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Fire insurance maps of Belleville, Deseronto, and Stirling, Ontario, showing buildings in the city, the materials they were constructed from, and potential fire hazards. The following maps are available:

Belleville

• 1878-1883: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/albums/72157686557832415
• 1888-1900: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/albums/72157683819192814
• 1904-1908: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/albums/72157683917183083
• 1915-1926: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/albums/72157684396056020
• 1942: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/albums/72157684399661770
• 1957: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/albums/72157686656642346

Deseronto

• 1893-1911: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/albums/72157684105205973

Stirling

• 1911: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/albums/72157663870453658

The fonds comprises the following records:

• Minute Books from 1943-1999
• Receipts & Expenses from 1943-1966
• Treasurer's Accounts from 1967-1978
• Membership Groups from 1974-1976
• Newspaper clippings
• Two membership cards from 1993, 1994
• Record of cheques from 1984-1996
• Bank of Montreal passbook from 1945
• Statements from 1991-1999

This fonds comprises two accessions. Materials donated by church officials in 2002 include:

• 36 annual reports dating from 1898 to 2000
• 'St. Andrew's Church Weekly News', 1888-1890
• 'St. Andrew's Church News', 1968-1969
• 'Open Door', 1972-1983
• 'St. Andrew's Newsletter', 1984-1994
• 'The Lamp and the Thistle', 1995-2001
• 100th Anniversary Services, 1927
• History of the church (4 pages)
• Correspondence
• Report: Hastings-Prince Edward Children's Services Committee, 'Directory of Services for Children in Hastings and Prince Edward Counties', 1980
• Report: Community Care for Seniors, 'A Study of the Needs of the Disabled in the Belleville Area', 1980
• Report: Community Development Council of Belleville and District, 'Task Force on Hunger Report', 1992

The remaining materials were extracted from the Hastings County Historical Society's textual records in the summer of 2014:

• File of documents relating to the church's history such as a 1901 article in the Daily Intelligencer and a history of the church written by Kenneth S. Hill
• File of correspondence and newsletters
• 15 assorted annual reports and financial statements up to 1970, with a fund-raising proposal.
• Minutes from the St. Andrew's Society from February 12, 1885 and a menu from the St. Andrew's Day anniversary from 1890
• File of notices, a program from a service dedicated to Queen Victoria's funeral; a list of soldiers from the congregation who fought in World War One; a program from Sunday, December 4, 1932; programs from Stainer's "The Crucifixion" from 1958, 1959, and 1961; the itinerary from the 1959 annual council meeting of the Women's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in Canada; the list to elect the church's elders from 1959; a program from the church choir's production of Handel's Messiah in 1960; a program from the Girl Guide – Brownie Sunday service in 1961; a catalogue of art painted by Allan and Donnah Cameron for an exhibit held in 1964; a program and an advertisement for an organ recital from 1968; there is also a 1968 retelling of a performance by the Ladies of St. Andrews Church from 1889; and a copy of Talk 405 given by Gerald Boyce on Anniversary Sunday 2006
• File of newspaper clippings

Printed diagram and explanation of the stages of treatment of Bay of Quinte water at the Gerry O'Connor water treatment plant at 2 Sidney Street, Belleville, Ontario, published in 2006.

Materials collected by Newton Thompson, including: list of high school graduates (including Thompson and his future wife, Fanny Strong); three receipts from Belleville businesses, 1905-1911; application to join the Corby Public Library for Fanny Strong, 1908; sketch by Fanny (Frances) Strong, 1913; Belleville Curling Club membership card, 1919-1920; news clippings from the Intelligencer, principally concerning weather, fires and the McNevin murder and including articles about the Intelligencer building under construction at Pinnacle and Bridge Streets, 1958-1965.

Scrapbook containing news clippings from Belleville, Ontario newspapers The Daily Intelligencer and Daily Ontario relating to the Board of Trade reorganization and the purchase of the Bay Bridge.

Materials collected by Ruth Boyce, comprising:
1) 1905 Supplement to Mail and Empire, with photograph of members of the 11th Ontario Legislature (including Marshall B. Morrison, Hastings West https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/36379548670/ ; Major E. Walter Rathbun, Hastings East https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/36637303291/ and Josiah W. Pearce, Hastings North https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/36379549210/ )
2) c.1910 'Greetings from Belleville' postcard brochure
3-4) 1911-1915 and 1917-1920 savings bank pass books for The Standard Bank of Canada, Belleville
5-6) 1912 Postcard of the Dominion Match Company factory in Deseronto, and undated postcard of Deseronto Public School
7) 1914 Book 'Manners: recommended by the Minister of Education for use in School Libraries in Ontario': etiquette guide published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, Toronto. Name of Ina M. Calbury, 142 Charles Street, Belleville written inside front cover
8) c.1930 photograph of Case tractors and staff outside Riggs Garage on Pinnacle Street in Belleville. Individuals identified from left as Jack Kent, saleman; Harry Moorman, general manager; Leo Riggs, owner; Roy Thompson, salesman; Cy Jones, Case tractor representative; Carl Gunter, tractor mechanic; George Vanner, tire repair and vulcanizer, Jack Mather, bookkeeper; Gordon Burley, mechanic; Don Brown, mechanic; Archie Brown, mechanic and Perc Hart, mechanic and foreman https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/36379548000/
9) 1945-1946 'Elevator' yearbook for Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School
10) c.1950s Flyer for Belleville Creameries 'Mountain Gold Belleville Better Butter Box 59 Belleville, compliments of Mack Robertson'
11) 1952 Booklet 'Story of Cannifton Church: 100th anniversary'
12) 1978 Printed sketch of Belleville Collegiate institute and Vocational School, with threads in the school colours
13) c.1979 'Booklet to commemorate the more than 70 years of service to the community provided by S. S. #6 Thurlow Cannifton Corbyville Public School
14) 1985 'Ratepayers Information' leaflet from the Township of Thurlow
15) c.1990 Printed article on Dr. W. M. Mather of Tweed, Ontario
16-17) c.2010 Two reproductions of photographs: a young Ethel and Nettie Ketcheson, and the same women in later life, with Jack Mather and Mabel Boyce

Minute book of the Presto Musical Club of Belleville, Ontario, including notices and programmes of concerts.

Aerial photograph by Richard Lumbers of the Sears distribution warehouse on College Street, Belleville, Ontario, taken on its fifth anniversary.

Bible, receipts and Bridge Street Methodist Church notices which belonged to Irvine and Esther Diamond.

Feasibility study prepared for Quinte Arts Council by Philip Goldsmith & Company, architects, on the conversion of the former Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School into a Community Cultural Centre (the Quinte Cultural Centre). Spiral-bound report of 92 pages with plans and elevations.

Program and day pass for the 2016 Women's Under 19 World Floorball Championships, held at the Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre in Belleville, Ontario between May 3 and May 8, 2016.