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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. www.cabhc.ca

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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We are taking part in Doors Open on Saturday (10am-4pm): come to see some of our favourite items from our holdings and find out how we can help you with your historical project! Image is of a Blessington blacksmith's shop, taken in 1964. flic.kr/p/28eRCkv
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A photograph showing a man working in front of a blacksmith shop in Blessington, Ontario. At the time this shop had been operating for over fifty years, but was set for demolition in order to make way...
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Our August newsletter is online at mailchi.mp/e052d428264c... - we have an update on our newspaper digitization project and a closer look at a Belleville Public Library quilt.
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Blue Bonnet Margarine ad from January 1950. Does anyone remember adding the colour to their margarine?
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.
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Our July newsletter is online at mailchi.mp/3954cafc9984... - with a look at the history of the Maranatha Church in Belleville and Mademoiselle Orrocco, an exotic performer from 1897.
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
An ad from 1897, promoting an act by Mademoiselle Orrocco and her Mystifying Wonder Globe. She was available for hire at parks, theatres and summer resorts for $100 a day. www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...
"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."
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Interesting headline from June 1969. Full story online at archive.org/details/inte...
Intelligencer newspaper headline reads: "McFarland Suggests Bridges from Prince Edward to U.S."
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Processing scrapbooks of The Trentones/A Cappella Quinte (established 1972). Grateful for black and white photography.
Four men with sideburns singing, with flower-patterned shirts and pale ties.
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This month's #ACAHashtagParty is looking at #ArchivesLabour. The men in this photograph were involved in a Grand Trunk Railway strike in the summer of 1910. www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc... The strike was reported on in the North Hastings Review here: archive.org/details/nort...
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2010-40 Grand Trunk railwaymen
Photograph taken by William Spence Clarke outside the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Hall (southwest corner of Chatham and Pine Streets) showing members of the Order of Railway Conductors and Bro...
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Z is for Zandbergen. This is one of a series of farm-related catalogues from the collection of Lewis #Zandbergen. #ArchivesAtoZ discover.cabhc.ca/farm-related...
Brochure for Ford Workmaster Tractors.
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Can you help us rehome a stray? This is one of three negatives found loose among a set taken in 1995-1996 by Intelligencer photographer, Jeff McIntosh. We'd love to identify the woman with the dog so that we can put the negatives back where they came from. Do you recognize her? Or the dog?!
Woman holding a dog in front of a sign reading "Quinte Humane Society."
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Y is for yellowing. This newspaper clipping from 1976 is a good example of how the degree of #yellowing of paper will vary, depending on how it is kept. #ArchivesAtoZ discover.cabhc.ca/newspaper-cl...
Newspaper article about the opening of Century Place in Belleville. The left hand side is a darker brown than the right.
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
X is for #Xylography which is the fancy name for woodcuts. This print from a woodcut by Czech artist Bohuslav Kroupa shows the Williams gold mine at Marmora in around 1872. #ArchivesAtoZ www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...
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"The Williams Gold Mine - The Marmora Mines - By C. Walker" Reproduction of a drawing held by Library and Archives Canada, from a woodcut by Czech artist Bohuslav Kroupa (1838-1912).
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
W is for wedding. This photo of Naylor's Theatre in Deseronto shows a poster advertising a film of the #wedding of Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles, which took place in February 1922. #ArchivesAtoZ www.flickr.com/photos/deser...
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Naylor's Theatre
Snapshot of Naylor's Theatre in Deseronto, Ontario, probably taken in 1923. There are advertisements on the side of the building for a showing of the wedding ceremony of Princess Mary and Viscount Las...
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
V is for #Verso - Latin for "back". Sometimes the words on the backs of photos are useful. Sometimes not, as in this example of an image of the filming team of "Carry on Sergeant" in Trenton in 1927.
Text reads "Put Ice under Back Stoop" and "No - Bread".Film crew, 1927.
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
U is for unique. What could be more #unique than a set of fingerprints? These are the details of wanted man Fats McCarthy of New York, circulated to the Toronto police in 1931. [2017-70 p272] #ArchivesAtoZ
Wanted poster with mugshots and fingerprints of Edward McCarthy.
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
T is for tintype. This is a tinted #tintype photo of a group of girls holding books and Leander Burke, their teacher, near Maynooth, Ontario. Burke (1861-1898) was one of 23 casualties of the collapse of the city hall of London, Ont. on January 3rd, 1898. #ArchivesAtoZ www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...
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Tinted tintype photo of a group of girls holding books and Leander Burke, their teacher, near Maynooth, Ontario. Leander Burke (1861-1898) was one of 23 casualties of the collapse of the second floor...
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
S is for stereoscope. This #stereocope shows the splendid interior of the Griffin Opera House theatre on Bridge Street in Belleville, in operation from 1884 to 1933. #ArchivesAtoZ www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...
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Stereoscopic view of the Griffin Opera House stage, 65 Bridge Street on the southwest corner of Bridge and Church streets in Belleville, Ontario. Circa 1900 Handwritten text on the side indicates "Ope...
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
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
Group of people in Indigenous dress standing outside with a church and trees in the background.
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Q is for questions. Do you have #questions about our holdings? Our contact details are at www.cabhc.ca/contact-or-v... #ArchivesAtoZ
Text reads: "Can you answer these - ".
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
P is for parchment. This grant of armorial bearings to the City of Belleville in 1982 was written on #parchment. #ArchivesAtoZ www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...
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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...
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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 www.flickr.com/photos/deser...
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"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 ...
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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 www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...
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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 ...
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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 archive.org/search?query...
Microfilmed page of the North Hastings Review newspaper.
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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
Letterhead detail showing Corby distillery industrial buildings and storefront building.
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
K is for kids. Here are a group of Belleville #kids enjoying a small flood in Grier Street in around 1925. #ArchivesAtoZ www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...
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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...
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
J is for journal. One of our earliest digitized newspapers is the Hastings Times and Farmer's #Journal from 1833. #ArchivesAtoZ archive.org/details/hast...
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Hastings Times 1833 : Benedict, Rollin Corrobus : 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 · 10/04/2026
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 www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...
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"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...
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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 www.flickr.com/photos/deser...
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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.
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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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The Hastings County court house on Pinnacle Street in Belleville, Ontario.
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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 www.youtube.com/channel/UCoI...
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
E is for Exhibits. A selection of online exhibits is available from our #exhibit webpage at www.cabhc.ca/publications... #ArchivesAtoZ
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
#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
Man photographing pages of a pile of old newspapers at a computer workstation.
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
#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
Newspaper article about the performance of "The Golden Age".
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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...
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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.
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"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...
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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.
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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...
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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...
Pile of historic photographs.
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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...
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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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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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!
Digitization workstation.
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Happening tonight!
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The Community Archives is closed due to poor weather today. You can still reach us by email or phone! www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc...
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Walter Elliott on phone at his desk.
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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...
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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...
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
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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.
Black and white image of Christmas figurines and lights outside the Foster family home in Belleville with the words "Merry Christmas" overlaid.
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
50 years ago today, the Intelligencer reported that the Hastings County Board of Education had approved the use of calculators in secondary schools.
1975 report from The Intelligencer on the approval of the use of calculators in secondary schools in Hastings County, but not elementary schools.
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Quinte Arts Council @qac1967.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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 👇
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Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County @cabhc.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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.
List of participants in the Quinte Santa Claus Parade held on Saturday November 29th, 1975 in Belleville, Ontario.Black and white image of one woman helping another dress up in a "Big Bird" costume.Young girl with models of Santa's reindeer.
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