This description is for part of a collection of some 4,400 vertical files of materials gathered by the Hastings County Historical Society. They cover a wide range of subjects and were received from a variety of different sources, not always recorded.
The collection includes original materials, newspaper clippings, secondary histories and copies.
Publications from The James Texts Limited of Belleville, Ontario: 1) High School Entrance Reprints of Examination Papers Ontario Last Sixteen Years 2) High School Entrance Answers of Examination Papers Ontario Last Sixteen Years
One framed and four unframed honour rolls from the Second World War, recording the names of members of St. Andrew's Presbyterian who served in the armed forces.
Research notes on members of the Humphries, Humphrys, and Feathersonhaugh family, used to write a book titled 'Humphries : a Canadian Family and Its Irish Background' in 1874.
Preliminary Geological Map of Tudor Township South (91cm x 74cm), 1962
Preliminary Geological Map of Tudor Township North (90cm x 79cm), 1962
Ontario Department of Highways map of Hastings South Portion (105cm x 87cm), 1969
Ontario Department of Highways map of Hastings Middle Portion (101cm x 87cm), 1969
Ontario Department of Highways map of Hastings North Portion (94cm x 90cm), 1969
Ontario Department of Highways map of Lennox and Addington, South Portion (81cm x 112cm), 1969
Ontario Department of Highways map of Lennox and Addington, North Portion (64cm x 115cm), 1969
Ontario Department of Highways map of Prince Edward County (112cm x 81cm), 1969
Road map of the counties of Lennox and Addington, Frontenac and Prince Edward (58cm x 73cm), 1974
Maps 3 to 8 are annotated with routes of bicycle rides taken by John Uttley between 1949 and 2010 and with occasional notes about the removal of railway lines.
Negatives and photographs of activities and buildings at the Northern Electric plant on Sidney Street in Belleville, Ontario. These items were contained in a metal Kardex filing drawer. Headings on the file sleeves include:
Erecting Gov. Towers [Negative 2019-055-001]
Dismantling & Erecting N.E. Wooden Tower [Negatives 2019-055-002 to 2019-055-019 and print of negative 2019-055-017]
Wave Guide Flexing Machine Built 1956 by N.E. Co Belleville [Negatives 2019-055-020 to 2019-055-078 and prints of negatives 2019-055-022, 2019-055-023, 2019-055-024, 2019-055-027, 2019-055-028, 2019-055-029, 2019-055-030 and 2019-055-047]
City Fire Dept Demonstration 1955 [4 negatives including 2019-055-084 and 2019-055-085]
Fire in Shopmen's Wash Rm. Partition. 1955 [5 negatives, 5 prints]
Painting Chain Link Fences 1955 Contractor Carter & Son [2 negatives]
Employee Infraction on City Parking Regulations 1955
Car Parks 1955 [Negatives 2019-055-091 to 2019-055-093]
Power House 1954 [11 negatives including 2019-055-094 and 2019-095] *Deterioration of 1947 Plant Roof Due to Negelcted Leak in Roof Membrane, 1955 [2 prints, 3 negatives]
Deterioration in West Wall & South & North Corners of 1947 BLDG. Repointed Brickwork 1955 [30 prints, 32 negatives]
Leaking Flashings [1 print]
Slippage of Roof Material on 1951 Extension Saw Tooths Corrected 1955 By Application of S.I.S. Roofing. [3 prints, 3 negatives]
1951 Extension to Plant [44 prints, 106 negatives]
Paint Shop Construction 1955 [13 prints, 20 negatives]
Shop Partitions Designed & Built in Belleville Plant 1953 [4 prints, 7 negatives]
Standard Benches Designed & Produced in Belleville Plant 1952 [1 print (labelled 'Sound Proof Booth'), 3 negatives]
Moving Pacific Brake from CN Tracks to Belleville Plant [1 print, 4 negatives]
Sixty black and white negatives taken of photographs of Mayors of the City of Belleville. These images were used for the Mayors' Gallery on the fourth floor of City Hall.
Photographic slides relating to rum running (80) and to First World War pilot training in Deseronto (40), with seven slides of an early aircraft in Belleville.
Five files of photographs and one file containing the 2012 text of Gerry Boyce's book 'Historic Hastings, Volume Two'. The photographs show scenes in Hastings County and include some Boyce family photographs.