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This fonds comprises two accessions. Materials donated by church officials in 2002 include:

• 36 annual reports dating from 1898 to 2000
• 'St. Andrew's Church Weekly News', 1888-1890
• 'St. Andrew's Church News', 1968-1969
• 'Open Door', 1972-1983
• 'St. Andrew's Newsletter', 1984-1994
• 'The Lamp and the Thistle', 1995-2001
• 100th Anniversary Services, 1927
• History of the church (4 pages)
• Correspondence
• Report: Hastings-Prince Edward Children's Services Committee, 'Directory of Services for Children in Hastings and Prince Edward Counties', 1980
• Report: Community Care for Seniors, 'A Study of the Needs of the Disabled in the Belleville Area', 1980
• Report: Community Development Council of Belleville and District, 'Task Force on Hunger Report', 1992

The remaining materials were extracted from the Hastings County Historical Society's textual records in the summer of 2014:

• File of documents relating to the church's history such as a 1901 article in the Daily Intelligencer and a history of the church written by Kenneth S. Hill
• File of correspondence and newsletters
• 15 assorted annual reports and financial statements up to 1970, with a fund-raising proposal.
• Minutes from the St. Andrew's Society from February 12, 1885 and a menu from the St. Andrew's Day anniversary from 1890
• File of notices, a program from a service dedicated to Queen Victoria's funeral; a list of soldiers from the congregation who fought in World War One; a program from Sunday, December 4, 1932; programs from Stainer's "The Crucifixion" from 1958, 1959, and 1961; the itinerary from the 1959 annual council meeting of the Women's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in Canada; the list to elect the church's elders from 1959; a program from the church choir's production of Handel's Messiah in 1960; a program from the Girl Guide – Brownie Sunday service in 1961; a catalogue of art painted by Allan and Donnah Cameron for an exhibit held in 1964; a program and an advertisement for an organ recital from 1968; there is also a 1968 retelling of a performance by the Ladies of St. Andrews Church from 1889; and a copy of Talk 405 given by Gerald Boyce on Anniversary Sunday 2006
• File of newspaper clippings

Fonds consist of 3 Tweedsmuir scrapbooks compiled by the Cannifton Corbyville Women's Institute. Also included are 2 minute books and 1 binder of president's notes. Books contain newsclippings, photographs, minutes, brochures, expenditures, handwritten notes, poems, maps and reports of local history and the Cannifton Corbyville Women's Institute. Subjects covered within the scrapbooks are programmes, banquets and miscellaneous events.

The Canadian Club of Belleville's fonds contains eight minute books and the following fourteen files:

• materials related to the Association of Canadian Clubs including annual reports, invitations, policies and procedures, publications, and conference materials
• two files of information pertaining to speakers presenting at the Canadian Club of Belleville
• documents relating to the Club's executive
• financial documents such as financial reports
• regulations and governance papers of the Canadian Club of Belleville
• items relating to the Club's membership
• newsletters and other published materials distributed to members
• newspaper clippings from special events and undertakings
• real estate contracts
• correspondence
• ephemera
• three folders of news clippings
• one cloth banner 'The Association of Canadian Clubs'

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

Copy of a leaflet advertising the Quinte Homophile Association, formed in Belleville in 1986.

Research files compiled by Bill Hunt.

The fonds consists of Dr. Van Arsdale Blakslee's personal and medical business receipts between the years of 1915 and 1940. There are receipts for medical supplies, tax receipts, and personal receipts such as household bills and car repairs. Many of the medical supply invoices are for products shipped by mail from Toronto or Montreal. Some of these companies in Toronto include: J.F Hartz Co. Limited, Ingram Bell, Ethical Drug Products Limited, and from Montreal Frank W. Horner Limited, Manufacturing Chemists. The majority of the receipts are from local businesses in Belleville and surrounding areas such as: F.W Jeffery Harware Merchant, Midland, Ontario, F.S Anderson Co. Genuine Scranton Coal, W.H Lattimer Druggist Belleville, Sprague the Cleaner, Greenleaf's Garage Machine Shop Foundry Electrical Contractors, R. Oliphant Son Butchers, McLaughlin Motor Car Company, Quinte Bicycle Store, The Belleville Pharmacy, E.D Finkle Electrical Contractor, J.S McKeown The Prescription Druggist, Porter, Butler and Payne Barristers, Solicitors Notaries Public etc. The Belleville Vulcanizing Co. J.T Warren Chevrolet Garage, Ed. F. Dickens Son Bakers and Confectioners, Smith Hardware, Chas J. Symons Gents Furnishings, Hats Caps, A.B Liddle Tailoring, Cleaning, Pressing, Repairing and many more. There are also household bills from the Belleville Gas Department, Belleville Water Works Department, Bell Telephone, Hydro Electric Power Commission and tax receipts from various years.

This fonds is composed of records from the Halloway Loyal Orange Lodge #251. Four folders each contain a volume ranging from 1859-1875, 1873-1879, 1880-1883 and 1875-1922 respectively. Each of these volumes contains minutes, accounts, members lists and attendance.

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.
• membership records constitution, proposals, by-laws

This fonds contains a variety of documents relating to the Belleville Fire Department which include official policies relating to health and safety, arbitration, indemnity agreements with surrounding communities, uniform specifications, certificates and cards, labour-related issues, scientific studies, records of the city of Belleville and the Belleville Professional Fire Fighters Association in addition to newspaper clippings related to the fire department dated from 1907 to 2001.

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

Contains four recipe books:

• 'Our Best to You' by the residents of Quinte Living Centre (1982)
• 'Chefs of the City' by the City of Belleville Staff (1999)
• 'Recipes from the Hearts of Canadians' compiled by Volunteers and Information Quinte (2000)
• 'Quinte Cuisine' by the Canadian Federation of Univeristy Women Belleville and District (2005)

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

The collection contains the following textual records:

• Belleville High School Elevator yearbooks from ca. 1913-1926 (gaps)
• BCIVS yearbooks from ca. 1929-1978 (gaps)
• 1972 yearbook from York Regional School of Nursing
• Belleville Sports Hall of Fame program from Sept 12 1987
• Program- Tribute to Hastings & Prince Edward Regiment at St. Thomas Church
• A Flyer of Centennial House Tour May 13 1978
• Historic buildings of downtown Belleville walking tour pamphlet
• Heritage Belleville's Walking Tour pamphlet
• Bell Telephone Co. Subscribers lists for 1883 reproduction
• Official Telephone Directory 1900 reproduction pamphlet
• The Ont. Mutual Life Assurance Co. reproduction pamphlet
• Hastings County Historical Society "Outlook" Issue 88, November 1990
• Belleville's What's Happening Magazine Nov/Dec 1974