Group of people in Indigenous dress standing outside with a church and trees in the background.

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

Text reads: "Can you answer these - ".

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

CB 6-11-1 Grant of armorial bearings (coat of arms) to the City of Belleville, Ontario, from the College of Arms, London, England. Document written on parchment, with three seals. On display at City Hall in Be...

P is for parchment. This grant of armorial bearings to the City of Belleville in 1982 was written on #parchment. #ArchivesAtoZ

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2009.09(20) "84 C.T.S: How not to land" Photo from an album that belonged to Christopher Paulus Devos, a sergeant in the Royal Flying Corps who was an instructor for 84 Canadian Training Squadron, based at Camp ...

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

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1965-01-10 Skating-01 Terry Hedges teaching his daughter, Linda, how to skate. One of a series of photographs of skaters taken at Victoria Harbour in Belleville, Ontario, for the Ontario Intelligencer. The story appeared ...

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

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Microfilmed page of the North Hastings Review newspaper.

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

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Letterhead detail showing Corby distillery industrial buildings and storefront building.

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

2017-87-06 Six children holding hands in a flooded part of Grier Street, Belleville, Ontario, in front of the J. & J. Cash building. Another child is on the sidewalk with a small wagon. Part of the Woodhouse fa...

K is for kids. Here are a group of Belleville #kids enjoying a small flood in Grier Street in around 1925. #ArchivesAtoZ
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Hastings Times 1833 : Benedict, Rollin Corrobus : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Newspaper published in Belleville, Ontario.

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

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Bobwhite "D2-10 Bobwhite, what it eats and its economic value to agriculture." Slide from a set used to teach biology at Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School, Belleville, Ontario, possibly in...

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

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2003.409a Postcard depicting a one-legged man at the door of a woman's house. The text reads: "KIND LADY, I HAD THE MISFORTIN TER LOOSE ME LEG-" "WELL IT'S NO USE LOOKIN' FOR IT HERE, I AIN'T GOT IT!" Published by Bamforth & Co., publishers of Holmfirth, England and New York, US. It was mailed on February 15th 1911 from Deseronto, Ontario, from 'Chas' to Mrs J. M. Hall of Deseronto. The reverse of the card can be seen at 2003.409b. Part of the Hall family records.

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

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HCM03313 The Hastings County court house on Pinnacle Street in Belleville, Ontario.

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...

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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

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Online Exhibits | Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County

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

Man photographing pages of a pile of old newspapers at a computer workstation.

#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

Newspaper article about the performance of "The Golden Age".

#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

HC06055 A photograph showing a woman holding tower of boxes which appear to be falling onto a nearby man (possibly Reg McCurdy). Photograph by Ian Robertson.

A pile of #boxes appears to be falling in this photograph taken by Ian Robertson for the Intelligencer newspaper in around 1970. #ArchivesAtoZ
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"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

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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...

Pile of historic photographs.

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...

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 ...

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

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HMR2-09-05b "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.

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

Digitization workstation.

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!

HCM00169 Walter Elliott on phone at his desk.

The Community Archives is closed due to poor weather today. You can still reach us by email or phone!
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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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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.

BELLEVILLE CJB Cues TRENTON FROM: Phil Re: XMAS MUSIC. As in past years general programming of Christmas Music will not commence until December 10th, Special Christmas shows will be allowed to used a reasonable proportion of Christmas Songs, but outside of these, the above date will be observed. TO: Production Staff. DATE: November 22/55

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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Black and white image of Christmas figurines and lights outside the Foster family home in Belleville with the words "Merry Christmas" overlaid.

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.