File contains a typescript copy of a list of officers and servicemen belonging to the 15th Argyll Light Infantry of the Midland Battalion, who served in the 1885 Northwest Rebellion. Also contains a newspaper article relating to the events at Batoche during the Rebellion.
File contains a newspaper article from The Daily Intelligencer, April 22, 1870 relating the details of the Red River Rebellion and the issue of a call for volunteers at Kingston.
File contains several receipts and statements of account owed to Anson G. Northrup, Esq., Belleville. Includes a typescript note listing two record of marriage licenses issued by A. G. Northrup, who held the office of Clerk of Hastings County Court. Also present is the last will and testament of Mary Northrup, March 12, 1867, executed 5 June 1879.
File contains a manuscript petition and statement of damages submitted to the Commissioners of the District of Victoria by John Culbertson, innkeeper, Tyendinaga, for a personal injury and damages to a windmill and other property in 1837 to 1838.
File contains a publication "Reconstruction" March 1918 published by the invalided Soldiers Commission, Ottawa. A copy of The Standard, Montreal November 11, 1916 Where our brave and gallant Canadian lads won victory, fame and immortality.
File contains several newspaper clippings regarding the founding of the Belleville Patriotic Association on September 1, 1914, and Veterans' commemorative services at Belleville in 1936.
File contains several typescript copies of letters from Lt.[later Capt.] R.D. Ponton, F Company, 2nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force to his father, William Nisbet Ponton, relating his experiences in the war in Belgium and France including trench warfare.
File contains several newspaper clippings regarding visits and social events in Plevna in January-February, 1968. Also present is a clipping from The Tweed News, 10 July 1968 concerning the history of the Plevna United Church from its founding in 1886 as a Methodist Church.
File contains an Ontario Intelligencer article dated 20 March 1961 concerning Konrad Piwowarski, an artist and former Polish intelligence agent residing in Belleville, whose paintings were commissioned by a local church.
File contains a newspaper clipping entitled “Religion in pioneer days,” by Viva Richmond Graham, concerning early Protestant churches in Prince Edward, Lennox and Addington and Dundas Counties in the period 1815-1882.
File contains a printed programme of an Assault-at-Arms or public demonstration of various military exercises for the benefit of the Officers' Mess of the 15th Battalion Argyll Light Infantry on 23 September 1890.
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.
File contains several typescript and manuscript poems including “Chapleau Boys” which recounts shanty life in Renfrew County. Also present is a newspaper reprint of a poem entitled “The Maple and the Beaver,” by Charles Andrew Tupper which appeared in the Cobourg Sentinal-Star, 12 August 1964.
File contains a typescript Report of the International Plowing Match, 1961 by the local committee of the Hastings County Plowmen's Association. The report provides an overview of the events and reports by various committees involved in the planning and execution of the plowing match. A one-page financial statement of revenues and expenses is included.