- CA ON00156 2014-49/33
- File
- 1910-1932
Part of Smith family photographs
Black and white photographs of varying size. Photographs depict the building of a dam at Shaw Falls. Brief description written on each photograph.
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Part of Smith family photographs
Black and white photographs of varying size. Photographs depict the building of a dam at Shaw Falls. Brief description written on each photograph.
Correspondence concerning industrial relations
Part of Lewis Zandbergen collection
Two letters from Kennet Blackwell, Assistant Locomotive Superintendent at Belleville Station, dated November 15th and December 14th, 1876, concerning grievances of engineers and recommending their dismissal and the weakening of their union, the Brotherhood of the Grand Trunk Engineers and asking for instructions in the case of the men organizing a strike.
[These actions led to the Belleville riots of 1876-1877.]
Part of Lewis Zandbergen collection
Record of work undertaken at Napanee Station in August 1917 by foreman A. Bowen and trackmen S. Sweet, E. Wager, J. Grange, W. Thompson, H. Matthews and S. Youngs.
Minute book of Canadian Order of Foresters, Court Quinte No. 1
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
Digital copies of photographs relating to the lumber industry in Hastings County
Photographs of lumber camps and First World War infantry units in the Marmora area of Hastings County, Ontario.
Stapley, Forde Samuel Russell/Smith, Sarah Almina/Bird,Kenneth Mulholland
Forde Stapley, Sarah Smith and Kenneth Bird discuss the workings of a stone machine used to remove large boulders from the fields.
Stapley, Forde Samuel Russell
Edith Bristol discusses her immigration to Canada, her work as a companion/housekeeper and her contributions to St. Thomas' Church and the missions.
Bristol, Edith Mary
Rocco Campoli discusses his immigration to Canada and working for the Grand Trunk Railway, at farming and at the Canada Cement company.
Campoli, Rocco
Queena Cooke discusses her work as a housekeeper at Glanmore.
Cooke, Queena
Maud Alice Logan discusses Glanmore from an employee's point of view.
Logan, Maud Alice
Belleville Public Library Strike
Part of Beth Green papers
News clippings and two photographs concerning the seven-week shutdown of Belleville Public Library from late October 1986 over a contract dispute between employees and the library's board. Includes letters to the newspapers from local citizens in support of the staff and reports of the support received from Farley Mowat.
Moira-Schuster Coal Company records
The fonds contains a Daily Cash Transactions sheet with a hand-drawn layout of the coal yards, an envelope with the company name "The Schuster Co. Limited", miscellaneous materials copied from original documents including newspaper clippings from 1954; pages 62-66 of the Canadian Fuel Marketer ca. 1878-1978 issues; Weaver Liquifuels pages 55-60, 2 envelopes of negatives, and 110 photographs of various everyday operations at the Bill Schuster Coal and Lumber Company, as well as photographs of Bill Schuster and possibly his family. One is an aerial photograph of the site of the company.
Moira-Schuster Ltd.
File contains newspaper clippings about the 1965 postal strike.
Belleville, Irish Immigrant Girls 1854 article
File contains newspaper clippings on Irish immigrant girls being brought to Belleville as there was a need for female workers
File contains newspaper clippings about G.A. Freeman becoming new president of the Stephens & Adam Co. and about the strike of Stephens & Adam Co employees.
Belleville Labour Board – Ont. Regulation 97/64
File contains c.1968 newspaper clips on the Belelville District Labour Council supporting Mayor Scott on the industry mission dispute, and other miscellaneous clips on the Ontario Regulations.
Belleville National Employment Office 1960
File contains a c.1960 newspaper clip on Belleville's unemployment rate, and a c.1961 newspaper clip on Hastings County opening a winter works program to reduce unemployment.
Belleville Grand Trunk Railway Riot 1877
File contains a c.1877 copy of a telegram to Col.Powell in Ottawa, report of the Queen's Own suppressing railway mob in Belleville, c.1877 copy of telegram from Belleville City Council to Lt.Col. Durie of Toronto re military presence required to suppress uprising at Grand Trunk railway, and other miscellaneous documents on the c.1877 railway uprising of workers in Belleville.
Report of talk on the Grand Trunk Railway strike in Belleville 1877
File contains a newspaper clip about a talk to the Historical Society on the 1877 Belleville Riot after the strike of Grand Trunk Railway workers.
Union Agreement sash, blind & door manufacturing 1890, 9-hour day
File contains a copy of a union agreement between the Contractors: the Sash Door and Blind Manufacturers and the Members of the Carpenters and Joiners Union No. 161; this agreement is for within the Belleville city limits and limits a work day to 9 hours and a half holiday on Saturday.