File contains a manuscript letter from Henry Alicumbrack to the " Committee...to..examine losses sustained...in Canada in 1838", dated December 27, 1845, for damages arising from alleged “false arrest” and trial in 1838
File contains a manuscript claim submitted to the Provincial Government by John S. Squire ca. 1845 for time and wages lost as a schoolteacher when serving on militia duty during the Rebellion of 1837.
File contains a manuscript lease with an official seal, relating the details of the lease of a Belleville property owned by Francis Lefebvre to Lieutenant Col Baron De Rottenburg, for use as a barracks during the Rebellion of 1837.
File contains a manuscript statement of damages submitted to the Provincial Government by George Smith for damages to a firearm sustained while serving in the Rebellion in 1838. Also contains a manuscript claim submitted by Samuel R. Smith for three days service in the militia in 1837. Also present is a manuscript affidavit of William [Bower?] J.P. dated December 28, 1845 attesting to a claim by Barnard Smith for the loss of his log home in Frankford in 1837 or 1838 due to fire
File contains a manuscript claim submitted to the Provincial Government by Thomas Ketcheson ca. 1845 for provision of a woodstove for the barracks at Frankford in 1838.
File contains a manuscript claim submitted to the Provincial Government by Henry Gordinaire ca. 1845 for 6 days duty and the provision of livestock to the militia in 1837.
File contains a manuscript claim submitted to the Provincial Government by Robill Roy ca. 1845 for property loss and damage to his foundry at Chippewa during the Rebellion.
File contains a manuscript and photocopied list of Hastings County claimants and amounts awarded in 1846 for losses during the Rebellion of 1837. Also contains a typescript list of claimants by surname compiled in 1959, on the basis of the original above.
File contains a newspaper article dated February 23, 1899 recounting an unidentified veteran's recollection of the Battle of Shannonville on February 22, 1838 when Hastings Regiment militia members engaged in a brief military engagement with rebels and American sympathizers.
File contains a newspaper article from 1921 relating the events of riots by factions and the burning of the parliament buildings in Montreal in response to the Rebellion Losses Bill of 1849.
File contains a typescript , and duplicate manuscript list of military commissions held by Lt. Col. Elijah Ketcheson, 4th Regiment Hastings Militia ca.1812-1848. The list is transcribed from excerpts of newspaper articles ca. 1880 concerning the life of Lt. Col. Ketcheson.
File contains a photocopy of a June 1, 1866 article in The Intelligencer concerning Fenian raids in the Fort Erie and Port Colborne areas of Canada West. Also contains several newspaper clippings regarding the Fenian Raids and the dispatching of of the First Belleville Rifles to Prescott to repel the Fenian invaders.
File contains a photocopied printed article which includes a brief historical profile of the Belleville Rifles and 15th Battalion at the time of the Fenian Raids, and a list of veterans.
File contains a photocopied printed newsclipping with a drawing of a medal presented to veterans of the Fenian Raids in 1866. A manuscript annotation on the clipping relates: “presented to Mac Bowell.”
File contains a 1968 Weekend magazine article entitled “The Last Hostage,” recounting the experiences of Duncan McLean taken hostage at Fort Pitt in 1885 during the Northwest Rebellion.
File contains a typescript copy of a list of officers and servicemen belonging to the 15th Argyll Light Infantry of the Midland Battalion, who served in the 1885 Northwest Rebellion. Also contains a newspaper article relating to the events at Batoche during the Rebellion.
File contains photocopied manuscript lists of officers and soldiers of "A" and "H" Companies of the Midland Battalion of Infantry who served in the Northwest Rebellion in 1885. Individuals are listed by name, age, marital status, and place of origin in Hastings County. Originally part of the W. C. Mikel collection.