File contains manuscript statement of accounts of Captain Mungo Ponton, Lochaber Regiment, 1800. Also present are : a manuscript discharge of accounts of Mungo Ponton by Cole Macdonald, 18 April 1825, and a manuscript statement of accounts received from Miss Ann Nisbet by Dow, Cowper & Young, Glasgow, 16 June 1829.
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 list of Postmasters names and dates of service for: Shannonville, Deseronto, Melrose, Lonsdale, Albert, Naphan, Marysville, Read, Kingsford, Blessington and Halston Post Offices.
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 several newspaper clippings regarding social and local business activities in Roslin in 1956-1957 including the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Chisolm's lumber mill in June 1957. Also present is a printed booklet commemorating the 100th anniversary of St. Paul's Anglican Church in Roslin on 3 June 1945 and another marking the 125th anniversary in 1970.
File contains an obituary, dated 29 August 1958 for Abraham Safe, a prominent Belleville businessman who was instrumental in the building of the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville.
File contains a newspaper article dated 21 June 1956 concerning membership expansion of the Stirling Chamber of Commerce . Also present is a newspaper article about the 1957 annual meeting of the Stirling Chamber of Commerce and the organization of the 1958 Stirling centennial celebrations.