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Handwritten text reads: Ordinances & Regulations 1. Ordered. – That any person or persons who shall or may hereafter be found riding or driving in any street of the Town faster than a moderate trot, shall be liable to a fine or penalty of five shillings. And any person who shall or may hereafter be found riding or driving over any Bridge within the limits of the Town, faster than a walk, shall be liable to a fine or penalty of five shillings for every such offence.

Speeding in Belleville

Posted on Monday, July 29, 2024 01:50 PM

One of our projects for the summer of 2024 has been the digitization of the early minute books for the Town of Belleville. These are now available online through the Internet...

Blotter advertising Leslies' Shoe Store in Belleville, Ontario. Text reads:

A Lost Advertising Opportunity

Posted on Wednesday, June 26, 2024 09:07 AM

Promotional materials such as pens, note pads and calendars are common sights today. One hundred years ago, advertisers had another way of getting their name onto your...

Lantern slide of a solar eclipse over Australia in 1922, from the Province of Ontario Picture Bureau.

Through a glass, darkly

Posted on Thursday, March 07, 2024 09:50 AM

As we anticipate the arrival of the first total solar eclipse to be visible in our region in recorded memory, we thought it would be interesting to take a look at local press...

Cross-section blueprint for Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School.

Educational Blueprints

Posted on Tuesday, February 20, 2024 12:03 PM

An interesting collections of items from the former Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School were recently donated to the Community Archives by John Lowry. They...

Portrait of an older man, Wiliam Rayson Smith (1840-1932)

Dickleburgh to Belleville and back

Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2024 11:25 AM

A photograph album owned by a family in England has furnished us with digital copies of a small treasure trove of photographs taken in Belleville in 1886.

The photographer was...