File contains an original Order of Service for the 97th Anniversary of the I.O.O.F. Stirling Lodge No. 239 dated Sunday, May 7th, 1916; along with 3 newspaper articles from 1956-57 about subsequent anniversary celebrations and presentations of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.)
File contains a copy of an advertisement from the Kingston Chronicle dated 10-January-1839 looking for stone cutters to work on the Trent Canal for a period of 2 years.
File contains a newspaper article titled "Robt. Tannahill Widley Mourned; Prominent Citizen, Former Bank Manager, Dies in Toronto". It is the obituary for Robert Tannahill, born in Montreal and lived in Belleville.
File contains a newspaper article concerning the closure of the Belleville office of Canadian Pacific Telecommunications, after over a century of operations as a telegraph office under various owners.
File contains a printed poster advising municipal residents to vote for the reduction of licensed drinking places in various municipalities, including Belleville. Also present is a newspaper clipping announcing an upcoming talk entitled “The Man that Rum Makes,” by Dr. W.J. Fairfield on 21 November 1887, and a clipping about a horse theft in Sidney after a drinking episode by the perpetrator.
File contains a copy of a sketch of town lots in Thurlow by Joseph Canniff in 1849. Also present are several photocopied survey maps by lot of Thurlow Township, ca. 1878.
File contains manuscript notes by Mary Plumpton including lists of Thurlow Town Clerks, 1798-1846; transcripts of pages from an unidentified diary 1870-1872, and notes on individuals appearing in Plumpton's work, The Rambling River. Also present is a photocopied printed excerpt from the 1879 Hastings County Directory with entries for Canifton[sic] listing residents by name and occupation.
File contains a number of newspaper photos from various dates and titled "Picture Peeks Into The Past", these are pictures of boats in and on the Trent River and about boating in Trenton.
File contains a newspaper article from The Intelligencer, dated 22-July-1967 and titled "It's Only Five Minutes But it Starts Drivers Fuming" and is about the swing bridge in Trenton.
File contains a number of newspaper photos from various dates and titled "Picture Peeks Into The Past", these are pictures of buildings in and around Trenton.
File contains an original letter, dated 21-September-1896 from R. Weddell, Proprietor, Weddell Bridge and Engine Works and address ed Mr. N. Ponton Esq. regarding a lake lot.