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Correspondence of the Little and King families of Milltown

  • CA ON00156 2023-12
  • Collection
  • 1907-2001

Letters written by members of the Little and King families of Tyendinaga Township and Fulton, New York. Includes some family history information, a postcard of Stirling and a photograph of Edith Roulston, taken in 1960.

Kerr and Yourex family materials

Collection includes: Second World War photograph album of Gerald Mutton, assorted diaries, textbooks, letters, postcards, two sketchbooks, autograph books, school-related materials, certificates.

Kerr, Edmund

Dr. Lester David Riggs

This series is composed of the following textual records and graphic materials created during the life of Dr. Lester David Riggs:

  • University Medical College of Kansas records ca. 1900-1904
  • Cards, Business Cards, Invitations
  • Letters, and Correspondence
  • Newspaper Clippings
  • Photographs and Postcards
  • Receipts, and Tickets ca. 1902-1904
  • Records and Photographs of Mrs. Lester Riggs, Bertha
  • Obituary Notice and other related documents dating from 1963-1986

Riggs, Lester David

Bowerman, Violet

File contains writings by Violet Bowerman, 54 Crestview Ave., Belleville on her activities during the Second World War. The file also contains a copy of a book owned by her mother Violet M. Camken (died 1948) - "The Housekeeper's Companion" published by the Ladies Aid Society of Emmanuel Church, Belleville, 1933.

Bowerman, Violet Irene

Smith family photographs

  • CA ON00156 2014-49
  • Fonds
  • 1872-2000

The fonds consists of 633 photographs, 23 negatives, letters, sympathy cards, business cards, newspaper clippings, genealogy and family history and a few business papers belonging to the Smith family, primarily Frank Smith of Madoc. The photographs found in this fonds mainly depict the area around Madoc, with some from Bancroft, Maynooth and other places in Hastings County. A large number of the photographs were taken on vacation or while travelling through Canada and the United States. The photographs were taken in Florida, Atlantic City, Pittsburgh, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Healy Falls, Shaw Falls, Coppercliffe, Ottawa, Port Carling, Gaspe, Napanee, Madoc, Bancroft, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick.

The families primarily depicted in the photographs are the Smith family, McCaw family, Swayne family and Cassidy family. Many of the photographs have names and places written on the back of them. Other people mentioned on the photographs include: Jean Phillips Thompson, Mary Smith Barton, Aunt Vera, Muriel Smith, George Wright, Hugh Pepper, Frank Smith, Frank and Jane Packer Ingersoll, Elizabeth Baker, Martin Porter, Kay Seaton, Helen Whycock, Bessie Woods, Tom Ross, Jack and Ann Yonkers.

There are 3 letters from Henry and Eliza Smith between 1872 and 1874; a birth certificate for Frank Smith, news clippings on the Smith and McCaw families and events in Madoc. There are also family trees and other genealogical information connecting the Smith, McCaw and other families.

Smith (family)

Mary Lu Toms collection

  • CA ON00156 2022-082
  • Collection
  • 1907-1985

Materials collected by Mary Lu Toms:

  1. Thirteen black and white Hall family photographs and three negatives, 1895-1929, including: George Alex Hall, his first wife, Esther Frost and their children Russell and Arthur and his second wife, Mary Clarke Clazie and their children Aleck, Helen, and Frank
  2. Temperance pledge card signed by Mary Clazie, 1907
  3. Embroidered section of Mary Clazie's home-made wedding dress, 1912
  4. Ration books for members of the Toms family, 1944-1945
  5. Letters of congratulation to Mary Lu Toms for winning drawing and academic prizes, 1955-1961
  6. Artwork by Mary Lu Toms for Moira and Quinte Secondary School, including school pins for Moira and the cover of Quintessence, 1958 and a card carrying her sketch of the Hastings County Registry Office building, c.1961
  7. Certificates for completion of 4H home economics courses and Spelling Bee School Champion, 1956-1958
  8. Correspondence concerning Mary Lu Tom's summer job at the Entomology Research Institute in Belleville, 1962
  9. Single page "Brief History of Belleville" by Gerry Boyce, 1982 and correspondence concerning the donation of a dress to Glanmore by Mary Lu Toms, 1985

Toms, Mary Lu

Coxon family deeds and postcards

  • CA ON00156 2022-085
  • Collection
  • 1896-1985
  1. Deeds, mortgages and abstracts of title relating to 300 Charles Street, Belleville, 1896-1934.
  2. Postcards collected by the Coxon family of 300 Charles Street, reflecting their travels in Canada and around the world, c.1930-1985

Coxon (family)

Wanamaker papers

Papers of Loral and Mildred Wanamaker including Canada Post records (list of Belleville carriers) and supervisor bulletins, leases for Glebe Lands from Rev. John Grier and St. Thomas Anglican Church (1835-1871), voter's lists for Ameliasburg, 1965 and the Town of Trenton, 1909, and 15th ALI band program at Belleville, 1896.

Wanamaker, Castello Loral Roy

Scrapbooks compiled by Mary Roberts Haig

  • CA ON00156 2022-073
  • Series
  • 1931-1944

Two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, invitations and cards compiled by Mary Elizabeth Roberts (later Mary Elizabeth Haig).

Roberts, Mary Elizabeth

Jessie Cunningham collection

  • CA ON00156 2022-062
  • Collection
  • 1923-1938

Collection of items formerly in the possession of Jessie Cunningham:

  1. Diary of John Wesley Roblin of Picton for the year 1923, with observations on the weather and his daily activities
  2. Paintings and drawings created by Jessie Cunningham in art classes, 1932-1934
  3. Silver Jubilee souvenir booklet, 1935
  4. Scrapbook of newspaper clippings compiled by Jessie Cunningham relating to global news events, 1936-1938

Cunningham, Janet 'Jessie'

Genealogical Project by Belleville Public Library – Sills, Mrs. Ralph: Family Trees

This file contains spreadsheets of a genealogical project prepared by The Belleville Public Library, dated March 1999. There are seventy-seven pages of local family names and source listings of organizations that hold information on the families. Also included is a five page document written by The Hastings County Historical Society about family trees, dated June 15 1975.

Belleville Public Library

Zwick's Island

The file contains a newspaper article from the Ontario Intelligencer. It is a letter to the Editor from T.G. Wrightmeyer about the proposition by the then Mayor Haig to change the name of Zwick's Island. The article gives the history of this parcel of land dating back to 1790 given to Captain Phillip Zwick and subsequent generations.

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