File contains a printed issue of The Quinte Foremen's Club News, Volume 2, no.5 (January, 1956) including executive meeting highlights. Also present is a newspaper clipping concerning the Foremen's Club sponsorship of the fourth annual YMCA-Laura Secord Easter Egg Hunt, March, 1959.
File contains a typescript transcript of a presidential address by William Nisbet Ponton, President of the Ontario Associated Board of Trades, 24 February 1914, concerning economic indicators, development and investment in Ontario.
File contains a number of newspaper articles about the Trenton Community Centre, Also known as; Trenton Community Gardens (1958), Duncan McDonald Memorial Gardens (present). These articles provide a detailed history of this arena that has held many events for the local community, ranging from; bingo to basketball.
File contains numerous newspaper articles about various Service Clubs in Trenton, such as: Rotary Club, John Howard Society, Lions Club, Kinsmen Club, Business & Professional Women's Club, Women's Auxiliary, and Kiwanis.
File contains a number of newspaper articles, financial statements, and receipts of payment, ranging in years from c. 1876 to c. 1922. The oldest item in the file is an article in an unknown newspaper, written by Eugene Schuyler c. 1876; about issues regarding the country of Turkey. There are financial statements from The Town of Trenton, Ontario, and purchase receipts from the same municipality.
File contains 4 newspaper articles from 1956-1957 about the fund raising efforts and construction of the new Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 228 legion hall.
File contains an original Order of Service for the 97th Anniversary of the I.O.O.F. Stirling Lodge No. 239 dated Sunday, May 7th, 1916; along with 3 newspaper articles from 1956-57 about subsequent anniversary celebrations and presentations of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.)
File contains several newspaper articles regarding the 1956 centennial of the Stirling Masonic Lodge, No. 69, and the installation of officers in 1956 and 1957.
File contains two newspaper clippings regarding the celebration of Stirling's Centennial in 1958. Includes background on the early settlement of Rawdon Township ca. 1807 and the founding of Stirling. Also present is a mimeographed undated circular letter issued by the Hastings Historical Society, showing the cost of memberships possibly in the 1960s.
File contains a newspaper article concerning a CNIB tribute to Maude [Mrs. Harry] Rollins who launched the White Cane Club in Belleville ca. 1950 in support of the visually impaired.
File contains a newspaper article titled "Organists Hold Panel on Wedding Music", dated 5-October-1959. The article reports on a panel discussion at the meeting of the Bay of Quinte branch of the Royal Canadian College of Organists, specifically about "Wedding Music".
File contains a newspaper article by Thomas Ritchie, Belleville, entitled “The Old Sun Dial on Parliament Hill,” which appeared in The Weekly Intelligencer, 26 May 1921. Ritchie was a member of the Historic Landmarks Association of Canada which furnished the funds to restore the sundial, which dated to the building of the Rideau Canal in the 1830s.
File contains an Ontario Intelligencer article, 20 July 1963 concerning improvements in plant facilities by the Shamrock Cheese Factory, Stirling, and several newspaper clippings concerning the history of Stirling in the period 1859-1871. Also present is a photocopied typescript extract from Historic Hastings regarding an excursion by residents to Belleville to Stirling to attend a festival by the Stirling Masonic Lodge, 15 June 1877.
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.