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Digital reproductions of First World War photographs by Lewis Barker
Scans of photographs taken by Lewis Barker, a rigger at Camp Rathbun, a First World War pilot training camp to the north of Deseronto, Ontario.
Barker, Lewis
Digitized photographs taken by Harry McBride of the Royal Flying Corps
Scanned images of two photograph albums compiled by Harry McBride while he was serving as a rigger in the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force at Camp Mohawk near Deseronto, Ontario, and in Texas. Includes a copy of his discharge papers.
McBride, Harry
Display panels on Royal Flying Corps
Five display panels relating to the activities of the Royal Flying Corps in the Deseronto, Ontario, area during the First World War.
Hunt, C. W. (Claude William)
Donnan, Lieut. Col. – obit Feb. 26, 1963
File contains obituary and an article about the funeral of Lieutenant Colonel B.C. Donnan of Belleville.
File contains military certificates and typed letters for B.C. (Bryson Carlyle) Donnan from 1928-1931, when he was a Major.
Fonds consists of records pertaining to Earl Gilbert Wheeler of the 13th Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery, Canadian Expeditionary Force. The folders are composed of personal letters to Gunner Wheeler's friends and family written while he was stationed at various posts throughout World War I. It also includes financial documents, educational certificates and other professional and personal papers. In addition to these records, documents containing correspondence about his injury, the search for his whereabouts, as well as his death certificate.
Wheeler, Earl
Establishment of Militia Co. at Deseronto
The file contains a copy of a letter dated 2-April-1900 Belleville to The District Officer Commanding, Military Districts 3 & 4, Kingston, regarding the proposed establishment of a Company at Deseronto. From the military files of W.N. Ponton.
Fenian bounty : Amos Frederick
File contains typescript originals and copies of correspondence from the Canadian Departments of Militia and Defence, and Lands & Mines, received by Amos Frederick concerning his claim for a volunteer bounty arising from his participation as a militia member in the Fenian Raids of 1866.
File contains a photocopied printed article which includes a brief historical profile of the Belleville Rifles and 15th Battalion at the time of the Fenian Raids, and a list of veterans.
File contains a photocopied printed newsclipping with a drawing of a medal presented to veterans of the Fenian Raids in 1866. A manuscript annotation on the clipping relates: “presented to Mac Bowell.”
Fenian Raids : military volunteer fund, statue to volunteers, 1868
File contains a manuscript resolution of the Hastings County Council to secure compensation from the provincial Committee of the Volunteers' Relief Fund for volunteer militia members in the Fenian Raids of 1866. Includes correspondence from J P Peirce to the Warden of the County of Hastings, dated January 22-April 1868 concerning the design of and request of donations for a monument to be erected in Queen's Park commemorating volunteers who died in the Fenian Raids at Ridgeway, [Ontario]. Also present is a printed appeal for donations together with a proposed drawing of a statue to be erected in honour of the veterans of the Fenian Raids.
File contains a photocopy of a June 1, 1866 article in The Intelligencer concerning Fenian raids in the Fort Erie and Port Colborne areas of Canada West. Also contains several newspaper clippings regarding the Fenian Raids and the dispatching of of the First Belleville Rifles to Prescott to repel the Fenian invaders.
File contains several original and photocopied newspaper articles concerning the events of the Fenian Raids in 1866 and the awarding of medals to veterans in 1900. Lists of names of veterans are present by regiment and militia battalion.
Filliter family, 1830; obit. George Filliter
File contains Lieutenant Colonel George Filliter's obituary (d. 1880).
File contains a newspaper clipping about West Coast fireman Duncan Anderson returning to Belleville before a Fireman's Convention in Toronto. He was an air gunner with RCAF and trained at Ontario School for the Deaf, which was taken over by RCAF during the war.
First Belleville Rifles, 49th Hastings Rifle Regiment, 1875-1876
File contains a completed printed form listing militia members of the First Belleville Rifles by name, age, rank and civilian occupation at March 16, 1876.
Photographs of military personnel, taken during the First World War. Some are signed 'R.G.S.', including a photograph of the Halifax Explosion. The collection also includes a set of Ottawa street scenes.
Individuals identified in the photographs include: Jim Parm, Petty Officer Pace, Ted Lazier, Ted Wallbridge, Keith Petepiece, Reg Stevens [probably Reginald Garnet Stevens, 1896-1971, the R.G.S. who took the photographs], P. Domville, Colonel W. J. McEllinny.
Ottawa street scenes depict: Parliament Hill, Lovers Walk, Government House, Chateau Laurier, the Eastern Departmental Block, Interprovincial Bridge, City Hall Square, the Rideau Canal locks.
File contains newspaper clipping from 1968 featuring the history of Flinton; including: a photograph of Sargent Edmund Vance of Flinton who took part in the battle of Vimy Ridge, and two copies of an article about items of local history found in an old box after the house of the former postmaster was purchased.
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.
Scrapbook with general orders issued to the Militia pasted into the book.
Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment