Materials relating to Colonel William Nisbet Ponton
- CA ON00156 2013-25
- Collection
- 1899-1937
Photographs, correspondence and printed items formerly owned by William Nisbet Ponton.
Ponton, William Nisbet
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Materials relating to Colonel William Nisbet Ponton
Photographs, correspondence and printed items formerly owned by William Nisbet Ponton.
Ponton, William Nisbet
Letter from Frederick Manlis Miller and research materials
Letter from Frederick Manlis Miller to Thomas Henry Coppin, agent, informing him that Miller had enlisted for active service. Several pages and printouts of 2013 research by Richard Hughes on Miller's family history. Also a copy of a newspaper article on a family history story relating to Hughes' grandmother in England and Belleville mayor George Zegouras, with a copy of a photograph of Zegouras and Hughes.
Hughes, Richard M.
Railway and Air Force books and memorabilia.
Sinclair, William Lewis
Scrapbook compiled by Alice Deacon
Scrapbook compiled by Alice Deacon of 107 Station Street, Belleville, 1914-1919, including newspaper cuttings about Belleville servicemen, theatre programmes and flyers, postcards. The book used to paste the clippings into was Richardson's New Method for the Piano-Forte. The collection also includes 'The Canadian Forces in the Great War' by Colonel A. Foretescue Duguid, 1947, stamped 'Belleville Poppy Committee' on the front cover, 14pp.
Deacon, Alice
Copies of Daily Ontario and Daily Intelligencer articles about Vimy Ridge
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.
Daily Ontario
Military photographs from World War I
Two photographs:
School assignments relating to the Great Depression
A series of 34 student assignments featuring transcripts of interviews with people who experienced the Great Depression in Hastings County, Ontario. One interview was with a veteran of the Second World War.
Hotchkiss, Ron
Research materials on Colonel James Fitzgibbon and Belleville Air Cadet photos
Two files: one contains emails and photocopies of research materials relating to Colonel James Fitzgibbon (1780-1863) and his connections to Belleville, Ontario, compiled in 2011. The other file holds copies of photographs and one original photograph relating to the 133rd Belleville Air Cadet Squadron, 1940-1945.
Geen, John
Scrapbooks relating to naval career of George Woodhouse
Scrapbook files of photographs and newspaper clippings relating to Canadian naval training and activities. Edith Woodhouse's son, George, joined the Royal Canadian Navy in 1943.
Woodhouse, Edith
Various items, including:
1) Receipt from McLaughlin Carriage Company addressed to Patrick T. Tighe, June 1st, 1912
2) Operating Rules, Welland Ship Canal Construction Railway, 1914
3) Rules of the Electric Power Company Limited, Belleville, Ontario, c. 1916
4) Notice of Disposition Claim for Exemption, under the Military Service Act, 1917 for Thomas Tighe of Read, Ontario
5) Returned Soldiers' Handbook, May 1918
6) Leave or Duty Ration Book, Thomas Tighe, November 1918
7) Western Scales of Prices Governing Wages in Rolling Mills, June 30, 1920
8) Western Scales of Prices Governing Wages in Rolling Mills, of Maurice Callaghan, June 30, 1921
9) Callaghan's Ice & Wood Tickets, not dated
10) The Navy League of Canada Dominion Council, Seamanship Pocket Manual, 1944
11) 13 colour photographs of a model of a proposed park behind Belleville City Hall, not dated [c. 1980]
12 and 13) Program and song sheet for Victory in Europe concert by the Trentones, May 12th and 13th 1995
14) Unemployment insurance stamps
15) 'The Cooks' Companion' recipe book published by the St. Andrews Club of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, Belleville, 1932
16) Prize List for World's Fair, Shannonville, September 18th and 19th, 1942
17) Preliminary list of electors for Urban Polling Division No. 9 of Belleville, 1972
18) Agenda and papers of the School Closure Committee of the Hastings County Board of Education, 1992
Kellaway, Don
Digital copies of photographs relating to the lumber industry in Hastings County
Photographs of lumber camps and First World War infantry units in the Marmora area of Hastings County, Ontario.
Decoration Day leaflet and Corby Distillery photographs
Kellaway, Don
Information for Canadian servicemen in the Second World War
Scanned copies of information leaflets and booklets given to Canadian servicemen in the Second World War.
Canada. Department of National Defence
Military items of Clifford Adair LeBlanc
Items relating to Clifford Adair LeBlanc, of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment.
Arthur Sherwin collection of Great Escape materials
Display materials and digital files relating to the Great Escape from the Stalag Luft III prisoner-of-war camp in Germany. Includes digital copies of Arthur Sherwin's pilot log book, letters home, and album of photographs recording a Royal Air Force tour of duty to Aden in January 1947.
Sherwin, Arthur Francis
J. Allan Smith Royal Flying Corps Training Camps Collection
Collection comprises photographs of the two First World War Royal Flying Corps training camps at Deseronto, Ontario and notes for an unpublished book, 'Wings Over Deseronto', on the history of the camps. Camp Mohawk and Camp Rathbun were in operation between May 1917 and November 1918, training men to be pilots for the Western Front. The photographs in this collection are originals and reproductions depicting the aircraft, staff and cadets of the Royal Flying Corps, principally in the Deseronto camps, but also at Camps Borden and Leaside (Ontario) and Camp Taliaferro, in Fort Worth, Texas.
Smith, James Allan
Materials transferred from Deseronto Town Hall
Town of Deseronto
Photographs and papers from Bev Boomhour
Photographs, postcards, and school reports from members of the Covert and Cole families of Deseronto, Ontario. Some photographs are from the First World War training camps in Deseronto.
Flying Officer Lawrence collection
Scanned copies of five photographs collected by Flying Officer Lawrence, an instructor at one of the Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force pilot training camps in Deseronto, Ontario, during the First World War.
1) Aircraft being recovered from the Bay of Quinte by a launch
2–4) Aerial photographs of aircraft C187 with a man ‘wing-walking’ [Lieutenant Ned Ballough]
5) Three men standing next to crashed aircraft C245
Audio recordings of Bill Sharpe's recollections of the Second World War, made for the sound archive of the Imperial War Museum in London, England. The photographs show Bill Sharpe meeting Queen Elizabeth II at Canada House in London.
Sharpe, William Clarence