File contains a newspaper article dated 27 May 1957 concerning an inspect of the Hastings and Prince Edward militia unit by Col. M.E. Clark. Also contains a newspaper article of 5 June 2004 regarding the European re-enactment of the Normandy landing on D-Day.
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.
File contains four printed copies of The Twenty-First Battalion Communique which contains news items and historical retrospectives related to the 21st Battalion (Eastern Ontario) of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
File contains a printed spiral-bound booklet entitled “The Descendants of Alexander and Grace McInroy, early settlers of Hastings County-Ontario Canada,” compiled by Robert Dean Sherry, great great grandon of the couple, Also present is a supplement to the genealogy produced by Robert Dean Sherry, 1973.
File contains a photocopied, typescript essay entitled “ The Report of the Commissioners on the removal of the Penitentiary from Kingston to the Marmora Iron Works...” by Nancy M. Dushaw, Carleton University, 1972. The undergraduate essay examines a government proposal to relocate the prison to Marmora and the reasons for the rejection of the plan.
File contains a printed booklet entitled “Progress Report : Ontario Homes for Mentally Retarded Infants, Plainfield, May 1951-December 1965. Also present is an article from The Intelligencer, 23 March 1970 profiling Leonora Velleman, retiring superintendent of nurses at the Ontario Homes for Mentally Retarded Children at Plainfield.
File contains a printed excerpt from Legion magazine soliciting support for McCrae House, Guelph, the birthplace of Colonel John McCrae, author of In Flanders Fields. Also contains a typescript circular letter by C.L.C. Allinson, Guelph, concerning the appeal as it appeared in the Legion.
File contains newspaper article "Notice to Employers & Employees, at 12.01. a.m. on January 1, 1969 the new Ontario Employment Standards Act became law".
File contains several newspaper articles concerning attendance at public events in Moira Conservation Authority conservation areas in 1969, and engineering studies of the Moira Flood Plain in the Thurlow Township area.
File contains newspaper clippings regarding the opening of the Ameliasburgh Museum in Prince Edward County in 1968, and the relocation of a log cabin to the museum site in April, 1969.
File contains a newspaper article concerning an announcement by Rector Archdeacon A.S. McConnell that he was leaving his position with the St. Thomas Anglican Church Parish.
File contains a special edition of the Globe and Mail Magazine, February 15, 1969 concerning Blacks of Canada in historical and contemporary perspective. Not all pages of the supplement are present.
File contains a newspaper article from The Intelligencer, 20 June 1969 concerning the demolition of the historic Murney-Faulkner [Falkiner] residence, West Bridge Street, Belleville