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
This fonds is composed of folders of records containing documents relating to the Ontario Business College:
correspondence including letters between: F.C.A. Johnson and E.H. Best; a Miss Nightingale and Michael J. Finnegan; and Miss Nightingale and Fred Jarrett
publications containing programs, pamphlets, and catalogues
items donated by Principal I. L. Moore such as a catalogue, an advertisement, a cheque to the school from the Farthey family from Johannesburg, South Africa from the Bank of Africa, and a scholarship granted to Adam Johnson
the college's rules and regulations, a legal document discussing the trial over the name of the Belleville Business College between that school and the Ontario Business College, and one invoice book from the Business Department
ephemera file containing three student records from Geoff Reeves, Maud Reeves, and Howard Frost respectively, as well as a coupon and a copy of the school song,
Four receipts from Belleville businesses, 1950-1958
Three blotters, advertising: Belleville Public Utilities Commission; George J. Tustin, Conservative Candidate for Prince Edward Lennox [1935]; George A. Lee House of Hobberlin store at 250 Front Street, Belleville
Saturday Evening Post magazine in memory of John F. Kennedy, 14 December 1963
Hastings County Board of Education report, 1969-1970
Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School
Programs for events organized by Belleville schools and churches, including:
Elementary school events for King George, Queen Elizabeth, and Queen Victoria Public Schools, 1951-2003
Program for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Quinte Secondary School and graduation ceremonies, 1983 and Nicholson Catholic College awards night, 2009
Four programs for Burns' Suppers and induction services at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Belleville, 1990-2002
Five programs for the Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School 'Kampus Kapers' events, 1957, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988 and 'Elevator' yearbook for 1985
Loyalist College convocation programs for 1985, 1989, 2000, 2011, 2013 and 'Revolutions' yearbook for 1988
