Census of children between the ages of five and 18 in the municipality of Thurlow, Ontario. All the 94 children listed lived in Foxboro.

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 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. “

Minutes of the Thurlow Junior Farmers and Junior Institute for young women on the fifth concession of Thurlow Township in Hastings County, Ontario.

File contains an insert from the publication Canadian Weekly titled “Toys Our Grandparents Loved”.

File contains a four-page typescript history by Ruth Matheson Buck Concerning Marchmont Home, a Belleville orphanage for British Home Children which was established ca. 1870. Also contains a newspaper clipping regarding the arrival of fifty children at the Marchmont Home in 1924.

File contains an Intelligencer article about the Teen-Club disbanding since it has been inactive since 1949.

File contains a Belleville Children's Aid Society financial report from 1910.

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 newspaper clippings printed from 1960-1961 about the plans to buy the former St. Michael's High School and turn it into a school for children with mental disabilities.

Collection comprises:
1) Copy of printed notes on the history of the Girl Guide movement in Belleville, c.1963
2) Photocopies of newspaper obituaries and articles about Nan Branscombe, 1971 (and undated)
3) Typed and handwritten notes on Annie E. 'Nan' (Paterson) Branscombe, 1881-1971, founder of the Guides in Belleville, written by Charlotte Kuntze, 2001

File contains a newspaper clipping printed in 1964 about a new educational authority, the “Belleville Retarded Children's Educational Authority”.

File contains a pamphlet for Belleville's Association for Retarded Children; and newspaper clips c.1969 about four Belleville students to go to Special Olympics, Mayor Jack Ellis cutting ribbon for workshop for mentally handicapped adults, and a newspaper clip on a Cannifton Road workshop providing jobs for the mentally handicapped c.1966.

File contains newspaper articles in 1967 that feature costume contest with costumes being from the era of Confederation.

File contains a notice printed in the newspaper in 1968 from the Hastings County & Prince Edward County Health Unit regarding infants and pre-school children immunization clinic.

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.

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

File contains miscellaneous newspaper clippings printed in 1968 about Hasting County Council activities such as: opening a Foster Home in North Hastings, a request for a Home Economist, standing committees, the election of Reeve William Shannon as Warden, Calvin While named Warden, etc. There is also a “class photo” of the 1967 Hastings County Council.