File of materials relating to the installation of an Ontario Heritage Trust plaque outside the Belleville Public Library in Belleville, Ontario, to commemorate the insulin-related work of James Bertram Collip. Includes:
14 colour photographs of the Dr. James B. Collip Day event held at City Hall, Belleville, 20 November 2012
two letters concerning the plaque, 2013-2024
34 colour photographs taken by the Ontario Heritage Trust of the plaque during its manufacturing process, 2014
one newspaper cutting about the plaque unveiling ceremony, 19 June 2014
38 colour photographs taken on the day of the plaque's unveiling, 19 June 2014
Scanned copies of two photographs (one a reproduction of a printed photograph) showing the Belleville General Hospital float in the Coronation Day parade in Belleville, Ontario, held on 2 June 1953. The float won second prize in the parade. On the float are nurses Joyce Lott (later Foster), Gwen Hart, Anne Crabbe and Doreen Dorland, with doctors McGreer, Winfield and Barfoot, staged as though performing an operation.
Photographs showing closed-off aisles and displays of non-essential items in Walmart, Belleville, after the Ontario government's stay-at-home order which took effect on April 8th, 2021 in an effort to stem the rise in COVID-19 cases in the province.
Correspondence between Lenna Phillips and the Barnardo's charity concerning Thomas, Jane and James Phillips and Robert Moodie, all child emigrants who passed through the Marchmont Home in Belleville after the death of their parents in 1883 and 1884.
File contains a newspaper article from 1969 about a car accident that sent several Belleville residents to the hospital, including Mrs. Sam Cronk and Miss Parks.
File contains a newspaper article, titled "Retired Belleville dentist compiles profession's history". The article is brief history of the inception of dentistry in Belleville and also contains a newspaper picture of Dr. John Marshall (Belleville 1886).
File contains a printed Victorian Order of Nurses membership card, and a printed Women's Canadian Club membership card, for 1936-1937 for Dr. Ethel A. Noble, Belleville. Also present is a blank printed statement of accounts for professional services rendered by Dr. Ethel A. Noble, ca. 1940.
File contains manuscript notes notes on the history of medicine and the treatment of disease, inscribed on a prescription pad of Dr. E. Connor, Belleville.
File contains motions from Hastings County Council meetings from 1869-1870 regarding the establishment of an Industrial Farm and Poor House in Belleville. There is also a copy of the “Second Annual Report of the Inspector of the House of Industry & Refuge for the County of Waterloo, 1869” that may have been used in the discussions.
File contains 1865 communications regarding the establishment of an industrial farm for the poor in Belleville. There is also a 1907 booklet “Rules and Regulations to Govern House of Refuge and Industrial Farm of the County of Hastings”.
File contains printed booklets and advertisements for Madame Frain's patent medicines for the treatment of women. Also contains a manuscript letter from [Madame Fraim's] Herbal Institute to Mrs. Ponton concerning treatment.