Papers collected by members of the Dafoe, Lloyd and Reid families of Thurlow and Sidney Townships, Hastings County. The collection includes:
1899 [solicitor's?] account book used as scrapbook for newspaper clippings about hymns and Methodism (some entries from the account book are still visible), 1940s. Includes an essay from 1921 on the benefits of music for improving society.
Newspaper clippings, 1916-1964
Various receipts and flyers, including advertisements for a Copperstyle washing machine and wringer, and a bagless vacuum cleaner, 1929-1954
Orders of service from various United Churches, including one to be used at the end of hostilities in the Second World War, 1911-1950 and International Plowing Match promotional materials from 1961
Photograph of Keitha Lloyd as a child, c.1910; postcards of Potters Creek camp ground, 1930s; text of a talk by Norma Lloyd Dafoe on the first automobile in Belleville, c.1950
1940s scrapbook on anniversaries and churches made using an edition of Star Weekly of 27 May 1944
Digital copies of notes on the family history of the Wilmot, Merritt, Chisholm and Wartman families, 1785-1940
Scrapbook files of photographs and newspaper clippings relating to Canadian naval training and activities. Edith Woodhouse's son, George, joined the Royal Canadian Navy in 1943.
Scrapbook containing news clippings from Belleville, Ontario newspapers The Daily Intelligencer and Daily Ontario relating to the Board of Trade reorganization and the purchase of the Bay Bridge.
Scrapbook compiled by Alice Deacon of 107 Station Street, Belleville, 1914-1919, including newspaper cuttings about Belleville servicemen, theatre programmes and flyers, postcards. The book used to paste the clippings into was Richardson's New Method for the Piano-Forte. The collection also includes 'The Canadian Forces in the Great War' by Colonel A. Foretescue Duguid, 1947, stamped 'Belleville Poppy Committee' on the front cover, 14pp.
Scrapbook pages with 20 colour photographs of the opening of Glanmore on 7 July 1973, with subsequent newspaper reports on the occasion, invitations and commemorative booklet.
Scrapbook containing photographs and notes relating to Moira School, compiled in 1954 and including older photographs and correspondence. Some photographs missing
File of correspondence addressed to John Owen Herity who published an article about Moira School in the Intelligencer of 5th February 1938
File on Moira Church containing program for a reunion in 1977 and a celebration of its 150th anniversary in 2004
File of two newsletters written by Annie Cook of Erin in 1983 and 1984
1) Menu and program for the Quinte Area Girl Guides Association Golden Jubilee Dinner, 1960 2) Table mat for the Quinte Area Girl Guides Association Golden Jubilee Dinner, 1960 3) Printed history marking the 60th Anniversary of Belleville District Council Boy Scouts of Canada, 1970 4) Photograph and description of the Meyers Pier structure in Belleville, built in 1984
Minute books (with some accounting information) for the Kitchener's Red Cross Society, 1917-1919; Scott's Women's Institute, 1919-1924; and Scott's Church Ladies Aid, 1924-1933.
A series of 34 student assignments featuring transcripts of interviews with people who experienced the Great Depression in Hastings County, Ontario. One interview was with a veteran of the Second World War.
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.