Photocopy of a publication by James T. Bell, professor of mining and agriculture in Albert University and Chairman of the Board of Health for the Town of Belleville.
File contains 7 July 1964 newspaper clip on the “Mandarin Duck” boat that was shipped from Hong Kong to Belleville for its owners, Dr. J. Tuzo Wilson and his wife, Susan.
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
Contact prints and negatives of views of Tweed and Belleville, Ontario, mainly taken in 1980 and 1981. Includes 1982 Quinte Ethnic Festival passport and negatives taken on a steam train trip in 1978.
The photographs are arranged by subject matter and cover activities in and around the town of Deseronto, Ontario. The majority date from the late nineteenth century and many depict the lumber-related industries of the Rathbun Company in Deseronto. There are also photographs of school groups, churches, railways, First World War airfields and portraits of Deseronto citizens.
Ontario Hydro maps for parts of Hastings County and copies of Grand Trunk Railway plans from Library and Archives Canada. Includes a photograph of Canadian National Railway employees at Belleville, Ontario (online at https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/39400300370/) and booklet C.T. 405 from Penn Central with "Special Instructions Governing Operation of Signals and Interlockings", 1968
Three additional Hydro maps were added from David Pershick's estate in January 2024 (2024-007/1-3), with two aerial photographs of railway yards in Toronto (2024-007/4-5, in poor condition).
File contains a c.1850 description of a fireman uniform and of activities of the fire department and men according to Mrs. Moodie, c.1851 petition by the residents of the upper part of town to form a separate fire company, c.1851 petition by G. & J. Brown to try and form a separate fire company, a brief history of the Belleville fire department, a newspaper clip of a fire at a cigar factory in Belleville, and a newspaper clip on the fire that destroyed Mr.Neilson's house.
File contains original copies of: Petition with many signatures from residents asking that instead of building a new road that the two already existing be made passable; Motion to locate a road from Lonsdale to the Tyendanaga Grand Trunk Railway Station.
Hamilton & Hope Townships, Map (order) 841-5711 showing areas of; Hamilton & Hope Townships-including Cobourg & Port Hope showing Hydro lines and gas & oil pipelines. Dated August 27, 1973. Scale: 1 inch = 2000 feet.
1975-1976: J. B. Corke, Mayor; H. N. Britton, General Manager; E. G. O'Connor, Chairman; L. A. Langabeer, Commissioner
1979-1980: J. B. Corke, Mayor; H. N. Britton, General Manager; L. F. Reid, Chairman 1979; E. G. O'Connor, Chairman 1980
1981-1982: P. D. Russell, Commissioner; G. A. Zegouras, Mayor; H. N. Britton, General Manager; E. G. O'Connor, Chairman
1991-1994: H. N. Britton, General Manager & Secretary; D. R. Parker, Assistant Secretary; E. G. O'Connor, Chairman 1993-1994; S. R. Langer, Mayor; R. A. Barrett, Chairman 1991-1993
1994-1995: D. R. Parker, General Manager & Secretary; R. L. McDougall, Mayor; E. G. O'Connor, Chairman 1994; R. A. Barrett, Chairman 1995 [2 copies]
1998-1999: R. L. McDougall, Mayor; D. R. Parker, General Manager & Secretary; E. G. O'Connor, Chairman 1998; J. A. Cox, Chairman 1999
A blueprint planning the suspension footbridge across the Moira River in Belleville, Ontario. Approved by Charles Mott - April 21, 1936. Submitted by Walter H. Patterson of the Patterson Construction Company.
Eighteen photographs and one photocopy of the interior and exterior of the steam plant (building 27) at CFB Trenton. Ross Masters (the donor's father) worked at the plant.
File contains (10) newspaper clippings from The Intelligencer regarding the career and retirement of Ontario Hydro regional manager Ernie Gurnett as well as some articles on local contracts.
Bus timetable for routes from Belleville to Madoc, Bancroft, Maynooth and Lake St. Peter; Lindsay to Fenelon Falls, Kinmount, Wilberforce and Bancroft; Victoria Road to Kirkfield, Cambray and Lindsay; Valentia to Little Britain and Lindsay.
