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Photocopies of publications relating to the Marchmont distributing home in Belleville, Ontario, used by James Gilchrist in research for his book on the home:
1) Photocopies of newspaper clippings relating to Marchmont, compiled by Dorothy Ashton, 1870-1983
2) ‘Canadian Homes for London Wanderers’ by Annie Macpherson, London, 1870
3) ‘Pauper Children (Canada): a report by Andrew Doyle, Local Government Inspector, as to the Emigration of Pauper Children to Canada’, 1875, with letters of rebuttal from Miss Rye.
4) ‘British Children in Canadian Homes’ by Ellen Agnes Bilbrough, Belleville, 1879 (and electronic version)
5) ‘God's answers, a record of A. Macpherson's work at the Home of industry, Spitalfields, and in Canada’ by Clara M. S. Lowe, London, 1882
6) File containing address of Robert Wallace to UK Parliament on the Importation of English Children, 1895; Marchmont request for information on potential guardians, 1920s; issue of ‘Marchmont News’, June 1925
7) ‘The Children’s Home-Finder: The Story of Annie MacPherson and Louisa Birt’ by Lilian M. Birt, London, 1913
8) Notes by Lois Foster on the Marchmont Home property, c.2000
9) Overhead transparencies used by James Gilchrist for presentations about the Marchmont Home, c.2004

Collection comprises:
1) Four reproduction photographs annotated by Maurice Callaghan, showing the schooner Dundee, the old Grand Junction Railway dock as it appeared in 1911 (one photograph shows City Engineer William Lindsey) and a group of construction workers standing at the end of the government dock after its completion [1916].
2) Poster for the CFB Trenton 50th anniversary air show in 1981

Minutes, rules, correspondence, constitution of the District 16 Provincial Lawn Bowling Association of Ontario, based in the Ottawa area. Includes pins given as prizes and copies of 'The Green' magazine from 1972 to 1993.

Photograph album "Presented to Mrs Elias Pine by her affectionate niece Miss Elida Pine of Chicago June 26th 1891".

The album held photographs of:
1) Abel Wesley Scott, his wife Mary Walpoyes Scott and their children, Nina and Fred, taken by H. McNeill of Fredonia, New York
2) Gilbert Abbott, taken by W. W. Higgins of Trenton, Ontario
3) May Scott (daughter of Abel Wesley Scott), taken by Krauss and Ebersole of Lima, Ohio
4) Mr and Mrs Walpoyes, brother of Mary Walpoyes Scott, taken by J. J. Hover of Lima, Ohio
5) Sylvester Pine junior taken by Robert McCormick of Belleville, Ontario
6) Eliza and Arvilla Ashby, daughters of Hannah Scott Ashby
7) Alice Ashby, second daugther of Hanna Scott Ashby and Thomas Ashby, taken by Harrison Putney of King Street, Oshawa, Ontario
8) Sylvester Pine and his wife Beatrice Swetman Pine
9) Wallace Scott (brother of Maturah Scott Pine) and his wife Jane Fitzgeralds Scott, taken by Bairstow of Warren, Pennsylvania
10) Two unidentified women, taken by Ahlborn of 335 West Madison Street, Chicago
11) Jane Day Morey, cousin of Maturah Scott Pine, taken by Brock & Co. of Trenton, Ontario
12) Abel Wesley Scott, brother of Maturah Scott Pine, taken by Stewart & co., 90 & 92 Federal Street, Allegheny, Pennsylvania
13) Mahala Swetman, born 11 May 1833, mother of Beatrice Pine
14) Nina Scott, eldest daughter of Abel Wesley Scott, taken by Hermans Art Gallery of Lima, Ohio
15) Minnie Ashby, eldest daugther of Hannah Scott Ashby, taken by W. F. Johnson of Picton, Ontario
16) Margaret Stainger, a Scottish friend of Etta Pine Humphrey, taken by Edsall at the West Side Gallery, 487 Eighth Avenue, New York
17) Eliza Purdy Scott, wife of Thomas Scott and mother of Maturah Scott Pine
18) Alveretta Scott Cryderman, youngest daughter of Thomas and Eliza Scott
19) Fred and Nina Scott, eldest children of Abel Wesley Scott and Mary Walpoyes Scott, taken by E. T. Bowdle of Lima, Ohio
20) Benjamin Frank Cryderman, husband of Alveretta Scott, taken by Tait & Arthur of Bowmanville, Ontario
21) Gid Anderson and sister, children of Betsy Gardiner Anderson, who was sister of Abigail Gardiner Pine (mother of Elias Pine)
22) Albert and Georgina Button "neighbours of Grandma Pine", taken by Wallace of Belleville, Ontario
23) Hannah Scott Asbhy, second daughter of Thomas and Eliza Scott [tintype]
24) Charlie Walpoyes, taken by Bairstow of Warren, Pennsylvania
25) Archie Green, husband of Ruth Scott Green, sister of Thomas Scott, before his wife's death [tintype]
26) Archie Green, husband of Ruth Scott Green, sister of Thomas Scott, after his wife's death, taken by W. S. Gamsby of Orono, Ontario
27) Mrs Jane Day Morey and her three children, George, Will, Martha
28) Photograph of a Scott baby taken by A. J. Stiles of Tidioute, Pennsylvania
29) Martha Purdy Day, sister of Eliza Purdy Scott, taken by Brown & Redick of Trenton, Ontario
30) C. S. Conger, taken by W. H. Dame of Picton, Ontario
31) Orilla Scott Phillips, daughter of Stephen Scott (brother of Thomas Scott), Abel Wesley Scott, brother of Maturah Scott Pine, Elva Scott Tucker, daughter of John Scott, wife of Milford Tucker [tintype]
32) Nina Scott, daughter of Abel Wesley Scott
33) Reuben Burlingham "a friend of mother's", taken by Mrs Amy James of Front Street, Belleville, Ontario
34) Dan Day, son of Martha Purdy Day
35) Martha Kelley Pine, wife of James Pine (eldest brother of Elias Pine) [tintype]
36) Mr Wall "a friend" [tintype of a man in military uniform]
37) Thomas Scott, father of Maturah Scott Pine [tintype]
38) Abel Wesley Scott, son of Thomas and Eliza Scott [tintype]
39) Washington Purdy Scott, eldest son of Thomas and Eliza Scott [tintype]
40-42) three small photographs of unidentified people
43) Hannah Scott Ashby, twin sister of Abel Wesley Scott, taken by Bonnycastle of Campbellford, Ontario
44) Murney Ferguson and wife, taken by Isaac of Upland, California

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.

Printed and digital copies of photographs of headstones in Plainfield, Cannifton, and Gilead cemeteries.
Cannifton: 80 digital photographs
Gilead: 347 digital photographs
Plainfield: 200 digital photographs

Railway and Air Force books and memorabilia.

Two scrapbooks of photographs and programs recording the activities of the Mohawk Loyalist Council (1970-1994) and the Belleville Life Member Club (1988-2000) of the Telephone Pioneers of America.

1) Publications, 1894-1979:
Carter’s Ink Company dictionary, c.1894
Reproduction of December 1900 Bell Telephone Directory for Belleville
‘The Original Egypt Dream Book’, 1924
History of Stone Church, Sidney Township, 1930
Belleville Centennial ‘What’s Happening’, July-August 1978
Belleville Centennial map and flyer, 1978
Cannifton-Corbyville Public School 70th anniversary booklet, c.1979
2) Two class diaries from Cedar Grove School in Cannifton, Ontario, 1907-1911
3) BHS/BCIVS Elevators, 1913-1947:
Easter 1913
June 1913
June 1915
Easter 1916
Christmas 1917
March 1918
April 1919
Christmas 1919
1946-1947
Program for official opening of Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School, 12 December 1928
4) Autograph books: Myrtle Archibald, 1915 and Clare Twiddy, 1935
5) 10 volumes of Avondale Neighbors Aid minutes compiled by Margaret Twiddy, with a newspaper clipping about the group’s activities, 1937-1970
6) File of postcards, 1913-c1920; In Memoriam cards for Wellington R. Fairman, 1917 and Mrs W. R. Fairman, 1928; leaflet about Belleville Aqua Vitae, 1939
7) Odd Fellows certificate for Alfred Francis, 1958
8) Canada Civil Defence publications, 1958-1960
Booklet: ‘Civil Defence Notebook’, 1958
Flyer: ‘Civil Defence and Your Life’,1958
Flyer: ‘Your Emergency Pack’, 1959
Typescript pages: Belleville Civil Defence Routine Orders No. 2, 15 August 1959
Flyer: ‘Who is Responsible for Civil Defence’, c.1959
Identification card for Clare H. Twiddy, Civil Defence Warden in Belleville, 1959
Booklet: ‘Your Basement Fallout Shelter’, Blueprint for Survival No. 1, 1960
Booklet: ‘Fallout on the Farm’, Blueprint for Survival No. 3, 1961
Booklet: ‘11 Steps to Survival Emergency Measures Organization’ Blueprint for Survival No. 4, 1961
Booklet: ‘Home Safe Home’ by Lakeland Natural Gas Limited, c.1960
9) Plan of lots for sale on Skootamatta Lake, Anglesea Township, Ontario, with prices (not dated, c.1960)
10) Genealogy of the Twiddy family, c.1980
11) File of photographs and company publications relating to Clare Twiddy’s retirement from Northern Telecom, 1985
12) Family snapshots and photograph albums, with Twiddy, Alcombrack and Archibald families represented.

Collection of items relating to the celebrations of Belleville's centennial as a city in 1978:
1) Calendar by the Belleville Art Association for March 1978 to June 1979, with drawings by local artists and photographs of the artists on the back page
2) Two paper place mats with April and May events around the border and a drawing of City Hall and the log cabin in the centre
3) Belleville Centennial Souvenir Guide, with listing of events from mid-April 1978
4) Poster for The Arts in the Park Picnic, 24 June 1978
5) Program for "Centennial! A Musical Tribute to Belleville's British Heritage", held at Bridge Street United Church in 1978
6) Decal with Belleville Centennial logo

Lower half of a memorial recording the sale of Lot 17 in Concession 1 of Hungerford Township from David Gardiner of to Thomas Goldsmith Gardiner, all of Whitby, for £50. The deed is instrument 1488 in Book L of the Hastings County Land Registry Office.

Three calendars:
1) 2008 calendar produced to mark the 50th anniversary of the Hastings County Historical Society
2) 2009 commemorative calendar to mark the 100th anniversary of powered flight in Canada
3) 2009 fundraising 'Calendar Girls' style calendar produced by the Quinte Grannies for Africa [sales of this calendar raised over $52,000]

Collection of previously uncatalogued photographs, apparently from different sources. They include:
1) "Election day in Flinton", c.1890
2) Fragment of a photograph showing staff outside the Walker Foundry in Belleville, c.1890
3) Seven photographs of the Hewitt property and a church in Roslin, Ontario, with one photograph of the Bridge Street United Church in Belleville, c.1890-1920
4) "Dr & Mrs Stephens", c.1910
5) Photograph of the frame house at 358 Arthur Street in Tweed, Ontario, taken by T. Donohue, c.1910
6) Lucy Kleinsteuber (1915-2011) as a small child, c.1918
7) Colour photograph of Minnie Clarence (born Whiteman) of Albert Street, Belleville (1903-2007), 2003

Pages from the 9 January 1960 issue of the Toronto Telegram's Weekend Magazine with a story by Frank Lowe on 'The City that went on a Hockey Jag', concerning the debt of $110,000 run up by the City of Belleville in its support of the Belleville McFarlands hockey team between 1956 and 1959.

Scrapbook with photocopies of newspaper clippings from the Intelligencer newspaper on the topic of the Wharf Street Debating Club of Belleville, Ontario.

Minutes and accounts for School Section number 4 in Thurlow Township, Ontario.