File contains a manuscript history of Glen Ross from its founding ca. 1859 as the settlement of Tupperville to ca. 1918, by Mrs. Arthur Pyear. Also present is a letter from Mrs.Arthur Pyear to Gerry Boyce, 3 June 1965 accompanying the history.
File contains a printed extract of the Northumberland Militia Return for 1828 including annotated names of individuals from Sidney and Rawdon Townships.
Files contains a manuscript statement of damages submitted to the Provincial Government in 1845 by Peter Davidson for damages incurred while imprisoned in December 1837. Also contains a manuscript letter from Billa Flint, J.P. to Peter Davidson and Aaron Hearns dated 5 May 1838 dismissing a case against them.
File contains the funeral cards for Everett Ketcheson (b. 1891, d. 1914) and Edward Ketcheson (b. 1832, d. 1915). There is also a book published in 1958, “The Ketcheson Family”, a newspaper article from 1968 about Mr. and Mrs. Lawrenson L. Ketcheson celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary, and an invite for the Ketcheson family reunion in 1965 at the Memorial Park in Tweed.
File contains: a copy of a motion dated 3 May 1791 naming the persons appointed to serve as Town Officers; a copy of the programme from the opening of the "Sidney Township Centennial Hall and Municipal Offices" dated 17 June 1967; a letter addressed to Mr. G. Boyce (Hastings County Centennial) from C.S. Chard with some memos of the area.
The file contains a writing by Edgar S. Vandewater born in Sidney Township 1876, titled "Belleville as I remember it in the 1890's", dated 1953 and published in the Ontario Intelligencer 31 October 1953. There is also a letter from Richard Moran, great-nephew of Edgar with a brief genealogy.
File contains a typed announcement detailing a celebration for Mrs. Sarah Hogle's 86th birthday at the family homestead in Sidney Crossing. Transcribed from a scrapbook.
File contains two copies of a booklet titled "Historic Highlights The Corporation of the Township of Sidney 1790-1967" written by J.B. Harder, Clerk of Township of Sidney, assisted by Thelma B. Harder.
File contains an 1855 letter from provincial land surveyor John Haslett to verify work has been done to allow for a road from the townships of Sidney to Thurlow.
Various items related to Sidney Township, Hastings County, Ontario:
Notes on the history of Sidney Baptist Church, 1979
Sidney Township Bicentennial Newsletter, April 1990
Handout with map for Architectural Conservancy of Ontario (Quinte Branch) bus tour of Sidney Township, 16 September 1990
List of Sidney Township street names and locations and 'SHARC's thoughts on the naming of future Sidney streets', with list of pioneer families and locations, c.1990
File contains a publication from the Moira River Conservation Authority, titled “Progress and Achievements 1947-1962; a newspaper article from the Intelligencer dated January 20, 1965 with a photo of the County Warden; a publication from the Corporation of the Township of Sidney, Historic Highlights 1790-1967
This file contains original documents donated by Charlotte Kuntze, daughter of Fanny Finkle. Papers regarding lot 2, con 6 of Sidney owned by Eliza Ann Simmons, contain abstract record, will, mortgage and correspondence.
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).
File contains newspaper article from the Ontario Intelligencer dated 5-April-1962 titled "Sidney Township Woman Ardent Wild Life Photographer But She Can Also Make Wolf Hunter's Trophy Look Alive"
File contains two completed printed certificates of Reeve for Township of Sidney, confirming Kecham Graham and Baltis Mose as Township Reeves in 1865 and 1871, respectively.
File contains eight pages of manuscript assessment rolls listing property holders in Sidney Township in 1859 by lot and concession, including extent of improved acreage.
File contains a printed booklet entitled Township of Sidney, A By-Law Relating to Public Morals and Other Matters,” 1909; a Township of Sidney Financial Statement, 1965; and several newspaper clippings relating to Sidney Township Council meetings, 1957-1966, and miscellaneous engraved wedding and anniversary invitations.
File contains a photocopied survey map of the first concession of the Township of Sidney surveyed by John Emerson, P.L.S. for the Boundary Line Commissioners for the Victoria District, 1840.
File contains a photocopied advertisement for a shop opening by S.Stevens, decorative painter, Sidney Township in 1848, and an advertisement of two acres of land and a house for sale on Trenton Road for $650 in 1881.