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Queensborough bridge plaque

Plaque reads:
"QUEENSBORO
BRIDGE
W.J. HACKER ENGINEER
W.E. WIGGINS SUPT.
JAS. A. MOORE REEVE
J. CRONKRIGHT FOREMAN
ERECTED 1927
BY THE
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
WORKS OF ONTARIO"

Red Bridge plaque

Plaque reads:
"RED BRIDGE
BUILT BY COUNTY OF HASTINGS
A.D. 1913
JAMES MOORE. REEVE
JUDSON A. GUNTER. CHAIRMAN
LUCIUS E. ALLEN. C.E. ENGINEER"

A motion in the minute of Hastings County Council (CH/1/10, p.414) of 1 February 1913 reads "That the Red Bridge over Black Creek in Elzevir be included in the list of Bridges recommended to be built this year, in the report of the Superintendent and Chairman of Roads & Bridges."

Photograph of schoolchildren at Tweed, Ontario

  • CA ON00156 2016-85
  • Item
  • c. 1910

Photograph of 39 children and one woman underneath a window to a brick wall. The photograph was taken by Thomas Donoahue of Tweed, Ontario.

Donoahue, Thomas

Minute book of Canadian Order of Foresters, Court Quinte No. 1

  • CA ON00156 2016-88
  • Item
  • 1893-1906

Minute book of the Canadian Order of Foresters, Court Quinte No. 1. The fraternal society met in Deseronto, Ontario. The minutes record applications for membership of the society, payments of bills and notes of people who addressed the group. There are some loose papers inside the volume, mainly applications for admission, with reports of character committees on the back.

Canadian Order of Foresters, Court Quinte No. 1

Ontario Business College Special Penmanship Class

  • CA ON00156 2016-92
  • Item
  • 1895

Photograph of the Special Penmanship Class of Ontario Business College, Belleville, Ontario, 30 March 1895, taken by D. A. Weese, photographer. Names: W. R. Johnston, Renfrew, Ont. J. W. Gillissie, Kenmore, Ont. A. R. Eason, Keene, Ont. T. J. Lancaster, Birdsall, Ont. M. Smith, Parrsboro, N. S. P. D. Sprung, Mountain View, Ont. C. H. Eplett, Coldwater, Ont. H. L. Durrant, St. Vincent, B. W. I. J. D. Payne, Port Stanley, Ont. S. Hilton, Montreal, Que. R. K. Goodill, Rolling Dam, N. B. W. Walmsley, Waupoos, Ont. George p. McGowan, Rolling Dam, N. B. E. D. Miller, Royalton, N. B. A. E. McLaughlin, Bass River, N. S. A. C. Baker, Teacher J. W. Johnson, F. C. A., Principal W. J. Osborne, Teacher W. B. Robinson, Principal Jessie Anderson, Teacher A. M. Loucks, Morrisburg, Ont. Agnes McKinnon, Lake Talon, Ont. E. E. Bradford, Wilmington, Del. M. E. Ostron, Rednersville, Ont.
*W. McVay, St. Stephen, N. B.

Weese, Durwood Alexander

Ontario Business College class photograph

  • CA ON00156 2010-48
  • Item
  • 1931

Photograph of staff and students of the Ontario Business College, including: Nellie-May Kent (second row, fifth from right); Mae Monica Foster (first row, eight from right); Marjorie Danford (second row, fourth from right) and Mavis Sills (second row, sixth from right). Teacher identified as Mr Motsler, Miss Grant, Mr Moor and Mr Henry.

Ontario Business College (Belleville)

Photograph of staff of H. Corby Distillery, Corbyville, Ontario

  • CA ON00156 2016-96
  • Item
  • June 1954

Photograph of staff of H. Corby Distilleries Limited, Corbyville, Ontario. The photograph was taken outside the distillery, with two of the company's trucks in the background.

H. Corby Distillery Company Ltd.

Transcript of the diary of Constable John McCrodan, Belleville Police

  • CA ON00156 2016-97
  • File
  • 1869-1870

Typescript transcription of the diary of Constable John McCrodan of Belleville Police, Belleville, Ontario from August 1869 to March 1870. The original diary is in the possession of Mrs Cathy Atkinson, a descendant of McCrodan. It was transcribed by Lindi Pierce in 2016.

McCrodan, John

Digital image of members of the Hawley family, 1917

  • CA ON00156 2016-101
  • Item
  • 1917

Photograph of members of the Hawley family on the occasion of the baptism of the youngest member. From left to right are: Olive Esther Delmage Hawley (1878-1951); Mary Minetta Hawley MacDonald Selby (1916-2009); Howard Delmage Hawley (1908-1982); George Elmer Hawley (1875-1966); and George Rockwell Hawley (1914-1984). George and Olive moved with their family to Deseronto, Ontario,in 1930 and lived at what is now 317 Main Street next to the small park.

Hawley (family)

Downtown Belleville early 1800s

File contains 18 negatives of Belleville, Ontario buildings (mainly on Front Street: Woodley furs, the Belmont Restaurant, Whalen music) and copies of Lois Foster's notes on the early history of downtown buildings.

Foster, Lois

Arthur Tufts collection

  • CA ON00156 2007-05
  • Collection
  • 1937-2000

Materials collected by Arthur Tufts (father of Marilyn Hughes), including:

  • Negative of a photograph of children and staff of Tweed Consolidated School, 1932-1933
  • Printed letter from Harold Walsh to the voters of East Hastings, 1 October 1937
  • 'A History of St. John's United Church, Tweed, Ontario 1957-1969' by Mrs C. R. Porritt, 1967
  • Printed photo directory of St. John's United Church, Tweed, Ontario, 2000
  • Printed 'seniority list' of names of 266 employees of Corby Distilleris Limited at 15 September 1974, with their date of starting work
  • Published history of 'Moira Lodge A.F. & A.M. No. 11 G.R.C. March 10th, 1801 to 1976' by H. S. Robbins
  • Published history 'Moira Lodge A.F. & A.M. No. 11 G.R.C. Bicentennial 1801-2001' by Paul Foster

Tufts, Arthur Herman

Scrapbook and correspondence relating to Moira School

  • CA ON00156 2017-06
  • Collection
  • c. 1900-2004

Collection contains:

  1. Scrapbook containing photographs and notes relating to Moira School, compiled in 1954 and including older photographs and correspondence. Some photographs missing
  2. File of correspondence addressed to John Owen Herity who published an article about Moira School in the Intelligencer of 5th February 1938
  3. File on Moira Church containing program for a reunion in 1977 and a celebration of its 150th anniversary in 2004
  4. File of two newsletters written by Annie Cook of Erin in 1983 and 1984

Burkitt, Evelyn

Scanned photograph of 153 Victoria Avenue, Belleville

  • CA ON00156 2017-14
  • Item
  • c.1977

Scanned image of a photograph of the house at 153 Victoria Avenue, Belleville, Ontario. The house was built by Charles Frederick Smith in around 1878 and sold by Smith to John Wesley Johnson in 1889 for $4,250. Johnson was the Principal of the Ontario Business College in Belleville and Mayor of Belleville, 1897-1900, and Member of the Provincial Parliament for Hastings West, 1908-1919.

Hastings County Historical Society. Building Research Committee

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