File contains 18 negatives of Belleville, Ontario buildings (mainly on Front Street: Woodley furs, the Belmont Restaurant, Whalen music) and copies of Lois Foster's notes on the early history of downtown buildings.
Scanned photographs and newspaper cutting relating to the family of John Poitras, who lived in Deseronto from 1875 to around 1896 and worked for the Rathbun Company as a superintendent.
Herbert 'Bert' Poitras, part of a Deseronto sports team
Poitras home on St. George Street, north of the Presbyterian Church
Same house from a more oblique angle
‘Sol Markle’
Grace Poitras (b.1883) and her brother Bert as small children
Deseronto Tribune article about the Poitras’s cottage and summer camp at Butternut Cove, Aug 24, 1894
Grace Poitras in a nurse’s uniform, 1904, taken in Watertown, NY
Two certificates for Joseph Canniff: 1) Elementary certificated in musical memory in time, in tune and in sight singing, 1885 2) Intermediate certificate in reading music, writing it from ear, and of eligibility for an advanced choir, 1886
File contains a copy of a sketch of town lots in Thurlow by Joseph Canniff in 1849. Also present are several photocopied survey maps by lot of Thurlow Township, ca. 1878.
Lantern slides depicting chickens, turkeys and ducks. These slides were produced by the Province of Ontario Picture Bureau, probably in the 1920s, for use in Ontario schools.
Materials relating to the Hastings County Historical Society's fundraising campaign to build an archives facility in Belleville, Ontario. Includes an 'Unlock the Archives!' flyer, press release, and introductory words by Peter C. Newman