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The Blockhouse Bergen Wood : American revolution / Lt. Col. Burleigh
File contains a printed booklet entitled "The Blockhouse Bergen Wood" by Lt. Col. H.C. Burleigh, published by the Bay of Quinte Branch of the United Empire Loyalists Association, which recounts a 1780 battle at Bergen Wood, [New Jersey] during the American Revolution.
Burleigh, Herbert Clarence
Rebellion 1837 : units called for service
File contains manuscript notes by Fred Bradley on the militia called out by Lt Col Bonnycastle in Hastings totaling 1668 men and 108 officers divided into the Mohawks 1 st Hastings Light Dragoons, 2nd and 3rd Prince Edward (Infantry), Belleville Rifles (Infantry), and the 2nd Hastings.
The Rebellion in Hastings 1837-38
This file contains a copy of an article titled "The Rebellion in Hastings - a new look at the 1837-38 Rebellion in Hastings County, based on the Rebellion Losses claims of 1845", written by Betsy Boyce, Hastings County Historical Society.
Boyce, Betsy Dewar
Will and paperwork of becoming a lieutenant for Ezra Stephens. 3 pages.
The file contains the original discharge paper for Private George Barlow from Captain Wellesly Richey's Independent Company of Militia. He served from 1 May 1839 to 30 April 1840. Dated 1 May 1840 and signed in Belleville.
The Gilbert Parker collection consists of three folders. The first contains pieces of correspondence, primarily to Col. W.N. Ponton. Amoung the items he sent to Ponton were two propogandist pamphlets by Reverend H.M. Gwatkin and William Archer respectively. The second folder contains two of his publications, of which the poem "Was it Some Golden Star" was put to music by Edward Elgar, and two publications directed towards the United States with the aim of bringing them into World War I on the British side. The final folder contains items from the Gilbert Parker Banquet in 1902 with items including a menu and an invitation.
Parker, Sir Gilbert
15th Battalion Argyll Light Infantry : reunion article / by Col. S.S. Lazier
File contains a newspaper article, August 1, 1925 by Col. S.S. Lazier regarding the military training and performance of the 15th Battalion Argyll Light Infantry during World War One.
Lazier, Samuel Shaw
G. & J. Brown Mfg. Co.; Brown's Carriage Factory
The file contains notes compiled by M.J. Throop; including notes on George A. Brown died 27 December 1893; George H. Brown died 1 April 1894; Brown's Foundry; G. and J. Manufacturing Co.; Lt. Col. James Brown, mayor of Belleville 1862-1863, head of the G. and J. Brown Agricultural Implements Manufacturing Company; Office Commanding 49th Battalion, Hastings Rifles.
The fonds consists of 10 boxes of textual and graphic material about the Hutton-Ponton family. The fonds is organized chronologically by the following categories: Military and Civilian. The fonds consists of the following categories:
Boxes 1-3 files 1-26 (1879-1916 15th Battalion Argyll Light Infantry- correspondence: telegrams, financial/inspection reports, inventory lists, medal applications, order books, sergeant's mess meeting minutes, service rolls and how the infantry was named)
Boxes 3-5 files 27-46 (1896-1903 Belleville Rifle Range, 1896-1900 Bicycle Corps, 1900 Canadian Patriotic Fund, Deseronto Militia Company, Militia Headquarters-Ottawa: 1895-1906 discharge and pension documents, 49th Hastings Rifles Battalion order book, 1879-1917 infantry tests and military schools: applications, notebook of notes about Toronto School of Musketry, invitations to various events, letters, documents, militia orders and newspaper articles)
Box 5 files 46-53 (empty envelopes, documents about Queen Victoria's Jubilee, The Red Cross: booklet, The School for the Deaf: letters, the South African War: letters, applications and militia orders, World War 1 and "Wrinkles": letters and wall posters, pamphlets and newspaper clippings)
Box 6 files 54-64 (family papers: certificates, letters, notebook, family history:Hutton/Putton house, wills, estate matters and journal/travel/address book)
Boxes 6-7 files 65-76 (family accounts from 1869-1903)
Box 7 files 77-90A (Belleville Industrial Committee: minutes from meetings, letters, newspaper clippings and various documents about opening different factories in Belleville)
Boxes 7-8 files 91-101-2 (Land and Estate Papers: grants, deeds of land and mortgages and sale of part of a cricket field)
Box 9 files 102-106 (Legal papers: daily journal and legal documents)
Boxes 9-10 files 107-112-4 (Programs and invitations to various programs and events)
Box 10 files 113-117-2 (misc correspondence and newspaper clippings: letters, certificate, and notes)
Box 10 files 118-127 (misc business and other items: reports, letterheads, advertisements, postcards and brochures)
3 red books (The Quarterly Militia List:1897-1900)
small reddish brown book (Infantry Drill by Authority-1889)
2nd larger reddish brown book (Field Artillery Training-1914)
greyish book (The Militia Lists-1886)
Ponton (family)
Part of Elliott family collection
Elliott, Edward James
Recording of talk by J. Allan Smith on the Deseronto Royal Flying Corps camps
Recording of a talk on the Royal Flying Corps training camps near Deseronto, Ontario, given by J. Allan Smith to the Hastings County Historical Society.
Smith, James Allan
Scans of photographs of Royal Flying Corps album pages
Photographic copies of pages of an album of Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force photographs taken at Camp Mohawk near Deseronto, Ontario, and Benbrook in Texas. The collection also contains a photograph of Sikorsky S-40 'Southern Clipper' flying boat NC752V on display at an airfield, c.1935.
Decoration Day leaflet and Corby Distillery photographs
Kellaway, Don
A family history on the Wilkins' family. 2 pages.
Scrapbook compiled by Alice Deacon
Scrapbook compiled by Alice Deacon of 107 Station Street, Belleville, 1914-1919, including newspaper cuttings about Belleville servicemen, theatre programmes and flyers, postcards. The book used to paste the clippings into was Richardson's New Method for the Piano-Forte. The collection also includes 'The Canadian Forces in the Great War' by Colonel A. Foretescue Duguid, 1947, stamped 'Belleville Poppy Committee' on the front cover, 14pp.
Deacon, Alice
Photocopy of RCAF brochure aimed at women
Photocopy of a recruitment brochure encouraging women to enlist in the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Royal Canadian Air Force
Scrapbook with general orders issued to the Militia pasted into the book.
Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment
Levisconte, Charles George : memoriam, 1867
File contains a printed memoriam of Major Charles George Levisconte [Levesconte], Justice of the Peace and former commander of the First Belleville Rifles, Hastings Regiment.
Panoramic photograph of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment
Photograph taken at Camp Barriefield, Ontario.
Marrison Studio
Angus Duffy discusses the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment, the Second World War and his role in the Emergency Measures Organization as co-ordinator for Hastings and Prince Edward counties.
Duffy, Angus Bennett