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Items from a binder labelled 'Stirling Odds & Ends'. Includes:

• Photograph of three women and four men, c.1910, given by Terry Bust ("one is his grandfather & uncle")
• Newspaper clippings relating to Stirling buildings and history
• Huntingdon Township Voters' List, 1948
• Souvenir booklet of the 90th anniversary of St. John's Anglican Church, Stirling, 1950
• Order of service for St. Paul's United Church, Stirling, 8 June 2008
• Photocopy of 1890 Fire Insurance map showing Mill and North Streets, Stirling
• Items relating to the history of the Bank of Montreal in Stirling
• Printed 'Stirling Centennial Souvenir', 1967
• Butler and Young family trees
• 'Souvenir Story of our school Allan & Williams Mount Pleasant - Rawdon Township' by Mrs Percy MacMullen, 1968
• 'Sidney Baptist Church celebrates 165th' by Lewis Zandbergen
• 'Sidney Baptist Church' by Harry V. Faulkner, Lorne C. Reid and Luella Carson, 1976
• Unveiling of historical plaque in memory of Asa Turner at Sidney Baptist Church, 27 May 1984
• 'Those Radical Elzevirs!' by Michael Dawber
• 'The History of St. Thomas [Anglican] Church Rawdon, 1892-1973'
• 'Grace Chapel Stirling' by Everett Elliott, c.1980
• Booklet titled Welcome to Stirling's 150th Anniversary, 2008

Photograph album owned by Jennie Ripley Mitchell and annotated by her. Individuals identified:

• Samuel Clark (Jennie's grandfather), aged 90
• Rosilla Ripley (Jennie's mother)
• Maude Davis
• Susie Clark, Viola Read and Jennie Mitchell
• Ivor Davis
• Villona Davis
• Jennie Ripley
• Chesman Clark
• Mary Wood
• Frankie & Mamie Titus
• Ida Mitchell Britton
• Maria Clark

Item from a binder labelled 'Stirling Odds & Ends', comprising a photocopy of Kathleen Bailey's inventory of historic buildings in Stirling, Ontario, compiled in 1968.

Photograph album with 36 unidentified nineteenth century portrait photographs, 19 of which are tintypes.

File containing photographs of Stirling's 125th anniversary celebrations, 12-21 August 1983 (donated by R. Gay). Individuals identified include:

• Lynn, Bruce, Janet Fallaize Murray, Susanne (Murray) Scholten
• Helen & Wayne Shaw, Mac & Velma Sarles
• Dr. Fred Eggleton, Russ & Mary Sills, Annette Taylor
• Constable Frank Wallwork, Russ Sills, Stirling Village Council, PoliceChief Jack Foster
• Judy and Melanie Potts, Pearl Conley
• Ross Ray, Harold Holden
• Ron Reid, Eugene Lang, John Warden
• Bob Vandervoort
• Jim & Jean Pollock, Marvin Cooney, Heather Pollock
• Craig Watson & son, Stirling Citizens Band, Barry Wilson

File also contains reproductions of old postcards of Stirling and a 1992 photograph by Carol Surridge of the 'Welcome to Stirling' sign, which reads "The little village with the big heart".

Correspondence and invoices relating to S.S. 5 in Thurlow (Hillcrest School), during H. V. Faulkner's time as Secretary-Treasurer of the Thurlow Township School Board, when the school was being extended. Includes receipts and invoices from The James Texts Limited for school supplies and invoices from Kelly & Cracknell Plumbing and Heating and Ross Greenly, General Contractor.

Photographs and text of a speech by Lewis Zandbergen on plans for the restoration of Stirling Station. The file includes three photographs of a derailment at the station in around the 1920s.

Various materials collected by Lewis Zandbergen.

A souvenir ticket from 'Railroad Week' in Belleville from 22-28 June 1964.

Generally unidentified nineteenth century portrait photographs, 1 of which is a tintype. The two photographs which are identified are of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Stanley,_16th_Earl_of_Derby">Lord Derby</a> and the Duke of Edinburgh (Prince Alfred, 1844-1900).

Three views published by Underwood & Underwood:
1) 'The Last Drop - a scene of the Battlefield at Dordrecth, South Africa, Dec. 30th', 1900
2) 'The great floating City - where 400,000 dwell in Boat-houses - at Canton, China, 1900
3) 'Dr. Leopold Kann, the Arctic Explorer, in his winter quarters, Ellesmere Land', 1902

One view published by Strohmeyer & Whyman of New York:
4) 'Arrival of a Chinese Fishing Boat, Hong Kong, China', 1906

A Merchants Cash Discount Bond worth one cent from 1924 for Lloyd & Evans service station in Belleville.

A membership card for the Methodist Church circa 1908.

1) Photograph of an unidentified family group sitting at the side entrance of a house, 1891
2) Photograph looking south on Front Street in Belleville, Ontario, with the Belle Theatre (347 Front Street) on the left of the image, 1959

1) Reproduction of a photograph of an unidentified family group outside a large brick house (identified on reverse as possibly Elijah Ketchson's home in Sidney Township), c.1890
2) Photograph of a group of twelve people, taken by W. S. Clarke, c.1910
3) Photograph of the 'Medicine, 1915 Association Football Team', winners of the MacClement Cup, 1915
Members of the team: C. R. Donevan; D. M. Livingstore; S. H. Martin; J. H. Box; F. W. Diamond; N. M. Grace; E. F. G. Ward; G. B. Burwell; H. C. Hagyard; G. T. G. Boyce; J. Carmichael; W. J. B. Brown; W. R. Stackhouse; G. A. Henry (President); O. Vanluven (Manager); W. V. Edwards
4) Group photograph taken at 'E.O.D.I.A. Field Day June 25, 24 at K.A.S. Kemptville', 1924
5) Reproductions of a photograph of staff and students of Stirling High School, 1931
6) Mounted pen-and-ink print of the old post office in Trenton, Ontario, c.1970

Cecil Everett Brown was born in Frankford, Ontario on 3 May 1895. One photograph is of Private Brown standing with his rifle. One photograph mugshot style photo of Brown in uniform. One document, typed with a brief biographical statement on Private Brown. Commemorative document announcing the death and his service for king and country.

Two flyers advertising the Hastings County Museum including the days it was open, hours of operation, entrance fees, and a brief description of the collection. One has opening dates for 1962, the other for 1963.

A list of clergymen from Hastings County and where they are buried.

A transcribed version of marriages, taken from the Archives of Ontario, for Hastings County between 1881 and 1885.