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Digital images of Corbyville

  • CA ON00156 2016-74
  • File
  • 1950s

Eight small digital images. These are 3 photos of Gerald Pope's store in Corbyville, Ontario, during the 1950s, the section gang working on the tracks in 1954, a photo of Main Street, Trenton, Ontario, and the Pope farm in Victoria Church, in Prince Edward County.

Pope (family)

Digital copies of Bishop's Seeds catalogues

  • CA ON00156 2018-086
  • Series
  • 1950, 1965

Digital copies of Bishop's Seeds catalogues from 1950 and 1965, made from originals held by the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington, Ontario. The Royal Botanical Gardens also holds catalogues for 1951, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971 ,1974, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 in their collection.

Bishop's Seeds

High School entrance examination reprints

  • CA ON00156 2011-31
  • Series
  • 1950

Publications from The James Texts Limited of Belleville, Ontario:
1) High School Entrance Reprints of Examination Papers Ontario Last Sixteen Years
2) High School Entrance Answers of Examination Papers Ontario Last Sixteen Years

Digital copies of photographs from Robert J. Burkitt

  • CA ON00156 DA 2011.28
  • Series
  • 1950-1970

Ten photographs taken in and around Deseronto by the Burkitt family. Bill Burkitt ran Burkitt's Groceteria at 344 Main Street, Deseronto in the 1950s and 1960s.

2011.28 (1) Snapshot of Robert Burkitt. c.1953
2011.28 (2) George Wannamaker, the butcher in the Burkitt Groceteria, Main Street, Deseronto, Ontario, during the 1950s.
2011.28 (3) Snapshot of Tom Burkitt, c.1960
2011.28 (4) Snapshot of Tom Burkitt and Arthur Dawson taken at Camp Quin-Mo-Lac near Tweed.
2011.28 (5) Snapshot of Phyllis Twiddy Creaser and Doris Twiddy Rendell
2011.28 (6) Snapshot of Robert Burkitt taken on Main Street, Deseronto, Ontario with Chapman's Restaurant on the left and Jackson's Hardware to the right.
2011.28 (7) Photograph of Robert Burkitt taken at Deseronto Public School, Deseronto, Ontario.
2011.28 (8) Tom and Robert Burkitt, with their mother, Marjorie, outside the family's grocery store, Burkitt's Groceteria, at 344 Main Street, Deseronto, Ontario, c.1960.
2011.28 (9) Five members of the Burkitt family: Tom and Robert at the rear, Bill and Marjorie Burkitt at the front, with Jim Warder, Marjorie's father. Taken outside the Deseronto Post Office, c.1975.
2011.28 (10) Snapshot of the front of Burkitt's Groceteria, 344 Main Street, Deseronto, Ontario, c.1955.

Alpha Dairies butter papers

  • CA ON00156 2017-82
  • Item
  • c.1950

Three sheets of paper used for wrapping pound weights of 'Alpha brand Creamery Butter, First Grade' produced by Alpha Dairies Limited of 57 Cannifton Road, Belleville, Ontario. The dairies are listed at this address in the 1949 Vernon's directory of Belleville.

Alpha Dairies Ltd.

Mary Chambers Sills collection

  • CA ON00156 2018-101
  • Collection
  • c.1950-1960

Two scrapbooks, one containing news clippings of poems, the other with Stirling, Ontario, area births, marriages and death announcements. 23 photographs of young people in the Stirling area, many with names.

Sills, Mary

Negatives and photographs from Northern Electric plant in Belleville

  • CA ON00156 2016-055
  • Series
  • 1951-1956

Negatives and photographs of activities and buildings at the Northern Electric plant on Sidney Street in Belleville, Ontario. These items were contained in a metal Kardex filing drawer. Headings on the file sleeves include:

  • Erecting Gov. Towers [Negative 2019-055-001]
  • Dismantling & Erecting N.E. Wooden Tower [Negatives 2019-055-002 to 2019-055-019 and print of negative 2019-055-017]
  • Wave Guide Flexing Machine Built 1956 by N.E. Co Belleville [Negatives 2019-055-020 to 2019-055-078 and prints of negatives 2019-055-022, 2019-055-023, 2019-055-024, 2019-055-027, 2019-055-028, 2019-055-029, 2019-055-030 and 2019-055-047]
  • City Fire Dept Demonstration 1955 [4 negatives including 2019-055-084 and 2019-055-085]
  • Fire in Shopmen's Wash Rm. Partition. 1955 [5 negatives, 5 prints]
  • Painting Chain Link Fences 1955 Contractor Carter & Son [2 negatives]
  • Parking Lots 1951 [Includes negative 2019-055-089]
  • Employee Infraction on City Parking Regulations 1955
  • Car Parks 1955 [Negatives 2019-055-091 to 2019-055-093]
  • Power House 1954 [11 negatives including 2019-055-094 and 2019-095]
    *Deterioration of 1947 Plant Roof Due to Negelcted Leak in Roof Membrane, 1955 [2 prints, 3 negatives]
  • Deterioration in West Wall & South & North Corners of 1947 BLDG. Repointed Brickwork 1955 [30 prints, 32 negatives]
  • Leaking Flashings [1 print]
  • Slippage of Roof Material on 1951 Extension Saw Tooths Corrected 1955 By Application of S.I.S. Roofing. [3 prints, 3 negatives]
  • 1951 Extension to Plant [44 prints, 106 negatives]
  • Paint Shop Construction 1955 [13 prints, 20 negatives]
  • Shop Partitions Designed & Built in Belleville Plant 1953 [4 prints, 7 negatives]
  • Standard Benches Designed & Produced in Belleville Plant 1952 [1 print (labelled 'Sound Proof Booth'), 3 negatives]
  • Moving Pacific Brake from CN Tracks to Belleville Plant [1 print, 4 negatives]
  • 44 K.V. Substation Installation, 1954 [6 negatives]
  • 1953 Fordson Tractor & Attachments [4 prints, negatives 2019-055-096 to 2019-055-103]
  • Taken to Demonstrate Inefficient Material Handling [6 prints, 4 negatives]
  • Warehouse 1954 [4 prints, 14 negatives including 2019-055-104 to 2019-055-106]
  • Excavating for the 1951 Extension [16 prints, 3 negatives]

Nortel Networks

Additional materials from Lois Hicks (Kelly)

  • CA ON00156 2021-025
  • Collection
  • 1951-2013

Programs for events organized by Belleville schools and churches, including:

  1. Elementary school events for King George, Queen Elizabeth, and Queen Victoria Public Schools, 1951-2003
  2. Program for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Quinte Secondary School and graduation ceremonies, 1983 and Nicholson Catholic College awards night, 2009
  3. Four programs for Burns' Suppers and induction services at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Belleville, 1990-2002
  4. Five programs for the Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School 'Kampus Kapers' events, 1957, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988 and 'Elevator' yearbook for 1985
  5. Loyalist College convocation programs for 1985, 1989, 2000, 2011, 2013 and 'Revolutions' yearbook for 1988

Hicks, Lois Marilyn

Claus family collection

  • CA ON00156 DA 2007.08
  • Collection
  • c.1952-c.1963

Collection comprises:

  • Identity card of Ira Claus, aged 68, member of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte [c.1952]
  • ‘In Memoriam’ book (supplied by White Funeral Home, Deseronto) for Ira Alfred Claus, died Mar 18, 1957, aged 73, Brant St., Deseronto, includes names of the bearers and visitors
  • Particulars of War Veteran’s Allowance payable to Bertha Claus, widow of Ira, from Mar 19, 1958
  • Statement of contents insurance coverage of Bertha Claus, Thomas Street, Deseronto, with the John S. White Insurance Agency, Deseronto, Feb 11, 1959
  • ‘Souvenir Booklet published by the 1960-1961 Council of Tyendinaga Indian Reserve, Deseronto, Ontario, Canada’ [1961], front page torn
  • Photograph of boy’s hockey team, sponsored by Sam’s Aluminum [after 1963]

BCIVS 'Elevator' collection

  • CA ON00156 2016-39
  • Collection
  • 1953-1961, 1978

Seven volumes of the 'Elevator' publication of Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School, from:

  • 1953-1954
  • 1955-1956
  • 1956-1957
  • 1957-1958
  • 1958-1959
  • 1959-1960
  • 1960-1961

Also a list of prize winners and entrants into the 50th Anniversary juried Arts and Crafts Show at BCIVS in 1978 and a promotional pen with the name of the school on it.

Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School

Photograph of Mike Stanko and Clare Homan

  • CA ON00156 2020-014
  • Item
  • c.1953

Photograph taken at John and Leatha Homan's farm on Harmony Road in Corbyville, Hastings County, Ontario. It shows Mike Stanko, a displaced person from Poland who came to Canada after the Second World War, and the Homan's son, Clare, next to a car.

Collection of Trenton commemorative newspapers

  • CA ON00156 2023-093
  • File
  • 1953-1980

Three newspapers marking anniversaries of the town of Trenton:

  1. The Courier-Advocate, 5 July 1953
  2. The Trentonian, 20 June 1967 [pages 15, 16, 21 and 22 only]
  3. The Trentonian Centennial Edition, 1980 [part B only]

Trentonian, The

Yardmen Arena collection

  • CA ON00156 2019-085
  • Collection
  • 1953-2003

Various Yardmen and Quinte Sports Centre items:
1) Photograph of Belleville Memos O.H.A. Senior men's hockey team, 1953-1954 with team members' names
2) Souvenir brochure about the Belleville McFarlands, 1959 (donated by Robert and Joyce Wallbridge)
3) Belleville Winter Carnival souvenir programmes, 1971 & 1974
4) Recruitment brochure and letterhead for The Yardmen Drum & Bugle Corps with constitution of the Red Carpet Senior Drum & Bugle Corps Association, c.1973
5) Hastings County Museum brochure and edition of the Belleville Advertiser with front page story on the opening of Glanmore National Historic Site, 18 July 1973
6) File of correspondence between Moira River Conservation Authority and Belleville Yardmen Benefit Fund concerning the purchase of the 1,153 acre Haley-Mellon Lake area in Sheffield Township, with brochures from the Nature Conservancy of Canada, 1973-1975
7) Belleville Yardment Benefit Fund blank stationery and cheques
8) Two photographs: four members of the Belleville Yardment Benefit Fund and the Belleville Yardmen hockey team, c.1976
9) Four Belleville Bobcats Junior Hockey Club souvenir programs, 1977-1978 and 1978-1979
10) Belleville Centennial calendar of events, 1978
11) List of manufacturing industries with addresses and name of person in charge, prepared by the Belleville Economic Development Commission, 1979
12) Quinte Sports Centre brochure and floor plan, c.1980
13) Flyer for two events at the Quinte Sports Centre: Al Martino in concert on 20 April 1980 and dancing to the Carlton Show Band on 3 May 1980
14) Invitation from the Belleville Yardmen Benefit Fund to the C.N.R. Great Lakes Region Ball and plaque unveiling on 10 May 1980
15) Directory of Services & Activities for Belleville Children, c.1980
16) Flyer for the 200th Wintario draw, held at the Quinte Sports Centre on 11 June 1981
17) Five colour photographs and two newspaper clippings about the opening of the Belleville Yardmen dam at West Riverside Park in Belleville on 4 October 1987
18) Flyer for the Royal Canadian Sea Cadets, asking for donations for the Building Fund of the Navy League, Quinte, c.1987

Photographs and papers from Bev Boomhour

  • CA ON00156 DA 2014.25
  • File
  • 1953-2006

Three photographs loaned for scanning:
1) 1953 at Deseronto High School of Bev Cole (later Boomhour), Paula Akey, Ken Scovell, Jean Armitage and Donna Cole
2) 1961 taken inside Lucky Strikes Lanes, including Hugh and Winnie Magee and Vern Boomhour
3) 1968 Brownie pack picking up garbage on the site of the former Deseronto Public School (blurry). Pack leaders were Dorothea Keech and Bev Boomhour.
Papers for the Archives:
4) May 31st, 1979 Deseronto Public School ‘Items of Interest’ letter
5) 2006 Municipal Elections list of nominations for the Town of Deseronto, with notes of those elected.

Digital copies of photographs of Coronation Parade hospital float

  • CA ON00156 2023-034
  • File
  • 2 June 1953

Scanned copies of two photographs (one a reproduction of a printed photograph) showing the Belleville General Hospital float in the Coronation Day parade in Belleville, Ontario, held on 2 June 1953. The float won second prize in the parade. On the float are nurses Joyce Lott (later Foster), Gwen Hart, Anne Crabbe and Doreen Dorland, with doctors McGreer, Winfield and Barfoot, staged as though performing an operation.

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