File contains a c.1960 newspaper clip on Belleville's unemployment rate, and a c.1961 newspaper clip on Hastings County opening a winter works program to reduce unemployment.
File contains a print copy of Ontario Historical Society Records, Volume XLIX Number 4. This issue includes information about the “Family Compact”; Gilbert Purdy, a pioneer jack-of-all-trades; John Galt's Canadian Novels; A Wedding Trip of 1854; the Diary of Mahlon Burwell; and reports and news about the historical society.
Record of work undertaken at Napanee Station in August 1917 by foreman A. Bowen and trackmen S. Sweet, E. Wager, J. Grange, W. Thompson, H. Matthews and S. Youngs.
File contains newspaper advertisements for the Canadian Northern Railway for dates and fares to Winnipeg from Belleville for Farm Laborers wanted out west.
Minute book of the Canadian Order of Foresters, Court Quinte No. 1. The fraternal society met in Deseronto, Ontario. The minutes record applications for membership of the society, payments of bills and notes of people who addressed the group. There are some loose papers inside the volume, mainly applications for admission, with reports of character committees on the back.
This file contains a letter written by Henry K. Smith; the first Fish and Game Warden of Hastings County. The letter, an attestation of oath acknowledging his duty to office and community.
File contains a copy of a union agreement between the Contractors: the Sash Door and Blind Manufacturers and the Members of the Carpenters and Joiners Union No. 161; this agreement is for within the Belleville city limits and limits a work day to 9 hours and a half holiday on Saturday.
This file contains a letter dated; December 9 1885. The letter is an expression of sympathy in regards to a serious accident that occurred, that involved a member of the Belleville Board of Trade.
The fonds contains a Daily Cash Transactions sheet with a hand-drawn layout of the coal yards, an envelope with the company name "The Schuster Co. Limited", miscellaneous materials copied from original documents including newspaper clippings from 1954; pages 62-66 of the Canadian Fuel Marketer ca. 1878-1978 issues; Weaver Liquifuels pages 55-60, 2 envelopes of negatives, and 110 photographs of various everyday operations at the Bill Schuster Coal and Lumber Company, as well as photographs of Bill Schuster and possibly his family. One is an aerial photograph of the site of the company.
File contains a c.1877 copy of a telegram to Col.Powell in Ottawa, report of the Queen's Own suppressing railway mob in Belleville, c.1877 copy of telegram from Belleville City Council to Lt.Col. Durie of Toronto re military presence required to suppress uprising at Grand Trunk railway, and other miscellaneous documents on the c.1877 railway uprising of workers in Belleville.