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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...
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...
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...
A New Collection to Explore
Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2023 12:02 PM
Perhaps we need to get out a bit more, but there is something thrilling about opening a bundle of papers tied up with string that is probably over one hundred years old. When...
Widows and Old Maids
Posted on Tuesday, September 26, 2023 02:51 PM
Voting in municipal elections had been an entirely male affair until the election of 1884, when women were granted the vote for the first time. The franchise was still quite...