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Handwritten transcript of letter dated 1 July 1879, taken from page 124 of Scrapbook 7. The original letter can be seen at https://archive.org/details/intelligencer-july-1879/page/n62/mode/1up

The letter reads as follows:

50 Years Ago.
for the Intelligencer.
MR. EDITOR.-Fifty years, ago this evening I arrived in Belleville by the steamer Sir James Kempt, H. Gildersleeve, Captain, and with Mrs. Flint and Miss Clement, late Mrs. Dr. Holden, put up at the house kept by the late Royal Munro, where the Anglo American now stands.
Fifty years ago there was not one foot of sidewalk in town, not a drain to carry off the surplus water, and but one bridge, and that a poor one, over the river on Bridge Street.
Fifty years ago there were but two brick two story houses, both burnt long ago. One brick and stone on Meyers Hill, since taken down. One brick church on the site of the present stone structure called St Thomas' Church, Rev. Thos. Campbell, rector. One frame building used by the Methodists on the site near the now Grand Junction Station on Pinnacle Street
Fifty years ago there were but one dilapidated old school house with a large mud hole in front all through the rainy season ; it stood on Pinnacle street near where the new brick school house now stands. Building not fit for a decant pig stye.
Fifty years ago there was but one Sunday school, which was held in the Methodist chapel, some fifty scholars, all told. Fifty years ago there were no brick buildings on Front street, and of the wooden ones only three showed signs of white, and one of yellow paint.
Fifty years ago there was not over 700 inhabitants in the town, and the town only comprised 200 acres short measurement. Fifty years ago this harvest, wheat brought 80cts., rye 32c to 40c:, peas 40c, oats 20c, potatoes 15c to 20c, hay $6 per 2,240lbs., wood 80cts to $1 per cord, butter 10cts. per lb., eggs 7½cts per dozen. Poultry was cheap ; I bought a fat turkey already dressed weighing 16lbs for 60cts., and chickens from 15 to 25c per pair ; while the season before I came, wheat was 50cts. per bushel, flour $2.50 per bbl, and not cash at that, only trade. It took 2 bbls of flour and $1 in cash to buy one barrel of salt, as the price of salt was "only" $6 per barrel, while at Brockville, we sold it to Capt. Gildersleeve for $2.50 per barrel, and paid him from $4 to $4.24 per barrel for floor.
Fifty years ago these were facts well known to those who sold their wheat and flour in Belleville.
Of the male inhabitant householders of 50 years ago there is not one left in the place, the late James Willson being the last. There are only 6 females (all widows) left of those that were keeping house when I came here, and of the younger people, the larger portion are dead or have moved away.
The site of the town has grown from 200 acres to near 1,300. The town has become a city with about 12,000 inhabitants, and might to-day have had a population of 25,000, had the men who owned the property outside the original town plot have used energy and enterprise instead of remaining quiet and with¬holding encouragement to others to build up a city for their benefit. I find that on Front Street, from Bridge Street northward, there is not an original building standing, up as far as the forks of the road leading to the Grand Trunk Station, except it may be an old frame above Burrell's axe factory, which has been built over, and from Bridge Street southward, there is the stone building put up by the late Dr. Cooper, 1½-story frame formerly occupied by Mr. Selden as a Hat store, a 1½-story frame building by a Mr. Lauder, and an old store house built by Mr. Turnbull ; these are on the west side of the street. On the east side there is a wooden building formerly occupied by C. J. Metz. The yellow building, formerly the residence of the late John Turnbull, a 2-story frame occupied by the late Robert Smith. Mr. Petrie’s house,
Mrs. Dr. Ridley’s house, the house formerly occupied by the late Henry Baldwin, a part of the house of the Covert property and a frame now occupied by Mr. Sidley. I have not gone over other parts, of the town, but may at some other time, and report on other buddings of 50 years ago.
I cannot expect to remain here to write an article on 60 years ago, but I may predict a glorious future for our Dominion of Canada (in which I trust our city and county will largely share), in the rise and progress of her arts, her manufactures, her minerals, her agricultural and other industrial pursuits, which no doubt will prosper under the fostering care of good Government, and combined with economy become one of the finest if not the best country on the face of the globe.
Having led an active life both in business and as a public man, since I came to Belleville (in which I do not expect I have pleased every one), yet at the age of 74 years 5 months and 10 days, notwithstanding all the changes and trials in my business, as well as public life, I can truly say I feel cheerful and contented.
Yours, &c., &c.
BILLA FLINT
Belleville, 19th July, 1879

Transcript of speech delivered by Billa Flint on 1 July 1878. This was delivered in 1978 by Lee Jourard at a plaque unveiling event.

Two printed reports on the most suitable route for a canal between Lake Simcoe and Rice Lake to the Bay of Quinte by N. H. Baird, Civil Engineer. Printed by order of the County of Hastings at the Intelligencer office, Front and Bridge Streets, Belleville.

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.

File contains newspaper clipping about the fire at Albert College in 1917. There is also a newspaper clipping about Albert College Professor of Natural History John Macoun, who has had approximately 48 Canadian flora and fauna species named for him.

Front cover of Northern Telecom publication The Switching Post for January/February/March 1981, with an aerial photograph of flooding on the west side of Belleville, west of Coleman Street and north of Dundas Street.

Records of the Quinte Field Naturalists consisting of:

• books of meeting minutes
• newsletters
• newspaper clippings
• pamphlets
• financial statements, the organization's constitution
• breeding and nesting records, Christmas bird counts
• memos, letters
• obituaries of members
• an application for incorporation (stamped with date of incorporation - 22 Jan 1991 - by the Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations)
• membership records constitution, proposals, by-laws

Two bound volumes with pasted newspaper cuttings and reports relating to the history of natural conservation in Hastings County, Ontario.

Various printed items:

Second Annual Report Commission of Conservation Canada, 1911

Trent Watershed Survey Commission of Conservation Canada, 1913

Forest Protection in Canada, 1913-1914 Commission of Conservation Canada, 1915

Fifty-First Annual Report Ontario Department of Mines, 1942

Sixty-Third Annual Report Ontario Department of Mines, 1954

Sixty-Fourth Annual Report Ontario Department of Mines, 1955

Sixty-Sixth Annual Report Ontario Department of Mines, 1957

Report of the Select Committee on Conservation, Government of Ontario, 1950

Moira Valley Conservation Report, 1950 & 1955

Sixth Annual Economic Survey of Ontario Ontario Bureau of Statistics and Research, 1954

Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 45, Iron Deposits of Eastern Ontario and Adjoining Quebec Canada Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, 1958

Geological Report No. 11, Chandos Township by D. M. Shaw and Wollaston Township by D. F. Hewitt Ontario Department of Mines, 1962

Geological Circular No. 12, Geological Notes for Maps Nos. 2053 and 2054 Madoc-Gananoque Area by D. F. Hewitt Ontario Department of Mines, 1964

Background Studies for Resource Development in the Tweed Forest District, Ontario, Study No. 5 – Some Economic Aspects of Recreational Resource Uses Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, 1963

Background Studies for Resource Development in the Tweed Forest District, Ontario, Study No. 6 – Fish and Wildlife Base of Recreational Resources Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, 1963

Background Studies for Resource Development in the Tweed Forest District, Ontario, Study No. 8 – Aerial Photo Interpretation of Land Use Changes Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, 1963

Report no. 10 of the Ontario Soil Survey: Soil Survey of Prince Edward County, 1948

Report no. 27 of the Ontario Soil Survey: Soil Survey of Hastings County, 1962

Report no. 30 of the Ontario Soil Survey: Soil Associations of Southern Ontario, 1964

Historic Structures of the Trent Severn Waterway, (Parks Canada manuscript report number 283) William Beahen, 1978

Bridges Over the Trent Severn Waterway, 1826-1978, (Parks Canada manuscript report number 328) W. George Richardson, 1978

The file contains a newspaper article from 1962 (with picture) about the appointment of Cecil B. Ketcheson as Chairman of the Moira River Conservation Authority. It also has (4) booklets:

1. O'Hara Mill (Madoc)
2. Colonel Roscoe Vanderwater Conservation Area
3. M.R.C.A. Progress and Achievements 1947-1962
4. M.R.C.A. 25 years of Conservation printed abt. 1972

File contains printed minutes of meetings of the Moira River Conservation Authority, June-August, 1960. Also contains printed and photocopied announcements concerning the official opening of The Colonel Roscoe Vanderwater Conservation Area; several newspaper articles regarding Lingham Lake on the Moira River watershed area; and a photocopied printed paper entitled Modernising an Old Dam'/ by Bruce H. Smith, Chairman of the Moira River Conservation Authority, concerning the rebuilding of the dam at Lingham Lake