Welcome to the Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County
We preserve the history of our Eastern Ontario community through the records of local governments, individuals, families, businesses and organizations.
We are currently closed to visitors. You can call us at 613-967-3304 or send us an email.
Archives News
May events
Earlier this month, we were delighted to be able to host archivists from across Ontario at the Archives Association of Ontario's annual conference, which was held in Belleville for the first time. The Community Archives [...]
New book on Belleville in the First World War
The culmination of four years of work was celebrated today by Community Archives volunteer, Laurel Bishop. Laurel's research on life in Belleville during the First World War is familiar to regular visitors to the Community [...]
Belleville in World War I
Follow the citizens of Belleville and Hastings County as they face the challenges of the home front during the First World War through excerpts from The Daily Intelligencer, August 1914 to December 1918 in a series of blog posts compiled by Laurel Bishop.
The Hastings County Historical Society has published the story of how people in Belleville and Hastings County met those challenges in a new book compiled and edited by Laurel Bishop. This book is available for sale at the Community Archives.
You can also read about First World War Nursing Sisters with a Belleville or Hastings County connection in Don Brearley’s posts on the topic.
