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 several manuscript pages listing local businesses in Belleville together with other samples of handwriting by J.S. Eccles. Also contains typescript transcript of “When the Campbells came to Roslin,” first published 1928.
File contains three original printed programs of the annual concerts of the Belleville Philharmonic Society, 1903 to 1905. Also present are printed sheets of music, and a printed primary examination of the Toronto Conservatory of Music.
Article reprint from the University of Ottawa Medical Journal, Volume IX, No. 3, 1965 titled "Walter Henry and the Autopsy of Emperor Napoleon I" by Charles A. Mitchell. Dr. Walter Henry died in Belleville in 1860.
Program booklet for the Canadian Association of Fire Fighters 6th Biennial Convention, September 25-27, 1989, held in Belleville; includes historical notes by Gerry Boyce.
File contains a four-page typescript history by Ruth Matheson Buck Concerning Marchmont Home, a Belleville orphanage for British Home Children which was established ca. 1870. Also contains a newspaper clipping regarding the arrival of fifty children at the Marchmont Home in 1924.
The file contains an email from Ken Brown, Archives, Deseronto Public Library. The email contains a "local notice" from the Feb 17, 1893 issue of the Tribune and is about Peter Lennahan of Tyendinaga being injured while enroute from Tyendinaga to Belleville with a load of wood.
The file contains two newspaper obituaries for Betsy Dewar Boyce (born 27 March 1913, died 12 August 2007), copies of the memorial service, a newspaper article titled "Boyce remembered for love of history, volunteerism" and the address given at the Remembrance service on 21 September 2007.
File contains a list of performances for a recital by Albert College Conservatory of Music Pupils in 1959, a brochure for summer courses, a newspaper clipping about graduates in 1959, and a newspaper clipping about the Albert College football team advancing to COSSA Junior Championships in 1959.
File contains various newspaper clippings about Albert College in 1957, including acknowledgments and congratulations on it being their Centennial anniversary, a portrait unveiled of Principal Chas. Bishop, and the lying of the cornerstone of a new building.