File contains photocopied and original manuscript notes concerning the history of Marmora, Eldorado and Bannockburn village. Also contains photocopied manuscript notes on the history of railroads in Hastings County.
File contains photocopied manuscript notes on Orange Lodge branches and other social organizations including the Women's Institute and the Oddfellows in the period from 1885-ca. 1949. Also contains brief manuscript notes on railways in Madoc Township from ca. 1882-1964.
File contains a mimeographed typescript letters originating from and received by W.N. Ponton in the period 1911 to 1913 concerning the sale of right-of-ways for railway crossings on lands belonging to W.N. Ponton and Ponton family members in Belleville.
File contains a manuscript original and copy of a memorial submitted by the Hastings County Council to Sir Edmund Walker Head, Governor-General of British North America, ca. 1857 requesting a railroad connection between the Marmora Iron Works and Belleville to facilitate the shipment of ore and provide a stimulus to mining in Hastings County.
File contains printed maps and drawings of the Murray Canal site. Also present is a printed document entitled “A paper on the proposed Murray Canal Between Lake Ontario and the Bay of Quinte...for use of Members of the Senate and House of Commons,” February, 1880; a printed excerpt from the Annual Report of the Public Works Department, 1891 regarding the Murray Canal; and correspondence from the Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, to Thomas S. Ransom, Ontario Land Surveyor, dated 11 April 1967 pertaining to the construction and administration of the canal from 1882 to 1967.
Eighteen photographs and one photocopy of the interior and exterior of the steam plant (building 27) at CFB Trenton. Ross Masters (the donor's father) worked at the plant.
Letter from William Burke in Kingston, Ontario, to John Steward at the Trent river, asking him to sell Burke a wagon and send it to him via the Brockville (ship) on the following Monday.
Slides made by Rudolf Donninger during his time in Belleville, Ontario, working at Northern Electric. They include photographs of buildings in Belleville, rural scenes, cars, a parade and the Belleville Fair in 1970, winter scenes, Ottawa and Kingston views, and aircraft at the Trenton Air Show.
File contains an invoice from Hydro Electric Power Commission of Ontario from c.1926 to be paid by Mrs. W.M Ponton, a c.1924 Hydro Electric Shop invoice, and a c.1962 newspaper clip on the Hydro Co. Setting up in Eastern region headquarters in Belleville.
File contains a c.1894 Canada post card to H.Corby re a meeting for Belleville Natural Gas Co., a c.1891 letters patent incorporating Belleville Natural Gas and Oil Co.Ltd., and a c.1890's Natural Gas and Oil Co.Ltd. book of shares and stocks.
File contains railway week souvenir tickets; Canadian Railroad Historical Association member sign up and application card; notice that the “Canadian Rail” newsletter/magazine will cost more for first class delivery; and newspaper clips on the activities and programming of c.1964 Railway week.