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The Hastings County Historical Society

154 Old Cannifton Road North

General Delivery, Cannifton

Ontario K0K 1K0.


For mail orders please add postage and handling fee of $8 per title for books, and $6 per mailing tube for one or more maps, posters, or broadsheets mailed together.

Bird's-eye view of Belleville, Ontario, Canada, 1874.

Map (1 sheet), 24" x 18". Reprint. Shows streets, buildings, numbered references to over 40 major buildings, schools, factories, hotels.

Price $5.00


Mackenzie Bowell's Government and the Manitoba Schools: A Cartoon History

Boyce, Betsy. Revised and reprinted with cartoons, 1999. 69 p., illus. ISBN 0-921385-14-5. Revision, by the author, of the original 1985 edition which had been printed to accompany a slide presentation. New edition includes all the political cartoons from the slides.

Price $6.00

The Rebellion in Hastings

A new look at the 1837-38 Rebellion in Hastings County based on the Rebellion Losses claims of 1845. Boyce, Betsy. 2nd edition. 1987. Reprinted 1998. 35 p. ISBN 0-921385-12-9 Reproductions of 26 claims, with notes on them, and a brief description of events of the Rebellion in the Belleville area.

Price $5.00

The Covered Bridge at Trenton

Boyce, Gerald E. 1980. 16 p., illus., map. ISBN 0-921385-04-8 The building of Trenton's first bridge, which lasted from 1834 to 1916.

Price $2.00

The Canadian Agriculturalist and Transactions of the Board of Agriculture of Upper Canada: a report on the state of agriculture in the County of Hastings, by William Hutton

Prepared by Gerry Boyce. 1986. Reprinted 1998. 16p., illus. Reprint of pp. 193-201 of Vol. IV, no. 7, with additional pictures, and information on William Hutton.

Price $2.00

Check Gate Poster: Rate of Tolls on Belleville to Frankford road, 1856.

Reprinted by Hastings County Historical Society, 1963. 12" x 19". (Includes explanatory sheet)

Price $1.00


County Valuator's Report, 1866

58 p. Printed at the Intelligencer Book and Job Office for the County Council, 1867. Reprinted 1957, on 15 sheets, by Hastings County Historical Society.

Price $3.00


Belleville's Heritage (Volume II )

Researched by the Historic Structures Committee of the Hastings County Historical Society in 1983. Fifty-six pages with illustrations, map, pictures and descriptions of 48 of Belleville's nineteenth-century buildings.

Price $2.50

The Intelligencer Extra

June 1, 1866, announcing invasion by Fenians. This poster was reprinted by Hastings County Historical Society in 1965 and includes an explanatory sheet for those not familiar with the Fenian raids.

Price $1.00

Map of the Counties of Hastings and Prince Edward

Facsimile No. 14, published by Canadian Heritage Publications, Ottawa. 20" x 18".

Price $3.00


Plan of a town plot at the mouth of the River Moira

Map (1 sheet). 11'' X 17''.  Reprinted in 1999. From the original map by G. Wilmot, Deputy Surveyor dated April 24, 1816 (the map includes the census sheet)

Price $2.50

(This map and the Bird's-eye view listed above [No.1], can be purchased together as a set for $ 6.50)


Police regulations of the Town of Belleville, 1840

Broadsheet. Reprint. 13" x 18".

Price $1.00


The Gilmour Influence

McDonald, Andrew. 1986. 30pp. ISBN 0-921385-11-0.  Published by Hastings County Historical Society – the history of this important Trenton/Quinte area lumber business. (Very limited supply)

Price $5.00


The Rebels of Hastings

Boyce, Betsy. 1992. 233 pp. ISBN 0-8020-5986-4.  Published by University of Toronto Press, this book tells the fascinating story of the rebellion of 1837-1838 in Hastings County, with an examination of the subsequent Rebellion losses (reduced from original price of $20.00)

Price $10.00

Belleville Centenary  Flashback 1878-1978

Mika, Nick and Helma, 1978. 80 pp. ISBN 0-919303-26-9  A look back at Belleville's history from the year the community became a city in 1878. (very limited supply)

Price $10.00


Belleville City Hall

Boyce, Gerry. 1988. 96 pp. ISBN 0-921341-24-5 Mika Publishing Co. Story of Belleville's famous city hall, with coloured photos by noted architectural photographer.(Very limited supply)

Price $15.00

The St. Andrew's Chronicles: The History of Presbyterianism in the Belleville-Quinte Area.

Boyce, Gerry. 1978. 183 pp. Published by St. Andrew's Church in Belleville to help celebrate the the centennial of Belleville as a city in 1978. $20.  [a bargain : used copies are listed on ABEBooks for over $500. U.S]  

Price $10.00


Dockside Democracy

Hunt, C.W. (Bill).  2000. 198 pages.  Billa Flint Publications.  The Story of Belleville's famous Wharf Street Debating Club. Originally published at $20.

Price $10.00

The Diary of Thomas Nightingale, Farmer & Miner, 1867-1871

Wallbridge, Malcolm (editor) 1967. 139 pages

Cost $10.00

The Movie Years, Trenton, Ontario, 1917-1934

Leavey, Peggy Dymond, 1989.  96 pages published by Mika Publishing Co. Originally sold at $15.

Cost $5.00

Belleville: City by the Bay

Simpson, Laura Ann. 1977. 44 pages

Country Life in Canada 50 Years Ago.

Haight, Canniff. 1885. Reprinted by Mika Publishing Co. in 1974.

Price $20.00

Smith's Canada, Vol. 2.

Smith, W.H. 1852. 544 pp. Reprinted by Mika Publishing Co., 1974


Tracing the History of a House

Throop, Mary Jane.  2004. 8 pages

Price $2.00


Researching a Historical Building in Belleville

Sanders, Elizabeth, for Heritage Belleville, 1995. 39 pages

Price $8.00


Bay of Quinte Bridge Company $100 Share Certificate, 1891.

Reprinted by Hastings County Historical Society.

Price 50¢ per certificate


Heritage Atlas of Hastings County

Orland French. 2006

Special price during fundraising $40.00 (normally $60)

Belleville: A Popular History

Gerry Boyce, 2008. 311 pp.

Price $35.00

Glanmore

National Historic Site of Canada. 2003.  48 pp  

Price $12.00