The Wanamaker fonds consists of textual records and graphic materials of genealogical histories of various families. The fonds also contains records, brochures, pamphlets, publications, books, and other textual records from towns and cities throughout Ontario, predominantly from the Quinte Area and Hastings County.
Family Photographs of the Sayers family, Ralph Wanamaker's family, the Hodgen family, of Loral Wanamaker's family, Parliament family, Van Cott family, Post family, as well as loose photographs of the Parliament family, the McTaggart family, various snapshots and negatives of scenery and views, as well as 2 boxes of slides
1 box of Books and Binders with genealogical records, as well various records of various towns in Ontario ca. 1816 - 1957
Genealogical notes, histories, birth records, death records, pages from family Bibles, receipts, and other textual records for over 40 individual families
Genealogical charts, and ancestral charts
Genealogical correspondences *Newspapers, and News clippings from Hastings County, Hastings County Museum, Historical Society, Lennox and Addington, Prince Edward County, Trenton, Tyendinaga, and United Empire Loyalists
Legal documents, seals and original deeds, and land records ca. 1803 - 1848
Genealogy forms, research materials, reference materials
Various artworks and postcards (of Hastings County, the Quinte Region, the British Military and Navy, the Belleville Art Association, and travel)
Quinte region, Belleville, Trenton, and Prince Edward County miscellaneous publications, newspaper clippings, brochures, pamphlets, notes, directories, histories, records, and tourism guides and publications
Ontario, New York , and Canada pamphlets, magazines, calendars, and an Ontario Liquor License Act, 1891
Land Abstracts for Prince Edward County
Maps and plans: 1778-1779 Blue Print Surveys from General Washington, New York Historical Society; 1784 Ontario (printed by Ministry of Natural Resources), 1984; 1860-1861 Hastings County, 1860-1861 from the Hastings County Directory; 1928 Lloyd's Map of Hastings County; c. 1930 Belleville Post Office Carrier Route #8, North Front and North Park Streets
Scrapbooks ca. 1958-1972
Miscellaneous Publications (almanacs, newspaper clippings, miscellaneous pins belonging to Loral Wanamaker, blue print surveys)
Genealogical research materials on members of the Van Blaricom family, United Empire Loyalists and early settlers of Hastings and Prince Edward Counties in Ontario.
Release from right of forfeiture to Herman Haffner concerning property in the broken front in front of the east half of Lot 13 in the First Concession of Sidney Township, Hastings County, south of the road from Belleville to Trenton. Dated 24 July 1935.
Also includes an unfranked envelope with a 30-cent Terry Fox Marathon of Hope stamp, issued in 1982.
Family history of John McIntosh (1865 – 1925) and Henrietta Calder (1867 – 1950), immigrants from Scotland to Canada who settled in Belleville, Ontario.
Lower half of a memorial recording the sale of Lot 17 in Concession 1 of Hungerford Township from David Gardiner of to Thomas Goldsmith Gardiner, all of Whitby, for £50. The deed is instrument 1488 in Book L of the Hastings County Land Registry Office.
Photograph taken at John and Leatha Homan's farm on Harmony Road in Corbyville, Hastings County, Ontario. It shows Mike Stanko, a displaced person from Poland who came to Canada after the Second World War, and the Homan's son, Clare, next to a car.
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.
Eleven digital photographs of the demonstration at the railway lines in the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in support of the Wet'suwet'en protest against the construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline through their territory.
1) Letter of attorney from Hugh Davis of Killyshandra, Ireland, to Francis Berry of Toronto, authorizing him to dispose of 100 acres of lot 20 in the third concession of Cavan Township, County of Durham, 18 February 1830 2) Bargain of sale of the said land to Barnard Quinn, 10 December 1830
Deeds and papers relating to part of lot 28 on the west side of Pinnacle Street in Belleville, Ontario.
Dates and parties: 1) 18 Jan 1886: Francis Marskeel to William Bleecker 2) 10 Feb 1886: William Bleecker to Thomas Bales Coombs 3) 3 Sep 1889: Thomas Bales Coombs and Ellen Coombs to Thomas Henry Adams 4) 1 Jun 1891: Thomas Henry Adams and Jane Ann Adams to David Matthias Rees 5) 15 Jun 1892: David Matthias Rees and Ruth H. Rees to Herbert Henry Booth 6) 1 Jun 1896: Herbert Henry Booth and Cornelie Booth to Evangeline Cory Booth 7) 22 Nov 1904: Evangeline Cory Booth to Thomas Bales Coombs
8) 17 May 1910: Notice that the parcel of land is held in trust for the Salvation Army 9) 19 Mar 1926: Declaration by John Noble, Secretary of the Governing Council of the Salvation Army, Canada East, that the Salvation Army had held the parcel of land undisturbed since 22 Nov 1904. 10) 28 Dec 1939: Plan by Fraser Aylsworth, Ontario Land Surveyor, of the lot on which the Salvation Army Citadel (later the Pinnacle Playhouse) was located on Pinnacle Street in Belleville
Two plans of Belleville (east and west) showing zoning categories for properties in the city, with lists of zoning by-law numbers and dates since 1977.
This collection comprises documents received in response to an Access to Information request addressed to Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) by the Corporation of the Town of Deseronto, Ontario, in 2008. The request asked for copies of documentation submitted as part of the Culbertson Tract land claim of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte and upon which the decision to allow the claim had been based.
The documents in this collection are all photocopies of materials located in public archives in Canada. The materials range in date from 1779 to 1959 and record the interactions between the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte and the British and Canadian governments, in relation to lands, from the time of their departure from the Mohawk Valley to the mid-twentieth century.
Bargain and sale of part of lot 24 on the west side of Pinnacle Street and north side of Bridge Street in Belleville, Ontario from James Nosworthy, saddler and Harriet Clapham Nosworthy, his wife, to George Taylor of Sidney Township. Dated 7 May 1855.
Copy of McGeachie's book Bass Lake - Hastings County and correspondence between McGeachie and various authorities about the management of the McGeachie Conservation Area and his efforts to change the name of Steenburg Lake in Limerick Township, Hastings County, Ontario.
Deeds and mortgages for property on South King Street, Trenton. Individuals mentioned include Mary Booth, Clarissa Nugent, Charles D. Taft and George Frost