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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County
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Looking after the history of Belleville and Hastings County, Ontario, Canada.

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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...
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February 2, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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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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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January 29, 2026 at 6:32 PM
We are closed due to the snow today, but you can still reach us by phone or email. www.flickr.com/photos/deser...
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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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January 26, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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!
January 22, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Happening tonight!
January 20, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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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January 15, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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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January 12, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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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December 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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.
December 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
50 years ago today, the Intelligencer reported that the Hastings County Board of Education had approved the use of calculators in secondary schools.
November 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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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 👇
November 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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.
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Our collaborative interactive exhibit in Belleville's John M. Parrott Gallery has a Haiku Board for poems about the Moira River.
November 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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.
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November 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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...
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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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October 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Circus advertisement from the Stirling News-Argus, July 1880 archive.org/details/stir...
October 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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...
Intelligencer May 1968 : The Intelligencer : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Newspaper published in Belleville, Ontario.
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October 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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!
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October 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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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.
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Now Online! Ontario Land Records Index – Internet Archive Canada
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September 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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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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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September 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Guidance on what to wear for students of the new Moira Secondary School in Belleville in 1959.
September 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Find out more about the buildings at the west end of Belleville's Lower Bridge in our latest newsletter at eepurl.com/jl6nJw
September 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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
August 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
For #transportTuesday we take a trip back to this week in 1970, when the replica ship Nonsuch visited Belleville. www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...
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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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July 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
We have found the best name of the day, no doubt about it. (In Gilbert Parker's papers)
July 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM