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.
File contains newspaper article "Notice to Employers & Employees, at 12.01. a.m. on January 1, 1969 the new Ontario Employment Standards Act became law".
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.
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.
Two letters from Kennet Blackwell, Assistant Locomotive Superintendent at Belleville Station, dated November 15th and December 14th, 1876, concerning grievances of engineers and recommending their dismissal and the weakening of their union, the Brotherhood of the Grand Trunk Engineers and asking for instructions in the case of the men organizing a strike.
[These actions led to the Belleville riots of 1876-1877.]
File contains newspaper clippings about relocating the Unemployment Insurance Commission regional headquarters to Belleville and about building contractors vying for the job.
