File contains a manuscript paper entitled “The Grand Trunk Railway Strike at Belleville, 1876-1877 : a brief outline,” presented by Gerald E. Boyce at a winter, 1965 meeting of the Belleville Rotary Club. The paper discusses the strike action by trainmen and the dispatch of police and companies of the local battalion to deal with strikers and their supporters.
File contains photocopied and newspaper timetables displaying departure and arrival times of Grand Trunk Railway trains in Belleville on the main Montreal-Toronto line, 1860, 1876 and 1905.
File contains several printed, completed waybills for various goods in transit on the Grand Trunk Railway, 1877. Also includes an unsigned typescript letter of application for railroad employment 29 May 1900.
File contains a typescript letter from W.N. Ponton to L.J. Sergeant, General Manager, Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, Montreal regarding a proposed deputation of the Hastings County Council and the Board of Trade to the G.T.R. in Montreal pressing the need for a dining room at the Belleville terminus.
File contains a photocopied newspaper notice of a shareholders meeting of the Belleville and North Hastings Railway Company, 1 October 1878. Also present is manuscript letter from [G. Sergeant] General Manager of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada 29 April 1891 to W.N. Ponton rejecting the extension of a double track at Belleville.
File contains a typescript letter from Jeanne Cross, Art Editor, Fredrick Muller [Publishers] Ltd., London, England, 24 June 1968 to the Belleville Historical Museum requesting prints of plans created by Thomas Brassey, Civil Engineer, for a proposed railway in Hastings County ca. 1859.
Schedule of activities held in Belleville, Ontario during Railway Week, June 22-28, 1964. Includes photographs of locomotives. "Debbie Wade 1964" is written in ink on the front cover.
The file contains an original letter dated 3-January-1881 at Picton, from G.W. McMullen, Vice-President and General Manager of the Prince Edward County Railway, to W.R. Ponton.
The file contains a newspaper article from the Intelligencer dated March 15, 1968, looking back 90 years ago to a Railroad Meeting. The subject matter was the termination point to be in Trenton.
File contains a printed timetable of the Rathbun Bus Service Ltd., for the company's Trenton-Belleville and Trenton-Picton routes, effective Feb. 4, 1955.
File contains a typescript essay entitled "Deseronto and the Rathbun Company," by T. Dane Martin. File contents include a manuscript landing certificate issued by E.W. Rathbun & Co., Wholesale Lumber Dealers 22 October 1877, and a manuscript invoice issued 15 August 1895. Also present is a printed issue of Sylva : Lands and Forests Review, Vol. 12, no.6 (Nov-Dec, 1956) which includes a historical overview and photographs of the early lumber operations of Rathbun & Company