ontario
  • Dominion Entomological Building, Belleville, Ont.

    A fold-out 'Souvenir of Belleville' set of postcards produced by Valentine-Black Ltd., Toronto. They depict:

  • Post Office, Quinte Hotel, Churches, Armouries, Belleville, Ontario
  • Church of St. Michael the Archangel (R.C.)
  • St. Thomas' Church (Anglican) Belleville, Ontario
  • Bridge Street United Church, Belleville, Ontario
  • Front Street looking North, Belleville, Ontario
  • Front Street, Belleville, Ont. looking North
  • Moira River looking North from Victoria Park, Belleville, Ontario
  • Bridge St., bridge over Moira River, Belleville, Ontario
  • Main bldgs., Belleville General Hospital
  • Hotel Quinte, Belleville, Ontario
  • High School, Belleville, Ontario
  • Albert College, Belleville, Ontario
  • Main bldg., Ontario School for the Deaf, Belleville, Ont., Canada
  • Club House, Quinte Golf and Country Club, Belleville, Ont., Canada
  • The Armouries, Belleville, Ont., Canada
  • War Memorial, Belleville, Ont., Canada

'In They Dark Streets Shineth' Christmas Light Display documentary and materials

  • CA ON00156 2021-103
  • Collection
  • c.1960-2021

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.

Scally, Sean

Livesey's Meat Market photographs

  • CA ON00156 2016-83
  • Collection
  • 1910-1940s

Reproduction photographs showing:

  1. Front Street, Belleville, Ontario, looking north from south of City Hall, with streetcar, 1910
  2. Four photographs of Livesey's Meat Market, with members of the Livesey family
  3. Interior of a grocery store on Front Street
    With a page of notes by Wendy Stevens on the history of the photographs. The store was at the corner of Bridge and Everett Streets in Belleville.

Livesey (family)

Hannah Harrison collection

  • CA ON00156 2018-006
  • Collection
  • c.1900-1970

Collection comprises:

  • album with 128 photographs of family scenes taken by Hannah Harrison of 64 Emily Street, Belleville, Ontario
  • mounted photograph of the house at 64 Emily Street, c.1900
  • photograph of six young women in naval costumes (Hannah Harrison bottom right), c. 1910
  • Methodist Church annual ticket for 1902-1903 in the name of Hannah Harrison
  • Canadian National Railways passes for David Harrison, blacksmith, 1935-1942
  • 'Happy Birthday Sweetheart' card addressed to Hannah Harrison, 1939
  • Wharf Street Debating Club membership card in the name of D. Harrison, 1941
  • photographs of Hannah Harrison holding a baby, c.1970.

Harrison, Hannah Mary

Hockey-related publications

  • CA ON00156 2021-079
  • Collection
  • 2015-2019

Book: Crawford: Family of Champions by Aaron Bell
DVD: Charging Bulls: Celebrating the 1999 OHL Champions

Bell, Aaron

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.

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