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.

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.