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![Blotter advertising Leslies' Shoe Store in Belleville, Ontario. Text reads:](https://www.cabhc.ca/en/news/resources/2020-072-blotter.jpg)
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.](https://www.cabhc.ca/en/news/resources/Solar-eclipse-1922.jpg)
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.](https://www.cabhc.ca/en/news/resources/2024-014-08-Cross-section.jpg)
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)](https://www.cabhc.ca/en/news/resources/2023-114-29.jpg)
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...
![Bundle of handwritten papers tied with string.](https://www.cabhc.ca/en/news/resources/Bissonnette-bundle.jpg)
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...