- CA ON00156 2018-065
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- 1964
Schedule of activities held in Belleville, Ontario during Railway Week, June 22-28, 1964. Includes photographs of locomotives. "Debbie Wade 1964" is written in ink on the front cover.
City of Belleville
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Schedule of activities held in Belleville, Ontario during Railway Week, June 22-28, 1964. Includes photographs of locomotives. "Debbie Wade 1964" is written in ink on the front cover.
City of Belleville
File contains two 1960 newspaper clippings looking back to May 6th and 7th, 1910 with news of the Carmen Opera House and purchasers of cars.
Article on building of Skyway Bridge
Newspaper clipping (possibly from the Intelligencer newspaper of Belleville) with a photograph of the construction of the piers of the new Skyway Bridge at Green Point in Prince Edward County, Ontario.
Part of Deseronto Archives subject files
Newspaper clipping with photograph of Skyway Bridge under construction, and McNews magazine of McNamara of Canada, June 1965, with an article on the construction project.
The 'Monck' Road : colonization road, 1863
File contains newspaper articles concerning the history of the Monck Road, a colonization road primarily, but also intended as a less vulnerable military route between the Upper Great Lakes and the Ottawa Valley, passing near Bancroft, Ontario. The road was surveyed in 1864-1865 and named in honour of Governor-General, Lord Monck. Also included is typescript transcript of an article entitled "Was the Monck Road for Military Use?" / by Dr. J. J. Talman, first published in the Orillia Packet and Times, 27 June 1940
Belleville Grand Trunk Railway Riot 1877
File contains a c.1877 copy of a telegram to Col.Powell in Ottawa, report of the Queen's Own suppressing railway mob in Belleville, c.1877 copy of telegram from Belleville City Council to Lt.Col. Durie of Toronto re military presence required to suppress uprising at Grand Trunk railway, and other miscellaneous documents on the c.1877 railway uprising of workers in Belleville.
Railway : Grand Trunk Railway strike at Belleville, 1876-1877 / by Gerald E. Boyce
File contains a manuscript paper entitled “The Grand Trunk Railway Strike at Belleville, 1876-1877 : a brief outline,” presented by Gerald E. Boyce at a winter, 1965 meeting of the Belleville Rotary Club. The paper discusses the strike action by trainmen and the dispatch of police and companies of the local battalion to deal with strikers and their supporters.
Collection of Deseronto-related materials
This collection contains a variety of materials relating to the history of Deseronto and Hastings County. Items include:
Captain Jack Buchanan describes his childhood in Wales, immigration to Canada and his life on the Great Lakes freighters.
Buchanan, John Albert
Albert Scriven discusses his immigration to Canada, and his farming experience followed by his work in the filtration plant and gas works in Belleville.
Scriven, Albert W.
Display panels about railways, prepared for the Hastings County Historical Society's annual banquet in November 2006.
Celebrating the Bay Bridge of 1891
Display panels with photographs of the various bridges across the Bay of Quinte.
Shannonville Railway Accident, 1872
Part of Records of the Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County
Reproductions of newspaper articles relating to the 1872 Grand Trunk Railway accident at Shannonville, Ontario.
Report of talk on the Grand Trunk Railway strike in Belleville 1877
File contains a newspaper clip about a talk to the Historical Society on the 1877 Belleville Riot after the strike of Grand Trunk Railway workers.
Nick and Helma Mika collection
The collection reflects the publishing interests of Nick and Helma Mika. It comprises four main series: photographic files, reference files, printing process files and other materials. The collection is strong in local history materials, particularly relating to the history of the United Empire Loyalists, railways, and the city of Belleville.
Mika, Helma
A photocopy of a poster created in 1886 proclaiming "Murray Canal Demonstration! The preliminary opening of the Murray Canal will be celebrated on Wednesday, Oct. 6th, '86 at Twelve O'Clock Point, near Trenton, by a grand Demonstration, at which Sir John A. MacDonald and Hon. Messrs. White, Foster & Bowell will be present."
Tyendinaga Township Roads & Bridges
File contains original copies of: Petition with many signatures from residents asking that instead of building a new road that the two already existing be made passable; Motion to locate a road from Lonsdale to the Tyendanaga Grand Trunk Railway Station.
David Pershick collection of railway maps and plans
Ontario Hydro maps for parts of Hastings County and copies of Grand Trunk Railway plans from Library and Archives Canada. Includes a photograph of Canadian National Railway employees at Belleville, Ontario (online at https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/39400300370/) and booklet C.T. 405 from Penn Central with "Special Instructions Governing Operation of Signals and Interlockings", 1968
Three additional Hydro maps were added from David Pershick's estate in January 2024 (2024-007/1-3), with two aerial photographs of railway yards in Toronto (2024-007/4-5, in poor condition).
Pershick, David
Deseronto Archives photographic collection
The photographs are arranged by subject matter and cover activities in and around the town of Deseronto, Ontario. The majority date from the late nineteenth century and many depict the lumber-related industries of the Rathbun Company in Deseronto. There are also photographs of school groups, churches, railways, First World War airfields and portraits of Deseronto citizens.