Belleville, Irish Immigrant Girls 1854 article
- CA ON00156 TR/0142-5
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- 1854
File contains newspaper clippings on Irish immigrant girls being brought to Belleville as there was a need for female workers
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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.
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.
File contains a newspaper clipping about unemployment rates in Belleville in 1956.
Belleville Unemployment 1968-69
File contains newspaper clippings about relocating the Unemployment Insurance Commission regional headquarters to Belleville and about building contractors vying for the job.
Blacksmith Shop – poem by Charles Andrew Tupper 1964
File contains copies of a poem “The Blacksmith Shop” by Charles Andrew Tupper of Foxboro that was published in the Intelligencer.
File contains newspaper clippings about the Manpower program in Belleville, helping residents find jobs and receive training.
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
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.
Ontario Historical Society Records, Vol. XLIX, #4, 1957
File contains a print copy of Ontario Historical Society Records, Volume XLIX Number 4. This issue includes information about the “Family Compact”; Gilbert Purdy, a pioneer jack-of-all-trades; John Galt's Canadian Novels; A Wedding Trip of 1854; the Diary of Mahlon Burwell; and reports and news about the historical society.
File contains a copy of an advertisement from the Kingston Chronicle dated 10-January-1839 looking for stone cutters to work on the Trent Canal for a period of 2 years.
Trenton industry : history and development
File contains several newspaper articles concerning the industrial development of Trenton from the early 20th century to ca. 1967..
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.
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.
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.
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.]
Smith, Henry K.; First Fish and Game Warden of Hastings c. 1893
This file contains a letter written by Henry K. Smith; the first Fish and Game Warden of Hastings County. The letter, an attestation of oath acknowledging his duty to office and community.
Smith, Henry Kirkhope
Many Town Residents Attend 'Open House' at Paper Plant
A newspaper article pertaining to an open house held at the Hinde and Dauch Paper Company plant in Trenton.
Trenton News