Part of Hastings County Historical Society Brochure collection
Brochure produced by the City of Belleville, featuring businesses, homes and activities in the Belleville and Quinte area of Ontario.
City of Belleville
A History of H. Corby Distillery Ltd.
A short local history of Henry Corby and the Corby Distillery, taken from the Nick and Helma Mika book 'Belleville Friendly City', 1973.
Mika, Nick
Beare, William Frederick/Cherry, Cecil Greville
William Beare and Cecil Cherry discuss Belleville floods. William Beare discusses his work on the railway followed by his work for his brother-in-law at Bill Cooke's cigar store. Cecil Cherry discusses his work as a carpenter.
Beare, William Frederick
Part of Hastings County Historical Society Brochure collection
Flyer produced by the Belleville Chamber of Commerce, promoting the city of Belleville, Ontario.
Belleville Chamber of Commerce
Belleville Almanac & Business Advert 1872
File contains an Almanac as well as various business adverts.
Belleville and District Chamber of Commerce 150th Anniversary
Display panels on the history of the Board of Trade and Chamber of Commerce in Belleville, Ontario.
Part of Hastings County Historical Society Brochure collection
A promotional brochure for the City of Belleville, featuring local businesses and business people.
Intelligencer
Belleville Business: Stewart-Warner
This file contains an essay titled "Four Decades of Radio, Television and Electronics" written in June 1986 and gives a brief history of the Belleville based business Stewart-Warner Alemite. The essay was published as part of a supplement to the Intelligencer celebrating 65 years of the firm, where the authors are identified as F. C. Ethier and S. D. Hagerman.
Belleville Businesses: Weese's Candy Store, 1964
File contains a newspaper clipping about Weese's Candy Store in Belleville and a short history of the firm by Tom Ransom and Walt Watson.
Belleville Canning Factory 1891
File contains original documents from 1891 pertaining to the Belleville Canning Factory.
Part of Hastings County Historical Society Brochure collection
Flyer produced by the City of Belleville to encourage new industries to locate in Belleville, Ontario.
City of Belleville
Joseph Blackburn discusses the running of Stroud's Gift Shop.
File contains one page ts. history of the Boulter Canning Factory, the first canning factory in Central Ontario, est. 1882.
Part of an unpublished history of Ontario breweries, covering breweries in Hastings County.
Mannen, Doug
Fred Mather Carscallen discusses farming in Thurlow and McLaughlin Motors.
Carscallen, Fred Mather
Cheese manufacturing by A. H. Brintnell, 1882.
File contains a printed booklet entitled A. H. Britnell's Mechanical Method of Manufacturing Cheese. Includes illustrations.
Collection of Belleville-related materials
Three items:
1) Clarke's drug store, Belleville, calendar, 1908 [Francis Clayton Clarke (1871-1951) had a drug store at 252 Front Street]
2) Flyer for J. & J. Cash labels, with sample ribbons, 1924
3) Yearbook for King George School, North Front Street, Belleville, 1974-1975
Corby's “The Home of Good Spirits” 1960
File contains a magazine, “The Home of Good Spirits”, published by the Corby Distillery in 1960.
Corby's Distilleries
Corby's Has Oldest Firm Distinction
A newspaper article about the Corby Distillery and its history.
Booklet produced at the time of the closure of the Corbyville plant of Corby's Distilleries, containing a history of the Corbys and photographs of employees and site buildings and vehicles.
Corby's Distilleries