File contains copies of business pages from the Hastings County Directory. Business include: Bridgewater Store; Geo. H. Haymes Manufacturer and Importer [of Hats]; G.G. German, Manufacturer and Wholesale & Retail Dealer in Boots, Shoes, Rubbers, and Leathers; The Canton Tea Store; R.A. Becket Bookseller and Stationer; etc.
File contains photocopies of newspaper advertisements for millwrights and sawyers for Hungerford Mills, Hungerford Township in 1838. Also contains an article describing land and soil conditions and settlement of Hungerford Township in 1837.
File contains a portion of the 1860-61 Hungerford Directory list and the Thomasburgh Directory. There is also a portion of the Hungerford Directory list from 1889.
File contains newspaper clippings about various council activities in Hungerford and Hungtingdon. There are also newspaper clippings about the opening of the Foxboro Cheese Factory in Carmel District.
File contains typescript and printed press releases of the Lake Ontario Development Association [LODA] concerning the growth and promotion of industry and tourism in the Hastings, Lennox-Addington, Northumberland and Peterborough regions. Also contains several newspaper clippings concerning the activities and appointment of LODA executive officers.
File contains a special supplement to The Intelligencer commemorating the 50th anniversary of Leslie's Shoe Store, Front Street, Belleville. Also contains a newspaper article concerning the career of William Leslie, and the history of the Leslie's Shoe Store.
File contains several newspaper clippings concerning retail hours of local merchants in Madoc. Also contains a newspaper clipping regarding the history of the Madoc Women's Institute from its inception in 1910 to 1957.
File contains a mimeographed typescript letters originating from and received by W.N. Ponton in the period 1911 to 1913 concerning the sale of right-of-ways for railway crossings on lands belonging to W.N. Ponton and Ponton family members in Belleville.
File contains an offprint of an article entitled “Capt. John Walden Meyers, Loyalist Pioneer,” published in the Ontario Historical Society Papers and Records, Vol XXX1 (1936): 11-55
File contains manuscript and typescript correspondence relating to potential leases and shareholders' interests in the Richardson Mine, Eldorado, Ontario. Also contains a printed circular to stockholders concerning the termination of the company's operations in 1868.
File contains newspaper clippings from The Ontario Intelligencer concerning the opening of Ste. Anne Church and separate school at Point Anne in June, 1956. Also present is an Intelligencer article 30 December 1967 concerning layoffs at The Canada Cement Company, the principal employer in Point Anne.