Digital copy of a photograph of the former Canniff/Foster home at the northwest corner of Dundas Street and Foster Avenue in Belleville, Ontario. Individuals in the photograph have been identified as Alfred Gillen, his wife, Theda May (Foster) Gillen, Sarah Jane Vrooman (wife of Daniel Foster), Barbara Gillen (later Wood), James Frith Jeffers and his wife, Faustina (born Foster, then Turner).
Digital photographs recording events organized by or otherwise involving the Hastings County Historical Society, the Community Archives of Belleville and other local heritage organizations. The photographs are arranged in folders with the following titles:
Photograph shows the Pasmore pharmacy at the northwest corner of St. George and Thomas Streets in Deseronto, Ontario. The owner of this property was Dr. William Pasmore.
Portrait of George Hamilton Backus (1830-1904). He worked for Brown's foundry in Belleville, and was a member of City Council in 1885 and a public school trustee. He was also a member of the volunteer fire brigade and associated with the 49th Hastings Rifles. He was a member of St. John's Presbyterian Church.
Three mounted newspaper clippings with printed illustrations of Belleville institutions:
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, November 1870
Albert College, December 1870
Marchmont House, 1876
Also a reproduction of HC01468 (view of Bridge Street West in 1840). This item was originally donated to Glanmore National Historic Site by Edith Clapp in March 2015 (as 005.502.005).
Photograph album with snapshots of children and pets. Some of the images show cars, trains, and manufacturing sites in and around Trenton, Ontario. One photograph shows Harry Palmer after winning the Deacon Road Race between Trenton and Belleville on 7 September 1908.
Photographs of participants and guests in events held on 16 October 2021 to mark the unveiling of the Dr. James Bertram Collip Reflective Gardens in Belleville, Ontario. Guests included Dr. Alison Li, author of a biography of Collip, and Major Charles Wyatt, Collip's great-grandson. Also present were MP Ryan Williams, MPP Todd Smith, Mayor Mitch Panciuk, Warden Rick Phillips, Rihanna Harris, and Collip Committee members Richard Hughes and Ian Sullivan.
Plan of subdivision creating Bay and Cross Streets in Plainfield, Thurlow Township, Ontario. Text reads: "Plan of Town lots laid out on the front of the East Half of lot number twenty three in the Seventh concession of the Township of Thurlow in the County of Hastings, Surveyed for the proprietor Josephy Fletcher Mackencie [Mackenzie] , By John Emerson P.L.S. October 1877. Scale one chain to an Inch. This plan is correct and is prepared under the provisions of the Registrations of Titles (Ontario) Act. John Emerson P.L.S. Duplicate Plan registered the first day of June A. D. 1878." The lot at the southeast corner is identified as "Halls Tavern Lot".
Collection comprises 22 photographs showing people hunting and fishing on Georgian Bay (1894-1897) and Samuel George Beatty's orange grove in California. Also an example of a Bay of Quinte tartan sash made by Olwen Sherman for members of the YMCA Y's Men and Menettes (c.1967).
Tintypes and photographs taken or collected by members of the Lazier family of Belleville, Ontario. There are 10 tintypes, all showing groups of two or more young men. The other photographs were taken in Belleville between 1900 and 1975.
