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Reproduction of an 1862 map showing the names of lot owners in Monteagle Township, Hastings County.

Box of materials relating to the Moira Conservation Authority and O'Hara Mill, formerly owned by Lois Wishart (the donor's mother).

Family history research notes and photographs relating to the Boyle family of Belleville, Ontario, and their Alford, Armstrong, Blakely, Cooke, Corbett, Doolittle, Magarrell, Merriam, Rainbow and Thompson ancestors. Also includes a file on Walter George Bean, a home child from Kent, England. Electronic files contain Boyle family history information and family trees.

Box 1: Armstrong family, photos of tombstones
Box 2: Cooke, Corbett, Magarrell families
Box 3: Walter George Bean, Blakely, Corbett, Doolittle/Merriam, Thompson/Rainbow
Box 4: family photographs and reproductions of photographs

1) Newspaper clipping about the opening of Century Place in Belleville, Ontario, 26 March 1976
2) Brochure for Century Place, c.1976
3) Instructions for employees starting work in the Century Place building on 29 March 1976
4) Text of a talk on 'Hastings County & the Telephone' by R. W. Carleton, given to the Hastings County Historical Society on 15 February 1977

Minutes, constitutions, correspondence and project documents of the Citizens for Downtown Belleville (2000-2003) and the Bridge to Bridge Committee (2004-2006). Both groups were concerned with the revitalization of the downtown area of Belleville, Ontario. The files were compiled by Mary Jane Throop, a member of both groups.

1) 'The Gleaming Edge' is a printed book of Charles Andrew Tupper's poems bound in birch bark and signed by the author in 1970.
2) 'The Royal Variable' is a typescript theory of metre and meaning by Tupper, bound with a copy of a letter by Robert W. Macaulay, Ontario Minister of Energy Resources, dated 8 Nov 1960.

Promotional materials written by Ron Truman for Northern Telecom:
1) CompQuote (Montreal) Displayphone case study flyer
2) Slater Steels (Hamilton) Displayphone case study flyer
3) Health Care Telecommunications Meridian SL-1 flyer
4) The Canada Council Meridian SL-1 Application Report flyer
5) Meridian Report, Volume 1, Issue 1, December 1986

Part of a letter from F. H. F. (Henry) Skill referring to photocopied pages of the Grand Trunk Railway System Timetable of 14 Jan 1917 and Canadian National Railways System Timetable of 28 Nov 1948 relating to trains through Anson Junction.

Calendars of meetings for the Quinte Morning Music Club, listing members and the dates and locations of meetings. Includes some notes on musicians featured in meetings and an article by Mary-Lynne Morgan on the closure of the club, which was published in the Umbrella publication of the Quinte Arts Council in 2019. Also includes newspaper clippings with obituaries of some of the club members.

Collection of ephemeral items from Belleville, Trenton, and Prince Edward County. Includes:

File 1

• page from the Ontario Commercial College Journal, 1873
• receipts addressed to Hiram Snyder of Sidney Township, 1882-1904
• prospectus of the Belleville Business College, c.1892
• certificate and letter of recommendation from the Ontario Business College for N. B. McKibbon, 1883
• 'Poems of the Turf' printed promotional booklet for D. H. Ackrill, veterinary, 1904
• 'The Whaley-Royce Pianos' promotional flyer, not dated
• sheet of advertisements aimed at students, c.1920

File 2

• flyer for sale at Ritchie's clothes store, July 1920
• receipt from Glenwood Cemetery Company to Guy Johnson for Lot 7 in Block 369 at the cemetery, 1922
• card for Scott's Auto Bus Service, Picton and Belleville, not dated
• paper bag for Geen's Drug Store, Belleville, not dated
• negative envelope from Ed. A. Simmons drug store, Trenton
• flyer for J. Sutcliffe & Sons store sale in Trenton, not dated
• flyer for Crowe & Fairman store, Trenton, not dated
• promotional item for George H. Cobley, furniture and funeral director, Trenton
• flyer for an 87 cent sale at White's store in Trenton and Stirling, not dated
• flyer for fall and winter sale at Vandervoort's store in Trenton, not dated
• receipt from the Deacon Shirt Company [letterhead shows Coleman Street factory] to David J. White, 1925
• programme for Old Boys' Reunion, 1925
• souvenir postcard folder for Trenton, c.1930
• Firestone promotional newspaper, May 1933
• Constitution and By-Laws of the Belleville Agricultural Society, 1935
• prize draw ticket from the Belleville Fair, 1938
• Blue's Quality Foods coupons, c.1938
• One Cent Sale flyer for Rexall Drug Store, 1949
• programme for exhibition of pupils' work at the Ontario School for the Deaf, 1952
• Ontario election flyer for Norris Whitney, Progressive Conservative candidate for Prince Edward-Lennox, 1955
• Belleville fair prize list, 1960
• Belleville Agricultural Society constitution and by laws, 1960
• Quinte Driving and Riding Club race listing at the Belleville Fair, 1963

File 3

• receipt for Rockland Slate, 1878
• annual membership tickets for Mr & Mrs H. M. Reddick for the Main Street Methodist Church, Picton, 1907
• various receipts for Charlie Wycott, 1926-1927
• Platt's Marketeria, Wellington, coupons, c.1930
• invitation to the Picton Centenary and Prince Edward County Old Boys' Reunion, 1937
• Auditors' Reports for the Township of Ameliasburgh, 1937 and 1938
• Laying up of the Colours of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment, Picton, 4 Oct 1964
• Two Prince Edward County Centennial Year programmes, 1967
• programme for official opening of H. J. McFarland Memorial Home, 20 Aug 1975

File 4 (all undated)

• Wills Hardware promotional plastic ruler
• 'Choose a Career' flyer for the International Correspondence Schools, Scanton, Pennsylvania, local representative H. C. Brown, Hotel Quinte
• Moira Fuels promotional blotting paper sheets
• 3 Belleville souvenir postcard sets
• paper bag from Clint McGee hardware store, Stirling
• song sheet for the Young Men's Conservative Club, Belleville

Files of research notes, photographs, and correspondence relating to members of the Forneri, Sutton, and Geen families of Belleville and Madoc, Ontario, including their service in the First World War. Program for the dedication service of 28 July 2019 adding the names of David Alwyn Forneri, Agnes Florien Forneri and Ellis Vair Reid to the Belleville Cenotaph was added to this collection in September 2019.

Collection includes three files:
1) Six early 20th century photographs of women, one identified as Ethel Shampagne of Peterborough, 1902; news clipping about the death of Dr. Sam Cronk in March 1974
2) Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario application and salary scale; 34 postcards of Belleville, Sandbanks, Foxboro, Stirling; one postcard of Olga Nethersole
3) 'Elevator' BCIVS publication, 1947-1948; Publication on the centennial of Bethany School (S.S. #7) in Thurlow, 1964; Programme for dinner at the Ramada Inn for Corby's Distilleries retirees, 1992