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Plans of proposed improvements to water and sewerage systems in Belleville and surrounding areas.

Typescript reports by Gore & Storrie, consulting engineers of Toronto:
1) City of Belleville Report on Proposed Sewage Treatment Plant and Intercepting Sewers, 12 Mar 1945
2) Township of Thurlow Report on Proposed Water Distribution System for Area North and East of the City of Belleville, 11 Jun 1946
3) City of Belleville Utilities Commission Supplementary Report on Water Works System, 20 Feb 1948
4) Report on Sanitary Sewers and Sewage Treatment for the City of Belleville and Parts of Townships of Thurlow and Sidney, Feb 1957
5) The Belleville Utilities Commission Contract for the Construction of Water Purification Plant Extensions 1969, Dec 1969

Typescript copies of agreements for the supply of water:
1) Between the Corporation of the Township of East Whitby and the Public Utilities Commission of the City of Oshawa, 23 Nov 1935
2) Between the Public Utilities Commission of the City of Brantford and the Corporation of the Township of Brantford, 9 Jul 1946

1) Declaration of Elected Office signed by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Belleville and City Clerk Earl M. Dafoe on January 3rd, 1977
2) Certificate of honorary life membership in the Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans in Canada Association, February 5th, 1977
3) 'Friends of Scouting' certificate presented to the City of Belleville by the Boy Scouts of Canada, Belleville District Council, April 10th, 1978
4) Certificate of Membership Emeritus for Ben J. Corke from the Salvation Army Advisory Board, May 3rd, 1993

Lists of Belleville Board of Parks Management members, 1975 and 1976 and note that a tree would be planted in West Riverbank Park to acknowledge Mayor J. B. Corke's service on the Board for 1977.

1) Photograph of J. Ben Corke in Rotary Club jacket shaking another man's hand, c.1963
2) Mayor J. Ben Corke with two men identified as R. D. Sloane, Vice President of North East area and E. G. Thompson, manager of the Belleville Office of Bell Canada, April 30th, 1976
3) Mayor J. Ben Corke holding a plaque commemorating the donation of the Centennial Carillon to the City of Belleville by employees of Bell Canada, Belleville section in 1978

Various photographs of members of City Council and City of Belleville staff.

The photographs and negatives in CB 1/4/1 were taken by Richard Lumbers, including those of the following Mayors of Belleville:
A. McLean Haig, 1962
Jack R. Ellis, 1963
Russell Scott, 1968
Robin Jeffrey, 1973
Ben Corke, 1975
George Zegouras, 1980
Ross McDougall 1994

Lumbers' materials include 51 negatives of Governor General Roland Michener's visit to Belleville in March 1970 and a number of group portraits of City Council between 1971 and 1997.

CB 1/4/2 are seven CD-ROMs containing 247 images taken by Robert (Bob) House between 2004 and 2010 of members of Council and senior City of Belleville staff.

CB 1/4/3 is a reproduction of a portrait of Mayor Reuben S. Patterson, with a negative and a covering letter from Mayor Mary-Anne Sills, 2004.

Minute books covering the following years:

• 1906-1921
• 1922-1928
• 1945-1961
• 1961-1971
• 1972-1978
• 1979-1992
• 1994-2001

By-laws for the following years:

• 1909-1921
• 1922-1939
• 1940-1961
• 1961-1970
• 1971-1978
• 1978-1984
• 1985-1990
• 1991-1995
• 1996-2000
• 2001-2002
• 2002-2004
• 2005-2006

Cash books recording tax payments.

Files relating to loans for home improvements.

Applications for connection to rural electricity services.

Records of motions and resolutions of the Council of the Township of Wollaston and one file of correspondence relating to resolutions (1956-1976).

Nine files of minutes and news clippings relating to meetings of the Women's Study Guild:
1) 1936-1939
2) 1939-1944
3) 1945-1955
4) 1955-1959
5) 1959-1966
6) 1966-1972
7) 1973-1982
8) 1983-1989
9) 1990-1998

Four published books:
1) 'John Wesley - Christian Citizen' by E. C. Urwin and Douglas Wollen (1937)
2) 'The Methodist - a Survey of the Christian Way in Two Centuries' by Henry Carter (1937)
3) 'Youth and Anti-Semitism' by W. W. Simpson (1938)
4) 'James Shaver Woodsworth, untypical Canadian' by Frank H. Underhill (1944)

Letter concerning the publication of 'The Ketcheson Family History' and newspaper clippings concerning the Ketchson farm and cemetery (1967) and the retirement of Tom Hookings (1978) and Ketcheson family reunions.

Photographs of people in military uniform, including Richard Douglas Ponton and William Nisbet Ponton.