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Dr. Massey's journey to work in 1905 took six weeks!

Dates for tapping maple trees in the late 1800s on the Ruttan family farm.

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One early aviator saw the world from a unique angle.

The earliest minutes of the town of Belleville show that even in 1836, speeding was a problem.

Back in the days of fountain pens, blotters were a common way of promoting a business.

We look back to local preparations for the solar eclipse of 2025.

Take a look at the blueprints for Belleville's Collegiate Institute and Vocational School, designed in 1926.

Photographer William Rayson Smith took a farewell tour of Belleville in the summer of 1886.

Local women first earned the right to vote in 1884, under certain conditions.