File contains a manuscript letter from T.S. Agar, superintendent of schools, North Hastings County to A.F. Wood, Warden concerning examinations, and school funding.

File contains a manuscript report by T.S. Agar, Superintendent of Schools, North Hastings to A.J. Wood, Warden of Hastings County, and a manuscript report by F.H. Rous, Superindent of Schools, South Hastings to the Warden and Municipal Councillors, Hastings County.

File contains manuscript Board of Public Instruction accounting ledger pages, receipts, and a by-law to grant assistance to Hastings County grammar schools. Also contains a motion of the Municipal Council concerning common school trustees.

File contains a printed certificate of completion of common school examinations by Sarah Mills, S.S. No. 8, North Hastings.

File contains several manuscript accounting receipts of the Hastings County Board of Instruction and a manuscript report of F.H. Rous, Superintendent of Schools, South Hastings County, submitted to the Warden and Councillors of Hastings County.

File contains photocopies and original printed advertisements of miscellaneous businesses in Madoc. Also contains a printed invitation to the laying of the cornerstone of Madoc High School, July 2, 1934. Also present is a manuscript extract from the Ontario Provincial Board of Health concerning dams in the Madoc area in the 1870s.

File contains an 1868 draft petition to the Senate of the Dominion of Canada to establish a School of Mines in connection with the Geological Department to educate men gold and silver extraction, chemical and mechanical processes for proper treatment of ores, etc. as more and more valuable minerals are discovered in British Columbia. There is a also an 1869 report regarding the feasibility of establishing a School of Mines and Agricultural Chemistry in connection with Albert College.

File contains a manuscript annual report of T.S. Agar, Superintendent of Schools to the Warden of Hastings County, a printed letter from Agar to the Trustees and Teachers of Common Schools in North Hastings concerning examinations, and a manuscript letter from John Grier, Chairman of the Board of Grammar School Trustees to the Warden concerning school funding. Also contains several manuscript accounting receipts of the Board of Public Instruction.

Textbooks, exercise books, student registers, photographs and press clippings relating to the Ontario Business College and its courses.

File contains a scholarship certificate awarded Mr. Isaac Frost for the Ontario Commercial College (O.C.C.) in 1869. There is also a newspaper clipping from 1872 advertising the O.C.C.

File contains a manuscript report by F.H. Rous, Superintendent of Schools, South Hastings to the Warden and Municipal Councillors, Hastings County, and a manuscript report by T.S. Agar, Superintendent of Schools, South Hastings to Warden A.F. Woods. Also contains a printed circular by F.H.Rous detailing proposed visits to schools in south Hastings County for 1870, and manuscript accounting ledger pages and receipts of the Board of Public Instruction.

File contains a small notepad of manuscript academic notes by William Nisbet Ponton during his studies at Upper Canada College in the 1870s.

File contains a printed report on the education department by a select committee of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, concerning the system of grammar and common schools in Ontario.

File contains various documents related to the opening of the Ontario School for the Deaf, including letters from J.B. McGann, the institute's first superintendent.

File contains a printed circular letter from the Office of the Public School Inspector to Hastings County teachers, [ca. 1914], 1925; manuscript by-law concerning purchase of lands for a school in Thurlow Township, 1871; a manuscript petition to the Warden and County Council concerning lands for school section 20 Thurlow Township, [ca. 1870s]; a manuscript appeal concerning school section 20, 1872; and related manuscript motion of the Municipal Council, [ca. 1870s]

File contains a manuscript report of school inspector John Johnston to the Warden and Council; a printed application for the position of Local Superintendent of Schools, South Hastings; a manuscript memorandum concerning schools in Dungannon and Faraday Townships; and manuscript by-laws concerning teacher qualifications, and school boundaries. Also contains manuscript accounting ledger pages and receipts of the North Hastings Board of Public Instruction.

File contains new school laws, certificate of eligibility as county or city examiner, a list of individuals eligible to be appointed public school inspectors, etc.

File contains a piece of paper with a drawing of a women on a bicycle on it, the paper had Belleville Business College letterhead.

The file contains copies of: 1) Rules for Teachers 1872; 2) Circular to Inspectors and Principals 1892; 3) Rules and Regulations Ontario Business College, Belleville, Ontario.