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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.

Breweries of Hastings County

  • CA ON00156 2022-061
  • Item
  • c.1990

Part of an unpublished history of Ontario breweries, covering breweries in Hastings County.

Mannen, Doug

Business diary of William Nisbet Ponton

  • CA ON00156 2023-011
  • Item
  • 1890
  1. Handwritten notes of daily business activities by William Nisbet Ponton
  2. Deed from Richard and Hannah Eliza Bamber to W. H. Maines of the northwest quarter of lot 6 in the ninth concession of Sidney Township, 21 February 1884
  3. Mortgage of the same property by Allan Edward and Alice Maud Maines to William Maines, 7 April 1897

Ponton, William Nisbet

Certificate of Formation of the Deseronto Board of Trade

  • CA ON00156 DA 2020.18
  • Item
  • 27 March 1902

Document establishing the Deseronto Board of Trade, which appointed William J. Malley as its secretary.

Signatories:
W. J. Malley, Chemist & Druggist
J. Buchanan, Dry Goods & Boots & Shoes
A. A. Richardson, Merchant
R. Miller, Merchant
F. J. Frost, Merchant
Charles. R. Oliver, Merchant
John Dalton, Manufacturer
W. J. Passmore, M.D.
George Houle, Merchant
W. J. McMicking, Deseronto News Co. Limited
James Fairbairn, Photographer
C. J. Adams, Fancy goods
A. G. Bogart, Merchant
P. Slavin, Merchant
G. E. Snider, Jeweller
George Houle, Merchant
W. Stoddart, Merchant tailor
Edward Cole, Tobacconist
E. Armitage, Merchant
Harvey & Meagher, Butchers
John Newton, M.D.
Wilbert Woodcock, Grocer
W. H. Stafford, Hardware
F. Donoghue & Bro., Dry Goods
R. Lawson, Butcher
Jo. Go. Egar, Insurance Agent
H. Kellar, Harness maker
F. B. Gaylord, Ins. Mgr.
E. W. Rathbun, Manufacturer
Isaac Allum, Furniture Dealer
William Jamieson, Hotel Keeper
G. E. Deroche, Barrister

Deseronto Board of Trade

'Corbyville 1991'

  • CA ON00156 2015-06
  • Item
  • 1991

Booklet produced at the time of the closure of the Corbyville plant of Corby's Distilleries, containing a history of the Corbys and photographs of employees and site buildings and vehicles.

Corby's Distilleries

Digital photograph of miniature Quinte Fuel Coompany coal scuttle

  • CA ON00156 DA 2013.05
  • Item
  • c.1920

Photograph of a ‘Quinte Fuel Co.’ promotional miniature coal scuttle. The company was listed in the Deseronto telephone directory in 1919 (with the telephone number 44, as on the scuttle). It was still in existence in the 1970s.

Fan from Sinclair's Dry Goods store

  • CA ON00156 2014-68
  • Item
  • c.1910

Fan made of card with a wooden handle, advertising Sinclair's Dry Goods and Ladies' Garments. The store was on Front Street in Belleville, Ontario. The text on the back of the fan reads "Compliments of Sinclair's Dry Good and Ladies' Garment, Belleville, Ontario, the store where you get quality, style, service and economical prices. We invite your patronage. We study the wants of our customers and sell only standard high-grade goods". On the front of the fan is a drawing of a woman sewing a Union flag.

Sinclair's Dry Goods

Issue of 'Rushlight' publication with article on William Embury

  • CA ON00156 2018-132
  • Item
  • September 2005

Journal containing article 'On the Trail of William Embury, Lantern Maker: A Tale of Two Countries' by Mel Zaloudek. Embury worked for the W. W. Chown company in Belleville, Ontario, in the 1890s, manufacturing tinware and lanterns.

Rushlight Club, Inc.

Mounted photograph of window display of John S. McKeown's Rexall drugstore at 271 Front Street, Belleville

  • CA ON00156 2015-59
  • Item
  • c.1920

Mounted photograph of a "Rexall Week" promotional window display at John Spottiswood McKeown's drugstore, 271 Front Street, Belleville, Ontario, c.1920. Photograph taken by Robert McCormick of Belleville. The display features a range of Rexall products, including: Liver Salts, Rubbing Oil, Baby Laxative, Rexall Orderlies, Celery & Iron Tonic, Beef Iron & Wine, Cherry Bark and Dyspepsia Tablets.

McKeown was born in Belleville in 1871. He was the son of John McKeown senior (a boot and shoe merchant) and Mary Bullen. He married Caroline (Carrie) Lingham on October 5th, 1898 and they had one daughter, Helen, born in 1901. In 1921 the family were living at 16 Alexander Street, Belleville, with a maid called Florence Parks.

McKeown's Drug Store was at this location in Front Street from c.1915 to the late 1960s, when it was taken over as The Coach Room, part of Woodley's Furs. This photograph was found by members of the Woodley family in the basement of the building.

McCormick, Robert

Photograph of Sears warehouse, Belleville, Ontario

  • CA ON00156 2018-011
  • Item
  • 1997

Aerial photograph by Richard Lumbers of the Sears distribution warehouse on College Street, Belleville, Ontario, taken on its fifth anniversary.

Lumbers, Richard

Photograph of staff of H. Corby Distillery, Corbyville, Ontario

  • CA ON00156 2016-96
  • Item
  • June 1954

Photograph of staff of H. Corby Distilleries Limited, Corbyville, Ontario. The photograph was taken outside the distillery, with two of the company's trucks in the background.

H. Corby Distillery Company Ltd.

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