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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 3d

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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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 9d

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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Internet Archive Canada 🍁 @internetarchiveca.bsky.social · 15d

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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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 15d

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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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · Sep 3

Guidance on what to wear for students of the new Moira Secondary School in Belleville in 1959.

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"

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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · Sep 2

Find out more about the buildings at the west end of Belleville's Lower Bridge in our latest newsletter at eepurl.com/jl6nJw

View of buildings on the west side of the Moira river in Belleville, taken from City Hall.

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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · Aug 28

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

View of Bellevue Terrace in around 1980.

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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · Jul 22

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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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · Jul 9

We have found the best name of the day, no doubt about it. (In Gilbert Parker's papers)

Letter addressed to Sir Fortescue Flannery, Baronet.

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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · Jul 2

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.

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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · Jun 26

An event happening today which may be of interest: www.bellevillelibrary.ca/event/findin...

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 Canada Professor Natasha Henry-Dixon will discuss her current research on the history of chattel slavery in colonial Ontario. She will […]

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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · Jun 17

For #TransportTuesday, here's a Belleville city bus in a rainstorm, taken in June 1990 by Chris Malette: www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

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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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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · Jun 12

#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...

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"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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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · Jun 10

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...

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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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · Jun 2

Our monthly newsletter has a motion-picture theme to it for June: mailchi.mp/d9b391ed6bb0...

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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · May 27

For #TransportTuesday, here's a lovely photo of the Reid's Dairy milk wagon in Belleville in 1964 www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...

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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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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · May 8

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.

Pages from the Daily Ontario and Daily Intelligencer newspapers, 1870 and 1877.

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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · May 1

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.

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Flickr Foundation @flickrfdn.bsky.social · Apr 29

"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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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · Apr 22

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?

Photo of two women and three men, possibly a family group, taken by W. S. Clarke in Belleville, around 1910.

Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · Apr 9

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?

Four young men looking through a divided tree trunk.

Four young men in shiny tops posing by a parking meter and a sign that reads "Municipal Parking".

Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · Apr 7

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...

Large paper map of Hastings County, Ontario.

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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · Apr 1

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...

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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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · Apr 1

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...

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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · Mar 27

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...

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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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