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Deseronto Archives photographic collection

  • Collection
  • 1860-

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.

Records of local Alcoholics Anonymous area, districts and groups

  • CA ON00156 2017-31
  • Collection
  • 1974-2015

Records including:
Photocopied minutes of Deseronto Skyway group, 1970-1972
Press clippings of stories relating to alcoholism, 1972-1998
Eastern Area Assembly minutes, 1974-1980
Quinte Area General Service Meeting minutes and general information, 1974-1981
New Hope Group (Pine Street, Belleville) minutes, accounts and member lists, 1975-1980
Quinte East District 34 General Service Meeting minutes, 1977-1988, 1990, 1993-1996
Tri-County Roundup programs, 1978-2001
Cannifton Group minutes, 1984-2001
Notes regarding District 34 project regarding back issues of 'Grapevine' magazine, 1988
Notes on local AA groups' histories, 1983-2013
File relating to Quinte District East events, 1992
Tablecloth from Moira Group, established 1977
Tablecloth banner made for Cloyne AA group, 1993
Notes on the histories of local AA groups, 2002-2013
Minutes, budgets and reports from Quinte East District 34, 2005-2011
Digital recordings of 'AA Oldtimers' meetings, 2009-2016
Quinte East District operating procedures, 2014
Quinte East District 34 agendas and minutes, 2015
Book: 'Alcoholic Anonymous' published 1955
Publication: 'Twelve Concepts for World Service' by Bill W. 1962
Publication: '30th Anniversary Year and International Convention, Toronto, Ontario, Canada July 2-4, 1965'
Publication: 'Fifty Years with Gratitude: a Family Album and Souvenir of the International A.A. Convention, Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 4-7, 1985'
File of AA District 34 and 36 Annual Conference programs, 1981-2013
File of AA District 34 Gratitude Day programs, 2001-2013
'Alcoholics Anonymous' printed book, 1955
Districts 34 and 36 annual conference flyers and minutes, 1989-2016
Group 41 (Cloyne) minutes, annual Gratitude Night materials and tablecloth, 1995-2010
Mohawk Unity group tablecloth, 1979
History of the Happy Destiny group, Belleville (formed 1998), by Marvin Yantha, 2018

2021-085

  • Eight books and magazines published by Alcoholics Anonymous, 1957-2012
  • AA Medallions awarded to Fred C. in 1956 and Cathie O. in 1962

2024-016

  1. Attendance and collection register of Madoc Moira AA Group, 1977-1983 (and a few later entries, up to 2002)
  2. Tablecloth for Madoc Moira AA Group

Alcoholics Anonymous

Quinte Field Naturalists records

  • CA ON00156 2014-41
  • Fonds
  • 1938-2014

Records of the Quinte Field Naturalists consisting of:

  • books of meeting minutes
  • newsletters
  • newspaper clippings
  • pamphlets
  • financial statements, the organization's constitution
  • breeding and nesting records, Christmas bird counts
  • memos, letters
  • obituaries of members
  • an application for incorporation (stamped with date of incorporation - 22 Jan 1991 - by the Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations)
  • membership records constitution, proposals, by-laws

Quinte Field Naturalists

Quinte Scanner newspaper

  • Fonds
  • 1968-1982

The Quinte Scanner was a newspaper published in Deseronto, Ontario, between 1968 and 1981.

Research materials

Records of Gerry Boyce's research on a number of published and unpublished subjects relating to the local history of Belleville and Hastings County. Research for published books include:

  • Hutton of Hastings
  • St. Andrew's Chronicles
  • Eldorado: Ontario's First Gold Rush
  • Sidney Township, 1790-1990
  • Historic Hastings
  • Belleville: Birth of a City
  • Belleville: A Popular History
  • Belleville City Hall

Ruth Boyce collection

  • CA ON00156 MG 657
  • Collection
  • 1931-1981

Five files of newspaper clippings, Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School yearbooks and ephemeral materials.

Boyce, Ruth

Research materials from Lois Foster

  • CA ON00156 2011-43
  • Fonds
  • 1977-2001

Research materials, including:

  • Notes on old Belleville newspapers (1833-1868), 1977
  • Notes and 35mm slides for a presentation on 'A Family Compound on Bridge Street East', given at various venues between 1983 and 2008
  • Notes for a presentation on 'Early Schools in Belleville', c.1989
  • Printouts of data on baptisms, marriages, and burials at St. Thomas's church, Belleville, 1995
  • Research notes for Paul Foster's book on the occasion of the bicentennial of the Moira Lodge of Freemasons, c.2000

Foster, Lois

Belleville Public Library History; Mechanics' Institute

The file contains two papers on the history of the public library in Belleville. The first on titled "From Mechanics' Institute to Corby Public Library; The Development of library service in Belleville, 1851-1908", was prepared by Elizabeth Mitchell, Information Services Librarian, Belleville Public Library (date unknown). The second one titled "The Belleville Public Library; A History of Service" was prepared by Leona Hendry, Chief Librarian and presented March 17, 1992 at the Hastings County Historical Society.

ACO - Quinte Branch

File contains:

  • a poem (or song?) in limerick form about the McIntosh-Ridley House in Belleville, Ontario
  • invitation to light entertainment by the Wharf Street Players in aid of the Friends of the McIntosh-Ridley House at the Bay of Quinte Yacht Club
  • two news clippings about the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario's Quinte Branch

Wanamaker records

  • CA ON00156 MG 27
  • Fonds
  • 1778-1984

The Wanamaker fonds consists of textual records and graphic materials of genealogical histories of various families. The fonds also contains records, brochures, pamphlets, publications, books, and other textual records from towns and cities throughout Ontario, predominantly from the Quinte Area and Hastings County.

  • Family Photographs of the Sayers family, Ralph Wanamaker's family, the Hodgen family, of Loral Wanamaker's family, Parliament family, Van Cott family, Post family, as well as loose photographs of the Parliament family, the McTaggart family, various snapshots and negatives of scenery and views, as well as 2 boxes of slides
  • 1 box of Books and Binders with genealogical records, as well various records of various towns in Ontario ca. 1816 - 1957
  • Genealogical notes, histories, birth records, death records, pages from family Bibles, receipts, and other textual records for over 40 individual families
  • Genealogical charts, and ancestral charts
  • Genealogical correspondences
    *Newspapers, and News clippings from Hastings County, Hastings County Museum, Historical Society, Lennox and Addington, Prince Edward County, Trenton, Tyendinaga, and United Empire Loyalists
  • Legal documents, seals and original deeds, and land records ca. 1803 - 1848
  • Genealogy forms, research materials, reference materials
  • Various artworks and postcards (of Hastings County, the Quinte Region, the British Military and Navy, the Belleville Art Association, and travel)
  • Quinte region, Belleville, Trenton, and Prince Edward County miscellaneous publications, newspaper clippings, brochures, pamphlets, notes, directories, histories, records, and tourism guides and publications
  • Ontario, New York , and Canada pamphlets, magazines, calendars, and an Ontario Liquor License Act, 1891
  • Land Abstracts for Prince Edward County
  • Maps and plans: 1778-1779 Blue Print Surveys from General Washington, New York Historical Society; 1784 Ontario (printed by Ministry of Natural Resources), 1984; 1860-1861 Hastings County, 1860-1861 from the Hastings County Directory; 1928 Lloyd's Map of Hastings County; c. 1930 Belleville Post Office Carrier Route #8, North Front and North Park Streets
  • Scrapbooks ca. 1958-1972
  • Miscellaneous Publications (almanacs, newspaper clippings, miscellaneous pins belonging to Loral Wanamaker, blue print surveys)

Genealogical family research names:

  • Allison
  • Alyea
  • Babcock, John
  • Bailey
  • Belnap
  • Benson
  • Blair/Snider/Mumby/Spenser
  • Brickman, Lewis
  • Brighton
  • Canniff
  • Clapp
  • Cole
  • Cunningham
    *Davis
  • Embury
  • Finkle
  • Fraser
  • Gallagher
  • Gerow
  • Giraud/Gero-Gerow
  • Hodgens
  • Johnson
  • Loveless, Absolam
  • McTaggart
  • Meyers, John W.
  • Mitchell, Alfred
  • Orser
  • Parliament
  • Peck
  • Redner
  • Roblin
  • Scott
  • Spencer
  • Sprung
  • Van Cott, John
  • Vander Woort
  • Waite (see also Sprung and Putnam)
  • Wallbridge
  • Wanamaker
  • Wanamaker, Judge George Washington
  • Wanamaker
  • Weese
  • Whitney
  • Williams and Schermerhorn
  • Yarrow

Wanamaker, Castello Loral Roy

Ruth Boyce collection

  • CA ON00156 2017-73
  • Collection
  • 1905-1985

Materials collected by Ruth Boyce, comprising:
1) 1905 Supplement to Mail and Empire, with photograph of members of the 11th Ontario Legislature (including Marshall B. Morrison, Hastings West https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/36379548670/ ; Major E. Walter Rathbun, Hastings East https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/36637303291/ and Josiah W. Pearce, Hastings North https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/36379549210/ )
2) c.1910 'Greetings from Belleville' postcard brochure
3-4) 1911-1915 and 1917-1920 savings bank pass books for The Standard Bank of Canada, Belleville
5-6) 1912 Postcard of the Dominion Match Company factory in Deseronto, and undated postcard of Deseronto Public School
7) 1914 Book 'Manners: recommended by the Minister of Education for use in School Libraries in Ontario': etiquette guide published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, Toronto. Name of Ina M. Calbury, 142 Charles Street, Belleville written inside front cover
8) c.1930 photograph of Case tractors and staff outside Riggs Garage on Pinnacle Street in Belleville. Individuals identified from left as Jack Kent, saleman; Harry Moorman, general manager; Leo Riggs, owner; Roy Thompson, salesman; Cy Jones, Case tractor representative; Carl Gunter, tractor mechanic; George Vanner, tire repair and vulcanizer, Jack Mather, bookkeeper; Gordon Burley, mechanic; Don Brown, mechanic; Archie Brown, mechanic and Perc Hart, mechanic and foreman https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/36379548000/
9) 1945-1946 'Elevator' yearbook for Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School
10) c.1950s Flyer for Belleville Creameries 'Mountain Gold Belleville Better Butter Box 59 Belleville, compliments of Mack Robertson'
11) 1952 Booklet 'Story of Cannifton Church: 100th anniversary'
12) 1978 Printed sketch of Belleville Collegiate institute and Vocational School, with threads in the school colours
13) c.1979 'Booklet to commemorate the more than 70 years of service to the community provided by S. S. #6 Thurlow Cannifton Corbyville Public School
14) 1985 'Ratepayers Information' leaflet from the Township of Thurlow
15) c.1990 Printed article on Dr. W. M. Mather of Tweed, Ontario
16-17) c.2010 Two reproductions of photographs: a young Ethel and Nettie Ketcheson, and the same women in later life, with Jack Mather and Mabel Boyce

Boyce, Ruth

Roslin : newsclippings

File contains several newspaper clippings regarding social and local business activities in Roslin in 1956-1957 including the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Chisolm's lumber mill in June 1957. Also present is a printed booklet commemorating the 100th anniversary of St. Paul's Anglican Church in Roslin on 3 June 1945 and another marking the 125th anniversary in 1970.

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