Photographs of members of the Ruttan family of Belleville, Ontario and houses in the Great St. James Street area of Belleville. The photographs include some reproductions, including one of a fire at Trudeau Motors in 1948. 111 photographs show construction work for the Quinte Conservation Green Energy Hydro Project at the McLeod Dam on the Moira River between College Street and Cannifton Road in Belleville between 2007 and 2009.
Grand Trunk Railway and Canadian National Railway materials collected by Cleland James Allison and Tom Allison, including:
Grand Trunk Railway Employees' Timetable 41 for Belleville and Montreal divisions, April 1922
Canadian National Railways Conductors' and Brakemen's seniority list, January 1940
Memorandum to C. J. Allison commending him for detecting a broken truck in Gananoque, 1 September 1944
Railway Operating Rules, 1916, 1929, 1951, 1962 *Texts of four talks on railway history given by Tom Allison, 1990-2005
Materials collected by the Belleville Fire Department from members and former members of the department. They include photographs, correspondence, press clippings and fire call logs.
The collection consists of three items: 1) Circular letters from the Hydro Electric Power Commission of Ontario, filed in a binder by the Belleville office, 1915-1927 2) Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario reports on Frequency Standardization, 1948, with A.M.E.U. report on the reports 3) Belleville Utilities Commission contract for the construction of water purification plant extensions, 1969 with Gore & Storrie Limited, consulting engineers of Toronto
1) Newspaper clipping about the opening of Century Place in Belleville, Ontario, 26 March 1976 2) Brochure for Century Place, c.1976 3) Instructions for employees starting work in the Century Place building on 29 March 1976 4) Text of a talk on 'Hastings County & the Telephone' by R. W. Carleton, given to the Hastings County Historical Society on 15 February 1977
Photographs taken by members of the Cornell family of 47 John Street in Belleville, Ontario. Family snapshots, photographs of boats in Belleville Harbour, Presqu'ile lighthouse, cars, Billy Bishop's float plane.
Photographs include COVID-19-related signs, building renovations on Front Street in Belleville, work on the Skyway Bridge, and damage to the concrete of the Bridge Street bridge in Belleville.
Typewritten list of names residents of Tweed, Ontario,1902-1920, with their professions, four photographs of the Belleville, Ontario, flood of 1936 and two newsclippings from April 1999 about the Belleville Choral Society.
Two printed items: 1) Constitution and General Rules of the Electrical Employers' Association of Ontario and Accident Prevention Rules, 1914 2) Rules of the Electric Power Company Limited, Operating Office, Belleville, Ontario, c.1914
Charter for Belleville Local Division Number 126 of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees and Other Transport Workers. Officers listed: President: J. G. Shaw Treasurer: C. Kellet Financial Secretary: V. P. McIntyre Local Chairman: H. J. Armstrong Recording Secretary: C. A. Finnigan Reporter: H. Pointer
Printed diagram and explanation of the stages of treatment of Bay of Quinte water at the Gerry O'Connor water treatment plant at 2 Sidney Street, Belleville, Ontario, published in 2006.
Eight negatives of older photographs, with thirteen prints made from the negatives. Six of the prints show a map of the Belleville Water Works, made in 1883 by Moffet, Hodgkins and Clarke of Watertown, New York. The other seven prints are of photographs of members of the Belleville Fire Department, fire trucks, the 1936 flood, and the fire at the Cities Services Oil site on John Street in Belleville in 1948.
The collection reflects the publishing interests of Nick and Helma Mika. It comprises four main series: photographic files, reference files, printing process files and other materials. The collection is strong in local history materials, particularly relating to the history of the United Empire Loyalists, railways, and the city of Belleville.
Notes prepared for a plaque-unveiling event on 23 August 2017 in Belleville, Ontario, commemorating the former railway on Pinnacle Street. The plaque was installed by the Hastings County Historical Society.
Photographs from World War Two, Philip Etter's identification cards, literature on the navy and military, correspondence with the Canadian Merchant Navy Veterans Association, newspaper articles, newspapers from World War Two, House of Commons releases, the journal "The Red Duster".
Photograph taken outside the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Hall of members of the Order of Railway Conductors and Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen involved in the Grand Trunk Railway Strike of July 18 to August 2, 1910.
Family cabinet card and tintype photographs, c.1860-1920
Staff and students of Grier Street School, Belleville, 1905 and original and copy of two 1908 Grier Street school photographs (the copy was published in the Intelligencer), both including Howard Aselstine
Snapshots including several of Aselstine buses in Belleville, 1910-1940
Second World War ration books for Howard and Mae Aselstine and Dorothy Aitchison (their daughter, mother of Jane Bond), 1940s
Photograph album with pictures of Aselstine buses, 1890-1935
Newspaper clippings relating to the Aselstine bus business, 1965-1971
Typescript and hand-written notes on the history of the Aselstine business