Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County

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Newspaper ad for Yellow Quik Blue Bonnet Margarine: "Enjoy margarine the rich golden-yellow color you like in 2 minutes flat!" Users had to mix in a yellow food dye to turn the margarine yellow.
"An achievement without a parallel. M'lle Orrocco and her Mystifying Wonder Globe, as she really appears propelling herself and globe up and down a silver spiral incline. The only Lady in the world who has ever successfully accomplished, or even attempted, this most skillful and difficult feat. A genuine sensational novelty."
Intelligencer newspaper headline reads: "McFarland Suggests Bridges from Prince Edward to U.S."
Four men with sideburns singing, with flower-patterned shirts and pale ties.
Brochure for Ford Workmaster Tractors.
Woman holding a dog in front of a sign reading "Quinte Humane Society."
Newspaper article about the opening of Century Place in Belleville. The left hand side is a darker brown than the right.
Text reads "Put Ice under Back Stoop" and "No - Bread".
Wanted poster with mugshots and fingerprints of Edward McCarthy.
Group of people in Indigenous dress standing outside with a church and trees in the background.
Text reads: "Can you answer these - ".
Microfilmed page of the North Hastings Review newspaper.
Letterhead detail showing Corby distillery industrial buildings and storefront building.
Man photographing pages of a pile of old newspapers at a computer workstation.
Newspaper article about the performance of "The Golden Age".
Pile of historic photographs.
Digitization workstation.
BELLEVILLE CJB Cues TRENTON FROM: Phil Re: CHRISTMAS MUSIC TO: Lee Tom Doug Chuck Paul Lorne Janet Sylvia DATE: Nov. 12/54 As in past years, there will be certain limitations put on the playing of Christmas Music. There is always a tendency to start ’‘carolling* much too early with the result that by Christmas Week we are pretty sick of "The three Kings" etc. The deadline for Christmas music this year will be December 15th. The only programs which may make use of Christmas music before this date will be special Christmas Shows and even here we ask that you exercise some discretion...and try not to overdo it. Please initial beside your name when you have read this.
Black and white image of Christmas figurines and lights outside the Foster family home in Belleville with the words "Merry Christmas" overlaid.
1975 report from The Intelligencer on the approval of the use of calculators in secondary schools in Hastings County, but not elementary schools.
List of participants in the Quinte Santa Claus Parade held on Saturday November 29th, 1975 in Belleville, Ontario.
"The Mighty Moira" Haiku activity in the John M. Parrott Gallery.
Ad for Forepaugh's Circus in July 1880 in Belleville: "A human being Shot from a Cannon, loaded with powder and sent whriling through space and caught by a lady hanging head downward on the lofty trapeze. This wonder-moving feat performed at each exhibtion by Mons. Loyal, the 'human cannon-ball'. Appearance of the only Female Blondin, M'lle Ella Zuilla, who crosses the high wire 60 feet above the heads of the audience, blindfoled and with her feet encased in sacks, and rides a velocipede over the high wire! All riding on bareback horses! Grand pantomime troupe! 6 great clowns and 10 famous foreign actors. Only exhibition using the new and wonderful Electric Light!"
Typewritten text reads: "MOIRA SECONDARY SCHOOL Belleville, Ontario August 5, 1959 To the Students of Moira Secondary School and Their Parents: As I write this news bulletin it seems apparent that our new school will not be completed by September 8th, but in spite of all rumors to the contrary, we intend to have classes in the building. Since we will probably have an enrolment of approximately 500 students this may at times be inconvenient, but we are expecting that with complete cooperation from our students no academic progress need be lost. Last year the Students’ Council of Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School made a number of suggestions regarding school dress. In line with their observations the following suggestions are being made; (1) Boys wear slacks (grey flannel) and sport shirts. (2) Girls avoid the excessive use of crinolines. A grey flannel skirt would be a useful addition to your wardrobe. The school colours are maroon and grey and so it is possible that the Students’ Council may decide to have maroon school jackets or blazers. The above suggestions are not meant to be obligatory but are made in the interests of economy and appearance. They are made for the benefit of those students who have to purchase new clothing, not with the idea of having anyone discard their present wardrobe. Note: (a) A girl who seeks to impress her associate with elaborate dress is indicating lack of confidence in her own personality. (b) A boy who wears sloppy jeans tends to become sloppy in his thinking and actions. (c) In all school activities may it be kept in mind that no one should be priced out of school by having to spend too much money on clothing and social functions in order to keep up with the crowd. I am looking forward to meeting all of you September. Yours truly, W. J. Musgrove Principal"
View of buildings on the west side of the Moira river in Belleville, taken from City Hall.
View of Bellevue Terrace in around 1980.
Letter addressed to Sir Fortescue Flannery, Baronet.
Pages from the Daily Ontario and Daily Intelligencer newspapers, 1870 and 1877.
Photo of two women and three men, possibly a family group, taken by W. S. Clarke in Belleville, around 1910.
Four young men looking through a divided tree trunk.
Large paper map of Hastings County, Ontario.
Text on flyer reads: "Fallout, Hastings County in the Nuclear Age, come and check out our new exhibit exploring civil defence preparations during the Cold War. Through official and personal documents it examines local efforts to prepare for the unthinkable-nuclear war". Image of a newspaper headline about ultimatum to Japan backed by the atomic bomb.
Front and back of a family photo: on the front, an older woman, sitting in a chair. On the back, the words "Mother's mother".
Piles of scrapbooks awaiting processing.
Deakins: very small calfskins.
DESERONTO MARKET. Deseronto, Jan. 31. 1895 Beets, 10 cents per peck. Beans $1.00 per bushel. Beef, forequarter, 4 to 5 cts. per pound. Beef, hindquarter, 5 " " " Barley, 38 to 40 cents per bushel Butter, 20 cents per pound. Buckwheat, 40 cents per bushel. Celery, 5 cents per bunch. Carrots, 45 cts. per bag. Cheese, 10 to 12 cents per pound. Chickens, 45 to 50 cents per pair. Cabbage, 50 cents per dozen. Deakins 20 cents. Ducks 65 to 70 cents per pair. Eggs, 16 to 17 cents per dozen. Geese, 50 to 60 cents each. Ham,smoked, 10 to 11 cents per pound. Hay 8 dollars per ton Honey, 10 cents per pound Hides, 3½ cents. Mutton, 8 cents Sheepskins, 50-60 cents. Lard, 10 to 12 cents per pound. Onions, 60 to 75 cents per bag. Oats. 30 cents per bushel. Potatoes. 50 to 55 cts per bag. Peas, 50 to 52 cents per bushel. Pork, carcass, 5 to 5½ cents per pound. Pork, cut, 5 to 6 cents per pound. Pork by quarter from 5 to 5½ cents. Rye, 45 cents per bushel. Straw, $2 per load Steak, 10 cents. Tallow, in rough 2½ cents per pound. Tallow, rendered, 5 to 6 cents per pound. Turkey, 40 cents to 75c. each. Turnips, 45 cents per bag. Veal, 8 to 10 cents. Wheat, 55 to 60 cts per bushel.
Front page of The Chicago-Belleville News, August 1915.
Women of Bethel-Zion Women's Institute, looking at their group's Tweedsmuir history books.
Front cover of an interview with Rachel Spencer by Carole Anne Burris.