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File contains a manuscript petition by the rate payers of the Township of Asphodel, Northumberland County, ca. 1859 to urge the Grand Trunk Railway to complete the proposed Grand Junction Railway line in Hastings County.

File contains several printed, completed waybills for various goods in transit on the Grand Trunk Railway, 1877. Also includes an unsigned typescript letter of application for railroad employment 29 May 1900.

File contains a photocopied newspaper notice of a shareholders meeting of the Belleville and North Hastings Railway Company, 1 October 1878. Also present is manuscript letter from [G. Sergeant] General Manager of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada 29 April 1891 to W.N. Ponton rejecting the extension of a double track at Belleville.

File contains printed bills of lading and receipts for commodities transported on the Grand Trunk Railway line, 1859, 1880, 1890 and 1893.

File contains a newspaper article from the Monetary Times and Trade Review, 18 May 1883 concerning the financing of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company.

File contains a typescript letter from W.N. Ponton to L.J. Sergeant, General Manager, Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, Montreal regarding a proposed deputation of the Hastings County Council and the Board of Trade to the G.T.R. in Montreal pressing the need for a dining room at the Belleville terminus.

File contains a typescript letter from Sir William Cornelius Van Horne to J.E. Walmsley, Belleville, 28 November 1891 rejecting an offer to establish a branch of the CPR in Belleville.

File contains a newspaper article recounting the inaugural trip of the Grand Trunk Railway from Montreal to Toronto 16 October 1856. Also present is a photocopied newsclipping announcing the reopening of the British American Hotel on Front Street in Belleville, in March, 1861.

File contains several signed printed petitions to the Warden and Council of the County of Hastings concerning the selection of a route for a railway following the Moira River Valley and passing through or near the Village of Madoc, to Marmora. Includes manuscript resolutions and motions of the Council of the County of Hastings concerning matters relating to the proposed railway route. Also present are three manuscript memorials of the County of Hastings to Sir Edmund Walker Head, Governor General of Canada concerning the need for a railroad to exploit fully the mineral resources in Hastings County.

File contains a manuscript letter from R.L. Innes, Surveyor, dated 29 June 1859 to George Benjamin, Warden, County of Hastings concerning the progress of a survey for the proposed route of the Belleville and Marmora Railway.

File contains a manuscript resolution of the Council of the County of Hastings, 28 January 1862 resolving that no further aid should be given by the Government of Canada to the Grand Trunk Railway. Also contains a manuscript petition of the Corporation of the County of Hastings following upon the above resolution. Also present is a manuscript letter of 30 October 1861 from John MacKelcan, Hamilton, to the Warden of Hastings County requesting a meeting of municipalities concerning municipal indebtedness relating to railway construction in Canada West, and a letter of response from the Warden, County of Hastings, 4 November 1861, declining the invitation as Hastings County was not in a position of indebtedness due to railway financing.

File contains photocopied and newspaper timetables displaying departure and arrival times of Grand Trunk Railway trains in Belleville on the main Montreal-Toronto line, 1860, 1876 and 1905.

File contains a notebook entitled Cobourg, Northumberland and Pacific Railway Reference Book with manuscript entries completed by the Registrar, Hastings County 29 March 1898 concerning railroad allowances in Rawdon Township at 10 December 1894.

File contains an article using analogy to "Judas Iscariot conspiracy" in describing selling of Railway 1902

File contains a reference book for the townships of Hungerford and Elzevir, county of Hastings of land taken for the right of way through the perspective townships. Lists names, lots numbers and amount of land.

File contains a letter of commendation from H.B. Sherwood, Bay of Quinte Railway addressed to R. Bolton on Feb 16, 1912

File contains two reference books for the townships of Elzevir and Madoc, county of Hastings of land taken for the right of way through the perspective townships. Lists names, lots numbers and amount of land.

File contains printed copy of "House of Commons Debates" fourth session - tenth Parliament, speech of Mr. W.B. Northrup, M.P. on G.T.R. -- Belleville & North Hastings Railway; Ottawa, Monday, February 10, 1908.

File contains: Poster detailing fares and destinations; book titled "Canadian Pacific Railway Company - General, Train and Interlocking Rules"; newspaper article from the Ontario Intelligencer about the last run of the steam powered engine No. 3507.

File contains letter dated 24-January-1914 from A.M. Chapman, Secretary, Municipal Railway Tax Association, Secretary's Office, Shire Hall addressed to the County Clerk, Belleville.