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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.

Belleville Public Library Strike

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.

Building a dam at Shaw Falls

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

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.]

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