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File contains newspaper clippings, “Letter to the Editor” submitted by Roger Grieg from the Community Planning Association to the Intelligencer regarding downtown Belleville and rejuvenation plans.

File contains Bylaw No. 154 about unlawful behaviour, for example: giving intoxicating drinks to apprentice servants, insane persons, etc., or circulating indecent writings, or using profane language, or for any person to indecently expose him or herself, or to bath and wash in public, etc.

File contains an 1862 letter regarding immigration and a notice from the Government Immigration Office discussing the increased number of immigrants from the United Kingdom and the United States, proposing farmers hire new immigrants for farm labour and on large farms build a log cabin for a family to stay in.

File contains newspaper articles about Halloween in Belleville including: “Hooliganism” at Albert College, teenagers arrested for disobeying police officers, and money being raised for UNICEF.

File contains newspaper articles written by Harriet Stevens (a pseudonym for Irene Haig).

File contains newspaper columns written by Viva Richmond Graham for the Intelligencer title “Second Glance”

File contains a newspaper clipping printed in 1968, retelling ghost sightings reported in Belleville in the 1890s. There is also a copy of a newspaper clipping from 1880 about the launching of a catamaran (also called a double hulled yacht) that Tisdale built for Mr. J.J. B. Flint.

File contains a copy of a newspaper clipping about the history of Frankford.

File contains a Letters Patent, recorded in 1838, authorizing a fair in Frankford.

File contains a newspaper clipping about the history of Foxboro, printed in 1956.

File contains a newspaper clipping about the publication of the East Hastings Women's Institute “Tweedmuir History” books.

File contains a printed voters list for Faraday Township, 1938. Also contains newspaper clippings concerning uranium contamination in Faraday and Bancroft, and proposals by the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation [CMHC] to purchase and resell the abandoned mining suburb of Cardiff, near Bancroft, 1964, and photocopied, typescript notes on the history of Faraday Township, 1891-ca.1955.

File contains a manuscript letter from Mrs. A.E. Hall to the Hastings County Historical Society concerning the Fraser and Eastman families of Madoc ca. 1850-1893.

File contains a newspaper clipping regarding a reunion of the Fraser Family at Tweed, Ontario.

File contains a newspaper clipping concerning a reunion at Oak Lake, Rawdon Township, of the extended Morton, McKeown, Ashley and Bateman families, each of whom had pioneer roots in early Hastings County.

File contains a photocopied newspaper clipping regarding prizes and rules of entry for animals, produce, and domestic manufactures at the Victoria District Agricultural Society Exhibition, October 8, 1846.

File contains an 1897 petition prohibiting the sale of liquor “in any tavern, inn, or other house or place of public entertainment” in Elzevir & Grimsthrope.