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File contains newspaper clips on a fire at the Foley Foundry c.1960, fire at Holgate Mill c.1961, clip on the fires throughout c.1961 and the cost being $200,000 in damages, the study and practice routines of the Belleville fire Department c.1963, Rawdon farmer Robert Hoards shed and tractor burn in fire c.1966, Capt. S.Pomeray retires after 46 years of service c.1965, Davids Furniture fire c.1968, Moira Furniture destroyed in fire c.1969, Mrs. William Withers and her four children die in Nova Scotia fire c.1969, Bob Edwardson is made fire Chief of Belleville c.1969, former Belleville fire Chief Gerald Leo O'Brien dies c.1969, fire Chief T.E.Porte and other Belleville firefighters honoured by Mayor Russell J. Scott c.1969, Ted Porte retires after 50 years of service with the Belleville fire department c.1969, and other miscellaneous newspaper clips on Belleville area fires c.1960-69.

File contains a newspaper clipping c.1957 about the “Sputnik” passing over Ontario, and a newspaper clip from 1961 about the Fullers, a Belleville family, constructing a fallout shelter on their Fifth Street property (article available online at https://archive.org/details/intelligencer-november-1961/page/n62/mode/1up ).

File contains 7 July 1964 newspaper clip on the “Mandarin Duck” boat that was shipped from Hong Kong to Belleville for its owners, Dr. J. Tuzo Wilson and his wife, Susan.

File contains newspaper clips about paintings by Georgina Maniates painting 3 Ikons and presenting them to the Greek Orthodox Church in Belleville, 2 November 1964.

File contains a Belleville assessment booklet from 1919-20.

File contains a Belleville assessment booklet for 1914-15.

File contains a typescript transcript of a receipt for the sale of woman and her infant child in 1812 near what is now Colborne, Ontario, sold by Joseph Keeler to William H. Wallbridge and witnessed by Elias Walbridge and Asa Smith.

This collection represents materials originating or used by W.C. Mikel.
The first folder contains three speeches delivered during his time as Police Magistrate and Mayor.
The next series of folders contains references and sources for his volume The City of Belleville History: the second folder contains correspondence regarding the book. Folders three through ten contain the notes Mikel used for each chapter (folder 5 includes an obituary for George Benjamin).
Folder eleven contains the plans for “Quinte City" and documents from the Town Planning Institute among others. Folder twelve contains unattributed reference material and general research for the book. Folder thirteen contains Mikel's collection of material for the 1924 United Empire Loyalist celebration which was held during his first term as Mayor. Folder fourteen contains Mrs. Mikel's obituary, a letter from Mikel to the Bank of Montreal, and a letterhead from the period he served as Police Magistrate. Folder fifteen contains three copies of his book, Godlove Mikel. The sixtenth folder contains a variety of newspaper clippings.