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Procer, Cameron Law Firm Collection

  • 2009-08
  • Collection
  • 1826-1949

Approximately 1,800 documents created and or collected by the Procter, Cameron law firm and its predecessors in the course of its daily activities. Includes deeds, mortgages, insurance policies, estate papers, business and personal contacts.

Procter, Cameron law firm

Digital photograph of plaque commemorating Simpson's Tavern

  • 2021-062
  • Item
  • 30 July 2021

Plaque commemorating Simpson's Tavern, put up by the Hastings County Historical Society on Front Street, Belleville in 2017.

Text reads: "In 1797 James and Margaret Simpson had a small log tavern at the southeast corner of this intersection. In 1799 they built a frame tavern which became the hub of Meyers' Creek for political rallies, military recruitment, training and courts-martial, Masonic lodge meetings and social gatherings. After James died in 1802, Margaret continued the business and was the first woman granted a tavern license in Midland District. In 1820 Margaret build a frame Georgian-style inn on the northeast corner of the intersection. It was sold in 1825 to the Wallbridge family and was demolished in 1973."

Hill, Amanda

Negatives from Madoc Public Library

  • 2021-063
  • Collection
  • c. 1900s-1910s

The collection contains 8 glass negatives depicting group portraits of men, women and children in farmland and indoor settings. There are also images of farmhouses.

Crown sale grant of land in Marmora Township

  • 2022-039
  • Item
  • 1867

Province of Canada sale of Crown Lands (lot 15 in the fifth concession of Marmora Township) to John Fidlar, yeoman, of Marmora Township for $300.

Government of Canada

Glass lantern slides: Bruce Bairnsfather cartoons and others

  • 2023-021
  • Collection
  • c. 1918

Lantern slides and negatives:

  1. Five lantern slides with drawings of animals
  2. 54 lantern slides with Bruce Bairnsfather cartoons, produced by the Presbyterian Lantern Slide Department, Toronto
  3. Four negatives taken outside a house
  4. Note about the donation of the slides

Bairnsfather, Bruce

Digital copies of materials from Quinte West Public Library

  • 2023-057
  • Collection
  • 1867-1925

Materials donated are:

  1. 1867 map of Trenton, showing lots
  2. Trenton assessment rolls for 1884 and 1918
  3. Fire insurance map of Trenton, 1924

Materials loaned for scanning are:

  1. Map of Trenton, 1913
  2. Map of Trenton, 1917
  3. Panoramic view of Frankford, c. 1925
  4. Group of Trenton soldiers, c.1915

Canada Cement photographs

  • 2024-025
  • File
  • 1954

Two photographs:

  1. Canada Cement Co. Limited Plant No. 5 Belleville, Ont. June 1954
  2. Bowling Banquet at Club Canara, Canada Cement, c.1955

Riley, William E.

Maribeth Bird photograph collection

  • CA ON00156 1981-03
  • Collection
  • c.1880-1947

Photographs of members of the Winsor, Holgate and Searle families of Hastings County, Ontario and the Cannifton Mills of Charles Arthur Holgate.

Bird, Maribeth Lillian

W.H. Waldorf records

  • CA ON00156 1985-01
  • Fonds
  • 1904-1938

This fonds contains one folder of family records, twenty-seven folders of invoices from the following businesses:

  • W.M. Davies Pork Packers and Provision Merchants of Toronto, 1917
  • Dominion Sugar Companies Limited of Chatham, 1917
  • S. Domenico, Wholesale Fruit Merchants of Belleville, 1912-1917
  • Eby-Blain Limited, Wholesale Importing and Manufacturing Grocers of Toronto, 1916-1917
  • Grand Trunk Railroad System, 1917
  • R.B. Hayhoe & Company Importers of Teas and Coffees, Confectioners Supplies of Toronto, 1917
  • H.J. Heinz Company of Toronto, 1916-1917
  • Hodgens and Roberts Limited Tobacconists, Scales and Roberts Company Limited Tobacconists of Toronto, 1917
  • L.P. Hughes Flour and Feeds, Seeds, Rolled Oats and All Kinds of Breakfast Cereals of Belleville, 1917
  • Hydro Electric Power Commission of Ontario – Central Ontario System-Trenton, 1917-1918
  • P.C. Larkin and Company Tea Merchants of Toronto, 1917
  • S.B. McClung, Paints, Oils, Glass, etc. of Trenton, 1917
  • W.E. Mayhew – Trent Valley Mills of Trenton 1916-1917
  • William Patterson and Son Company of Belleville, 1916 to 1918
  • Wm. Rennie Company Limited Seeds of Toronto, 1916-1917
  • George A. Robertson and Son Limited, Wholesale Groceries of Kingston, 1908-1917
  • John Sloan & Company of Belleville, 1917
  • Swift Canadian Company of Toronto, 1917
  • Telfer Bros. Limited of Toronto, 1917
  • Trenton Garage, 1916 1917
  • White and Company Limited Fruit, Produce and Fish of Toronto, 1917
  • Dalley Products Limited of Hamilton, 1917
  • W.J. Crothers Company of Kingston, 1917
  • R.B. Cooper of Belleville, 1917
  • Belleville Creameries, 1917
  • Belleville Cider and Vinegar Company, 1917
  • Bell Telephone of Trenton, 1917
  • Armstrong and Paffard of Toronto, 1917

There is also: one folder containing pages from a ledger, one cash book volume, one folder of sales slips with a sales slip book, and one folder of receipts, orders and correspondence.
There is a folder containing land deeds and personal papers.

Waldorf, William H.

F. Henry F. Skill railway photos

  • CA ON00156 1989-7
  • Collection
  • c. 1970s-1990s

Contains photographs of railway stations, boxcars, tracks, roadbeds, and bridges in Hastings County. There are also images of maps, factories and abandoned sites.

Skill, F. Henry F.

Arthur Tufts collection

  • CA ON00156 2007-05
  • Collection
  • 1937-2000

Materials collected by Arthur Tufts (father of Marilyn Hughes), including:

  • Negative of a photograph of children and staff of Tweed Consolidated School, 1932-1933
  • Printed letter from Harold Walsh to the voters of East Hastings, 1 October 1937
  • 'A History of St. John's United Church, Tweed, Ontario 1957-1969' by Mrs C. R. Porritt, 1967
  • Printed photo directory of St. John's United Church, Tweed, Ontario, 2000
  • Printed 'seniority list' of names of 266 employees of Corby Distilleris Limited at 15 September 1974, with their date of starting work
  • Published history of 'Moira Lodge A.F. & A.M. No. 11 G.R.C. March 10th, 1801 to 1976' by H. S. Robbins
  • Published history 'Moira Lodge A.F. & A.M. No. 11 G.R.C. Bicentennial 1801-2001' by Paul Foster

Tufts, Arthur Herman

Scrapbook commemorating the official opening of Glanmore

  • CA ON00156 2007-27
  • Collection
  • July 1973

Scrapbook pages with 20 colour photographs of the opening of Glanmore on 7 July 1973, with subsequent newspaper reports on the occasion, invitations and commemorative booklet.

Oil painting of building known as 'Meyer's Mill'

  • CA ON00156 2007-29
  • Item
  • 1990

Small oil painting of the former Burrell Axe Factory building (commonly known as Meyer's Mill) at 54 Station Street in Belleville, Ontario.

Clarke, Rea Covert

List of students at Deseronto High School

  • CA ON00156 2009.04
  • Item
  • 1929

List of names scanned from an autograph book owned by Agnes Sexsmith in 1929. Names are:
Olive Hewitt
Frank McCable
Thelma Melburn
Ralph Melburn
Walter Winter
Harold Winter
WIlfrid Winter
Eileen McAllister
Percy Marshall
Ross Marshall
Andrew Tulluch
Donald Tulluch
Vincent Sexsmith

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