File contains two copies of “The Kilties: Souvenir Route Book” from 1910 when the Kilties toured the world, a postcard of the Kilties on tour, and paper with the Kilties of Belleville, Ontario letter head. There is also a newspaper article written in 2010 about the history of the Kilties and their tour.
File contains a photocopy of a printed by law concerning animal control in Limerick Township, 1887. Also contains a photocopy of a printed article entitled History of Limerick Township since 1888, by Mrs. Thomas Ham, Steenburg, Ontario. First published in The North Hastings Review ca. 1955.
File contains a typescript extract from the Hastings County Court Registry Office concerning the ownership of a piece of land in Madoc Township, granted to C. Gordon Hannah in 1861. The lot is not identified, but information from the land index maintained by the Marilyn Adams Genealogical Research Centre suggest that it is lot 24 in the seventh concession of Madoc Township.
File contains newspaper clippings from 1899 regarding the Canadian Historical Exhibition in Toronto and a letter from Mary Agnes Fitzgibbon of the Women's Canadian Historical Society of Toronto to Colonel Ponton discussing the exhibition.
File contains a printed bulletin of the Departments of History and Political and Economic Science, Queen's University, entitled "Captain John Deserontyou and the Mohawk Settlement at Deseronto" by M. Eleanor Herrington. The bulletin was published in 1921 and recounts the history of the early settlement of Tyendinaga. Also contains a letter to the editor of the Ontario Intelligencer explaining the origins of Captain John Deseronto [Deserontyou's] name.
Ku Klux Klan of Canada Charter - Invisible Empire Knights and Ladies asking for a Klan of this Order in the Canton of Belleville, with list of names of citizens petitioning
newpaper photo of class of new members of a Ku Klux Klan
clipping from The telegram, October 26, 1965 - "Gone and Well forgotten - The Klan's Canadian Flop"
photocopy of the above item including missing part
A card with threat from KKK High Chief with skull and crossbones drawing sent to a Tweed resident, Tom Meraw
File contains a manuscript report of the Hastings County Council Committee of Whole, 1868, finding against a petition for the separation of Wollaston and Limerick Townships from Tudor Township and the creation of separate township councils.
File contains a book from 1890-1892, “Declaration of Incorporation and By-Laws of the County of Hastings Law Library Association”, and a letter to B.C. Donnan, President of County of Hastings Law Association, from 1934.
File contains a typed announcement detailing a celebration for Mrs. Sarah Hogle's 86th birthday at the family homestead in Sidney Crossing. Transcribed from a scrapbook.
File contains a typescript copy of notes on the early settlement of Monteagle and Herschel Townships including information on settlement, education, railways and resources. The information was provided by children from Herschel school. Also contains two photocopy pages from the 1889 Monteagle and Herschel Directory listing landowners with surnames A-G.
File contains photocopies of typescript notes by Mrs. Violet Carrol, St. Ola concerning the geography, natural resources, settlement and agricultural and logging in Limerick Township (in response to a survey by Gerry Boyce for his book, Historic Hastings.. Also contains a manuscript letter from Violet Carrol to Carl Bateman, Clerk-Treasurer, Hastings County, concerning the history of Limerick Township.