Blue Bonnet Margarine ad from January 1950. Does anyone remember adding the colour to their margarine?

Our July newsletter is online at mailchi.mp/3954cafc9984... - with a look at the history of the Maranatha Church in Belleville and Mademoiselle Orrocco, an exotic performer from 1897.

An ad from 1897, promoting an act by Mademoiselle Orrocco and her Mystifying Wonder Globe. She was available for hire at parks, theatres and summer resorts for $100 a day. www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

Interesting headline from June 1969. Full story online at archive.org/details/inte...

Processing scrapbooks of The Trentones/A Cappella Quinte (established 1972). Grateful for black and white photography.

This month's #ACAHashtagParty is looking at #ArchivesLabour. The men in this photograph were involved in a Grand Trunk Railway strike in the summer of 1910. www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc... The strike was reported on in the North Hastings Review here: archive.org/details/nort...

Z is for Zandbergen. This is one of a series of farm-related catalogues from the collection of Lewis #Zandbergen. #ArchivesAtoZ discover.cabhc.ca/farm-related...

Can you help us rehome a stray? This is one of three negatives found loose among a set taken in 1995-1996 by Intelligencer photographer, Jeff McIntosh. We'd love to identify the woman with the dog so that we can put the negatives back where they came from. Do you recognize her? Or the dog?!

Y is for yellowing. This newspaper clipping from 1976 is a good example of how the degree of #yellowing of paper will vary, depending on how it is kept. #ArchivesAtoZ discover.cabhc.ca/newspaper-cl...

X is for #Xylography which is the fancy name for woodcuts. This print from a woodcut by Czech artist Bohuslav Kroupa shows the Williams gold mine at Marmora in around 1872. #ArchivesAtoZ www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

W is for wedding. This photo of Naylor's Theatre in Deseronto shows a poster advertising a film of the #wedding of Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles, which took place in February 1922. #ArchivesAtoZ www.flickr.com/photos/deser...

V is for #Verso - Latin for "back". Sometimes the words on the backs of photos are useful. Sometimes not, as in this example of an image of the filming team of "Carry on Sergeant" in Trenton in 1927.

U is for unique. What could be more #unique than a set of fingerprints? These are the details of wanted man Fats McCarthy of New York, circulated to the Toronto police in 1931. [2017-70 p272] #ArchivesAtoZ

T is for tintype. This is a tinted #tintype photo of a group of girls holding books and Leander Burke, their teacher, near Maynooth, Ontario. Burke (1861-1898) was one of 23 casualties of the collapse of the city hall of London, Ont. on January 3rd, 1898. #ArchivesAtoZ www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

S is for stereoscope. This #stereocope shows the splendid interior of the Griffin Opera House theatre on Bridge Street in Belleville, in operation from 1884 to 1933. #ArchivesAtoZ www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

R is for records. Part of a small collection of vinyl #records in our holdings, this album is a recording of the Mohawk Singers at Her Majesty's Mohawk Chapel on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in 1984. #ArchivesAtoZ

Q is for questions. Do you have #questions about our holdings? Our contact details are at www.cabhc.ca/contact-or-v... #ArchivesAtoZ

P is for parchment. This grant of armorial bearings to the City of Belleville in 1982 was written on #parchment. #ArchivesAtoZ www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

O is for oops. "How *not* to land" - a Curtiss JN-4 aircraft on its back at Camp Mohawk, a First World War pilot training camp near Deseronto, c.1918. #oops #ArchivesAtoZ www.flickr.com/photos/deser...

N is for negative. We estimate that the Intelligencer newspaper #negative collection, received in 2008, contains over 1,000,000 items. Listing of them is almost complete! #ArchivesAtoZ www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

M is for microfilm. In 2023, we partnered with the Madoc Public Library to digitize 130 years of the North Hastings (Madoc) Review from their #microfilm collection. All are now available online! #ArchivesAtoZ archive.org/search?query...

L is for letterhead. This detail from the 1898 #letterhead of H. Corby, distillers, shows the company's manufacturing site on the Moira River at Corbyville, and its store front and office building at 32-36 Bridge Street East in Belleville. #ArchivesAtoZ

K is for kids. Here are a group of Belleville #kids enjoying a small flood in Grier Street in around 1925. #ArchivesAtoZ www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

J is for journal. One of our earliest digitized newspapers is the Hastings Times and Farmer's #Journal from 1833. #ArchivesAtoZ archive.org/details/hast...

I is for Insects. If you've ever wondered how much of a Northern bobwhite's diet is made up of #insects, we can help. #ArchivesAtoZ www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

H is for humour. This postcard was mailed in Deseronto in 1911 (apparently by a one-legged man!). An example of the #humour of the time. #ArchivesAtoZ www.flickr.com/photos/deser...

G is for government. The Hastings County court house building, seat of the #government of the County from 1839 to 1961. It was demolished in 1971. #ArchivesAtoZ www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

F is for film. We have a small selection of archive #films available on YouTube (including a video of the Grand Opening of our current location, 10 years ago today!). #ArchivesAtoZ www.youtube.com/channel/UCoI...

E is for Exhibits. A selection of online exhibits is available from our #exhibit webpage at www.cabhc.ca/publications... #ArchivesAtoZ

#Digitization has been a priority in recent years. Here's our summer Archives Assistant from 2022, Zac Miller, busy photographing pages from The Daily Intelligencer. #ArchivesAtoZ

#CallingCard of Belleville musician, Joseph Nevin Doyle (1869-1916), whose comic opera "The Golden Age" was performed at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto in 1915. #ArchivesAtoZ

A pile of #boxes appears to be falling in this photograph taken by Ian Robertson for the Intelligencer newspaper in around 1970. #ArchivesAtoZ www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

"Doing the 'Haka'": a group of Maori children in March 1909, one of many international photographs in an #album recording a tour of the world by members of the Kilties Band. #ArchivesAtoZ www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

Our latest monthly newsletter is available online at mailchi.mp/0f20df765303... It takes a look at a Belleville Kiwanis Club project from 1925, and the experiences of refugees from Laos in the early 1980s.

Our latest newsletter takes a look at the 1959 parade to welcome home the World Championship-winning Belleville McFarlands hockey team, and a snapshot of the Belleville Police in 1912: mailchi.mp/d85a910d6bb6...

Find out about the photographic holdings of the Community Archives in "A Lens on Local History" - tonight's presentation at the John M. Parrott Art Gallery: www.bellevillelibrary.ca/event/captur...

February's newsletter is online, with a tenuous link to New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century and a History exam from 1926: mailchi.mp/ade114a4d542...

One of a series of photos taken during a literal house move from Palmer Road in Belleville to Shannonville in 1990. #ACAHashtagParty #ArchivesOnTheMove www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

We are closed due to the snow today, but you can still reach us by phone or email. www.flickr.com/photos/deser...

In December 2025, the Community Archives received a $15,000 contribution from a private individual in support of its ongoing work to preserve, digitize and share the region’s history. Our grateful thanks to this generous donor!

Happening tonight!

The Community Archives is closed due to poor weather today. You can still reach us by email or phone! www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

Our current Reading Room exhibit takes a look at records relating to policing in Hastings County. Open Mon-Thu, 10-1 and 2-4 on the second floor of the Belleville Public Library building. www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

Local radio station CJBQ sent memos to its staff in November 1954 and 1955 about the earliest date that Christmas music could be played. discover.cabhc.ca/radio-statio...

Our holiday card image is a photograph taken for the Intelligencer newspaper by Frank O'Connor on December 19th, 1980. It shows the Christmas display of lights at the Foster family home on Emily Street in Belleville.

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.