50 years ago today, the Intelligencer reported that the Hastings County Board of Education had approved the use of calculators in secondary schools.

Check out “Life in the Clearings: Susanna Moodie’s Belleville” on display during the Belleville Arts Festival at The Belleville Public Library. This is an interactive collaborative exhibition between… read more in the alt text below 👇

50 years ago: the Intelligencer newspaper covered preparations for the Quinte Santa Claus Parade, to be held on Saturday November 29th. The people in the photos were Lucy Stokmans, Kim Carleton, and Cindy Nelson.

Our collaborative interactive exhibit in Belleville's John M. Parrott Gallery has a Haiku Board for poems about the Moira River.

Our November 2025 newsletter is online at mailchi.mp/3a248afca030... - find out more about the Intelligencer newspaper's "Mug Shots" series of around 10,000 images from the 1960s to 1980s.

Dr. Joan Bronskill (1924-1978) at her microscope in the Entomological Research Institute in Belleville. She was a founder of the Quinte Ballet School, a member of the Belleville Theatre Guild, and a charter member of the Quinte Arts Council. #ArchivesWomensHistory www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

Circus advertisement from the Stirling News-Argus, July 1880 archive.org/details/stir...

Another wildly inaccurate prediction about the world of work. Here's Robert Secord in 1968, forecasting that in 2000 only "20 per cent of the population will work and they will only work about 20 days a year" archive.org/details/inte...

Our October newsletter is online at mailchi.mp/9644c9ae5bb6... - find out about a railway crash in Trenton in 1961 and a family who were postmasters in Stirling for 90 years!

Ontario Land Records Index is now digitized and freely available to the public: archive.org/details/onta.... Thanks to the collaboration with the Archives of Ontario, @tofamilyhistory.bsky.social, OurDigitalWorld and CRKN. internetarchivecanada.org/2025/09/24/n...

Bay of Quinte tartan from 1967: "The dark blue blocks of the fabric represented the Bay, lighter blue blocks local rivers and streams, green blocks local fields and parks and the gold threads the golden future of the Quinte area." www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc... #ACAHashtagParty #ArchivesUniqueItems

Guidance on what to wear for students of the new Moira Secondary School in Belleville in 1959.

Find out more about the buildings at the west end of Belleville's Lower Bridge in our latest newsletter at eepurl.com/jl6nJw

Bellevue Terrace in Belleville was built in 1876 at a cost of $12,000. Each of the six luxury tenements had a basement kitchen and dining room and a main floor drawing room and sewing room. On the top floor were bedrooms and a bathroom supplied with hot and cold running water. #ArchivesArchitecture

For #transportTuesday we take a trip back to this week in 1970, when the replica ship Nonsuch visited Belleville. www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

We have found the best name of the day, no doubt about it. (In Gilbert Parker's papers)

Our latest newsletter is online at mailchi.mp/54c4fab9faca... - in it we take a look at a waterfront park which was never built and explore the history of the game of cricket in Hastings County.

An event happening today which may be of interest: www.bellevillelibrary.ca/event/findin...

For #TransportTuesday, here's a Belleville city bus in a rainstorm, taken in June 1990 by Chris Malette: www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

#ThrowbackThursday to the 1970 production of Bye Bye Birdie at Centennial Secondary School in Belleville. www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc... According to the Intelligencer, over 200 students at the school were involved in putting on this musical. archive.org/details/inte...

Does anyone recognize this man? His photo was taken in 1968 for the Intelligencer newspaper and "Henderson" is the only name given. www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

Our monthly newsletter has a motion-picture theme to it for June: mailchi.mp/d9b391ed6bb0...

For #TransportTuesday, here's a lovely photo of the Reid's Dairy milk wagon in Belleville in 1964 www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

These individual pages were torn from our newspaper collections back in the 1970s or 1980s. It is satisfying to be able to put them back where they belong. But, please, don't do that.

Our May newsletter is online at mailchi.mp/6d9623a19bc4... : find out about the Tweedsmuir History digitization project from the Women's Institutes of our region.

"One of a series of photographs and negatives of engaged couples taken by staff of The Intelligencer newspaper in Belleville, Ontario. The man and woman in this image were not identified. It was taken in 1973." ID-ed in the #Flickr comments within two days. www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

All the way from Cornwall, England, Susan sends us this photo taken in Belleville by W. S. Clarke in around 1910. Does anyone recognize any family members in this group? Did your family have connections in Cornwall?

These four young men were photographed for the Intelligencer newspaper in the 1970s and the negatives were just labelled "Band." Does anyone recognize the group?

Hastings County has the perfect proportions for this 1925 map (2024-100) to fit exactly on top of our map chests. It's a rolled version of map M420-2163 which is online at www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

For #TransportTuesday, from the John Fairbairn Anderson negative collection, here are a group of men on motorcycles in around 1910. www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

Could you be a 1950s radio announcer? Try reading the text of an audition at CJBQ Radio in this month's newsletter: mailchi.mp/4ffa1401ed64...

The Association of Canadian Archivists is celebrating #ArchivesSports today. We like this water-based event from the First World War: www.flickr.com/photos/deser...

A #ThrowbackThursday postcard view of Pigden Motor Sales in Madoc, Ontario in around 1950: www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

A selection of vehicles for #TransportTuesday on a flooded Front Street at Bridge Street in Belleville, March 1936 www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

A list of books borrowed at the Deseronto Public Library in this week of 1921. Ethel M. Dell and former local man, Gilbert Parker, were the most popular authors. #ManuscriptMonday www.flickr.com/photos/deser...

Our latest reading room exhibit looks at emergency preparedness during the 1950s and 1960s. Our reading room is open Mon-Thu, 10-1 and 2-4.

#ThrowbackThursday to this view of the former Latta Mill building on the Moira River in Plainfield, Ontario. Taken by Mary McLean in the spring of 1976. www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

Today's #TransportTuesday post records an April 1918 mishap in Oshawa, where a trainee airman landed on the roof of a building on King Street West. www.flickr.com/photos/deser... The Daily Ontario reported on the crash: archive.org/details/dail...

Today marks the earliest date for starting to tap maple trees in this #ManuscriptMonday list covering the period from 1869 to 1890: www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc... The Way family farm was in Wooler, Ontario.

We take to the water for #TransportTuesday with a photo of the ship, City of Belleville, taken by Allen Montgomery at the Government Dock in Belleville, in 1948. www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

It's #InternationalBagpipeDay! Here are members of Belleville band, The Kilties, with the Belleville station in the background in 1909. flic.kr/p/xCL6JU You can read more about The Kilties through our online catalogue at discover.cabhc.ca/informationo...

#ThrowbackThursday to a visit by Mayors of US cities called Belleville on September 30th, 1969. The four mayors helped to celebrate Belleville Week by competing in a frog (toad?) pentathlon in Belleville's Market Square. www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

Looking forward to warmer days: a Dickie Dee ice cream tricycle from around 1970 for #TransportTuesday www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

For #ManuscriptMonday, here is a list of the members of the First Belleville Rifles in 1876 www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

Our March newsletter is now available: mailchi.mp/d0851f3be5f3... In it, we take a look at the dates maple tapping commenced on a local farm in the late 1800s.

A little outside our usual collecting area: this image for #TransportTuesday shows a pair of double-decker electric streetcars in Hobart, Tasmania. www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc... The photo was taken in 1909 during a world tour by Belleville band, The Kilties.

#ThrowbackThursday to this view of the Tabernacle United Church and the water tower in Belleville. The church was demolished in 1995. www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

Here's a William James Topley photo from 1913, with members of the Warren family in Belleville for #TransportTuesday www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

We're closed today due to the weather, but our online services are all available for you to explore! Here's a #ThrowbackThursday view of a wintry Sidney Street in Belleville at Bridge Street West, taken in 1972. www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

How not to label your family photographs.