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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.

Auction poster for goods of L. W. Yeomans

  • CA ON00156 2020-078
  • Item
  • 21 August 1885

Poster for sale to be held on 28 August 1885 at the home of L. W. Yeomans in Queen Street, Belleville, Ontario.

Intelligencer

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

Napanee, Tamworth & Quebec Railway reference book for Hungerford Township

  • CA ON00156 2017-81
  • Item
  • 1888

List of 81 landowners in Hungerford Township and the village of Tweed who gave up land for the Napanee, Tamworth and Quebec Railway's extension to Tweed in Hastings County. The book lists names of occupiers, concession and lot and acreage of the land taken by the railway company. A note on the front of the volume certifies that the reference book was lodged with the Registrar of Hastings County on October 29th, 1888.

Napanee, Tamworth and Quebec Railway Company

"Indian Land Sale" Grant of land for Deseronto High School

  • CA ON00156 DA 2020.19
  • Item
  • 2 October 1889

Grant of three acres in Deseronto, Ontario, part of the territory of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte, to the Board of the Deseronto High School (John Newton, Frederick Sherwood Rathbun, Thomas Roach, Arthur Stanley Valleau, Herbert Burt Rathbun and Thomas Hamlin Nasmith), for the sum of $2,500. A stamp on the reverse of the deed states that it was registered on 12 May 1965.

Government of Canada

Carmel Methodist Church register and minute book

  • CA ON00156 2021-070
  • Item
  • c. 1857-1890

A Sunday School register and minute book from the Carmel Methodist Church. There is also a flyer from the United Church of Canada regarding a Bay of Quinte Conference held from October 12-16, 1946. There is also a document from the Missionary and Maintenance Committee in Thomasburg, dated September 25, 1946.

Newspaper article about wood gas in Deseronto

  • CA ON00156 2020-018
  • Item
  • 4 February 1890

Newspaper clipping taken from page 4 of the Pittsburgh Daily Post, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania published on 24 February 1890, concerning the manufacture of wood gas from sawdust in Deseronto, Ontario.

Pittsburgh Daily Post

Business diary of William Nisbet Ponton

  • CA ON00156 2023-011
  • Item
  • 1890
  1. Handwritten notes of daily business activities by William Nisbet Ponton
  2. Deed from Richard and Hannah Eliza Bamber to W. H. Maines of the northwest quarter of lot 6 in the ninth concession of Sidney Township, 21 February 1884
  3. Mortgage of the same property by Allan Edward and Alice Maud Maines to William Maines, 7 April 1897

Ponton, William Nisbet

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.

Digital copy of a photograph of George Hamilton Backus

  • CA ON00156 2022-005
  • Item
  • c.1890

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.

Autograph book of Maggie Maud Mary Simmons

  • CA ON00156 2007-25
  • Item
  • 1882-1891

Autograph book of Maggie Maud Mary Simmons of Frankford, Ontario (1868-1923). Includes signature of Horatio Gilbert Parker (Parker's mother was Samantha Jane Simmons).

Simmons, Margaret Maud Mary

Photograph album of Scott and Pine family members

  • CA ON00156 2011-47
  • Item
  • 1891

Photograph album "Presented to Mrs Elias Pine by her affectionate niece Miss Elida Pine of Chicago June 26th 1891".

The album held photographs of:
1) Abel Wesley Scott, his wife Mary Walpoyes Scott and their children, Nina and Fred, taken by H. McNeill of Fredonia, New York
2) Gilbert Abbott, taken by W. W. Higgins of Trenton, Ontario
3) May Scott (daughter of Abel Wesley Scott), taken by Krauss and Ebersole of Lima, Ohio
4) Mr and Mrs Walpoyes, brother of Mary Walpoyes Scott, taken by J. J. Hover of Lima, Ohio
5) Sylvester Pine junior taken by Robert McCormick of Belleville, Ontario
6) Eliza and Arvilla Ashby, daughters of Hannah Scott Ashby
7) Alice Ashby, second daugther of Hanna Scott Ashby and Thomas Ashby, taken by Harrison Putney of King Street, Oshawa, Ontario
8) Sylvester Pine and his wife Beatrice Swetman Pine
9) Wallace Scott (brother of Maturah Scott Pine) and his wife Jane Fitzgeralds Scott, taken by Bairstow of Warren, Pennsylvania
10) Two unidentified women, taken by Ahlborn of 335 West Madison Street, Chicago
11) Jane Day Morey, cousin of Maturah Scott Pine, taken by Brock & Co. of Trenton, Ontario
12) Abel Wesley Scott, brother of Maturah Scott Pine, taken by Stewart & co., 90 & 92 Federal Street, Allegheny, Pennsylvania
13) Mahala Swetman, born 11 May 1833, mother of Beatrice Pine
14) Nina Scott, eldest daughter of Abel Wesley Scott, taken by Hermans Art Gallery of Lima, Ohio
15) Minnie Ashby, eldest daugther of Hannah Scott Ashby, taken by W. F. Johnson of Picton, Ontario
16) Margaret Stainger, a Scottish friend of Etta Pine Humphrey, taken by Edsall at the West Side Gallery, 487 Eighth Avenue, New York
17) Eliza Purdy Scott, wife of Thomas Scott and mother of Maturah Scott Pine
18) Alveretta Scott Cryderman, youngest daughter of Thomas and Eliza Scott
19) Fred and Nina Scott, eldest children of Abel Wesley Scott and Mary Walpoyes Scott, taken by E. T. Bowdle of Lima, Ohio
20) Benjamin Frank Cryderman, husband of Alveretta Scott, taken by Tait & Arthur of Bowmanville, Ontario
21) Gid Anderson and sister, children of Betsy Gardiner Anderson, who was sister of Abigail Gardiner Pine (mother of Elias Pine)
22) Albert and Georgina Button "neighbours of Grandma Pine", taken by Wallace of Belleville, Ontario
23) Hannah Scott Asbhy, second daughter of Thomas and Eliza Scott [tintype]
24) Charlie Walpoyes, taken by Bairstow of Warren, Pennsylvania
25) Archie Green, husband of Ruth Scott Green, sister of Thomas Scott, before his wife's death [tintype]
26) Archie Green, husband of Ruth Scott Green, sister of Thomas Scott, after his wife's death, taken by W. S. Gamsby of Orono, Ontario
27) Mrs Jane Day Morey and her three children, George, Will, Martha
28) Photograph of a Scott baby taken by A. J. Stiles of Tidioute, Pennsylvania
29) Martha Purdy Day, sister of Eliza Purdy Scott, taken by Brown & Redick of Trenton, Ontario
30) C. S. Conger, taken by W. H. Dame of Picton, Ontario
31) Orilla Scott Phillips, daughter of Stephen Scott (brother of Thomas Scott), Abel Wesley Scott, brother of Maturah Scott Pine, Elva Scott Tucker, daughter of John Scott, wife of Milford Tucker [tintype]
32) Nina Scott, daughter of Abel Wesley Scott
33) Reuben Burlingham "a friend of mother's", taken by Mrs Amy James of Front Street, Belleville, Ontario
34) Dan Day, son of Martha Purdy Day
35) Martha Kelley Pine, wife of James Pine (eldest brother of Elias Pine) [tintype]
36) Mr Wall "a friend" [tintype of a man in military uniform]
37) Thomas Scott, father of Maturah Scott Pine [tintype]
38) Abel Wesley Scott, son of Thomas and Eliza Scott [tintype]
39) Washington Purdy Scott, eldest son of Thomas and Eliza Scott [tintype]
40-42) three small photographs of unidentified people
43) Hannah Scott Ashby, twin sister of Abel Wesley Scott, taken by Bonnycastle of Campbellford, Ontario
44) Murney Ferguson and wife, taken by Isaac of Upland, California

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