Research files for the book 'Dancing in the Sky', published by Dundurn Press in 2009. The book examined the history of the Royal Flying Corps in Canada in the First World War. File titles are:
Articles – Magazines
Airmail Flights in Canada
Accidents
Assistants to Gen. Hoare Godfrey
Adam, B.K (his letters)
Appendices
Accident Reports - Mainly Fatalities
Aircraft WWI
Allen, Major Dermott
Alcock, Wilfred
Andrews, C.H
Aces Canadian
Ackerman, Norman
Attestation Papers
Borden
Burke Preggy
Beamsville & Hamilton
Coats
Vernon Castle
Chronology
Canadian Air Force
Cadet Wing Review
Chasing Desperadoes
Cadets – Conditions, Food, Hours
Canadians Role
Charts – Graphs
Calnan, Lindley
Correspondence – Complete or Not Response
Chajkowski from Borden to Texas to Beamsville
Douglas, John Crawford
Deseronto – Accidents, Non-Fatal
Deseronto/Social
Deseronto, Construction
Deseronto, Visits to Tweed
Deseronto and Commanders
Deal with the U.S.A
Des. Rathbun Hospital
Egypt/Eng Training Estabe
Epilogue
Eardley Wilmont
Ferguson Lt. Military Cross Mother
Facts and Statistics, 1911 Population
Flying Minnows
Frostbite Flying
Fatalities, Rules of the Aircraft
Goold, Joe
Golding, K.L Correspondence
Halliway, A Summary
Halstead, J.S, A Mission to the RFC
Hoare Personal qualities, Flies under Niagara Bridge
Negatives of photographs taken by John Fairbairn Anderson. They include images of dams, electricity generating plants, the Beal family cottage on Stoney Lake and photographs of places Anderson visited, including Orillia, Los Angeles, Peterborough, Young's Point, Sulphide, Port Hope, Muskegon (Michigan), Chicago and Trenton (Ontario).
Many of the negatives are associated with an index card, on which Anderson wrote the number of the negative, the subject of the photograph and the date it was taken. There were also a number of negatives with no associated card.
Records of the Quinte Curling Club of Belleville, Ontario, including:
Files of minutes and financial statements, 1957-2021
Printed directories listing officers, members and dates of events, 1968-2018
File containing charter, by-laws, site plans, list of directors, and correspondence, 1957-1998
List of debenture holders, 1957
Lists of new members, 1965-1983
Slides, 1957, loose photographs, and three photograph albums: 1978-1979; 1986-1988; 1995-2001
News clippings, 1973-2007
Printed Ontario Curling Association 'Constitution By-laws and Rules of the Game also Instructions to Beginners', 1964
VHS video of Scott Tournament of Hearts, Canadian Ladies Curling Championship, Ottawa, 1990
'Quinte Curling Club Celebrating 50 Years: History of Curling in Belleville' booklet by Paul Henderson, 2008
Correspondence and photographs relating to the Ontario Ladies Curling Association finals in Belleville in January 1994
Text of talk on the history of curling clubs in Belleville by Bill Riley, with transparency reproductions of early records and newspaper report on the talk, 1997
Four items: 1) Chief Constable's Order Book, 1920-1934, with brief reports of meetings, personnel matters, kept by Alex Kidd 2) Log of reported incidents, 1 January to 6 May 1945, with brief notes on outcomes 3) 'The Great Mac Attack!' published book of cartoons by Tony MacKinnon, 1993 4) Photograph of Tony MacKinnon with Sharon White, 2011
Photographs include COVID-19-related signs, building renovations on Front Street in Belleville, work on the Skyway Bridge, and damage to the concrete of the Bridge Street bridge in Belleville.
Materials produced to support a webinar held in June 2021 by the Bay of Quinte Regional Marketing Board, in partnership with SAGA-LGBTQ and Bay of Quinte Pride:
Canada’s LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce report on recommendations for creating a successful LGBT+ tourism strategy in the Bay of Quinte
Newspaper clippings relating to Centre Hastings area families collected by Gerald Belanger and indexed by the Quinte Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society. Four CDs with indexes of the Gerald Belanger collection and the Branch's Canada 150 celebration project.
Email and letter correspondence between Jim Ketcheson and his extended family across North America along with news clippings and periodicals relating to the Ketcheson family.
an incomplete set of original newspapers (Weekly Intelligencer, Daily Intelligencer, Ontario Intelligencer and Belleville Intelligencers) from 1834 to the present day
negatives and photographs from the Intelligencer, 1949-2001
'Remember When' local history supplements, 1991-1995
an incomplete set of microfilms of Intelligencer newspapers, 1846-2008
Photographic copies of pages of an album of Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force photographs taken at Camp Mohawk near Deseronto, Ontario, and Benbrook in Texas. The collection also contains a photograph of Sikorsky S-40 'Southern Clipper' flying boat NC752V on display at an airfield, c.1935.
Sign reading 'Schryver's' from former Schryver drugstore at 214 Front Street, Belleville, Ontario. City directories place this business at this location from 1959 to 1964.
Fonds consists of 17 minute books of the Quinte Women's Institute and the group's Tweedsmuir history, which includes postcards, press clippings and photographs. Also included is a banner for the institute, history of the institute and files of loose papers for each minute book (letters, receipts, newspaper articles, reports, programmes and newsletters).
Minute books cover the following dates: May 1914 - April 1919 May 1929 - April 1936 May 1939 - April 1942 May 1942 - April 1947 May 1947 - April 1959 April 1950 - April 1953 April 1953 - April 1957 April 1957 - April 1961 April 1961 - March 1965 April 1965 - March 1968 April 1968 - March 1971 April 1971 - March 1974 April 1974 - March 1977 April 1977 - March 1980 April 1980 - March 1984 April 1984 - March 1989 April 1989 - March 1992
File 1: Family photographs: mainly of farm scenes such as haymaking, corn harvesting, steam traction engines, horses. Two individuals are identified: George Avery and Will Roblin.
File 2: Publications- newspaper clippings
File 3: Nostalgic items and publications, newspaper clippings
File 4: Miscellaneous publications and clippings
File 5: Material relating to Belleville's 1978 Centennial
Materials added to the Community Archives' newspaper holdings: Belleville Intelligencer recipe supplements, 1964-1987
