File contains an original letter dated 1871 on Grand Junction Railway letterhead, two original account collection notices from the 1870's from the Grand Junction Railway, Solicitor's office; one newspaper article dated 29-September-1969 from the Intelligencer titled "Belleville Early Train Centre".
File contains a newspaper article recounting the inaugural trip of the Grand Trunk Railway from Montreal to Toronto 16 October 1856. Also present is a photocopied newsclipping announcing the reopening of the British American Hotel on Front Street in Belleville, in March, 1861.
File contains a reference book for the townships of Hungerford and Elzevir, county of Hastings of land taken for the right of way through the perspective townships. Lists names, lots numbers and amount of land.
File contains printed copy of "House of Commons Debates" fourth session - tenth Parliament, speech of Mr. W.B. Northrup, M.P. on G.T.R. -- Belleville & North Hastings Railway; Ottawa, Monday, February 10, 1908.
File contains: Exhibit 18, Trenton from minute book page 201 concerning the making Trenton C. North Railway Co. its divisional points & conditions 28 July 1911; Exhibit 5, Agreement between C. North Railway Co. & Town of Trenton, lists railways agreements 1 August 1911; Exhibit 14, re. abandonment of operation of Deseronto subdivision between Trenton Order No. 52012 Board of Railway Commissioners of Canada, Ottawa 12 June 1935
File contains newspaper advertisements for the Canadian Northern Railway for dates and fares to Winnipeg from Belleville for Farm Laborers wanted out west.
File contains a a letter, dated 10-January-1964, from Sanborn Worthen, Archivist and Custodian, Canadian Railroad Historical Association, Quebec and addressed to Mr. Gerald Boyce, Hastings County Museum.
File contains a printed booklet entitled “Report on the most eligible route for a canal between Lake Simcoe ..and Georgian Bay...to the Bay of Quinte...” by N.H. Baird, C.E., published at Belleville in 1855. The report discusses proposed routes for a Trent-Severn Canal project.
File contains a number of newspaper photos from various dates and titled "Picture Peeks Into The Past", these are pictures of boats in and on the Trent River and about boating in Trenton.
File contains a newspaper article from The Intelligencer, dated 22-July-1967 and titled "It's Only Five Minutes But it Starts Drivers Fuming" and is about the swing bridge in Trenton.
File contains a newspaper article and a photocopy of the same, with a reproduction of a sketch of Bleecker's hotel and ferry as they appeared in the 1830s. The ferry served as a crossing for the Trent at the location of the present Highway 2 bridge in Trenton.
File contains a manuscript license issued by the Province of Ontario on 13 October 1879 approving the operation of a ferry from Sidney Township in Hastings County to Ameliasburgh Township in Prince Edward County. Also present are two printed, completed bills of sale, dated 5 November 1880 transferring 64 shares in the steam paddler, Mary Ethel, built at Trenton, to the Bay of Quinte Navigation Company (Limited).
Newspaper clipping (possibly from the Intelligencer newspaper of Belleville) with a photograph of the construction of the piers of the new Skyway Bridge at Green Point in Prince Edward County, Ontario.
File contains four manuscript resolutions of the Municipal Council of the County of Hastings, 1871 concerning investment in the Grand Junction Railway by the County for a proposed railroad.
File contains a printed Grand Trunk Railway System safety pledge, a printed Grand Trunk order for track repairs, and a printed complimentary calendar for October 1881, issued by the Chicago and Grand Trunk Railway.