A newspaper article concerning the erection of a sign at Point Anne honouring Bobby Hull.

Photograph of 17 people, including 11 members of the Belleville High School Girls' softball team, Eastern Ontario Champions in 1926. Photo $2322 taken by the Panoramic Camera Company of Toronto.

The fonds consists of 633 photographs, 23 negatives, letters, sympathy cards, business cards, newspaper clippings, genealogy and family history and a few business papers belonging to the Smith family, primarily Frank Smith of Madoc. The photographs found in this fonds mainly depict the area around Madoc, with some from Bancroft, Maynooth and other places in Hastings County. A large number of the photographs were taken on vacation or while travelling through Canada and the United States. The photographs were taken in Florida, Atlantic City, Pittsburgh, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Healy Falls, Shaw Falls, Coppercliffe, Ottawa, Port Carling, Gaspe, Napanee, Madoc, Bancroft, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick.

The families primarily depicted in the photographs are the Smith family, McCaw family, Swayne family and Cassidy family. Many of the photographs have names and places written on the back of them. Other people mentioned on the photographs include: Jean Phillips Thompson, Mary Smith Barton, Aunt Vera, Muriel Smith, George Wright, Hugh Pepper, Frank Smith, Frank and Jane Packer Ingersoll, Elizabeth Baker, Martin Porter, Kay Seaton, Helen Whycock, Bessie Woods, Tom Ross, Jack and Ann Yonkers.

There are 3 letters from Henry and Eliza Smith between 1872 and 1874; a birth certificate for Frank Smith, news clippings on the Smith and McCaw families and events in Madoc. There are also family trees and other genealogical information connecting the Smith, McCaw and other families.

The file contains the text of a talk by Lois Foster, dated 10 June 2009, on the naming of a yacht "Dauntless".

Reproduction of a photograph by Robert McCormick of the St. Michael's A. C. Hockey Team of 1919 (based in Belleville, Ontario).

Members listed are: J. Frawley, J. Barrett, D. Fox, J. Cummins, D. Callaghan, J. Cummins, A. Meagher, L. Barrett (manager), H. Smith, M. Black, Jack Barrett (mascot).

File contains newspaper articles and clippings regarding the opening of the new Quinte Curling Club quarters in Belleville, in 1958 and other club activities including celebrations of its 100th anniversary in 1967. Articles are:

1958-01-23 p5 New Curling Club Opens (online at https://archive.org/details/intelligencer-january-1958/page/n305/mode/2up )
1958-02-01 p9 Quinte Curling Club Open House (online at https://archive.org/details/intelligencer-february-1958/page/n7/mode/2up )
1958-03-20 p4 Sweep! (editorial, online at https://archive.org/details/intelligencer-march-1958_202108/page/n237/mode/2up )
1960-04-29 p2 Quinte Curling Club Enjoys Another Successful Season (online at https://archive.org/details/intelligencer-april-1960/page/n469/mode/2up )
1960-06-24 p2 Harry Trepanier New President of Curling Club (online at https://archive.org/details/intelligencer-june-1960/page/n411/mode/2up )
1967-01-21 Banquet, Social Evening Mark 100th Birthday of Curling Club

Presentation prepared for the St. Teresa's School History Fair in April 2012 on the visit of the Chicago Black Hawks to Belleville to play an intra-club game on 10 October 1951.

Three registration certificates for the refrigeration plant at the Hume Arena in Belleville, Ontario: 1959, 1969, 1970.
Newspaper clippings: Benzie Sangma article 'Memorial Arena memories' published 4 October 2003 and article from 'Hockey Reporter' Fall 2004 edition on historic Ontario arenas, including the Memorial Arena in Belleville.

File contains a newspaper clipping from 1959 discussing the history of the Belleville Memorial Arena and how it was once a public school.

File contains letters ca. 1969, a deed of Land from 1929, blueprints/maps, 1928 Prospectus (3 copies), letter of agreement from 1929 relating to the Belleville Arena Company and the building of the Memorial (Hume) Arena on Market Street in Belleville, Ontario.

Collection of materials comprising:

1. Photograph of Intelligencer press room, 1903
2. Framed and mounted front page of the Daily Ontario for 28 April 1924 (with Gwen Lazier story)
3. Belleville Diesel Electric O.H.A. Senior Hockey Club programme, 1949-1950 (donated by Harm Bisschop)
4. Framed aerial photograph of Belleville by Richard Lumbers, June 1965
5. Printing proof for front page of The Intelligencer of 14 June 1977
6. Quinte Air Show calendar, 2017

Members of the Belleville Memos hockey team, 1954-1955
Back row: Claude Tice, Vern Goyer, Hub Macey, Ted Degray, Jack Wade Red Doran, John Mockerr, Jerry Hyde
Middle row: Art Charleton, Peter Jones, Davey Jones, Frank Betioll, Doug (Knobber) Day, Bob Wilson, Drury Denyes
Front row: Tony Parisi, Keith MacDonald, Edwin Duncan, Bruce Smith, Erwin Duncan, Doug Hull, Don (Turk) Barclay, Doug Murray