File contains an editiorial from The Legionary, August, 1966 tracing the historical background of Canada's armies from the Carignan-Salieres Regiment in 1665, to 1965.
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 a newspaper facsimile of a letter written by Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson, November 13, 1783 concerning a voyage from Quebec with a convoy for New York.
File contains a brief typescript history of the family of Hugh and Christine Cameron MacMillan whose descendants settled near Ivanhoe in Huntingdon Township.
File contains manuscript and typescript transcripts of an 1880 newspaper article concerning the life and career of Colonel Elijah Ketcheson who commanded the 4th Company of the Hastings Militia at Carrying Place and Trenton during the Rebellion of 1837.
File contains a photocopy of a manuscript affidavit sworn by David Palmer before John W. Meyers, J.P. attesting that the former served in Rogers' Corps in the Thirteen Colonies.
File contains a typescript , and duplicate manuscript list of military commissions held by Lt. Col. Elijah Ketcheson, 4th Regiment Hastings Militia ca.1812-1848. The list is transcribed from excerpts of newspaper articles ca. 1880 concerning the life of Lt. Col. Ketcheson.
File contains a newspaper clipping entitled “Religion in pioneer days,” by Viva Richmond Graham, concerning early Protestant churches in Prince Edward, Lennox and Addington and Dundas Counties in the period 1815-1882.
File contains several microcopied editions of the Kingston Chronicle. 1810-1845. Articles concern topics including contracts for the Marmora Iron Works 1822 and the election of the Belleville School Board in 1816.
File contains a typescript brief biography of Charles Hayes who was an early promoter of iron ore mining and smelting in Blairton, near Marmora, Ontario.
File contains a newspaper article entitled “Journalism in Belleville,” which recounts the history of several early newspapers in the city including the establishment of the Weekly [later Ontario] Intelligencer in 1834.
File contains a typescript brief history of the life of the Honourable Edmund Murney, member of the Provincial Legislature of Upper Canada and Canada West during the period 1836 to 1857. Also contains a newspaper article from The Ontario Intelligencer, 13 August 1964 concerning the Murney-Faulkner House, West Bridge Street, Belleville. Includes a reprint of a drawing of the home.
File contains an Ontario Intelligencer article dated 14 June 1924 concerning the establishment and early history of the Weekly Intelligencer [later Ontario Intelligencer]. This issue of the newspaper is available online at https://archive.org/details/intelligencer-june-1924/page/n85/mode/2up . Also present is a typescript genealogy of the family of George Benjamin who started the newspaper in 1834. The genealogy was prepared by Ruby Milburn, granddaughter of George and Isabella Benjamin.
File consists of photocopied advertisements from the Weekly [later Daily] Intelligencer, 1834-1876 including employment ads and listings of rates for advertising in the paper in 1876.