Four items: 1) Chief Constable's Order Book, 1920-1934, with brief reports of meetings, personnel matters, kept by Alex Kidd 2) Log of reported incidents, 1 January to 6 May 1945, with brief notes on outcomes 3) 'The Great Mac Attack!' published book of cartoons by Tony MacKinnon, 1993 4) Photograph of Tony MacKinnon with Sharon White, 2011
Four items originally owned by William Nisbet Ponton: 1) Writ of summons addressed to Francis Papineau, James Blacklock and James Hill of Belleville, defendants in a case brought by Henry Fowler, served on 10 May 1865 2) Typescript copy of Section 11 of By-law 476 of the City of Belleville, prohibiting people from setting off firearms or rockets or throwing snowballs in streets or public places in the city. By-law originally passed on 16 May 1881 3) Sale poster for auction mortgage sale of the Albion Hotel in Belleville, Ontario on 4 July 1900 4) Menu, program, seating plan, and toast list for the Sixth Congress of Chambers of Commerce of the Empire, held at the Hotel Cecil in London, England on 13 July 1906. (W. N. Ponton was one of the attendees.)
Photographic slides relating to rum running (80) and to First World War pilot training in Deseronto (40), with seven slides of an early aircraft in Belleville.
Two reproduction photographs of Wayne Foley, who was a police constable in Deseronto, Ontario, between 1965 and 1967. One shows the police cruiser, a 1965 Plymouth Fury.
Digital photographs of pages of a scrapbook containing circulars about individuals suspected of crimes or escaped convicts, submitted by police departments across North America to the Toronto Police Service.
Eleven digital photographs of the demonstration at the railway lines in the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in support of the Wet'suwet'en protest against the construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline through their territory.
Six police officers and a motorcycle. Individuals identified as: Inspector J. C. Hayes Constable Jim MacDonald Constable Harry McKee Constable Ken Redding Sergeant Douglas Ellis Constable Jack Bolyx
Police hockey team at the Memorial Arena in Belleville, 23 March 1960. Individuals identified as: Inspector J. C. Hayes Glenn Jacques Bill Armstrong Leo Kent Richard (Dick) Lewis Roy Wood Donald Thoms Donald Yearwood Bob Wright Robert Begbie Lorne Maclinton Bill Stephenson Harry McKee Charlie Peters ? Fullerton Donald Martin
Letters found in the Cronk house. 1) Feb 1881 draft letter to Willliam Aull from his sister, Sarah Jane Cronk (wife of Reuben) 2 & 3) Two letters from E.G. Webb, postmaster of Elkland, Tioga County, Pennsylvania to Reuben Cronk, Chief of Police in Deseronto, re a fugitive staying in the town. 28 Jan and 21 Feb 1882 4) Nov 1882 letter to Reuben Cronk from J. N. Emerson complaining about boys interrupting rehearsals at the school in Deseronto
File contains a by-law handbok on Regulating the Election...” with by-laws passed c.1911, a Hacks and Liveries by-law handbook, and to notices addressing the citizens on by-laws to possibly pass – one about industrial zoning, and the other about raising funds.