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Photographs of Belleville floods and maps of Prince Edward County

  • CA ON00156 2018-058
  • Collection
  • 1936-1981

Collection comprising:
1) 4 black and white photographs of Belleville floods taken by Loreta Fairman (donor's aunt), 1936
2) 5 colour photographs of Belleville floods taken by Leslie Best, 1981
3) 2 Ontario Department of Highways maps of Prince Edward County, 1928 and 1967

Best, Leslie

Photographs of Belleville Exhibition grounds and Stephens Adamson events

  • CA ON00156 2020-003
  • Collection
  • 1890-1963

Collection of photographs from the Scott and Cooney families of Belleville, Ontario:
1) Streetcars and Tickell furniture factory on Foundry Street in Belleville, c.1895
2) Photograph of horses at the Quinte Exhibition grounds, c.1900
3-10) Photographs of the Quinte Exhibition (James Scott (1879-1947), the donor's grandfather, was the groundskeeper), c.1925
11) Page 9 and 10 of the S-A Conveyor, with photos from the Stephen-Adamson Christmas party, 1945
12) Photograph of children with Santa at a Stephens-Adamson Christmas party, c.1950
13) Photograph of Stephens-Adamson baseball team in front of the fountain at the Quinte Exhibition grounds (including Gordon Cooney, 1912-1968), c.1950
14) Gordon Cooney (father of Fay Bradshaw) and two other men having their hair cut at Seely's barber shop on Front Street in Belleville, c.1963

Photographs of archaeological artifacts

  • CA ON00156 2018-134
  • Collection
  • 1975

Black and white photographs of archaeological sites and Indigenous artifacts recorded by archaeologist Russell J. Barber in his archaeological survey of the Moira Valley in 1975.

Barber, Russell J.

Photographs of 43 and 47 Bridge Street West, Belleville

  • CA ON00156 2018-144
  • Collection
  • 11 September 2013

Collection comprises 33 digital photographs and coloured prints of the interior and exterior of the 'Riverboat' house at 47 Bridge Street West and the property immediately behind it, when it was up for sale. The photographs were taken by Gerry Boyce and listed by Lois Foster.
1) North east room facing Bridge Street West
2) Front door and hall on the east side of the house accessed from the balcony
3) Dormer from the inside of the house and facing north to Bridge Street West
4) Dormer from the inside and facing east
5) Dormer facing south looking toward the carriage house
6) Stairway and dormer facing west
7) Hall door facing east and newel post of the stairway
8) Balcony on the north side of the house and on Bridge street west
9) Entrance from the balcony on the east side of the house
10) View of carriage house taken from south east corner of the balcony
11) The north and west side of 43 Bridge Street West
12) North side of house facing Bridge Street West
13) Under the balcony on the north east corner, "47 Bridge Street West"
14) Under the balcony on the east side
15) View of the carriage house from the window inside lower (ground) level
16) Fireplace on the lower (ground) level, west of the back door
17) The inside stone walls of a room in the main house at ground level
18) Utility room in the main house
19) Clawfoot bathtub in the main house
20) Kitchen in south west corner of the main floor of the house
21) Fireplace in lower level of house west of back (south) door
22) South side of house showing remains of bake oven connected to inside cooking fireplace
23) Kitchen in the carriage house
24) Bathroom in carriage house, showing height of old stone walls
25) Upstairs room in carriage house showing height of old stone walls
26) View from carriage house upstairs window, looking toward the south wall of main house
27) Walkway, from parking lot, along east side of carriage house
28) South wall of carriage house
29) Walkway along east side of carriage house
30) Remains of bake oven on south wall of main house
31) Walkway under balcony along east wall of main house
32) North side of the house on Bridge Street West
33) North side of the carriage house

Boyce, Gerry

Photographs from Tweed and Madoc

  • CA ON00156 2010-47
  • Collection
  • c.1890-1956

Photographs:
1) Unidentified man and woman, taken by D. Morrice of Madoc, Ontario
2) Jemima Potter, taken by M. A. Jackson of Tweed, Ontario
3) James Molyneux, Florence Suddard and Myrtle Rodgers, taken by M. A. Jackson of Tweed, Ontario
4) Alberta Sedore, Hazel and Elrena, taken by M. A. Jackson of Tweed, Ontario
5) Tillie Kleinsteuber and an unidentified woman, taken by L. F. Morrice of Madoc, Ontario
6) Mr & Mrs Will McBain, taken by L. F. Morrice of Madoc, Ontario
7) Nettie Jackson, taken by Thomas Donoahue of Tweed, Ontario
8) Photo-postcard of Sam Greatrix's home, posted to Mrs Calvin Rabbie of Bloomfield, Ontario, from Actinolite
9) Newspaper clipping from the St. Catharines Standard of Mr and Mrs Percy Suddard on their golden wedding anniversary, 7 June 1956

Morrice, David

Photographs from Bill Hunt

  • CA ON00156 2012-37
  • Collection
  • 1906-1950

Photographs relating to Bill Hunt's research on rum-running.
1) Reproduction of photograph of Ben Kerr at the age of 22 in 1906
2) Photograph of Front Street and Victoria Park in Belleville, Ontario, looking south from the tower of City Hall, c.1950

Photographs and papers from Bev Boomhour

  • CA ON00156 DA 2010.27
  • Collection
  • c.1917-1958

Photographs, postcards, and school reports from members of the Covert and Cole families of Deseronto, Ontario. Some photographs are from the First World War training camps in Deseronto.

Photographs and clippings relating to The Trentones and A Cappella Quinte

  • CA ON00156 2018-042
  • Collection
  • 1973-2018

Photographs and newspaper clippings relating to barbershop groups The Trentones and A Cappella Quinte. Includes a program for the 1982 Annual Show: "A Decade of The Trentones", held at Trenton High School on May 7th and 8th.

A Cappella Quinte

Photographic materials

  • CA ON00156 2019-078
  • Collection
  • c.1980

Four (apparently unrelated) items:
1) Negative of a printed photograph of a frame two-storey building with "St. George" on the side
2) Black and white photograph of George Hees (1910-1996)
3) Black and white photograph of Hugh O'Neil (1936-2015)
4) Black and white photograph of a painting of the iron bridge at Plainfield, Ontario

Photograph albums and loose photographs

  • CA ON00156 2015-01
  • Collection
  • c.1860-1920

Two leather-bound photograph albums, one with the name Matilda (Tillie) Anderson on a label on the front, and 83 loose photographs.

Matilda Anderson's album contains 110 photographs, most of which are identified. An inscription in the front of the volume reads "Matilda (Tillie) Anderson, 6 Forin St. Belleville Ontario Presented this day to Miss Grace R. Graham, Belleville, Ont. March 3rd 1938". This album also contains photocopies of 5 photographs and of a newspaper clipping,and a pasted-in typewritten document outlining Anderson family ancestry. Repairs have been with sticky tape, some of which is on the images, and a few photographs are loose. Most photographs are partially identified and names used include: Bruce, Hazel, John, William, Frank, Martha, Ridley, Howard and Alex Anderson; James Redner; Elizabeth and Mary Wallbridge; John and Phillip Roblin; Morley Day (possibly became a Belleville doctor); David Southard (of East Lake Shore); Seymour Emmons. There is a group of 8 portraits of clergymen, surnames include - Knight, Wilson, McCauley, Bell, Cook, Wright, Carr. One image is of a young woman (surname illegible) who attended Ontario Ladies' College at Whitby (a Methodist institution). There is a portrait of a little girl (Fanny Bowsfield) in winter clothing with a sleigh and snowshoes. Two images are of uniformed men: a William Anderson is noted as having fought the Fenian raids.

The other album contains 132 photographs, mostly unidentified. The few people with names attached are: Dwight L. Moody, Mrs P. P. Bliss, Mr P. P. Bliss, William Lewis Jackson 1868, Princess Louise. Most of the portraits were taken by Belleville photographers.

The loose photographs are generally studio portraits (mostly taken by local photographers) and are unidentified. The images range over several decades and several image types. Most images were created in photographers' studios although there are several "snaps". Photographs are present in several sizes and are mainly studio portraits of unknown persons. There is a stock printed image of Queen Victoria; what appears to be a clipping of a much-published photograph of Justice Thomas Chandler Halibuton, the author of the "Sam Slick" stories; a small image of Rev. T. Jeffers; an image of Herbert James Noxon (11 months); an image of John Elvin, son of Edward Elvin by the J.H. Ford studio of Belleville, Ontario. There are two tintypes; 40 images from Belleville, and district i.e., Trenton, Madoc, Deseronto, Picton; 6 from other parts of Canada; 5 from the United States, i.e., New Jersey, Amsterdam, N.Y., Cleveland, Ohio, San Francisco; 29 with no known origin. The images include: a nurse in an early 1900's uniform; a man and woman in a poultry yard; little girls with bowling balls [c 1901]; man beside a car with a 1927 Ontario licence plate; group portait of rural school pupils.

Anderson, Matilda 'Tillie'

Photocopy of photograph of Deseronto Fire Department

  • CA ON00156 DA 2011.02
  • Collection
  • c.1965-2007

Letter from Gael Blake reminiscing about her childhood in Deseronto, 2006 and 2007. Photocopy of a photograph of the Deseronto Fire Departmen, c.1965, with list of names: Captain Jim McVicker, Percy Knight, Don Hubble, Bennie Brant?, Grant Venton, Don 'Buff' Whitton, Don Kimmett, Ralph Lawlor, Jack Hamilton, Mitch Roebuck, Vern Boomhower, Al Fraser, Frank Tinney.

Photocopies of railway timetable pages

  • CA ON00156 2019-083
  • Collection
  • 1917, 1948

Part of a letter from F. H. F. (Henry) Skill referring to photocopied pages of the Grand Trunk Railway System Timetable of 14 Jan 1917 and Canadian National Railways System Timetable of 28 Nov 1948 relating to trains through Anson Junction.

Photocopies of publications used in Marchmont distributing home research

  • CA ON00156 2019-112
  • Collection
  • 1875-1925

Photocopies of publications relating to the Marchmont distributing home in Belleville, Ontario, used by James Gilchrist in research for his book on the home:
1) Photocopies of newspaper clippings relating to Marchmont, compiled by Dorothy Ashton, 1870-1983
2) ‘Canadian Homes for London Wanderers’ by Annie Macpherson, London, 1870
3) ‘Pauper Children (Canada): a report by Andrew Doyle, Local Government Inspector, as to the Emigration of Pauper Children to Canada’, 1875, with letters of rebuttal from Miss Rye.
4) ‘British Children in Canadian Homes’ by Ellen Agnes Bilbrough, Belleville, 1879 (and electronic version)
5) ‘God's answers, a record of A. Macpherson's work at the Home of industry, Spitalfields, and in Canada’ by Clara M. S. Lowe, London, 1882
6) File containing address of Robert Wallace to UK Parliament on the Importation of English Children, 1895; Marchmont request for information on potential guardians, 1920s; issue of ‘Marchmont News’, June 1925
7) ‘The Children’s Home-Finder: The Story of Annie MacPherson and Louisa Birt’ by Lilian M. Birt, London, 1913
8) Notes by Lois Foster on the Marchmont Home property, c.2000
9) Overhead transparencies used by James Gilchrist for presentations about the Marchmont Home, c.2004

Papers relating to Thomas Kelso's property at 161 George Street, Belleville

  • CA ON00156 2019-061
  • Collection
  • 1873-2019

Receipts and certificates addressed to Thomas Kelso from suppliers and contractors involved in building his property at 161 George Street, Belleville, Ontario. The work was carried out between 1873 and 1876 under the direction of John D. Evans, architect. This collection also includes notes on the Kelso/Roberts family tree, compiled by Trudi and Bob Banting, with reproduction photographs of family members.

The material has been arranged into the following files:
1) Invoices and receipts relating to the construction of 161 George Street, Belleville, 1873-1876
2) Contractor's certificates relating to the construction of 161 George Street signed by John D. Evans, architect, 1873-1875
3) Summary of expenses relating to the construction of the house at 161 George Street, c.1875; calculation of simple and compound interest, 1869-1882; bill for pine lumber from the Rathbun Company, 1888; specifications for construction work for the Sodus Point & Southern Rail Road, not dated
4) Legal papers relating to costs incurred by the Grand Junction Railway in 1877; a case against Henry Covert involving Kelso and Pitceathly in 1879; a report into the condition and affairs of the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company of Maine, 1884
5) Abstracts of title for lots 4 and 5, east side of George Street, Belleville, 1950; newspaper clipping announcing the designation of 161 George Street, Belleville, 1986
6) Reproduction photographs of 161 George Street and Kelso/Roberts family members, c.2019

Kelso, Thomas

Papers from Bev Boomhour

  • CA ON00156 DA 2012.11
  • Collection
  • 1998-2002
  1. Newspaper clipping from The Intelligencer of 15 November 1998 about Jim Graham, a 73-year-old marathon runner from Deseronto (brother-in-law to Bev Boomhour).
  2. Flyer for a children's musical production of 'Candy Cane Lane' and a demonstration by the Napanee Skating Club on 1 December 2002 in the Deseronto Community Centre on Mechanic Street, Deseronto.

Orland French photographs

  • CA ON00156 2019-009
  • Collection
  • 2017-2018

Photographs of people and places in Belleville, Ontario:
1) Crowds enter Yardmen Arena for Senators first home game, Nov. 1, 2017
2) Gerry Boyce, Mr. History, January 1, 2018
3) Belleville Harbour, June, 2018
4) Chisholm’s Mills with millpond, August 2018
5) & 6) Unveiling of a commemorative boulder at Mount St. Patrick Catholic Cemetery, Stanley Street Belleville, Sept. 16, 2018
7) Porchfest: Male choir on porch of 246 Albert Street, Porchfest, Sept. 29, 2018
8) Demolition of former Stephens-Adamson property, fall 2018

French, Orland

Old Boys Reunion pin and Elevator publications

  • CA ON00156 2019-035
  • Collection
  • 1905, 1967-1972

Brass pin reading "Belleville Old Boys Reunion, 1905" and three issues of the Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School 'Elevator' year book for: 1967-1968; 1968-1969; 1971-1972.

Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School

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