Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County
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Looking after the history of Belleville and Hastings County, Ontario, Canada. www.cabhc.ca
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:
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Community Archives news
https://mailchi.mp/ade114a4d542/community-archives-news-feb2026
6 days ago
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One of a series of photos taken during a literal house move from Palmer Road in Belleville to Shannonville in 1990.
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#ArchivesOnTheMove
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1990-06-08 House Moving-05
One of a series of photographs of a house being moved along Dundas Street in Belleville, Ontario. Taken by Frank O'Connor for the Intelligencer newspaper. An article in the June 9th, 1990 edition of ...
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We are closed due to the snow today, but you can still reach us by phone or email.
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"Snow at Car Works, Feby. '08" Three men shovelling snow from the railway tracks behind the Rathbun Company's car works at Deseronto, Ontario, in February 1908.
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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 regionās history. Our grateful thanks to this generous donor!
17 days ago
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Happening tonight!
add a skeleton here at some point
19 days ago
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The Community Archives is closed due to poor weather today. You can still reach us by email or phone!
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Walter Elliott on phone at his desk.
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24 days ago
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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.
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27 days ago
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Local radio station CJBQ sent memos to its staff in November 1954 and 1955 about the earliest date that Christmas music could be played.
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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.
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50 years ago today, the Intelligencer reported that the Hastings County Board of Education had approved the use of calculators in secondary schools.
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Quinte Arts Council
3 months ago
Check out āLife in the Clearings: Susanna Moodieās BellevilleāĀ on display during the Belleville Arts Festival at The Belleville Public Library. This is an interactiveĀ collaborative exhibition between⦠read more in the alt text below š
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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.
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Our collaborative interactive exhibit in Belleville's John M. Parrott Gallery has a Haiku Board for poems about the Moira River.
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Our November 2025 newsletter is online at
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- find out more about the Intelligencer newspaper's "Mug Shots" series of around 10,000 images from the 1960s to 1980s.
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Community Archives news
https://mailchi.mp/3a248afca030/community-archives-news-nov2025
3 months ago
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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.
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1970-06-09 Joan Bronskill-01
Dr. Joan Bronskill, working at her microscope in the Canadian Department of Agriculture's Entomology Laboratory in Belleville, Ontario. Photograph taken for the Intelligencer newspaper.
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3 months ago
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Circus advertisement from the Stirling News-Argus, July 1880
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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"
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Intelligencer May 1968 : The Intelligencer : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Newspaper published in Belleville, Ontario.
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Our October newsletter is online at
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- find out about a railway crash in Trenton in 1961 and a family who were postmasters in Stirling for 90 years!
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Community Archives news
https://mailchi.mp/9644c9ae5bb6/community-archives-news-octl2025
4 months ago
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Internet Archive Canada š
5 months ago
Ontario Land Records Index is now digitized and freely available to the public:
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. Thanks to the collaboration with the Archives of Ontario,
@tofamilyhistory.bsky.social
, OurDigitalWorld and CRKN.
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Now Online! Ontario Land Records Index ā Internet Archive Canada
https://internetarchivecanada.org/2025/09/24/now-online-ontario-land-records-index/
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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."
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#ACAHashtagParty
#ArchivesUniqueItems
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File 62: Bay of Quinte tartan
Fabric sample. Production of this tartan began in 1967. It was made by Trenton Dyeing and Finishing and was designed by Alex Wilson.
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5 months ago
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Guidance on what to wear for students of the new Moira Secondary School in Belleville in 1959.
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Find out more about the buildings at the west end of Belleville's Lower Bridge in our latest newsletter at
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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
5 months ago
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For
#transportTuesday
we take a trip back to this week in 1970, when the replica ship Nonsuch visited Belleville.
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HC02646
Photograph of the Nonsuch visiting Belleville, Ontario. This was a reproduction built by the Hudson Bay Company in 1968 of the 1650 original, to celebrate the company's tercentenary in 1970. The ship...
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7 months ago
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We have found the best name of the day, no doubt about it. (In Gilbert Parker's papers)
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Our latest newsletter is online at
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- 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.
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Community Archives news
https://mailchi.mp/54c4fab9faca/community-archives-news-jul2025
7 months ago
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An event happening today which may be of interest:
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Finding Bet in Belleville: The Archives of Slavery in Upper Canada - Belleville Public Library and John M. Parrott Art Gallery
Finding Bet in Belleville: The Archives of Slavery in Upper CanadaĀ Professor Natasha Henry-Dixon will discuss her current research on the history of chattel slavery in colonial Ontario. She will [ā¦]
https://www.bellevillelibrary.ca/event/finding-bet/
8 months ago
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For
#TransportTuesday
, here's a Belleville city bus in a rainstorm, taken in June 1990 by Chris Malette:
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1990-06-18 Storm 011
Belleville bus on Quinte Mall to Hillcrest route (8) passing through a large puddle and spraying water. One of a series of photographs taken after a rain storm in Belleville, Ontario by Chris Malette...
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8 months ago
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#ThrowbackThursday
to the 1970 production of Bye Bye Birdie at Centennial Secondary School in Belleville.
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According to the Intelligencer, over 200 students at the school were involved in putting on this musical.
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PC 38
"Centennial Secondary School Presents Bye Bye Birdie At C. S. S. Auditorium Belleville March 4, 5, 6, 7 8 P.M. Tickets $1.00 Limited Number of Reserved Seats for Each Performance TICKETS AVAILABLE FRO...
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8 months ago
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Does anyone recognize this man? His photo was taken in 1968 for the Intelligencer newspaper and "Henderson" is the only name given.
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Henderson-1968
1968 portrait of a man identified only as "Henderson" in the "Mug Shots" series of photographs taken for the Intelligencer newspaper in Belleville, Ontario.
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8 months ago
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Our monthly newsletter has a motion-picture theme to it for June:
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Community Archives news
https://mailchi.mp/d9b391ed6bb0/community-archives-news-jun2025?e=[UNIQID]
8 months ago
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For
#TransportTuesday
, here's a lovely photo of the Reid's Dairy milk wagon in Belleville in 1964
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2015-11-1964-076
A photo of a horse-drawn Reid's Dairy milk wagon which delivered milk products to individual homes until c 1980. One of a series of photographic slides taken by the Keller family of Belleville betwee...
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9 months ago
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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.
9 months ago
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Our May newsletter is online at
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: find out about the Tweedsmuir History digitization project from the Women's Institutes of our region.
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Community Archives news
https://mailchi.mp/6d9623a19bc4/community-archives-news-may2025
9 months ago
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Flickr Foundation
10 months ago
"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.
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1973 unidentified engaged couple
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...
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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?
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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?
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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
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For
#TransportTuesday
, from the John Fairbairn Anderson negative collection, here are a group of men on motorcycles in around 1910.
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Group of Motorcyclists in Winter
A group of seven motorcyclists in winter. They appear to be parked next to a power generating station, possibly on the Trent River north of Trenton, Ontario. Part of the John Fairbairn Anderson nega...
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Could you be a 1950s radio announcer? Try reading the text of an audition at CJBQ Radio in this month's newsletter:
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Community Archives news
https://mailchi.mp/4ffa1401ed64/community-archives-news-apr2025
10 months ago
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The Association of Canadian Archivists is celebrating
#ArchivesSports
today. We like this water-based event from the First World War:
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CAMPR-06-32
Reproduction of a photograph of four men taking part in a race on horses made out of barrels in the water next to the steamship wharf in Deseronto, Ontario. This may have been part of the sports day h...
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11 months ago
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A
#ThrowbackThursday
postcard view of Pigden Motor Sales in Madoc, Ontario in around 1950:
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A postcard image of the Pigden Motor Sales dealership in Madoc, Ontario.
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11 months ago
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A selection of vehicles for
#TransportTuesday
on a flooded Front Street at Bridge Street in Belleville, March 1936
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HC02928 (front)
"Belleville Flood, 1936 Front Street." This photograph is looking southeast toward the intersection between Bridge and Front streets in Belleville, Ontario. Visible businesses include George Zakos's ...
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11 months ago
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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
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1921 Library Borrowing Register, p.6
Register of books borrowed from Deseronto Public Library, Ontario, between March 21 and April 2nd, 1921.
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11 months ago
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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.
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#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.
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Photo of the crumbling Latta's Mill in spring of 1976. The mill is built of grey stone and features a rusted roof. Trees nearby are bare and water rushes quickly over the dam. The mill was located ...
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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.
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The Daily Ontario reported on the crash:
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2020.14-01
Aircraft C526 crashed into buildings in Oshawa, Ontario, with the store of H. A. Porter [at 6 King Street West] on the right and a barber shop in the centre. Part of a collection of materials donated...
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Today marks the earliest date for starting to tap maple trees in this
#ManuscriptMonday
list covering the period from 1869 to 1890:
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The Way family farm was in Wooler, Ontario.
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2013-42 Commenced to tap
Handwritten note reads: "Commenced to tap on the following dates 1869 March 31 1870 April 4 1871 April 3 1873 April 1 1876 April 5 1878 March 19 1882 April 2d 1883 March 30th 1884 March 30 1885 April ...
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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.
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HC08310
City of Belleville ship moored at the Government Dock in Belleville, Ontario. More information on this vessel can be found at greatlakes.bgsu.edu/item/434289. Photographer Allen Montgomery. Donated b...
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11 months ago
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It's
#InternationalBagpipeDay
! Here are members of Belleville band, The Kilties, with the Belleville station in the background in 1909.
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You can read more about The Kilties through our online catalogue at
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HC00425 (front)
1909 Belleville Kilties Band, Belleville, Ontario. The Kilties Band was led from the station by the Drum Major and John McIntosh, Sr.
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