A biography essay on carpenter, machinist, and soldier Joe Brintnell written by 6th grader Teri Bradley for an essay contest in Madoc Township. Includes photographs. 8 pages.

A biography essay on writer and hairdresser Brenda McCann written by 6th grader Joshua Bailey for an essay contest in Madoc Township. Includes photographs. 21 pages.

A biography essay on store-owner Clayton McMurray written by 6th grader Craig Alexander for an essay contest in Madoc Township. Includes photographs. 10 pages.

An essay on the Bannockburn School written by 6th grader Angela Grace Pietschmann for Madoc Township. Includes photographs and annual reports. 20 pages.

A report on the Red School in Elzevir written by 6th grader Steven Gordon for Madoc Township. Includes photographs and maps. 7 pages.

A report on the Pineview School written by 6th grader Sandi Gordon for Madoc Township. Includes photographs and maps. 16 pages.

A history of a lot in Hastings County written by 5th grader Rebecca Best for Madoc Township. Includes photographs. 12 pages.

A family tree created by 5th grader Ryan Burnside for a genealogy contest in Madoc Township. Includes photographs. 10 pages.

An family tree created by 5th grader Sarah Ketcheson for the Madoc Township for a contest. Includes photographs. 28 pages.

An essay written by 5th grader Sarah Ketcheson on the history of Pitts Landing in Madoc Township for a contest. Includes photographs. 17 pages.

File contains two newspaper articles about a tragic fire in Trenton, Ontario, that took the lives of three young children.

File contains several newspaper clippings concerning fundraising activities and meetings of the Quinte Association for Retarded Children [QARC] a local organization for the education of developmentally challenged children.

File contains a newspaper clipping from the Ontario Intelligencer, 14 April 1959 concerning the election of officers of the Plainfield Women's Institute. Also includes an obituary of Harry McCreary, Plainfield, telephone pioneer and former owner-operator of the McCreary Telephone Company who created early rural telephone lines in Thurlow and Sidney Townships. Also present is a duplicate copy of a printed booklet entitled “Progress Report : Ontario Homes for Mentally Retarded Infants, Plainfield, May 1951-December 1965. “

File contains a printed booklet entitled “Progress Report : Ontario Homes for Mentally Retarded Infants, Plainfield, May 1951-December 1965. Also present is an article from The Intelligencer, 23 March 1970 profiling Leonora Velleman, retiring superintendent of nurses at the Ontario Homes for Mentally Retarded Children at Plainfield.

File contains a manuscript report of a Committee of the Hastings County Council in 1870 concerning the leasing of Marchmont Home, a residence to house an orphans from England. Also contains several manuscript motions of approval regarding financial support of Marchmont Home.

File contains a typescript note concerning a visit of Scottish philanthropist, Alexander Allan to the Marchmont Home.

File contains the New Year's Carrier Boys Annual Address for 1862-1863 (printed on silk?).

File contains a newspaper feature article about Crystal Beach Park in Hungerford Township at Stoco Lake.

File contains a newspaper clipping from 1969 about the Hastings County Family Counseling Program and a discussion about family services during Children's Aid Week.

File contains newspaper clippings from 1968 about Hastings County Family and Children's Services and the development of the Hastings Welfare System to include Belleville.