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Materials collected by Maureen Phillips and her mother, Phyllis Neal:

• Ration card for Maureen Neal, 1940
• Scrap book compiled by Phyllis Neal, including news clippings on the Dionne quintuplets and the royal family, correspondence relating to the death of her husband George Neal, who died while on active service in 1941 and news clippings relating to Mountain View, 1937-1963
• Scrap book compiled by Phyllis Neal on Prince Edward County and Trenton history (including a story called 'Policemen are human too'), 1960-1963, 1988
• Shopper's Market 50th anniversary souvenir edition on CFB Trenton

Collection comprises:

• The Story of Jesus, by the Saalfield Publishing Co., 6ff., with colour illustrations, 1941
• ‘Teacher’s War Savings Record Ledger’, c.1943
• School exercise books of John F. (Jack) McCullough of Lonsdale, Ontario, 1946
• Rules and instructions for the Lennox and Addington Fish and Game Protective Association’s Annual Bird House Building Contest, March 1946
• ‘Record Book for Ontario Boys’ and Girls’ Swine Clubs’ for James McCullough, of Lonsdale, Tyendinaga, a member of the Napanee Swine Club, May to Sep 1950
• Letters addressed to Jack McCullough from Bobby Gerow of Edmonton, Alberta, Oct 8 and Nov 1, 1950
• Photograph of two boys, c.1950
• Hand-drawn Valentine card (torn)
• Printed new baby congratulations note (torn)

Booklet produced by the Friends of McGeachie about the McGeachie Conservation Area on Steenburg Lake in Limerick Township, Hastings County, Ontario.

Album of photographs and tintypes taken between 1869 and 1874, mainly by photographers in Belleville, Ontario. Two individuals are identified by name: Rev. William Craig and Miss Bogart. Also 21 snapshots from 1900 to 1910, including photographs of Helen McKeown's uncle Arthur, who was undertaking medical training as a nurse. One photograph shows 'prisoners at work' taken from Arthur's room in a hospital.

Second prize coin awarded by the West Hastings Agricultural Society for Best Exhibit of Horses to D. I. Rose of Frankford, Ontario, in 1901. Associated genealogical research materials on the Rose family.

Two scrapbooks of photographs and newspaper clippings relating to the Melody Bells vocal group of Belleville, Ontario. Video cassette of the Quinte Arts Awards presentation of 1999, at which Dorothy Aitchison and Eugene Lang received awards.

Certificate of membership of the Canadian Order of Foresters for Joseph Foster, admitted to the Yarker lodge on 10 April 1902.

Self-published family memoirs:
1) Papa Was A Preacher by Rose Gourlay Gosse
This volume describes the life of the writer's father, Reverend John J. L. Gourlay, who worked in Dauphin and Thornhill, Manitoba; Lloydminster and Namao, Alberta; Leed's Village, Quebec; Lunenburg, Stormont, Lancaster, Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie and Trout Creek, Ontario.
2) I'm a Newfie, And That's No Joke! by R. E. Gosse
A memoir of life growing up in Petites, Newfoundland.

Book containing 48 printed pen-and-ink drawings of buildings at the Centennial International Exhibition held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1876. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Exposition). Book is inscribed "Mr. A. A. Canniff" [Abraham]. The title page is missing.

A series of memories of the author's childhood on a farm in Wallbridge, Ontario.

Belleville, Ontario, restaurant menus collected by the Hastings County Historical Society.

Two sets of microfiche: Bureau of Archives 1904 printed report of United Empire Loyalists losses enquiry and Ontario Archives land record index of names.

The fonds consists of 48 letters written during World War I, transcriptions of the letters, 1 CD and a book titled 'Just a Few Lines: A Memoir of William Thomas Miles from the Great War, 1916-1919'. The book is written by Thomas N. Miles and William J. Miles, Will Miles' sons and is based on this collection of letters. 47 of the letters are from Will Miles to his mother and 1 is from his cousin Maud to Will Miles. The letters are written between Sept. 30, 1916 and Feb. 18, 1919. Most of the letters are sent from France with a few of them sent from England, Barriefield Camp and Bramshott Camp. The letters discuss Will Miles' day to day life being a soldier during WWI, Flanders mud, lice, hunger and poison gas, meeting girls, complaining of the the food he eats, people being injured or sick, himself being injured, the weather, thanks for receiving parcels, running into old friends and looking forward to coming home in 1918.