Scrapbook of news clipping relating to people in the Rawdon area of Hastings County, Ontario. Includes announcements of births, marriages and deaths and reports on people serving in the Second World War. Compiled by Eileen MacMullen.
A topographical map of Trenton - Canada sheet 31 C/4. Map was published by the Department of National Defence in December 1962. This second edition was converted from the first edition of the 1:63,360 map to 1:50,000 by the A. S. E. in 1950.
Insets include: 1) legend 2) index to adjoining sheets 3) mean declination 4) grid reference on the sheet and other minor information.
A military map of Trenton and Belleville published by the Department of National Defence's Mapping and Charting Establishment. Dated 1978. Scale 1:25,000.
Scrapbook compiled by Alice Deacon of 107 Station Street, Belleville, 1914-1919, including newspaper cuttings about Belleville servicemen, theatre programmes and flyers, postcards. The book used to paste the clippings into was Richardson's New Method for the Piano-Forte. The collection also includes 'The Canadian Forces in the Great War' by Colonel A. Foretescue Duguid, 1947, stamped 'Belleville Poppy Committee' on the front cover, 14pp.
Photographs, postcards, and school reports from members of the Covert and Cole families of Deseronto, Ontario. Some photographs are from the First World War training camps in Deseronto.
File contains a typescript letter from W. A Dempsey to W.C. Mikel, 3 February 1940 concerning the life of Lord Rawdon, Earl of Moira. Includes a chronology of Lord Rawdon's activities as a British officer in the American Revolutionary War.
File contains newspaper clippings and photos concerning the October 14, 1918 explosion of British Chemical Works, which manufactured TNT for the war effort.
The file contains 2 original copies of the publication "The Elevator" dated April 1919, Belleville High School, a complete Honour Roll of the School and photographs of many of its soldier members.
This file contains a photocopy of a Deposition by John Walter Myers Esq. dated 14-June-1797 for David Palmer's service in the Corps known by the name of Major Roger's Corp. and that Catharine Harris (wife of David Harris) is David Palmer's legitimate daughter.
This file contains a copy of a newspaper article of a letter written from Russell D. Weller to his Aunt (Alice Lingham) from Africa during the Boer War.
File contains an original copy of the Order of Service for the Memorial Service (April 23, 1916) for Horace Eugene Yeomans killed in action in France in 1916. It also contains two newspaper articles pertaining to his death and memorial service.
The file contains the original discharge paper for Private George Barlow from Captain Wellesly Richey's Independent Company of Militia. He served from 1 May 1839 to 30 April 1840. Dated 1 May 1840 and signed in Belleville.
File contains newspaper clipping about various Belleville residents and their hobbies/collections: Percy Gelsthorpe builds steam engine train models, Charles Morton took up whittling during retirement, and Wayne Hustins has a collection showing the rise and fall of the Nazis Empire.
File contains a print copy of Ontario Historical Society Records, Volume L Number 3. This issue includes information about Samuel Bealy Harrison, a political reformer; the Midewiwin, Ontario's first Medical Society; History of Froomefield, Moore Township; The War of 1812; Horse Thieves, Pirates and Witches; and minutes from the annual meeting.
File contains manuscript probate documents relating to the estate of Henry Le Vesiconte [Levisconte], Captain in the Royal Navy and later gentleman farmer, and a manuscript last will and testament of Sarah Le Vesiconte, widow of Henry Le Vesiconte, 1856. Also contains a typescript excerpts from the Diary of Captain Le Visconte recounting his voyage to Belleville from England and describing conditions in Belleville upon his arrival in 1835.
File contains an offprint of an article entitled “Capt. John Walden Meyers, Loyalist Pioneer,” published in the Ontario Historical Society Papers and Records, Vol XXX1 (1936): 11-55