Scrapbooks of the 'Belleville Belles' Red Hat Society
- CA ON00156 2024-065
- Series
- 2004-2007
Four scrapbooks recording the activities of the Belleville Belles Red Hat Society of Belleville, Ontario.
Belleville Belles Red Hat Society
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Scrapbooks of the 'Belleville Belles' Red Hat Society
Four scrapbooks recording the activities of the Belleville Belles Red Hat Society of Belleville, Ontario.
Belleville Belles Red Hat Society
File contains a 1893-94 season membership, 1890 Women's Christian Association concert programs and advertisements for benefit concerts c.1890s (Leona Riggs), 1899 newspaper clippings
Collection comprises:
Harrison, Hannah Mary
Part of Materials transferred from Glanmore National Historic Site
Poems written by Margaret MacKay MacTavish and published after her death by her husband, William Sharpe MacTavish.
MacTavish, Margaret MacKay
Documentary video by Gerry Fraiberg and Gilaine Mitchell about the work of the Three Oaks Foundation in Belleville, Ontario and its shelter for women and children who were victims of domestic violence. Music by Michael Tarry McDermott.
Fraiberg, Gerry
Prostitution - Hastings County and Belleville
Part of Bill Hunt collection
Notes on prostitution for a planned Outlook article.
Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.) County Conventions
File contains three programs for the First, Second and Third Annual W.C.T.U. County Conventions, 1910, 1911 & 1912. Also a copy of a newspaper article from 1956 about the 47th Annual County Convention held in Trenton.
Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.): Belleville
File contains original handwritten Annual Reports for the W.C.T.U.: Belleville "Y.W.C.T.U." from 1907 through to 1922, prepared by Miss Maud Reeves, Belleville
Reeves, Emma Maud
Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.): Belleville
File contains various materials pertaining to the W.C.T.U. Belleville "Y's" including a folder with copies of the "Union Battle Hymn", handwritten notes on parlor meetings. An original copy, dated Oct 1, 1907, of The Canadian White Ribbon Tidings referencing the "Busy Belleville Y's". A copy of typed address, titled "Why we need new members for the W.C.T.U. & Y's", prepared by Miss Maud Reeves of the Belleville "Y" for the 1923 Convention at Picton.
Reeves, Emma Maud
File contains a booklet case with a Gough's Clothier advertisement and a list of start and end dates for First World War knitting projects, and an original flyer advertising the prices of merchandise.
Reeves, Emma Maud
Quinte Women's Institute records
Fonds consists of 17 minute books of the Quinte Women's Institute and the group's Tweedsmuir history, which includes postcards, press clippings and photographs. Also included is a banner for the institute, history of the institute and files of loose papers for each minute book (letters, receipts, newspaper articles, reports, programmes and newsletters).
Minute books cover the following dates:
May 1914 - April 1919
May 1929 - April 1936
May 1939 - April 1942
May 1942 - April 1947
May 1947 - April 1959
April 1950 - April 1953
April 1953 - April 1957
April 1957 - April 1961
April 1961 - March 1965
April 1965 - March 1968
April 1968 - March 1971
April 1971 - March 1974
April 1974 - March 1977
April 1977 - March 1980
April 1980 - March 1984
April 1984 - March 1989
April 1989 - March 1992
Quinte Women's Institute
File contains newspaper clippings about the Soroptimist Federation of America meeting in Belleville.
Belleville Yardmen Benefit Fund Ladies Softball Team
Part of Records of the Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County
Reproductions of newspaper articles relating to the career of the Belleville Yardmen Benefit Fund Ladies Softball Team.
Scrapbook compiled by Alice Deacon
Scrapbook compiled by Alice Deacon of 107 Station Street, Belleville, 1914-1919, including newspaper cuttings about Belleville servicemen, theatre programmes and flyers, postcards. The book used to paste the clippings into was Richardson's New Method for the Piano-Forte. The collection also includes 'The Canadian Forces in the Great War' by Colonel A. Foretescue Duguid, 1947, stamped 'Belleville Poppy Committee' on the front cover, 14pp.
Deacon, Alice
Digital photographs of Kay Manderville plaque unveiling
Two digital photographs taken at the unveiling of the Kay Manderville plaque at the Lions Park Bridge in Belleville, Ontario.
Morgan, Mary-Lynne
Twiddy family photographs and papers
1) Publications, 1894-1979:
Carter’s Ink Company dictionary, c.1894
Reproduction of December 1900 Bell Telephone Directory for Belleville
‘The Original Egypt Dream Book’, 1924
History of Stone Church, Sidney Township, 1930
Belleville Centennial ‘What’s Happening’, July-August 1978
Belleville Centennial map and flyer, 1978
Cannifton-Corbyville Public School 70th anniversary booklet, c.1979
2) Two class diaries from Cedar Grove School in Cannifton, Ontario, 1907-1911
3) BHS/BCIVS Elevators, 1913-1947:
Easter 1913
June 1913
June 1915
Easter 1916
Christmas 1917
March 1918
April 1919
Christmas 1919
1946-1947
Program for official opening of Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School, 12 December 1928
4) Autograph books: Myrtle Archibald, 1915 and Clare Twiddy, 1935
5) 10 volumes of Avondale Neighbors Aid minutes compiled by Margaret Twiddy, with a newspaper clipping about the group’s activities, 1937-1970
6) File of postcards, 1913-c1920; In Memoriam cards for Wellington R. Fairman, 1917 and Mrs W. R. Fairman, 1928; leaflet about Belleville Aqua Vitae, 1939
7) Odd Fellows certificate for Alfred Francis, 1958
8) Canada Civil Defence publications, 1958-1960
Booklet: ‘Civil Defence Notebook’, 1958
Flyer: ‘Civil Defence and Your Life’,1958
Flyer: ‘Your Emergency Pack’, 1959
Typescript pages: Belleville Civil Defence Routine Orders No. 2, 15 August 1959
Flyer: ‘Who is Responsible for Civil Defence’, c.1959
Identification card for Clare H. Twiddy, Civil Defence Warden in Belleville, 1959
Booklet: ‘Your Basement Fallout Shelter’, Blueprint for Survival No. 1, 1960
Booklet: ‘Fallout on the Farm’, Blueprint for Survival No. 3, 1961
Booklet: ‘11 Steps to Survival Emergency Measures Organization’ Blueprint for Survival No. 4, 1961
Booklet: ‘Home Safe Home’ by Lakeland Natural Gas Limited, c.1960
9) Plan of lots for sale on Skootamatta Lake, Anglesea Township, Ontario, with prices (not dated, c.1960)
10) Genealogy of the Twiddy family, c.1980
11) File of photographs and company publications relating to Clare Twiddy’s retirement from Northern Telecom, 1985
12) Family snapshots and photograph albums, with Twiddy, Alcombrack and Archibald families represented.
Twiddy, Clare Harvard
Records of Belleville Beta Sigma Phi chapters
Scrapbooks created by members of the Belleville, Ontario, Chapters of the Beta Sigma Phi sorority, documenting the groups' activities and press coverage.
Bay of Quinte Area Council
1) Memory Book, 1973
2) File including minutes and notes, 1981-2000
Scrapbooks are included for the following Chapters:
Alpha Lambda
3) 1975-1976
4) 1978-1979
Gamma Mu
5) 1961-1965
6) 1966-1967
7) 1967-1968
8) 1969-1970
9) 1970-1971
10) 1971-1972
11) 1980-1981
12) 1981-1982
13) 1988-1989
14) 1989-1990
15) 1991-1992
16) 1992-1993
17) 1994-1995
Preceptor Alpha Beta
18) 1978-1981
19) 1981-1982
20) 1982-1984
21) 1984-1985
22) 1986-1987
23) 1987-1988
24) 1991-1992
Xi Alpha Mu
25) 1959-1967
26) 1977-1980
27) 1980-1981
28) 1981-1982
29) 1983-1984
30) 1986-1987
31) 1991-1992
31a) 1993-1994 (this volume transferred from Belleville Public Library in April 2019)
32) 1996-1997
Xi Beta Zeta
33) 1972-1974
34) 1975-1976
35) 1976-1977
36) 1977-1978
37) 1978-1979
38) 1979-1980
39) 1980-1981
40) 1981-1982
41) 1983-1984
42) 1984-1985
43) 1986-1987
44) 1987-1988
45) 1988-1989
46) 1989-1990
47) 1990-1991
48) 1991-1992
49) 1992-1993
50) 1993-1994
51) 1995-1996
52) 1997-1998
One file of loose items.
Poster celebrating 50 years of Beta Sigma Phi, prepared by Gwen Aubin, 1981.
Poster with titles of officers of Beta Sigma Phi Chapters, c.1980.
Additional materials received as 2018-137 in November 2018:
Additional materials received as 2019-111 in November 2019. Members of this chapter included: Geraldine Bertin; Margaret Bowes; Janet Bowland; Donna Bruce; Patricia Clayton; Sharon Dracup; Phyllis Etter; Joyce Foster; Dianne Fritz; Susan Jordan; Patricia Meens; Shirley Newton; Lana Reid; Mary Rowland; Diane Turrall, Shirley Wasson.
1) Minutes of the Laureate Sigma Chapter, 1994-2013
2) Scrapbook of Laureate Sigma Chapter, 1996-1999
3) Photographs of the Laureate Sigma Chapter, c.1996-2010
4) Issue of 'The Torch' magazine, November 2000
Beta Sigma Phi (Bay of Quinte Area Council)
Senior of the Year award for Lois Foster
Printed 'Senior of the Year' award for Lois Foster, with printouts (poor quality) of photographs taken at the presentation event.
City of Belleville
Girl Guides in Belleville collection
Collection comprises:
1) Copy of printed notes on the history of the Girl Guide movement in Belleville, c.1963
2) Photocopies of newspaper obituaries and articles about Nan Branscombe, 1971 (and undated)
3) Typed and handwritten notes on Annie E. 'Nan' (Paterson) Branscombe, 1881-1971, founder of the Guides in Belleville, written by Charlotte Kuntze, 2001
Photographs of Graham Food Products Ltd.
Six black and white photographs of operations inside the Graham Food Products plant in Belleville, Ontario, taken by Rapid, Grip and Batten. Includes an image of Roy Lucas, manager.
Rapid, Grip and Batten