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Sports, recreation and leisure With digital objects
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Items transferred from the Belleville Intelligencer

  • CA ON00156 2021-075
  • Collection
  • 1903-2017

Collection of materials comprising:

  1. Photograph of Intelligencer press room, 1903
  2. Framed and mounted front page of the Daily Ontario for 28 April 1924 (with Gwen Lazier story)
  3. Belleville Diesel Electric O.H.A. Senior Hockey Club programme, 1949-1950 (donated by Harm Bisschop)
  4. Framed aerial photograph of Belleville by Richard Lumbers, June 1965
  5. Printing proof for front page of The Intelligencer of 14 June 1977
  6. Quinte Air Show calendar, 2017

Intelligencer

Belleville Senators: notes for City Council and Staff

  • CA ON00156 2016-72
  • Item
  • September 2016

One-page information sheet on the Belleville Senators, the American Hockey League and the planned renovation and expansion of the Yardmen Arena at the Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre.

City of Belleville

Additional materials from Don Kellaway

  • CA ON00156 2019-034
  • Collection
  • 1918-2016

Items accumulated by Don Kellaway including:
1) Canada Registration Board certificate for Maurice J. Callaghan (donor's father-in-law), issued 22 June 1918
2) Two pay packet envelopes for Maurice Callaghan for $43.45 and $85.05 (latter from The Steel Co. of Canada), undated
3) Photograph album created by S. Alec Gordon of a canoe and camping trip on the Trent River from the Bay of Quinte to Peterborough, July 1932
4) File of correspondence and research notes about the Callaghan family, 2016

Kellaway, Don

Photographs of Deseronto town signs

  • CA ON00156 DA 2014.05
  • File
  • 2006

Colour photographs of the town’s two original “Heart of Walleye World” fish signs and the three signs which were painted in 2006 to replace the old ones. The plywood was donated by the Town of Deseronto and the work of cutting out the fish shapes was undertaken by Tom Usher. Diane Myers painted the signs and the fish scales were done by a man called Gerry [surname unknown] who appears in the last two photographs.

Myers, Diane

Photographs and papers from Bev Boomhour

  • CA ON00156 DA 2014.25
  • File
  • 1953-2006

Three photographs loaned for scanning:
1) 1953 at Deseronto High School of Bev Cole (later Boomhour), Paula Akey, Ken Scovell, Jean Armitage and Donna Cole
2) 1961 taken inside Lucky Strikes Lanes, including Hugh and Winnie Magee and Vern Boomhour
3) 1968 Brownie pack picking up garbage on the site of the former Deseronto Public School (blurry). Pack leaders were Dorothea Keech and Bev Boomhour.
Papers for the Archives:
4) May 31st, 1979 Deseronto Public School ‘Items of Interest’ letter
5) 2006 Municipal Elections list of nominations for the Town of Deseronto, with notes of those elected.

Memorial (Hume) Arena materials

  • CA ON00156 2018-053
  • Collection
  • 1959-2004

Three registration certificates for the refrigeration plant at the Hume Arena in Belleville, Ontario: 1959, 1969, 1970.
Newspaper clippings: Benzie Sangma article 'Memorial Arena memories' published 4 October 2003 and article from 'Hockey Reporter' Fall 2004 edition on historic Ontario arenas, including the Memorial Arena in Belleville.

Smith family photographs

  • CA ON00156 2014-49
  • Fonds
  • 1872-2000

The fonds consists of 633 photographs, 23 negatives, letters, sympathy cards, business cards, newspaper clippings, genealogy and family history and a few business papers belonging to the Smith family, primarily Frank Smith of Madoc. The photographs found in this fonds mainly depict the area around Madoc, with some from Bancroft, Maynooth and other places in Hastings County. A large number of the photographs were taken on vacation or while travelling through Canada and the United States. The photographs were taken in Florida, Atlantic City, Pittsburgh, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Healy Falls, Shaw Falls, Coppercliffe, Ottawa, Port Carling, Gaspe, Napanee, Madoc, Bancroft, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick.

The families primarily depicted in the photographs are the Smith family, McCaw family, Swayne family and Cassidy family. Many of the photographs have names and places written on the back of them. Other people mentioned on the photographs include: Jean Phillips Thompson, Mary Smith Barton, Aunt Vera, Muriel Smith, George Wright, Hugh Pepper, Frank Smith, Frank and Jane Packer Ingersoll, Elizabeth Baker, Martin Porter, Kay Seaton, Helen Whycock, Bessie Woods, Tom Ross, Jack and Ann Yonkers.

There are 3 letters from Henry and Eliza Smith between 1872 and 1874; a birth certificate for Frank Smith, news clippings on the Smith and McCaw families and events in Madoc. There are also family trees and other genealogical information connecting the Smith, McCaw and other families. Much of the information appears to have been gathered by Mary Elizabeth Barton (born Smith: lived from 1921 to 2017).

Smith (family)

Colin Wilcox collection

  • CA ON00156 2013-15
  • Collection
  • 1962-1979

Collection includes: newspaper clippings (1962-1972) and 1963 program relating to the YMCA So-Ed club; letters from the Belleville Horticultural Society to Mr and Mrs Wilcox granting them Trillium awards for their garden, 1973-1979; two editions of the Intelligencer for 4 March 1966, with slightly different headlines.

Belleville Yardmen Benefit Fund materials

  • CA ON00156 2018-124
  • Collection
  • 1977

Belleville Yardmen Benefit Fund lottery ticket, photograph of six members of the Board of the Fund and fifteen colour slides of the Quinte Sports Centre under construction.

Belleville Yardmen Benefit Fund

Weir, George Vernon

Vernon Weir discusses his life in Wallbridge and working for the CNR and London Life Insurance Co. as well as attending St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Belleville.

Weir, George Vernon

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