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 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).
Newspaper article reporting the murder of Clayton Williams and Jack McGie by the alleged shooter David Arthur Moon in a Belleville drug store on April 6, 1925.
Photocopied cover of manuscript field notes by Quintin Johnston, Provincial Land Surveyor concerning resources and quality of land in Faraday Township in 1857. Published by Ontario Department of Crown Lands.
File contains photocopied manuscript field notes by Quintin Johnston, Provincial Land Surveyor concerning resources and quality of land in Faraday Township in 1857. Also contains photocopied manuscript field notes concerning road and land surveys in Faraday Township as surveyed by Forneri and Kennedy, 1869-1870. Undated,[ ca. 1960s?] original manuscript notes containing excerpts of the aforementioned surveys are also present.
File contains copies of Ontario School for the Deaf (in the later years, Sir James Whitney) publication The Canadian from 1970, 1973, 1975, 1986, and 1987
File contains three booklets published in 1970 celebrating the Centennial anniversary of the opening of the Ontario School of the Deaf in Belleville, and a list from the Outdoor Activities Sub-Committee of their contributions to planning the Centennial year.
File contains information from the Hastings Land Registry Office about confusion over transactions conducted during the registrarship of Smith and McLean, from 1833 to 1844.
File contains a poster for the Ontario Institution for the Deaf and Dumb in Belleville; one side features a drawing of the building and a photo of the graduating class and the other side features the “Single-Hand Alphabet”.
File contains a scholarship certificate awarded Mr. Isaac Frost for the Ontario Commercial College (O.C.C.) in 1869. There is also a newspaper clipping from 1872 advertising the O.C.C.