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File contains two 1960 newspaper clippings looking back to May 6th and 7th, 1910 with news of the Carman Opera House and purchasers of cars.

Lantern slides depicting chickens, turkeys and ducks. These slides were produced by the Province of Ontario Picture Bureau, probably in the 1920s, for use in Ontario schools.

File contains a mimeographed typescript proposal entitled “Belleville Project for the Canadian Centennial : a proposal submitted by certain interested citizens.” The proposal contains a brief history of Faulkner House [Glanmore], architectural drawings and a proposed budget for restoration and subsequent operations.

Minutes, photographs and administrative materials relating to the Trent Valley Quilters' Guild. Includes scanned copies of all materials.

1. Executive minutes, 1989-2019
2. Monthly meeting minutes, 1989-2019
3. Constitution, duties of officers, installation of officers, 1992-2016
4. Guild histories and photographs, 1989-2004
5. Flyers, correspondence and administration relating to quilt shows, 1992-2018
6. Photographs:
   1. Quilt Show , January 1992
   2. Quilt Show, 1997
   3. Quilt Show, 2000
   4. Quilt Show, 2003
   5. DVD of quilt photographs, September 2005
   6. DVD of quilt photographs, December 2005
   7. DVD of quilt photographs, January 2006
   8. 3 DVDs of Love Covers All quilt show, October 2006
   9. DVD of Quilt Show, 2009
   10. DVD of Quilt Show, 2012
7. Electronic records, including:
   1. Executive minutes, 1989-2023
   2. Monthly meeting minutes, 1989-2023
   3. Constitution, duties of officers, 1992-2022
   4. Guild histories. 1989-2006
   5. Quilt Show documents and photographs, 1986-2023

Advertisement for a production of Divorced, or Lost and Won, performed 27 May 1881 at the Metropolitan Hall, Belleville, Ontario.

Program for an event held at the Ramada Inn, Trenton. The authors featured were:

• Roy Bonisteel
• Wilma Alexander
• John Melady
• Peggy Leavey
• Claire MacKay
• Janet Lunn
• Al Purdy
• Gerry Boyce
• Alan R. Capon

Also a newspaper article by Alan Capon on the Trenton film industry and Carry On Sergeant!, published in the Whig Standard in April 1992.

Collection of materials from Bill Stovin, including:

• Prize list and ticket for Bay of Quinte Exhibition, 1897 [damaged by 'Ponton fire' in July 1954]
• Itinerary for train journey to Quebec City and hotel receipt, May 1946
• Letter from Belleville Chamber of Comerce about a reception at the Hotel Quinte, 27 March 1947
• Booklet of Rules and Regulations for No. 418 (Belleville) Wing R.C.A.F. Association, c.1950
• Pocket calendar with birthstones and wedding anniversaries from Paul Mercier, jeweller for 1952
• Kiwanis Club of Belleville bulletins for:
  • 27 April 1956 [top half only]
  • 14 March 1959
  • 18 July 1959
• Photocopies of photographs relating to CJBQ staff, 1950s
• Booklet about Canadian Forces Base Trenton, c.1974
• Photocopy of press clipping about a plaque to Horice Stovin at the Delta Bessborough Hotel, 11 December 2000
• Letter to Phil & Helen Flagler from Bill Stovin, 10 March 2001
• Letter to Phil from Stovin, 25 August 2008
• Undated letter from Stovin to Phil
• Printed email correspondence between Stovin, Gerry Boyce, Phil Flagler, and Shelley Wildgen about memories of CJBQ, 2010

Oversized items:

• 2 drawings by W. B. Mac of Belleville Sales & Advertising Club members, 1950s: Ted Schwab; Len Smith; Bill Stovin; Bill Riley, Ben Yanover; Brian Humphreys; Frank Murray; Phil Flagler; Ralph Plumpton; Fred Maund

Geneological records, letters, wills, birth and death announcements, cards, hand written notes, memoirs, photographs publications involving family history and research. Ranges across Canada, the eastern portion of the United States and parts of Great Britain. Family names covered include; Forin, Freeland, seymour, Mcnaughton, Plunkett, Eymondson, Mate, Olafson, Einarsdottier, Halldorrson, Grimes, Lock, Huntley, Roper, More, Rooks, Slee, Keeler, Fell, Lazier, Casey, Roblin, van Blaricum, Niles, Mathews, Ricketson, Haight, Canniff, Gilchrist, Dorland, Strong, Ingersol, Campbell, Dewolf, Ponton, Jacox, Dunne, Reid, Soule, Dennis, Fair, Fowler, Pound, Barker, Franklin, Sharp, Ewing, Judge, Powers, William, Gillet, King, Brownson, Loomis, Peard, Judd, and Turner.

Includes a set of watercolour paintings of women in different outfits made by the Slee sisters (Edith, Florence, Kate and Clara) of Bermondsey, Surrey, England, in 1869-1873.

Lantern slides and negatives:

1. Five lantern slides with drawings of animals
2. 54 lantern slides with Bruce Bairnsfather cartoons, produced by the Presbyterian Lantern Slide Department, Toronto
3. Four negatives taken outside a house
4. Note about the donation of the slides

File contains a newspaper article regarding the production of a silent film, Carry on Sergeant, produced in a Trenton studio in 1928.

The Hastings County Board of Education: A Summary of the History of Schools by Bernard Wright, especially Belleville, and Sidney, Thurlow, and Tyendinaga Townships.

Poems written by Margaret MacKay MacTavish and published after her death by her husband, William Sharpe MacTavish.

Alec Gordon discusses his career as a music teacher at the Ontario School for the Deaf, radio programming and the Belleville Choral Society.

File contains writings by S. Alec Gordon

1. "Play in Three Parts" (The unofficial log of the Senior Boys' canoe trip up the Trent
2. "Pine Needles" (Moira Lake Boys' Camp).

File contains original playbill; George Kleine Presents Antony and Cleopatra, Griffin Opera House, Belleville. The Griffin Opera House was demolished in 1933. http://vitacollections.ca/BellevilleHistory/2454173/data

Account and property book for William J. Taylor of Belleville. Includes account for Mr. William Baker for clothing, tea, cheese, etc., 1851-1853; assessed values of properties on Ann, William, George, Dundas (north side), Hotel Streets plus some sales and trades of lots.

Dinner menu for the Dafoe House, Belleville, proprieter J. Henderson.

A red and white quilt made in 1894 by the Steady Gleaners, a group of women affiliated with the Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer, Deseronto, Ontario, possibly with the aim of raising funds for missionary work. This quilt may have been made for such a purpose. The signatures of the women in the society are embroidered onto the squares of the quilt.

The names on the quilt are:
F.M.R.
Bella Smyth
Mrs Wm. Gamble
Florence A. Davis
Mrs F. S. Rathbun
Alice McGault
Mrs C. E. Ravin
Mrs J. W. McCaw
Mrs G. Genge
Mrs Wm. Mitchell
Mrs R. J. Craig, President
Mrs Frank S. Hall [Bessie]
Annie Hill
Mrs McCoy
Mrs F. H. Sims
Mrs J. D. Dulmadge
Mrs J. Douglas
Tillie Maxwell
Mrs D. Dant
Miss Mary Huff
Mrs G. Gordon
Ella Pegan
Mrs G. A. Grant
Mrs Joe Hopper
Mrs Wm. Geney
Gertrude R. Craig
Aggie Elliott
Mrs Mackie
Mrs A. D. Macintyre
I. Thornton
Mrs C. Forrester
Mrs R. Anderson
Ira B. Anderson
L. Smyth
Mrs R. Geddes
Mrs F. McMaster
Mrs J. M. Denmark
Mrs A. G. Knight
Mrs J. Buter
Clara McClain
Mrs C. Bennett
Mrs J. T. Garmon