Records of Gerry Boyce's research on a number of published and unpublished subjects relating to the local history of Belleville and Hastings County. Research for published books include:

• Hutton of Hastings
• St. Andrew's Chronicles
• The Covered Bridge at Trenton
• Eldorado: Ontario's First Gold Rush
• Sidney Township, 1790-1990
• Historic Hastings
• Belleville: Birth of a City
• Belleville: A Popular History
• Belleville City Hall

Subjects covered in Gerry's research for unpublished projects include:

• local cemeteries and religious organizations
• medicine and disease
• crime and punishment (including a publication on the history of Belleville police)
• history of education in Ontario (especially Hastings County and Belleville)
• supernatural phenomena (compiled for ghost walks in Belleville)
• genealogy
• Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School
• local Indigenous peoples, (principally the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte)
• famous local people (the Aylwards, Sir Mackenzie Bowell, William Canniff, Susannah Moodie

This series also contains notes on talks given by Gerry Boyce and correspondence relating to them.

1. Eight photocopies of pages of the Kingston Whig Standard, each featuring people and news from the Tyendinaga Reserve and published daily between February 22, and February 27, 1965.
2. Profile of Sacred Feathers, or Rev. Peter Jones (1802-1856) by Donald Smith, published in Touchstone, vol. 33, no.1 (February 2015), 59-66
3. Chapter 2 from Macdonald at 200 (published 2014), ‘Macdonald’s Relationship with Aboriginal Peoples’ by Donald Smith (21 pages)

Digital materials relating to Dr John Maracle Kenwendeshon:

1. 1880s photo of Lillian Maracle, Kenwendeshon’s daughter. Lillian married John Stewart.
2. Letter from John Stewart II written while in Deseronto
3. Photo of Bert Maracle and Edna (Hill) Maracle
4. 1953 letter to Lillian from the London Library Museum
5. Oct 12, 1953 notes by Lillian Maracle about Dr Kenwendeshon
6. Note from Bert Maracle to Lill[ian] about not calling on the Gray Lady
7. Memories of visiting Deseronto written in an email by John Stewart II’s son, John Stewart III
8. Photograph of marriage certificate of Lillian Maracle and John Ross Stewart
9. Photograph of newspaper articles about the marriage of Lillian and John Ross Stewart and about Stewart’s theatre business
10. Notes by Karen Lewis of the Kanhiote Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory Public Library on Dr. Kenwendeshon’s life, January 2013

Collection comprises:

1. The Tribune, Dec 2 1898, report on death of F. S. Rathbun [very fragile]
2. The Tribune, Nov 27, 1903, report on death of E. W. Rathbun [torn and defaced with blue crayon]
3. Copy of Town of Deseronto deed granting the Long Dock and Ottawa Dock at Mill Street to the Deseronto Boating, Gun and Rod Club, Sep 26, 1957, with rough sketch of property
4. Summary of 1966 census of individuals in Deseronto, by age
5. Napanee Beaver, Nov 30 1966 (coverage of elections and death of Wilfred Hill, 47)
6. Napanee Beaver, Dec 7 1966 (coverage of election of Dorothy McCullough, first woman councillor in Deseronto)
7. Napanee Beaver, Jun 7 1967 (photo of Muriel Andrew’s painting of the ferry and bridge, on display in Deseronto Public Library, with Mrs Barney Thompson, Mrs Blake Moore and Mrs Jean Griffiths)
8. 1967 Special Centennial supplement [toNapanee Beaver?] on the history of Deseronto
9. ‘Centennial News’ vacation issue by Lake Ontario Development Council, covering ‘7 Holiday Regions’, 1967, 12pp.
10. Napanee Beaver, Jan 10 1968 (includes details of Deseronto Council committees)
11. Printed 1968 Deseronto Voters’ List
12. Napanee Beaver report on Naylor’s Theatre, Apr 28 1971, 1p.
13. The Quinte Scanner, Jun 16 1971, 100th birthday Deseronto special edition
14. The Intelligencer, Nov 9 1982 (report on Roger Cole’s election as Mayor of Deseronto)
15. Napanee Beaver, May 11 1983, report on Camps Mohawk and Rathbun, using information from J. Allan Smith, with photos
16. Napanee Beaver supplement, 1983, based on 1967 version, published for Summer Parade in Deseronto
17. Napanee Beaver, Dec 18 1985, including articles on Denny Tompkins’s plans as Mayor of Deseronto and article on Liva Grass of Tyendinaga, who campaigned for non-status Indians to regain their status

Collection comprises:

• Identity card of Ira Claus, aged 68, member of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte [c.1952]
• ‘In Memoriam’ book (supplied by White Funeral Home, Deseronto) for Ira Alfred Claus, died Mar 18, 1957, aged 73, Brant St., Deseronto, includes names of the bearers and visitors
• Particulars of War Veteran’s Allowance payable to Bertha Claus, widow of Ira, from Mar 19, 1958
• Statement of contents insurance coverage of Bertha Claus, Thomas Street, Deseronto, with the John S. White Insurance Agency, Deseronto, Feb 11, 1959
• ‘Souvenir Booklet published by the 1960-1961 Council of Tyendinaga Indian Reserve, Deseronto, Ontario, Canada’ [1961], front page torn
• Photograph of boy’s hockey team, sponsored by Sam’s Aluminum [after 1963]

Scanned copy of a photograph of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip with Chief Earl Hill of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte, with the Queen Anne SIlver on an upturned canoe during the royal visit of 1973.

The file contains three newspaper clippings about the Royal Visit of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip to Kingston. Included in the articles are references to the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory and presentations by the Indigenous people. Also, during the same visit, in Toronto the meeting of the Royals with Peter Ramsay of Madoc.

1. Printed ‘Rules of Order of the Municipal Council of the Town of Deseronto’ 18 Feb 1889
2. Printed pro-forma for a certificate of public recognition by the town of Halifax for service in the Second World War (with pencilled alterations to make reference to Deseronto instead), 1945
3. Printed booklet on ‘The Future of the Liberal Party’, address by Brooke Claxton, Minister of National Defence, 4 Aug 1948
4. Auditor’s report on road expenditures for the Town of Deseronto, 1949
5. Edition of ‘Roads and Road Construction’ journal, March 1951, Vol. 29, no. 339
6. Leases between the Town of Deseronto and the Deseronto Lions Club (of the Skating Rink) and Deseronto Boating Club (part of the old saw mill property), 1953-1954
7. Published report by the Select Committee on Indian Affairs on ‘Civil Liberties and Rights of Indians [Indigenous People] in Ontario’, 19 Mar 1954
8. Letter from J.D. Lee and Company to the Deseronto Medical Officer of Health, Dr W. H. Duffett, with two copies of blueprint relating to modifications to the septic tank of the Deseronto Public School, 4 Dec 1956

File contains newspaper clippings about Robert Glendon Brant becoming an ordained priest of the Anglican Church at the Christ Church on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory at Deseronto in 1960.

Two photocopied pages of text and illustrations by Aren Akweks explaining the political system of the Haudenosaunee longhouses.

This file contains a scrapbook created by Bruce Dobbs on the history of Hastings County, Moira Valley. Articles from the Intelligencer.

File contains a Northeast Archeology Booklet, letters, and a list of references.