File contains various documents regarding education in Belleville, such an article by W. E. Macpherson on Ontario Grammar Schools, 1916; 1926 program for Belleville High School Commencement; 1923 program for Belleville High School Sports Day, etc.
File contains a newspaper clipping from the Ottawa Journal of 27 March 1920 concerning iron ore deposits in Canada, including Hastings County. Also contains two newspaper clippings concerning management-labour relations regarding the planned closure of the Dyno Uranium Mine, Bancroft, dated 28 January and 1 February 1960.
File contains a newspaper clipping about the discovering of an illegal still on Joseph Cappelle's farm, north of Tweed in Hungerford. The clipping was taken from the Daily Ontario newspaper.
File contains a typsecript letter to W. J. Therriault, Governor of the Hastings County Jail from Mary G. Plumpton, Curator, Hastings County Museum, with a list of hangings by date and name of the convicted from 1835 to 1941.
File contains a typescript item on “Deseronto and the Rathbun Company” written by T. Dane Martin and edited by Gerry Boyce. Also a copy of the final printed version.
File contains original and photocopied typescript notes prepared by Mrs. Alex McGibbon, L'Amable, concerning the history of the southern section of Dungannon Township and the settlement of Turriff, with additional notes by Mrs Herbert Hawkins on the history of Bronson Settlement, Dungannon Township, Hastings.
File contains a written history of settlement and development of Elzevir and Grimsthorpe community, compiled in 1964 in response to a call for contributions to a history of Hastings County by the Hastings County Historical Society and the County of Hastings (Historic Hastings).
File contains a newspaper clipping concerning a meeting of East Hastings' Farmers' Institute at Belleville, where crop yields and mixed farming were discussed.
File contains a newspaper column printed in 1919 “Peering Into the Past with Bright Hopes for a Future: Bigger and Better Belleville” by John J.B. Flint.
File contains two copies of typescript extracts from an autobiography, “My Life-Story” by Rev. James Gardiner, D.C.L (b. 1818), written in 1897-1898. The extracts were made by Gerry Boyce in 1960. Also contains article "When the 'Plain Speaker's' Type was Pied" by H. F. Gardiner, son of James, presented at the Ontario Historical Society in July 1922.