Collection includes:
1) File of copies of newspaper articles on Frank Morse Robb and copy of the patent for his electronic wave organ. Also includes research notes on the William Finkle Machine business at 393 Sidney Street in Belleville (Bristol Aircraft Products during the Second World War) and an article from 'Remember When' on the Argue family home at 338 Charles Street.
2) File of research notes on Belleville buildings constructed by City Hall builder John Forin, c.1988-1898
3) Copy of paper by Gerry Boyce on 'Conflict and Cooperation: The Cemeteries of Belleville, Ontario', 2003
4) Copy of article by Peter Meehan 'The East Hastings By-Election of 1936 and the Ontario Separate School Tax Question', published in 'Historical Studies' 68, 2002
5) Electronic files of research notes on buildings in east Belleville
6) Electronic files of research notes on buildings in west Belleville

File contains a reproduction of a proclamation announcing the Village of Stoco will have a Fair or Mart twice a year, in May and October, starting in 1860. The proclamation was forwarded from the office of Sheriff J.W. Dunbar Moodie.

File contains the spring 1959 issue of the Dalhousie Review with an index card making special reference to mention of Susanna Moodie in an article entitled "The English Gentlefolk in the Backwoods of Canada," by Lloyd D. Scott. Also contains a 1969 newspaper clipping on Robert Burns.

The file contains information on the 50th anniversary of the National Library of Canada with a set of stamps from Canada Post featuring sisters Catharine Parr Traill (1802-99) and Susanna Moodie (1803-85).

File contains petitions to form a fire department, including: William Rankin and 35 other residents from upper part of Belleville petitioning for independent fire department.

File contains a printed programme for the Old Home Week celebrations, August 1930.

Almanacs for Albert College, Belleville, Ontario for:

• 1877
• 1880
• 1881
• 1882
• 1883

File contains newspaper clips on a fire at the Foley Foundry c.1960, fire at Holgate Mill c.1961, clip on the fires throughout c.1961 and the cost being $200,000 in damages, the study and practice routines of the Belleville fire Department c.1963, Rawdon farmer Robert Hoards shed and tractor burn in fire c.1966, Capt. S.Pomeray retires after 46 years of service c.1965, Davids Furniture fire c.1968, Moira Furniture destroyed in fire c.1969, Mrs. William Withers and her four children die in Nova Scotia fire c.1969, Bob Edwardson is made fire Chief of Belleville c.1969, former Belleville fire Chief Gerald Leo O'Brien dies c.1969, fire Chief T.E.Porte and other Belleville firefighters honoured by Mayor Russell J. Scott c.1969, Ted Porte retires after 50 years of service with the Belleville fire department c.1969, and other miscellaneous newspaper clips on Belleville area fires c.1960-69.

File contains a newspaper clipping c.1957 about the “Sputnik” passing over Ontario, and a newspaper clip from 1961 about the Fullers, a Belleville family, constructing a fallout shelter on their Fifth Street property (article available online at https://archive.org/details/intelligencer-november-1961/page/n62/mode/1up ).