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Photocopy of an article by Stella-Marie Brown, a student at Napanee Secondary School, on the history of the Marlbank Cement Plant, written for an essay contest sponsored by the Lennox and Addington Historical Society and published in The Tweed News on 23 August 1978.

Flyer with program for the unveiling of a plaque commemorating the history of Belleville, Ontario on 1 July 1978. Front cover features a sketch by Lois Foster.

Various items from the collections of Glanmore National Historic Site.

Collection includes: newspaper clippings (1962-1972) and 1963 program relating to the YMCA So-Ed club; letters from the Belleville Horticultural Society to Mr and Mrs Wilcox granting them Trillium awards for their garden, 1973-1979; two editions of the Intelligencer for 4 March 1966, with slightly different headlines.

Various items from the collections of Glanmore National Historic Site.

Letter from Gwen Lazier Braidwood to Lois Foster concerning elephants swimming in the Bay of Quinte.

Notes on the organization of the map collection of the Hastings County Historical Society, written by Gerry Boyce in September 1981. Includes a copy of the classification schemes used by the National Map Collection, dated 1969 and 1973.

1) ‘Souvenir and Programme’ of the 1929 Loyalist celebrations in Deseronto
2) ‘Deseronto is 100 Years Old this Year’ article from the Napanee Beaver, c. May 1971 (mentions Rathbun head office building as being owned by Redi-Heat appliance manufacturers, later by Dravo and "now empty")
3) ‘Deserontonian of the week’ newspaper article from the Napanee Beaver about Gerald and Kay Lott, owners of a Deseronto jewelry store from 1950-1982 (the approximate date of the article).

Description of the coat of arms granted to the City of Belleville in 1982.

Collection of materials relating to Elias Wright life in Tweed, Ontario:

1. Photograph of children of Victoria School, Tweed, with list of names, 1920
2. Postcard of the Foster's Dairy horse and wagon on their last trip, 28 April 1975
3. Newspaper clippings relating to Tweed Village Council, 1976-1982
4. Photographs of Elias Wright and other officials of Tweed Village Council, 1978-1982
5. Memories of Tweed High School by Blenus Wright (son of Elias), 1983

The Quinte Scanner was a newspaper published in Deseronto, Ontario, between 1968 and 1981.

The Wanamaker fonds consists of textual records and graphic materials of genealogical histories of various families. The fonds also contains records, brochures, pamphlets, publications, books, and other textual records from towns and cities throughout Ontario, predominantly from the Quinte Area and Hastings County.

• Family Photographs of the Sayers family, Ralph Wanamaker's family, the Hodgen family, of Loral Wanamaker's family, Parliament family, Van Cott family, Post family, as well as loose photographs of the Parliament family, the McTaggart family, various snapshots and negatives of scenery and views, as well as 2 boxes of slides
• 1 box of Books and Binders with genealogical records, as well various records of various towns in Ontario ca. 1816 - 1957
• Genealogical notes, histories, birth records, death records, pages from family Bibles, receipts, and other textual records for over 40 individual families
• Genealogical charts, and ancestral charts
• Genealogical correspondences
  *Newspapers, and News clippings from Hastings County, Hastings County Museum, Historical Society, Lennox and Addington, Prince Edward County, Trenton, Tyendinaga, and United Empire Loyalists
• Legal documents, seals and original deeds, and land records ca. 1803 - 1848
• Genealogy forms, research materials, reference materials
• Various artworks and postcards (of Hastings County, the Quinte Region, the British Military and Navy, the Belleville Art Association, and travel)
• Quinte region, Belleville, Trenton, and Prince Edward County miscellaneous publications, newspaper clippings, brochures, pamphlets, notes, directories, histories, records, and tourism guides and publications
• Ontario, New York , and Canada pamphlets, magazines, calendars, and an Ontario Liquor License Act, 1891
• Land Abstracts for Prince Edward County
• Maps and plans: 1778-1779 Blue Print Surveys from General Washington, New York Historical Society; 1784 Ontario (printed by Ministry of Natural Resources), 1984; 1860-1861 Hastings County, 1860-1861 from the Hastings County Directory; 1928 Lloyd's Map of Hastings County; c. 1930 Belleville Post Office Carrier Route #8, North Front and North Park Streets
• Scrapbooks ca. 1958-1972
• Miscellaneous Publications (almanacs, newspaper clippings, miscellaneous pins belonging to Loral Wanamaker, blue print surveys)

Genealogical family research names:

• Allison
• Alyea
• Babcock, John
• Bailey
• Belnap
• Benson
• Blair/Snider/Mumby/Spenser
• Brickman, Lewis
• Brighton
• Canniff
• Clapp
• Cole
• Cunningham
  *Davis
• Embury
• Finkle
• Fraser
• Gallagher
• Gerow
• Giraud/Gero-Gerow
• Hodgens
• Johnson
• Loveless, Absolam
• McTaggart
• Meyers, John W.
• Mitchell, Alfred
• Orser
• Parliament
• Peck
• Redner
• Roblin
• Scott
• Spencer
• Sprung
• Van Cott, John
• Vander Woort
• Waite (see also Sprung and Putnam)
• Wallbridge
• Wanamaker
• Wanamaker, Judge George Washington
• Wanamaker
• Weese
• Whitney
• Williams and Schermerhorn
• Yarrow

Various plans of streets in Belleville and Thurlow Township.

Research notes on architectural styles and photographic slides of Belleville homes and other buildings prepared for a Hastings County Board of Education project and proposed video by Catherine Milne, Instructional Media Developer of the Hastings County Board of Education's Instructional Media Centre and Bill Piton, a teacher.

Program for an event held at the Ramada Inn, Trenton. The authors featured were:

• Roy Bonisteel
• Wilma Alexander
• John Melady
• Peggy Leavey
• Claire MacKay
• Janet Lunn
• Al Purdy
• Gerry Boyce
• Alan R. Capon

Also a newspaper article by Alan Capon on the Trenton film industry and Carry On Sergeant!, published in the Whig Standard in April 1992.

Materials collected by Lloyd Syer as Director of Parks and Recreation for the City of Belleville, 1973-1990. Includes:

1. Board of Parks Management Policy and Information Manual, 1977
2. City of Belleville Information, 1989
3. City of Belleville Directory, 1990
4. Letter from J. Ben Corke to Mayor George Zegouras about Lloyd Syer's Farewell Dinner, 1990
5. Scrapbook of photographs, newspaper clippings and correspondence, 1971-1990
6. Photograph album of parks in Belleville and other cities, 1973-1974
7. Photograph of Bay Bridge in winter "donated by Clerk's Office, 1961", c.1910
8. Series of six aerial photographs of Belleville, 1978
9. Collection of several hundred 35mm slides, 1959-1990

Part of an unpublished history of Ontario breweries, covering breweries in Hastings County.

1. Order of Service for 'Decoration Day' at the Armouries in Belleville, 21 August 1921
2. Six colour photographs of buildings at the former Corby Distilleries site in Corbyville, c.1990

Booklet produced at the time of the closure of the Corbyville plant of Corby's Distilleries, containing a history of the Corbys and photographs of employees and site buildings and vehicles.