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Digital copy of a Smith Photo photograph of children in the Grade 1 class at Queen Alexandra School, Belleville, Ontario. Individuals identified are:
Row #4: The teacher is Miss Evelyn Lockhart
Row #3: 2nd in from left - Jane Freeman (Father was CEO of Stephen Adamson MFG)
3rd in from left - Carol Wishart
5th in from left - Anne Burton (grew up 144 Albert St)

Collection includes three files:
File 1

• Photograph of unidentified woman taken by Forrest & Lozo of Belleville, c.1870
• Postcard with aerial photograph of W. Elmer Tufts' farm in Halloway, Ontario
• Front page of The Intelligencer with an article on Corby's Distillery, 24 Nov 1966
• Order of service for Remembrance Day Ceremony at Tyendinaga Township, with list of veterans, 11 Nov 2001
• Order of service for 175th anniversary of St. Michael the Archangel church in Belleville, 3 Oct 2004
• Materials for the memorial service for Bernice Parrot, 10 Oct 2009
• Notes on the Broom Gang (Rink Rats) of the Belleville Memorial Arena, researched by Richard Hughes in June 2012

File 2

• Materials for the 50th Reunion Celebration of Nicholson Catholic College in Belleville, May 2010

File 3

• Blank forms, including Royal Military College of Canada passes; Canadian National Telegraphs Cablegram and Telegraph; C.O.D. envelopes; Merchandise Receipt Book for Canadian National Railway Company Express Service

Collection includes:
1) File of copies of newspaper articles on Frank Morse Robb and copy of the patent for his electronic wave organ. Also includes research notes on the William Finkle Machine business at 393 Sidney Street in Belleville (Bristol Aircraft Products during the Second World War) and an article from 'Remember When' on the Argue family home at 338 Charles Street.
2) File of research notes on Belleville buildings constructed by City Hall builder John Forin, c.1988-1898
3) Copy of paper by Gerry Boyce on 'Conflict and Cooperation: The Cemeteries of Belleville, Ontario', 2003
4) Copy of article by Peter Meehan 'The East Hastings By-Election of 1936 and the Ontario Separate School Tax Question', published in 'Historical Studies' 68, 2002
5) Electronic files of research notes on buildings in east Belleville
6) Electronic files of research notes on buildings in west Belleville

Almanacs for Albert College, Belleville, Ontario for:

• 1877
• 1880
• 1881
• 1882
• 1883

Materials from Queen Victoria School in Belleville, Ontario.

School yearbook of Albert College.

File contains newspaper clipping about the fire at Albert College in 1917. There is also a newspaper clipping about Albert College Professor of Natural History John Macoun, who has had approximately 48 Canadian flora and fauna species named for him.

Diploma for successfully completing a course in shorthand and typewriting at the Ontario Business College.

Three publications relating to the Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf:

1. Admission List of Pupils, 1870-1879 (2022)
2. Early Deaf Teache3rs, 1870-1931 (2023)
3. Charles Bernard Coughlin, Third School Head, 1906-1928 (2023)

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

School yearbooks for Albert College for 1961, 1962 and 1963.