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Reproduction of a photograph taken by William James Topley of the Queen Victoria and Belleville High School, Belleville, Ontario.

Records of Gerry Boyce's research on a number of published and unpublished subjects relating to the local history of Belleville and Hastings County.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
• The Covered Bridge at Trenton
• Eldorado: Ontario's First Gold Rush
• Sidney Township, 1790-1990
• Historic Hastings
• Belleville: Birth of a City
• Belleville: A Popular History
• Belleville City Hall

Subjects covered in Gerry's research for unpublished projects include:

• local cemeteries and religious organizations
• medicine and disease
• crime and punishment (including a publication on the history of Belleville police)
• history of education in Ontario (especially Hastings County and Belleville)
• supernatural phenomena (compiled for ghost walks in Belleville)
• genealogy
• Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School
• local Indigenous peoples, (principally the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte)
• famous local people (the Aylwards, Sir Mackenzie Bowell, William Canniff, Susannah Moodie

This series also contains notes on talks given by Gerry Boyce and correspondence relating to them.

2014.15
1) Issue of the Deseronto Post was transferred to the newspaper collection
2) Commencement Exercises of Deseronto High School - program from 1959
3) Commencement Exercises of Deseronto High School - program from 1960
4) Commencement Exercises of Deseronto High School - program from 1963
5) ‘Decision, 1963’ Deseronto High School’s first (and last) yearbook
6) News clipping from a 1971 Napanee newspaper about Howard Hawley of Hawley Brothers furniture in Deseronto

2014.16
1) Commencement Exercises of Deseronto High School - program from 1959
2) Commencement Exercises of Deseronto High School - program from 1960
3) Commencement Exercises of Deseronto High School - program from 1961
4) Commencement Exercises of Deseronto High School - program from 1962
5) Commencement Exercises of Deseronto High School - program from 1963
6) Five news clippings relating to activities in Deseronto schools, 1959

Report on the proposed closure of Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School, prepared for the Accommodations Committee of the Hastings County Board of Education.

Seven volumes of the 'Elevator' publication of Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School, from:

• 1953-1954
• 1955-1956
• 1956-1957
• 1957-1958
• 1958-1959
• 1959-1960
• 1960-1961

Also a list of prize winners and entrants into the 50th Anniversary juried Arts and Crafts Show at BCIVS in 1978 and a promotional pen with the name of the school on it.

Editions of the Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School publication Elevator for the following years:

• 1932
• 1936
• 1937
• 1937-1938
• 1938-1939
• 1940
• 1940-1941
• 1941-1942
• 1945-1946
• 1946-1947
• 1947-1948
• 1949-1950
• 1950-1951
• 1951-1952
• 1952-1953
• 1953-1954
• 1962-1963
• 1963-1964

The file contains 2 student notebooks for David Duncan, grade 11 student at B.C.I. in Belleville.

Publications of Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School:

1. Kampus Kapers program, 1956
2. Kampus Kapers program, 1958
3. Kampus Kapers program, 1959
4. Kampus Kapers program, 1960
5. Home and School Bulletin, 25 February 1958
6. Official opening of Education Week program, 2 March 1958
7. Program for production of The Mikado, c.1958