File contains a printed booklet ca. 1961 entitled History of King Baldwin Preceptory, No. 6 Belleville, Ontario. Also contains a printed obituary dated August 4, 1928, of Rt. Em. Kt. Richard Henry Spencer, Presiding Preceptor of the Belleville No. 6 King Baldwin Preceptory. Also present is a printed booklet of by laws of the King Baldwin Preceptory ca. 1928, and blueprints of the Preceptory Hall, 1926.
File contains a four-page typescript history by Ruth Matheson Buck Concerning Marchmont Home, a Belleville orphanage for British Home Children which was established ca. 1870. Also contains a newspaper clipping regarding the arrival of fifty children at the Marchmont Home in 1924.
File contains newspaper articles regarding the publication and release of The Mosaic of Belleville by Nick Mika. Also contains a typescript announcement of the annual meeting of the Hastings County Historical Society, May 30, 1966.
File contains a printed memoriam of Major Charles George Levisconte [Levesconte], Justice of the Peace and former commander of the First Belleville Rifles, Hastings Regiment.
File contains a manuscript motion in Council by James J. Farley, Thurlow Township Reeve, to convey thanks to Sir. John A. Macdonald for a portrait of the late George Benjamin, Warden of Hastings County.
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 photocopied printed excerpt which lists 19th century Episcopal and Wesleyan Methodist churches by location in Belleville. Also contains a newspaper article concerning a former Methodist manse in Unionville, Ontario in 1969, and a newspaper clipping regarding the installation of a new organ at Bridge Street Methodist Church in 1914.
File contains a manuscript account of the experiences of John O'Carroll, a Roman Catholic citizen of Belleville, who was unjustly accused of encouraging people to join the 1837 Rebellion.
File contains typescript correspondence originating from and received by Gerry Boyce, President of the Hastings County Historical Society regarding the installation of a plaque in Victoria Park, Belleville, in honour of Capt. John Walden Meyers. Also contains a typescript press release of the Ontario Department of Travel and Publicity regarding the public unveiling of the plaque on August 23, 1959.
File consists a manuscript list of contents of the Mikel Scrapbook relating to administrative and council records of the city of Belleville and the County of Hastings indexed by subject and date.
