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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.

Scrapbooks of local newspaper articles and cards compiled by Lorena Marjorie Haight (later Ashley). They cover the following dates:

1. 1919-1941 (predominately 1938-1941)
2. 1941-1944 (includes a program for a Field Day at R.C.A.F. Trenton on 4 September 1944)
3. 1945-1948
4. Weddings, 1945-1951
5. 1949-1950
6. 1950-1951

Thurlow Township materials, including:

• Assessment roll household details for 1954
• Council motions for July to December 1985

Box 1

• Assessment update, 1 Aug 1980
• Alphabetical listing, 1980
• Final tax roll, 1981
• Final tax roll, 1982
• Farm tax reduction program list, 1982
• List of persons entitled to direct school taxes, 1983

Box 2

• Assessment roll information, 1984

Box 3

• Alphabetical listing, 1986 (March and June)
• Lists of outstanding taxes and interest for April, May, June and July 1986
• Final tax roll, 1986

Box 4
General journals for:

• 1978-1981
• 1979
• 1980 (incomplete)
• 1980-1984
• 1982
• 1983

Box 5
General ledger printouts for:

• Dec 1987
• Jan 1988 (water damaged)
• Feb 1988
• Mar 1988

Box 6
General ledger printouts for:

• Jun 1988
• Jul 1988
• Aug 1988
• Sep 1988
• Oct 1988
• Nov 1988

Box 7
General ledger printouts for:

• 1988-1989 (Bethany and Gilead Community Centre Boards)
• Jan 1989
• Feb 1989
• Mar 1989
• Apr 1989
• May 1989
• Jun 1989
• Jul 1989
• Aug 1989

Box 8
General ledger printouts for:

• Sep 1989
• Oct 1989 (2)
• Nov 1989
• Dec 1989
• Dec 1989 (Thurlow Township Community Centre)
• Dec 1989 (Parks & Recreation)

Collection includes:
1) File of copies of newspaper articles on Frank Morse Robb and copy of the patent for his electronic wave organ. Also includes research notes on the William Finkle Machine business at 393 Sidney Street in Belleville (Bristol Aircraft Products during the Second World War) and an article from 'Remember When' on the Argue family home at 338 Charles Street.
2) File of research notes on Belleville buildings constructed by City Hall builder John Forin, c.1988-1898
3) Copy of paper by Gerry Boyce on 'Conflict and Cooperation: The Cemeteries of Belleville, Ontario', 2003
4) Copy of article by Peter Meehan 'The East Hastings By-Election of 1936 and the Ontario Separate School Tax Question', published in 'Historical Studies' 68, 2002
5) Electronic files of research notes on buildings in east Belleville
6) Electronic files of research notes on buildings in west Belleville

Almanacs for Albert College, Belleville, Ontario for:

• 1877
• 1880
• 1881
• 1882
• 1883

Four scrapbooks recording the activities of the Belleville Belles Red Hat Society of Belleville, Ontario.

Five volumes of Tweedsmuir histories (numbered 2-6).

Series of photographs of building facades and empty lots on Front Street, Belleville, Ontario.

Three publications relating to the Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf:

1. Admission List of Pupils, 1870-1879 (2022)
2. Early Deaf Teache3rs, 1870-1931 (2023)
3. Charles Bernard Coughlin, Third School Head, 1906-1928 (2023)

Family histories of the Gunter, Hall, Lowery, Maxwell and Woodcock families.

1. 10 black and white photographs of buildings on John, North Front, Front and South Front Streets in Belleville, 1979-1980
2. 51 photographs of churches and schoolhouses in various locations, 1979-2006, including: Victoria Avenue Baptist Church; Fuller Public School; Moneymore Anglican Church; Actinolite United Church; Actinolite school; St. John's United Church, Tweed; Madoc Anglican Church; St. Andrew's Church, Tweed; St. Paul's Anglican, Roslin; St. Edmunds Parish Hall; the Blue Church, Cooper; former church, Holloway Heights; Flinton Anglican Church; St. Matthew Anglican Church, Marlbank; Queensborough Anglican Church; Bonarlaw Anglican Church; Millbridge Church; Millbridge Public School; St. Carthagh's Catholic Church, Tweed; Potter Settlement School
3. 66 colour photographs and three 35mm slides of various historic buildings in Hastings County, 1980-2006. These include the train station at Madoc; O'Hara Mill; houses in Belleville; properties in Springbrook and Moira.
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Nine printed and annotated maps:

1. Preliminary Geological Map of Tudor Township South (91cm x 74cm), 1962
2. Preliminary Geological Map of Tudor Township North (90cm x 79cm), 1962
3. Ontario Department of Highways map of Hastings South Portion (105cm x 87cm), 1969
4. Ontario Department of Highways map of Hastings Middle Portion (101cm x 87cm), 1969
5. Ontario Department of Highways map of Hastings North Portion (94cm x 90cm), 1969
6. Ontario Department of Highways map of Lennox and Addington, South Portion (81cm x 112cm), 1969
7. Ontario Department of Highways map of Lennox and Addington, North Portion (64cm x 115cm), 1969
8. Ontario Department of Highways map of Prince Edward County (112cm x 81cm), 1969
9. Road map of the counties of Lennox and Addington, Frontenac and Prince Edward (58cm x 73cm), 1974

Maps 3 to 8 are annotated with routes of bicycle rides taken by John Uttley between 1949 and 2010 and with occasional notes about the removal of railway lines.

Telephone directories for the following dates:

• November 1932
• November 1943
• March 1951
• March 1952
• March 1954

School yearbooks for Albert College for 1961, 1962 and 1963.