File contains (10) newspaper clippings from The Intelligencer regarding the career and retirement of Ontario Hydro regional manager Ernie Gurnett as well as some articles on local contracts.
File contains newspaper articles concerning the history of the Monck Road, a colonization road primarily, but also intended as a less vulnerable military route between the Upper Great Lakes and the Ottawa Valley, passing near Bancroft, Ontario. The road was surveyed in 1864-1865 and named in honour of Governor-General, Lord Monck. Also included is typescript transcript of an article entitled "Was the Monck Road for Military Use?" / by Dr. J. J. Talman, first published in the Orillia Packet and Times, 27 June 1940
File contains one booklet sent to E. Denyes of Belleville entitled "Happy Motoring" and fifteen newspaper articles regarding various road construction projects, including Moira River Bridge, Trenton Span Bridge, 401 paving and expansion, bridge over Bay of Quinte (Picton link).
File contains printed maps and drawings of the Murray Canal site. Also present is a printed document entitled “A paper on the proposed Murray Canal Between Lake Ontario and the Bay of Quinte...for use of Members of the Senate and House of Commons,” February, 1880; a printed excerpt from the Annual Report of the Public Works Department, 1891 regarding the Murray Canal; and correspondence from the Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, to Thomas S. Ransom, Ontario Land Surveyor, dated 11 April 1967 pertaining to the construction and administration of the canal from 1882 to 1967.
File contains manuscript resolutions of the Hastings County Council concerning the construction of the proposed Murray Canal ca. 1862, 1868 and 1870. Also present is a printed letter dated 29 October 1861 from Thomas D. McConkey, Warden County of Simcoe, regarding the construction of a proposed Georgian Bay Canal.
File contains a manuscript original and copy of a memorial submitted by the Hastings County Council to Sir Edmund Walker Head, Governor-General of British North America, ca. 1857 requesting a railroad connection between the Marmora Iron Works and Belleville to facilitate the shipment of ore and provide a stimulus to mining in Hastings County.
File contains a manuscript petition of the Marmora Iron Company to the County of Hastings Council in 1857 requesting the reduction of toll rates on the Hastings County roads through which iron and coal passed.