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A Lancaster from 630 Squadron of the Royal Air Force

  • CA ON00156 2024-015
  • Item
  • 2024

Article on a Lancaster bomber which crashed near the French villages of Tramont Emy and Tramont Lassus on the night of July 24/25, 1944. One of the two men who died in the crash was Pilot Officer Ross William Lough of Belleville, Ontario.

Inès, Warme

Digital photographs of items at Gilead Community Centre

  • CA ON00156 2023-110
  • Item
  • 2023

Photographs of items at Gilead Community Centre, 420 Bronk Road, Corbyville, Ontario:

  1. Plaque with text "In Grateful Thanks for Mr. Wilfred Clare & his wife Olive who donated this land-site to the Gilead Community, August 6, 1959"
  2. Clock inscribed in memory of Carman Huffman, 1921-2013

City of Belleville. Community Services Department

Research materials on Charlotte Sills

  • CA ON00156 2024-005
  • File
  • 2023

Research notes and newspaper clippings about Charlotte Sills, compiled as background information for a cemetery tour held in June 2023.

Spice, Patti

The Heroes of Batoche

  • CA ON00156 2022-018
  • Item
  • 2022

Account of the Hastings County individuals who served in the North-West Resistance/Rebellion of 1885.

Brearley, Donald T.

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

Memorials

  • CA ON00156 2021-092
  • Item
  • 2021

A compilation of short character sketches about soldiers of the First and Second World Wars from Hastings County who died but are not memorialized at the cenotaph, monument, or memorial park where they were born.

Brearley, Donald T.

Emergency alert about Government of Ontario stay-at-home order

  • CA ON00156 2021-035
  • Item
  • 8 April 2021

Screenshot of an emergency text message alert sent by the Government of Ontario on 8 April 2021 about the stay-at-home order which came into effect on that day to suppress the spread of the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Government of Ontario

Digital photographs of Collip memorial unveiling events

  • CA ON00156 2021-089
  • File
  • 16 October 2021

Photographs of participants and guests in events held on 16 October 2021 to mark the unveiling of the Dr. James Bertram Collip Reflective Gardens in Belleville, Ontario. Guests included Dr. Alison Li, author of a biography of Collip, and Major Charles Wyatt, Collip's great-grandson. Also present were MP Ryan Williams, MPP Todd Smith, Mayor Mitch Panciuk, Warden Rick Phillips, Rihanna Harris, and Collip Committee members Richard Hughes and Ian Sullivan.

Warren, Marilyn

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