Collection comprises: 1) Copy of printed notes on the history of the Girl Guide movement in Belleville, c.1963 2) Photocopies of newspaper obituaries and articles about Nan Branscombe, 1971 (and undated) 3) Typed and handwritten notes on Annie E. 'Nan' (Paterson) Branscombe, 1881-1971, founder of the Guides in Belleville, written by Charlotte Kuntze, 2001
Two printed items: 1) Constitution and General Rules of the Electrical Employers' Association of Ontario and Accident Prevention Rules, 1914 2) Rules of the Electric Power Company Limited, Operating Office, Belleville, Ontario, c.1914
Three items relating to James Vincent Doyle: 1) Apprenticeship agreement between Doyle and Alexander Ray of Belleville, 30 April 1899 2) Affidavit concerning the registration of a partnership by J. Vincent Doyle, 4 November 1943 3) Partnership agreement between James Vincent Doyle and Edmund O'Flynn Doyle [his son], 1 April 1948
Collection of materials relating to the Kellaway family of Belleville, Ontario, including: 1) File of certificates and ration books relating to Kenneth Alfred Kellaway (1917-1998) 2) File of typescript notes on the history of the Kellaway family, 2012, and a calendar from Ed Kellaway's Belleville store, 1955
Nineteen photographs of the Norris Whitney bridge between Belleville and Rossmore, Ontario, under construction. Three were taken from the air when Ross Cummings was flying a Cessna 150 over the bridge.
DVD with Episode 2 of 'Mobs Cheanada' featuring the life of Ben Kerr, rum runner. Bill Hunt was one of the experts interviewed for the production. The narration is in Irish with English subtitles.
Panoramic group photograph. Names supplied: Front row Corporal C. V. Wakely Corporal A. Heatley Corporal H. Paterson Sergeant R. J. Stevenson Acting Sergeant G. F. Low 2nd Lieutenant W. J. Scott 2nd Lieutenant R. Hamilton Lieutenant F. D. Williams Lieutenant S. J. Lee Captain W. H. Marnell Captain M. A. Seymour Major J. Rubie Brigadier General C. G. Hoare, C.M.G. Lieutenant Colonel F. R. G. Hoare Lieutenant Colonel A. K. Tylee Major J. Inwood Lieutenant G. J. Blackmore Captain J. W. Langmuir Captain B. F. Bainsmith Captain F. H. Hawksford Sergeant Major W. Manners Flight Sergeant C. A. Hepworth Flight Sergeant F. V. Tree Flight Sergeant H. H. Atkinson Sergeant F. A. Cassore
Second row Mrs Russell Miss Carmen Miss Hennessy Mrs Cody Miss Newbury Mrs Ratcliffe Miss Russell Miss White Miss West Miss Padbury Miss Wilson Miss Major Miss Bullock Miss Pugh Miss Martin Miss McEachern Miss O'Biren Miss O'Loane Miss Harper Miss Humphrey Miss O'Brien Miss McInnes Miss Hogan Miss Melville Miss Steele Miss Dwyer Mrs Weiss Corporal H. G. Wade
Back row 2nd Airman A. Dowell 2nd Airman C. T. Boughner 2nd Airman W. B. Cole 2nd Airman T. A. H. Morrow 2nd Airman L. Landymore 2nd Airman F. Aldridge 2nd Private G. T. Beatty 3rd Airman S. T. Walton 2nd Airman F. C. Baker 2nd Airman R. J. Derry 1st Airman R. Turner 1st Airman J. D. Brown 2nd Airman R. B. Abell 2nd Airman N. Stonehouse 2nd Airman M. D. Fauman 3rd Airman F. O. Basing 2nd Private G. Worrall 3rd Airman Stebbing 2nd Private H. J. McKenzie 2nd Airman J. Kingston 2nd Airman P. W. G. Willey 2nd Private A. Beecher 2nd Private R. J. Luton 2nd Airman M. H. McLean 2nd Private W. J. Lakeman 3rd Airman J. A. McEachon 1st Airman J. Preston Corporal C. W. McPherson
Printed and digital copies of photographs of headstones in Plainfield, Cannifton, and Gilead cemeteries. Cannifton: 80 digital photographs Gilead: 347 digital photographs Plainfield: 200 digital photographs
Collection includes: 1) File of copies of newspaper articles on Frank Morse Robb and copy of the patent for his electronic wave organ. Also includes research notes on the William Finkle Machine business at 393 Sidney Street in Belleville (Bristol Aircraft Products during the Second World War) and an article from 'Remember When' on the Argue family home at 338 Charles Street. 2) File of research notes on Belleville buildings constructed by City Hall builder John Forin, c.1988-1898 3) Copy of paper by Gerry Boyce on 'Conflict and Cooperation: The Cemeteries of Belleville, Ontario', 2003 4) Copy of article by Peter Meehan 'The East Hastings By-Election of 1936 and the Ontario Separate School Tax Question', published in 'Historical Studies' 68, 2002 5) Electronic files of research notes on buildings in east Belleville 6) Electronic files of research notes on buildings in west Belleville
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.
The fonds comprises books, photos and research files about J.B. Collip, his discovery of insulin and the research George Pearce did on Collip. The fonds consists of the following series; printed books, George Pearce research files, letters, photos, newspapers articles and miscellaneous material.
Collection includes correspondence between Donna Fano and Claire Mowat about the circumstances in which Alice was donated to the Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf. Includes a photograph of Farley and Claire Mowat. Also includes 51 digital images taken at an event in Belleville Public Library on 27 June 2013 at which a caricature of Mowat by Susan Moshynski was presented to the library by John Lowry.
Poster with photographs of 11 men from the Ontario School for the Deaf who served in the First and Second World Wars. The men are: Howard Joshua Lloyd, Thomas Edgar Noble, Henry Lloyd Ingram, William Stanley Nurse, Malcolm Wesley Parks, Thomas Alfred Pratt (First World War) and John Wesley Hodgson, Leaworthy Ellis Morrison, James Addison Rickaby, Andrew Carson Stratton, Robert Harold Vaughan (Second World War).
Materials include: 1) Transcription by Lois Foster of an interview from the Daily Intelligencer of 21 November 1903 with Arthur McGinnis, Moira Lodge historian, on 'The Fraternal Societies of Belleville', focusing on the Freemasons 2) Biographical information compiled by the Historical Committee [of Hastings County Historical Society?] in 1982, and introduction to Betsy Boyce's book 'The Accidental Prime Minister', 2000 3) Newspaper clippings relating to Mackenzie Bowell, 1982-2005 4) Correspondence, research materials and speech by Gerry Boyce in relation to the Ontario Heritage Foundation plaque on Mackenzie Bowell's former home at 194 William Street, Belleville, 1982-1984 5) Print of a drawing of Glanmore and the fountain in front of the house by Phillipa Faulkner, 1984 6) Poster 'Beautiful City, Belleville, Ontario' by Terri L. Horricks for the Canadian Mental Health Association, 2006