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Photograph of King George School, Belleville, Ontario, dated 20 September 1929.

Five annotated photographs of Belleville, Ontario, taken during the March 1936 floods.

Photograph of 39 children and one woman underneath a window to a brick wall. The photograph was taken by Thomas Donoahue of Tweed, Ontario.

Minute book of the Canadian Order of Foresters, Court Quinte No. 1. The fraternal society met in Deseronto, Ontario. The minutes record applications for membership of the society, payments of bills and notes of people who addressed the group. There are some loose papers inside the volume, mainly applications for admission, with reports of character committees on the back.

Copies of Belleville's 'Daily Ontario' and 'Daily Intelligencer' newspaper articles relating to the Battle of Vimy Ridge, published in April 1917 and articles from the 'Ontario Intelligencer' relating to the opening of the Vimy Memorial in May 1932.

Donated by Laurel Bishop, November 2016.

Photograph of members of the Queen's University Aeschylean Society (associated with members of the Education faculty). Names of members in the photograph are:

• W. J. Hyland, Secretary-Treasurer
• F. McNab
• W. J. Weir, B.A.
• Miss E. F. White
• R. S. Foley, B.A., Prophet
• Miss M. Bennett
• G. E. Copeland, B.A.
• Miss M. C. Money
• Miss G. Hazard, M.A.
• W. J. Lamb, M.A., President
• Miss A. Haight, B.A.
• Miss M. Rose
• Miss H. Miller
• Miss A. Pierce, B.A.
• G. L. Warner
• N. Miller, M.A.
• Miss W. Girdler, M.A.
• Miss M. Stewart, B.A., Vice-President
• Professor Laird, M.A., B. Phil., Honorary President
• Dean Ellis, M.A., B.Sc.
• Inspector Stuart
• Miss B. Robson, M.A.
• Miss E. Bishop
• Miss W. Garvin
• Miss D. Stewart, M.A.
• Miss V. Norrish, Historian
• Miss L. Phillips, B.A., Poetess
• Miss J. McAlister, B.A.

Photograph of the Commercial Department of Belleville Business College, Belleville, Ontario, 10 March 1903. Names on photograph:

• Fred Wannamaker, Hartsmere, Ont.
• H. A. Millar, Cardinal, Ont.
• George Cook, Belleville
• Frank Pillsworth, Belleville
• Blake Milligan, Melrose, Ont.
• A. D. McDonell, Greenfield, Ont.
• J. A. Toner, Port Ashford, Que.
• J. D. Johnson, Sydney, C.B.
• Alex. Hosie, Belleville
• Fred Ketcheson, Belleville
• Raymond Zufelt, Belleville
• J. A. Wilson, Belleville
• Thomas Fenlon, Stoco, Ont.
• Harold Sanders, Belleville
• E. Bourassa, St. Barthelemi, Que.
• Fred Denyes, Plainfield, Que.
• J. D. Hutchison, Lemesurier, Que.
• Aylmer Frederick, Campbellford, Ont.
• Ryerson Vandervoort, Trenton, Ont.
• J. F. Treverton, Belleville
• J. Mackewen, Foxboro, Ont.
• Laura Mouck, Tweed, Ont.
• Walter Goswell, Foxboro, Ont.
• Daisy McDonald, Belleville
• Harry Mackie, Belleville
• Dora McPherson, Bouck's Hills, Ont.
• Anson Lowry, Picton, Ont.
• May McDonald, Tyndal, Man.
• J. W. Sprague, Demorestville, Ont.
• Florence Ellis, Lindsay, Ont.
• J. D. Burnet, St. Timothee, Que.
• Blanche Banford, Hainesville, Ont.
• Angus F. Pringle, Belleville
• Harry Denton, Assistant
• A. M. McInnes, Teacher
• J. A. Tousaw, Teacher
• J. Frith Jeffers, M.A., Principal
• S. T. Thompson, Teacher
• Douglas Kirby, Assistant
• Maggie Troy, Belleville
• Carl Sills, Foxboro, Ont.
• Robert Bunnett, Plainfield, Ont.
• George A. Mathison, Havelock, Ont.
• Helen E. Moore, Belleville
• Bidwell Sharp, Belleville
• Fred Clark, Belleville
• Harry Richards, Wooler, Ont.
• John Dale, Madoc, Ont.
• Lizzie Farrell, Belleville
• George Denyes, Plainfield, Ont.
• J. M. Dodd, Elmside, Que.
• W. A. Grills, Chapman, Ont.
• Benson Wannamaker, Hartsmere, Que.
• Pearl Montague, Gananoque, Que.
• M. I. Corrigan, Winchester, Ont.
• James E. Palmer, Corbyville, Ont.
• Wakefield Ward, Foxboro, Ont.

Photograph of the Special Penmanship Class of Ontario Business College, Belleville, Ontario, 30 March 1895, taken by D. A. Weese, photographer. Names: W. R. Johnston, Renfrew, Ont. J. W. Gillissie, Kenmore, Ont. A. R. Eason, Keene, Ont. T. J. Lancaster, Birdsall, Ont. M. Smith, Parrsboro, N. S. P. D. Sprung, Mountain View, Ont. C. H. Eplett, Coldwater, Ont. H. L. Durrant, St. Vincent, B. W. I. J. D. Payne, Port Stanley, Ont. S. Hilton, Montreal, Que. R. K. Goodill, Rolling Dam, N. B. W. Walmsley, Waupoos, Ont. George p. McGowan, Rolling Dam, N. B. E. D. Miller, Royalton, N. B. A. E. McLaughlin, Bass River, N. S. A. C. Baker, Teacher J. W. Johnson, F. C. A., Principal W. J. Osborne, Teacher W. B. Robinson, Principal Jessie Anderson, Teacher A. M. Loucks, Morrisburg, Ont. Agnes McKinnon, Lake Talon, Ont. E. E. Bradford, Wilmington, Del. M. E. Ostron, Rednersville, Ont.
*W. McVay, St. Stephen, N. B.

Postcard addressed to Miss Florence Roberts of Paris, Ontario, with a picture of the Bay of Quinte Bridge on the front. Mailed in October 1905. Signed 'Eva'.

Photograph of 49 young women in white skirts and shirts, with dark scarves, sitting on rugs in a garden. Possibly students of St. Agnes School, Belleville, Ontario.

Photograph of staff of H. Corby Distilleries Limited, Corbyville, Ontario. The photograph was taken outside the distillery, with two of the company's trucks in the background.

Typescript transcription of the diary of Constable John McCrodan of Belleville Police, Belleville, Ontario from August 1869 to March 1870. The original diary is in the possession of Mrs Cathy Atkinson, a descendant of McCrodan. It was transcribed by Lindi Pierce in 2016.

A heart-shaped publication of mini-postcard images of Belleville produced by Charles B. Scantlebury in 1907.
Two photo-postcards of Belleville, Ontario, during spring flooding [possibly 1936], one showing the broken footbridge, the other taken on Bridge Street West.

Sunday school attendance register for Marmora Methodist Church, Marmora, Ontario, including a printed page with an image of the late Canon C. M. Harris, 1854-1923, Rector at Marmora. Also banquet invitation and menu for an event held at the Hotel Quinte for Hastings County councillors on 10th December 1926.

Various electronic files of research notes made by Al Cleary in his time as a volunteer at the Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County. They include research on mills and dairies of Hastings County, Ontario; research for patrons of the Archives and notes on the history of the Belleville Fire Department.

Collection contains:

1. Scrapbook containing photographs and notes relating to Moira School, compiled in 1954 and including older photographs and correspondence. Some photographs missing
2. File of correspondence addressed to John Owen Herity who published an article about Moira School in the Intelligencer of 5th February 1938
3. File on Moira Church containing program for a reunion in 1977 and a celebration of its 150th anniversary in 2004
4. File of two newsletters written by Annie Cook of Erin in 1983 and 1984

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.

Photographs and documentary materials, including Bleecker family and Harrison family collections.

Two postcards and one photograph of flooding in Belleville, Ontario in 1936.

Scanned image of a photograph of the house at 153 Victoria Avenue, Belleville, Ontario. The house was built by Charles Frederick Smith in around 1878 and sold by Smith to John Wesley Johnson in 1889 for $4,250. Johnson was the Principal of the Ontario Business College in Belleville and Mayor of Belleville, 1897-1900, and Member of the Provincial Parliament for Hastings West, 1908-1919.