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Letter to George Barlow of Belleville

  • CA ON00156 2011-53
  • Item
  • 17 Feb 1839

Letter written by Charles Harvey on behalf of Jesse and Rachel Barlow of Brooke, Norfolk, England, to their son, George Barlow, of Belleville.

Barlow (family)

Scan of a portrait on a fragment of silk

  • CA ON00156 DA 2012.12
  • Item
  • c.1850

Scan of a fragment of silk with a head-and-shoulders portrait of a Mohawk man. The item was found in a Portt family (of Tyendinaga) photograph album.

Digital copies of slides of Whitefield sketches

  • CA ON00156 2020-029
  • Series
  • c.1860

Five photographic reproductions of sketches of Belleville by Edwin Whitefield taken from a Royal Ontario Museum sketchbook with views of "Lake Ontario & St. Lawrence River' (ROM: 958.70 A-AG). The photographs were purchased by Don Kellaway and these copies were made by Lois Foster.

Whitefield, Edwin

Photograph of bearded man

  • CA ON00156 2017-41
  • Item
  • c.1870

Photograph of a young, bearded man, taken by Margaret Christie of Madoc, Ontario.

Christie, Margaret

Photograph of drawing of St. Peter's Presbyterian Church, Madoc

  • CA ON00156 2020-010
  • Item
  • c.1870

Photograph of a drawing of St. Peter's Presbyterian Church in Madoc, Ontario. A note on the back of the image states that the church burned down in 1873 and the house on the left was the residence of Rev. David Wishart, later owned by George Gillespie.

Collection of tintype and albumen photographs

  • CA ON00156 2022-056
  • Series
  • c.1860-1870

Photographs of unidentified individuals. The albumen prints were published by D. Morrice of Madoc, D. J. Wallace, I. Forrest of Belleville and Porral of Gibraltar.

Morrice, David

Mounted clippings with drawings of Belleville institutions

  • CA ON00156 2021-026
  • File
  • 1840-1876

Three mounted newspaper clippings with printed illustrations of Belleville institutions:

  1. Deaf and Dumb Asylum, November 1870
  2. Albert College, December 1870
  3. 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).

Plan of subdivision in Plainfield

  • CA ON00156 2021-088
  • Item
  • 1877

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".

Emerson, John, P.L.S.

Page from 'Picturesque Canada' by George Monro Grant

  • CA ON00156 2018-111
  • Item
  • 1882

Page 645/646 from the publication 'Picturesque Canada', with coloured drawing of the Tabernacle and St. Michael's churches on Church Street and Madoc and iron mines.

Letters found in former Cronk property in Deseronto, Ontario

  • CA ON00156 DA 2013.19
  • File
  • 1881-1882

Letters found in the Cronk house.
1) Feb 1881 draft letter to Willliam Aull from his sister, Sarah Jane Cronk (wife of Reuben)
2 & 3) Two letters from E.G. Webb, postmaster of Elkland, Tioga County, Pennsylvania to Reuben Cronk, Chief of Police in Deseronto, re a fugitive staying in the town. 28 Jan and 21 Feb 1882
4) Nov 1882 letter to Reuben Cronk from J. N. Emerson complaining about boys interrupting rehearsals at the school in Deseronto

Cronk (family)

Etching 'A View in Belleville - 1882'

  • CA ON00156 2017-66
  • Item
  • 1882

Etching of Church Street in Belleville, Ontario, looking south with the Tabernacle and St. Michael's churches on the left and right of the image, respectively. The McCurdy house is visible on the right of the image. Also a news clipping of a 'Time Capsule' from the Intelligencer, featuring the same image.

Photographs transferred from Belleville Public Library

  • CA ON00156 2015-29
  • Series
  • c.1860-1885

Photographs:

  1. Ambrotype photograph of four houses on the west side of the Moira river in Belleville, c.1860
  2. City of Belleville Chemical Fire Engine Group, 1882-1883
  3. Front Street (looking south) decorated to welcome home the men who fought in the North-West Rebellion, 1885
  4. Front Street (looking north) decorated to welcome home the men who fought in the North-West Rebellion, 1885

Digital copy of first communion and confirmation certificate

  • CA ON00156 DA 2014.14
  • Item
  • 1885

Scanned image of a certificate of first communion and confirmation for Virginia Houle (1874-1944), the donor's grandmother. She received her first communion in Deseronto, Ontario, in August 1885 [at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church] and was confirmed in Napanee, Ontario on November 3rd, 1887 [at St. Patrick's Catholic Church].

The certificate was printed by L. Turgis, 60 Rue Des Ecoles, Paris.

Certificates from Tonic Sol-Fa College, London, for Joseph Canniff

  • CA ON00156 2012-29
  • File
  • 1885-1886

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

Tonic Sol-Fa College

Framed photograph of Aldermen and Civic Officials of Belleville

  • CA ON00156 2017-10
  • Item
  • 1887

Framed photograph, a collage of photographs of 26 "Aldermen and civic officials of the City of Belleville" in Queen Victoria's Jubilee Year. The men are identified as: A. N. Pringle; P. J. M. Anderson; W. L. Fellowes; E. G. Porter; W. Reeves; J. N. Lazier; C. Bogart; M. Graham; J. C. Keith; E. H. LaRoche; D. B. Robertson, City Clerk; W. J. Diamond; W. H. Biggar, Mayor; L. H. Henderson, City Solicitor; R. Taylor, Street Surveyor; James Macoun; N. B. Falkiner; J. W. Johnson; R. Tannahill, City Treasurer; G. A. Brown; A. T. Petrie; William Smeaton; D. J. Hay; D. Collins; William Lott; L. Johnson.

City of Belleville

Materials relating to John Wesley Johnson

  • CA ON00156 2019-003
  • Collection
  • c.1870-1887

Two certificates and a photograph relating to John Wesley Johnson, President and later Principal of the Ontario Commercial College (later called the Ontario Business College). The photograph is of the Mayor and Aldermen of Belleville, Ontario in the Jubilee year of 1887.

Johnson, John Wesley

Photograph of 66 Highland Avenue, Belleville

  • CA ON00156 2011-08
  • Item
  • c.1890

Photograph of house at 66 Highland Avenue, Belleville, Ontario, home of Norval Anson and Armintha Bonisteel and later of Walter and Esther (Bonisteel) Sharpe.

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