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File contains photocopied excerpts of the Hastings County Directory, 1860-1861, 1864-1865 listing residents of Stirling by occupation, and property location. Includes a photocopied newspaper photograph with identifications, of the members of the Stirling Cheese Board for 1894. Also present are four newspaper clippings on miscellaneous aspects of Stirling's history including a history of Corner Block, Stirling by Mrs. Roy Bush.

File contains a reproduction of a proclamation announcing the Village of Stoco will have a Fair or Mart twice a year, in May and October, starting in 1860. The proclamation was forwarded from the office of Sheriff J.W. Dunbar Moodie.

File contains original documents, presented to the Hastings County Historical Society in 1960; Biographical sketch written on 22-September-1869 covers the years 1862 to 1869 when Willson was teaching school in the southern part of Hastings County; educational papers; legal papers; correspondence and a poem entitled "To The Mohawks".

File contains Bylaw No. 154 about unlawful behaviour, for example: giving intoxicating drinks to apprentice servants, insane persons, etc., or circulating indecent writings, or using profane language, or for any person to indecently expose him or herself, or to bath and wash in public, etc.

File contains an 1862 letter regarding immigration and a notice from the Government Immigration Office discussing the increased number of immigrants from the United Kingdom and the United States, proposing farmers hire new immigrants for farm labour and on large farms build a log cabin for a family to stay in.

Materials collected by the Kellaway family.
Textual materials:
0) Photocopy of a letter written by Patrick Tighe from Virginia City, Nevada, on 3 January 1863
1) Printed Report of the County Valuators for Hastings County Council, 1866
2) Prospectus for Belleville Business College, c.1905
3) 'The Annual Announcement, Albert College, Belleville, Ontario', prospectus, 1913
4) '140 Years of Progress' U.E.L. souvenir, 1924
5) Program for 'The Girl in Red' musical comedy at the Empire Theatre, 9-11 July 1925
6) Share certificate for the Belleville Arena in the name of M. J. Callaghan, 1930
7) File containing folk songs collected from Tyendinaga Township by Bill Sipprell and Jim Downey in 1973
8) File of materials relating to a fur harvest and management course held in Napanee in 1982
9) 'Ellie Mae's Nifty Knits' volume of knitting patterns designed by Ellen Marie Kellaway (1961-2006), c.1992

Photographs:
10) View of south Front Street near the railway bridge, 1912
11) Photograph of children in confirmation clothes, c.1930
12) St. Mike's Regis Bowling League, April 1957
13) Boys in confirmation suits at the altar of St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church in Belleville, Ontario, c.1970
14) & 15) Photographs of the stone building (former axe factory) at Station Street in Belleville, c.1980
16) People (including Theresa Kellaway) marching in a St. Patrick's Day parade on Front Street in Belleville, (published in Quinte Weekly News on 19 March 1991)
17) Group of people outside the Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School Building, c.2000

File contains a copy of a 1863, Prospectus document; proposing a lead mine on local lots, in the Belleville area.

File contains photocopied printed excerpts from the Hastings Directory 1864-1865 and 1889 providing descriptions of Madoc village and lists of landholders by occupation.

File contains an assortment of documents and petitions, regarding roads and bridges in The Township of Cannifton c. 1865.

File contains communications from 1865 discussing sending copies of the Hastings County Council Directory to every council in Upper Canada, to the United States, and Europe, and the Office of Immigration. The 1868 communications discuss the inclusion of mineral resource locations and maps.

Research files compiled by Bill Hunt.

1) Marriage certificate of George Hunt and Margaret Bell, October 19th, 1865.
2) B.C.I. footballers: George Locke and Bob Taylor c. 1948.
3) Unidentified sportsman receives a trophy.
4) Buckley's Food Market on Victoria Avenue, c. 1950.
5) Notes on Belleville census records 1818-1959 and federal elections results 1867-1924.
6) Booze, Boats and Bullets Interviews with Cecil Lobb and Norm Conley, Kem McConnell and Ann Jones, circa 1990.
7) DVD Slideshow of images relating to Royal Flying Corps in Canada, circa 2009.

File contains a reproduction printed edition of the July 1, 1867 issue of The Globe. The issue provides a historical retrospective of New France and British North America.

Insurance, funeral, church, publisher subscriptions, bank and other receipts; copy of article from Globe and Mail Toronto, 23 Oct 1954, regarding the Meyers' and Bleecker's Cave in Hastings County.

File contains an assortment of documents and petitions, regarding roads and bridges, in The Township of Thurlow.