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HCHS Textual Records collection: Files 1000 to 1499
This description is for part of a collection of some 4,400 vertical files of materials gathered by the Hastings County Historical Society. They cover a wide range of subjects and were received from a variety of different sources, not always recorded.
The collection includes original materials, newspaper clippings, secondary histories and copies.
Hastings County Historical Society
File contains information regarding Dr. Jacob Cronk.
Crime – Reference To Dominion Bank Robbery
File contains a newspaper clipping about Mr. Lott being charged with conspiring to defraud the electors, there is a reference to the Dominion Bank Robbery.
File contains a newspaper clipping discussing the first steam car in the area, around 1900, being driven by Charles Knight after he won a raffle.
Hastings County Administration Staff 1969
File contains two copies of a 1961 booklet about the opening of the new County of Hastings Administration Building, and a 1968 newspaper article about the Administration staff.
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.
Ontario School for the Deaf publications for 1970-1973-1975-1986-1987
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
A Last Appeal to County Councils for Pecuniary Aid
Letter of appeal to county council members for financial aid to the Deaf and Dumb Institution which includes an account abstract for 1865 and the treasurer's, W.M. McMaster, balance sheet for 1862.
McGann, John Barrett
Education – Belleville Business College
File contains a piece of paper with a drawing of a women on a bicycle on it, the paper had Belleville Business College letterhead.
Belleville Business College
File contains a petition to the Councillors of Hastings County from the inhabitants of Dungannon and Faraday Townships concerning the division of the townships into three school sections. Also contains a directive from the Municipal Council, Hastings County concerning fencing in Dungannon and Faraday Townships.
Frankford – Cemetery – Wesleyan Methodist Church
File contains a transcription of the Old Frankford Cemetery (Wesleyan Methodist Church).
Hastings County Council Papers; Reports of County Surveyors 1855
File contains an 1855 letter from provincial land surveyor John Haslett to verify work has been done to allow for a road from the townships of Sidney to Thurlow.
Halloween Revelry by Teenagers Brings Disorderly Conduct Charges
Newspaper clipping describing disorderly conduct of Belleville teenagers on Halloween, 1958.
Intelligencer
File contains a newspaper article about a ghost recorded on tape in Wooler in 1968.
Intelligencer
Field Notes of the Township of Faraday
Photocopied cover of manuscript field notes by Quentin Johnston, Provincial Land Surveyor concerning resources and quality of land in Faraday Township in 1857. Published by Ontario Department of Crown Lands.
Johnston, Quentin
A printed title page for the municipal voters list of Faraday Township, 1938.
Letter of appeal to Ontario Wardens, Reeves, and Mayors
Letter written by J.B. McGann to municipal and provincial government representatives of Ontario, asking for financial support on behalf of the Deaf and Dumb Institution.
McGann, John Barrett
File contains a newspaper article about an election in 1842, the “Most Violent Election in the City”.
Boyce, Gerry
Double Murder Worst Tragedy in City's History
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.
The Daily Ontario
St. Joseph's Separate School 1962
File contains newspaper clippings about the construction of the new addition to St. Joseph's Separate School.