File contains an Intelligencer article, 23 March 1968, announcing the retirement of Phil Burton manager and veteran operator of the Canadian National Telegraph office in Belleville.
File contains a photocopy of a newspaper article, 23 May 1953 concerning the life of Edward Thurlow, 1731-1806, Chancellor of England, in whose honour Thurlow Township was named. Also present is a a newspaper article ca. 1970s concerning prize-winning designs for a new promotional Belleville pennant.
File contains a typescript transcript from Smith's Canada, Volume 2, 1851 concerning natural resources and industries at Trent Port, Murray Township, Presqu'isle and various islands in the Bay of Quinte near Belleville.
File contains a typescript copy of a list of items including letters patent, posters, accounts and other printed and manuscript items of historical and antiquarian value.
File contains the "Exemplification of Crown Grant" to Archibald Douglas Ponton, dated May 22, 1912 for 182 acres of land in the Township of Sidney in the Count of Hastings.
File contains a printed poster from the Quinte Skating and Tennis Club perfomance “TV on Ice, 1963” and a printed invitation to a dessert coffee party by the Quinte Figure Skating and Tennis Club, 10 June 1969. Also present are newspaper clippings regarding the March, 1960 annual Ice Review performance.
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 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 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.
File contains a letter dated 22 November 1969 from Brian Roberts, Carnation, Washington to Mrs. M.G. Plumpton, curator Hastings County Museum requesting information on the Rikley family. Included is a copy of a marriage certificate dated 4 April 1826 for Andrew Rikely (widower) son of Andrew to Eliza Arkles, daughter of John Arkles, married St. Thomas' Church, Belleville.
File contains correspondence from the Public Archives of Canada (Ottawa) dated 1969 and addressed to Mary G. Plumpton, Curator, Hastings County Historical Society giving information for Robert Read, M.P. Senator. Tanner, distiller and farmer in Belleville. Director Grand Junction Railway; elected Legislative Council for Quinte Division. Elected House of Commons for Hastings East. Called to the Senate 1871.
File contains original documents from 1860; a number of motions from Municipal Council of Hastings meetings, including one dated 1860 expressing the councils regret that His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales remained on board in the harbor. Along with a handwritten copy of a letter addressed to His Royal Highness sent prior to the Royal visit; a printed copy of the Resolutions, together with a copy of the Address intended to be presented.
File contains City of Belleville printed tax receipts issued to Thos. Rutherford for various years, 1879-1891. Also present is a printed membership card for David Rutherford in the Mechanics Institute and Library, Belleville, 1878.
File contains a newspaper advertisement dated 21 November 1961, announcing the candidacy of Benjamin Safe, Chairman of Public Works, for the office of Mayor of Belleville, and announcement on 1 December 1961 of Mr. Safe's withdrawal from the mayoralty contest due to illness.
File contains 3 newspaper clippings, 2 about the marriage of Charles B. Scantlebury to Elizabeth V. Osborne on 30 January 1889; one about the marriage of Nathan Howard Woof to Annie Tonkin Osborne on 12 January 1887.