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File contains correspondence from the Public Archives of Canada (Ottawa) dated 1969 and addressed to Mary G. Plumpton, Curator, Hastings County Historical Society giving information for Robert Read, M.P. Senator. Tanner, distiller and farmer in Belleville. Director Grand Junction Railway; elected Legislative Council for Quinte Division. Elected House of Commons for Hastings East. Called to the Senate 1871.

File contains a typescript essay by Fred Williams (5-Sept-1936), regarding the funeral of Charles, Duke of Richmond, Lennox and Aubigny - Governor General.

File contains printed copy of "House of Commons Debates" fourth session - tenth Parliament, speech of Mr. W.B. Northrup, M.P. on G.T.R. -- Belleville & North Hastings Railway; Ottawa, Monday, February 10, 1908.

File contains a printed issue of the Bulletin of the Departments of History and Political and Economic Science, Queen's University, No. 46 (November, 1923). The issue is devoted to an essay entitled “Pioneer Problems in Upper Canada,” by R.W. Cumberland, concerning political unrest in Upper Canada leading to the Rebellion of 1837.

File contains two printed issues of Douglas Library Notes, Queen's University Volume XIV, no. 1 (Winter, 1965) and Vol. XIV, no.3 (Summer, 1965). The latter contains reprints of excerpts of correspondence by Sir John A. MacDonald, 1849-1881, in the holdings of the Douglas Library.

File contains a typescript list of manuscript groups in the holdings of the Douglas Library Archives, Queen's University, which involve correspondence and papers of prominent Canadian political figures ca. 1775-1931. Also present is a typescript letter from E.C.Beer, Douglas Library Archivist to Gerald E. Boyce, 21 January 1965, concerning the list of holdings.

File contains (6) newspaper articles about Dr. Richard T. Potter , MPP Quinte.

File contains a newspaper article regarding Quinte District Catholic electors' perspectives on Dr. Hope, of the Baldwin-LaFontaine Party, and Robert Read, his opponent in the United Canadas election.

File contains a newspaper article concerning the history of leadership conventions in Canada, which were introduced by the Liberal Party in 1919.