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Procer, Cameron Law Firm Collection

  • 2009-08
  • Collection
  • 1826-1949

Approximately 1,800 documents created and or collected by the Procter, Cameron law firm and its predecessors in the course of its daily activities. Includes deeds, mortgages, insurance policies, estate papers, business and personal contacts.

Procter, Cameron law firm

Digital photograph of plaque commemorating Simpson's Tavern

  • 2021-062
  • Item
  • 30 July 2021

Plaque commemorating Simpson's Tavern, put up by the Hastings County Historical Society on Front Street, Belleville in 2017.

Text reads: "In 1797 James and Margaret Simpson had a small log tavern at the southeast corner of this intersection. In 1799 they built a frame tavern which became the hub of Meyers' Creek for political rallies, military recruitment, training and courts-martial, Masonic lodge meetings and social gatherings. After James died in 1802, Margaret continued the business and was the first woman granted a tavern license in Midland District. In 1820 Margaret build a frame Georgian-style inn on the northeast corner of the intersection. It was sold in 1825 to the Wallbridge family and was demolished in 1973."

Hill, Amanda

Negatives from Madoc Public Library

  • 2021-063
  • Collection
  • c. 1900s-1910s

The collection contains 8 glass negatives depicting group portraits of men, women and children in farmland and indoor settings. There are also images of farmhouses.

Stirling Historical Society railway collection

  • 2021-072
  • Collection
  • 1876-1991

Records mostly relating to J.G. Stapley's career with CN Rail along with associated materials on rail history.

Stirling Historical Society

Linotype Keyboard Operation

  • 2021-086
  • Item
  • 1957

Printed book by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company, previously owned by The Ontario Intelligencer.

Crown sale grant of land in Marmora Township

  • 2022-039
  • Item
  • 1867

Province of Canada sale of Crown Lands (lot 15 in the fifth concession of Marmora Township) to John Fidlar, yeoman, of Marmora Township for $300.

Government of Canada

Records of Mapleview School (S.S. #23, Murray Township) and Community Centre

  • 2023-002
  • Collection
  • 1904-1994

This collection contains records relating to two separate organizations:

  1. 27 school attendance registers for S.S. #23 Mapleview School, Murray Township, 1904-1954 and miscellaneous papers, including a partial list of books in the school library
  2. Files of minutes, correspondence and administrative materials relating to Mapleview Community Centre (housed in the former school building), 1967-1994

Glass lantern slides: Bruce Bairnsfather cartoons and others

  • 2023-021
  • Collection
  • c. 1918

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

Bairnsfather, Bruce

Royal family scrapbooks

  • 2023-028
  • Series
  • 1951-1953

Items found at 239 Ann Street, Belleville:
Two scrapbooks:

  1. Newspaper clippings relating to the Royal tour of Canada by Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, 1951
  2. Newspaper clippings relating to the coronation of Elizabeth II, 1953
    Also a Grade 13 Chemistry examination text published by The James Texts Limited, 1943 which once belonged to Lenore Morrell.

Morrell (family)

Digital copies of materials from Quinte West Public Library

  • 2023-057
  • Collection
  • 1867-1925

Materials donated are:

  1. 1867 map of Trenton, showing lots
  2. Trenton assessment rolls for 1884 and 1918
  3. Fire insurance map of Trenton, 1924

Materials loaned for scanning are:

  1. Map of Trenton, 1913
  2. Map of Trenton, 1917
  3. Panoramic view of Frankford, c. 1925
  4. Group of Trenton soldiers, c.1915
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