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Comprises:

• an incomplete set of original newspapers (Weekly Intelligencer, Daily Intelligencer, Ontario Intelligencer and Belleville Intelligencers) from 1834 to the present day
• negatives and photographs from the Intelligencer, 1949-2001
• 'Remember When' local history supplements, 1991-1995
• an incomplete set of microfilms of Intelligencer newspapers, 1846-2008

File contains transcripts of newspaper reports on new buildings in Belleville, Ontario. The reports date from 1856 to 1914.

Videos showing buildings visible from city streets in Belleville and Thurlow wards of the City of Belleville, Ontario. The filming was done in February and March 1998 by camera operator Angela Rowan and drivers Peter Kellett and Reg Stacey.

Printed circular addressed to the teachers of Centre Hastings from A. W. McGuire, inspector of public schools. Dated at Tweed, Ontario, 10 March 1926.

Certificates from the polling station at Riggs School in Madoc Township, Hastings County, concerning the number of votes cast for George Jordan, Roscoe Robson and Ed Schievert in the Federal election of 7 June 1948.110 ballots were cast in total. Roscoe Robson was returned (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_Robson).

Notes on the Danfords of Stirling-Rawdon and nomination for an award for Harry Danford by the Hastings County Plowing Match and Farm Show, 2008.

Two blotters promoting the Belleville Y.M.C.A.

Collection of plans and blueprints of the former Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School in Belleville, Ontario.

Bound 1976 reprint of the Bancroft Old Home Week (August 6th-9th, 1961) souvenir programme, written by author-editor Mr. A. F. 'Mike' Burns of Bancroft.
List of genealogies available at Bancroft Public Library.

Printed lyrics to the 'Boys' and Girls' Song of Democracy', sung to the tune of Jingle Bells. With a message from Princess Elizabeth.

Part of an unpublished history of Ontario breweries, covering breweries in Hastings County.

Printed monthly calendar for 1948 produced for C. E. Sexsmith, vendor of feeds, hardware, gas, oil, car accessories and radios in Melrose, Ontario. On the back of each page are hints and information for household and farm use, with 'Helpful Facts for the Housewife' on the first page. The calendar pages hold advertisements for Quaker 'Ful-O-Pep' animal feeds.

Newsletters about the history of Camp Wangoma, situated near McArthurs Mills in north Hastings County. The camp ran from 1956 to 1980.

Published book on the history of the City of Belleville, Ontario.

Collection includes: newspaper clippings (1962-1972) and 1963 program relating to the YMCA So-Ed club; letters from the Belleville Horticultural Society to Mr and Mrs Wilcox granting them Trillium awards for their garden, 1973-1979; two editions of the Intelligencer for 4 March 1966, with slightly different headlines.

Three items:
1) Clarke's drug store, Belleville, calendar, 1908 [Francis Clayton Clarke (1871-1951) had a drug store at 252 Front Street]
2) Flyer for J. & J. Cash labels, with sample ribbons, 1924
3) Yearbook for King George School, North Front Street, Belleville, 1974-1975

This collection contains a variety of materials relating to the history of Deseronto and Hastings County. Items include:

• video of the 1989 Deseronto Centennial and Homecoming celebration, 4-5 August 1989, including performances of the Centennial Song, a Main Street parade, a baby show, karate demonstration and fireworks
• File on the 1989 Deseronto Centennial celebrations
• 35mm slides of historic views of Deseronto
• Morrison family snapshots of unidentified people
• Photograph of an aircraft from Camp Mohawk on the shore of the Bay of Quinte, August 1917
• Programme and photograph (https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/29760539332/) of the United Empire Loyalist Celebration, June 1929
• Plan of Deseronto lots, 1943
• Series of 120 photographs of Deseronto, taken around 1995. Many are aerial shots, others are of individual houses. A few depict individuals: Don Lindsay, Dennis Vick, Dick Beare, Joe Carter, Ed Gordanier
• 'A Building Code for Smaller Municipalities' by the National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, 1947
• County of Hastings directories for 1983, 1984, 1985
• County of Hastings receipts and expenditures statement, 1921
• By-law to Regulate the Running At Large of Animals and for Other Purposes, Township of Tyendinaga, 6 August 1895
• File of 'Deseronto Firsts' compiled by Ken Brown
• File of photographs, press clippings and list of entrants in Deseronto's Easter Parade of 2006
• 16 photographs of empty lots in Deseronto, taken 2004
• File of partial letters from Joe Goold to his sweetheart, Marnie, written while he was based in Detroit, 11 September to 11 October 1919, with blank postcards of Deseronto scenes and a letter from Elizabeth Goold to Bill Hunt concerning the letters
• File on James Fairbairn including a newspaper extract and a studio photograph taken by him.
• Typescript biography of Harry B. Free (Camp Rathbun flight instructor) by Margaret Crothers, 1991
• File on the Dryden family, including a photograph of the Drydens at the Peterborough Lift Lock (https://flic.kr/p/9dmEYZ)
• File of clippings about Gwen Lazier Braidwood, 2005
• File of clippings about Deseronto mayor Glen Belcour, 1995-2002
• File relating to the Asten family, including a letter from James Asten, Town Scavenger, to the Deseronto Town Council, 1936 (available at https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/albums/72157674226629315)
• Promotional brochure and news clipping on Bridgeline Ropes of Deseronto, 1999
• Listing by plot number of owners of plots in the Deseronto cemetery and names of people buried there, with their year of death, 2003
• File on the Deseronto Theatre Guild's formation, 2004
• File on a Deseronto Waterfront Study Workshop held February 2005
• File and photographs on the 'Leander Electra' electric yacht, 1986
• Bakery token for R. Marrigan, Baker, Deseronto
• File of materials relating to E. A. Rixen, including three letters from Deseronto teacher Lena Warren, 1908
• File on Deseronto Arts & Culture Society, 2004-2007
• File and photographs relating to the Deseronto Yacht Club, 1993-2003
• 'Dear Hame hid awa' in the Glen' photocopy of sheet music by Archibald Duncan MacIntyre (oversize - stored in box 66)
• List of members of St. Mark's Anglican Church who volunteered for active service in World War Two (oversize - stored in box 66)
• Folder of Deseronto Yacht Club materials: photographs and news clippings (part of the Floyd Marlin collection - stored in box 46), 1950-1997

Printed volume of 'History of the Presbyterian Church in Canada' by William Gregg (1885), with flyers produced by John Street Presbyterian Church in Belleville, Ontario, found within the pages of the book.