File contains a newspaper clipping about the Hastings County Vegetable Growers Annual Banquet in 1959.

File contains motions from Hastings County Council meetings from 1869-1870 regarding the establishment of an Industrial Farm and Poor House in Belleville. There is also a copy of the “Second Annual Report of the Inspector of the House of Industry & Refuge for the County of Waterloo, 1869” that may have been used in the discussions.

File contains a newspaper article concerning the annual awards banquet of the Hastings County Holstein Breeders Club, October 7, 1966.

File contains a newspaper clipping regarding the election of officers to the Hastings County Hog Producers' Association in January, 1957.

File contains newspaper clippings regarding Hastings County Junior Farmer club award nights and field days, 1959-1960.

File contains a newspaper clipping regarding the election of officers to the Hastings County Farm Federation for 1961. Also contains a newspaper clipping concerning extension courses offered to farmers in Bancroft in 1968.

File contains manuscript resolutions of the Hastings County Council concerning grants to the Hastings Agricultural Society for the purposes of agricultural fairs and exhibitions.

File contains a newspaper clipping regarding the election of officers of the Hastings County Federation of Agriculture for 1969.

File contains a newspaper clipping regarding the election of officers of the Hastings County Federation of Agriculture for 1969.

File contains a newspaper clipping regarding the 5th Annual Convention of the Hastings County Farm Union in October 1959.

File contains a newspaper clipping regarding the election of officers to the Hastings Cheese Producers Association, 1959.

File contains 1865 communications regarding the establishment of an industrial farm for the poor in Belleville. There is also a 1907 booklet “Rules and Regulations to Govern House of Refuge and Industrial Farm of the County of Hastings”.

File contains a letter from the Department of Agriculture and Public Works to the Warden of Hastings in 1870 regarding immigrants and farm labour, and a copy of the Constitution of the Peterbo Immigration Society.

File contains an 1862 letter regarding immigration and a notice from the Government Immigration Office discussing the increased number of immigrants from the United Kingdom and the United States, proposing farmers hire new immigrants for farm labour and on large farms build a log cabin for a family to stay in.

File contains a bylaw from 1862 to prevent hogs and pigs “from running at large and doing damage to the public roads”.

File contains documents from Hastings County, including a request from the Bureau of Agriculture & Statistics and a census table from 1856 to record information such as occupied land acreage, number of horses, number of carriages, etc.

File contains documents from the County of Hastings from 1864-1865, including a 1865 Seed Bill to encourage agriculture and manufactures in order to create a system of agriculture adapted to the soil and climate and does not exclusively grow grain.

File contains a copy of a letter regarding the home of Frank Hodgen, 8th Concession Lot 24 in Thurlow, which was originally the Graham farm.

File contains a newspaper article concerning the operations of the Bronk Cheese Manufacturing Company Ltd., Gilead over the period 1949-1959.

File contains a Letters Patent, recorded in 1838, authorizing a fair in Frankford.