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Digital audio recordings of oral history interviews with five owners of businesses in downtown Belleville, Ontario: Bob Barber, Don Leslie, Gerry Bongard, John O'Connor and Terry Barratt. The recordings were enabled by a grant from the Belleville Community Arts and Culture Fund.

Typescript history of the Belleville Senior Citizens Club No. 94, written by Pearl Holmes.

Records of Wallbridge Women's Institute, including minutes, accounts, and Tweedsmuir history.

Records of Stirling Women's Institute, including minutes and Tweedsmuir histories.

Records of Sidney South Women's Institute, including minutes and Tweedsmuir history.

Records of Hastings East District Women's Institutes, including minutes, Tweedsmuir histories and book of remembrance.

Records of Hastings West District Women's Institutes, including minutes, Tweedsmuir histories and 1986 Plowing Match materials.

Materials collected by Newton Thompson, including: list of high school graduates (including Thompson and his future wife, Fanny Strong); three receipts from Belleville businesses, 1905-1911; application to join the Corby Public Library for Fanny Strong, 1908; sketch by Fanny (Frances) Strong, 1913; Belleville Curling Club membership card, 1919-1920; news clippings from the Intelligencer, principally concerning weather, fires and the McNevin murder and including articles about the Intelligencer building under construction at Pinnacle and Bridge Streets, 1958-1965.

Collection of ephemeral materials from Belleville and Hastings County, Ontario.

Collection of tourism brochures and promotional leaflets for the Bay of Quinte, Belleville and Hastings County areas in Ontario. Publications include: Belleville at a Glance Belleville Chamber of Commerce Directories, 1997-2000 Discover - Land o'Lakes Region Doors Open Ontario East Prince Edward County Quinte Arts Council Directories Quinte Information Guide Quinte Life magazine What's Happening magazine Waterfront Festival Quinte International Airshow, 1992

Two wooden plaques with brass plates recording the names of past presidents of the Senior Citizens Club #94. The plaques were originally on the walls of the Recreation Centre at 116 Pinnacle Street, Belleville, Ontario.

Plaque one reads:
"Senior Citizens Club #94
Chartered Nov. 24th. 1953
Past Presidents
Leslie Field 1953-54
Fred Cooke 1955-56
James Brennan 1957-58
Harry Scales 1959-160
Charles Hyde 1961-62
James Brennan 1963
Marjorie Clapp 1964-65
Harry Taylor 1966-67
Mabel Doyle 1968-69
Kathleen Adams (Moon) 1970-72
Lulu Longhurst 1973-74
Hilda Brookes 1975-76
Pearl Holmes 1977-78
Bernice Tryon 1979-80
Ruby Bertrand 1981
Arthur Gilroy 1982-83
Percy Ray 1984-85
Harold Outingdyke 1986-87
Winnifred M. Parks 1988-89
Dorthy Keitel 1990
Winnifred M. Parks Sept. 1990 - Sept. 1991
J. Phillip Poulin Sept. 1991 - Sept. 1993
Blanche Fisher Sept. 1993 - Sept. 1994
Marguerite Sine Sept. 94 - Sept. 96
Presented by the Committee
Alderman George Zegouras

Mrs. Pearl Holmes
President Senior Citizen Club #94

Mrs. Wilma Summers
Deputy Director Recreation Arena Dept.

At the Official Opening May 17, 1979"

Plaque 2:
"Senior Citizens Club #94 Chartered Nov 24, 1953
Past Presidents
Ruby Shortt Sept. 1996 - Sept. 1999
Don Cameron Sept. 1999 - Sept. 2000
Blanche Fisher Sept. 2000 - Sept. 2001
Don Cameron Sept. 2001 - Sept. 2004
Ruby Shortt Sept. 2004 - Sept. 2005

Presented by
City of Belleville
Mayor G. A. Zegouras

Parks and Recreation Chairman
Councilor Doug Parker
June 6, 2001"

Program for a concert held on November 13th, 2016 at the National Air Force Museum of Canada in Trenton, Ontario by The Quinte Symphony, 8 Wing Concert Band and 8 Wing Pipes & Drums.

Photographs and press clippings (mainly reproductions) relating to the Woodley family and their fur business in Belleville. The store on Front Street was established by George Thomas Woodley (1872-1948) in 1904 and closed between 1986 and 1992. George's son Russell, grandson Douglas and great-grandson Daniel ran the store. Photographs include: George Thomas Woodley [c. 1940] Isobel and Betty Woodley outside the Front Street store in period dress as part of Belleville's Centennial celebrations in 1979.
Also includes Russell Woodley's diary of a 1919 YMCA canoe trip from Lakefield to Sturgeon Lake (and a photocopy of a transcript of the diary), with a flyer for the 1920 trip and a photocopy of photographs from Mrs Thompson, whom the group visited on their journey.

Copies of The Belleville Times, a weekly newspaper, published on Wednesdays in Belleville, Ontario by Roger Worth in 1969 and 1970.

The fonds consists of 3 boxes of textual records and graphic material about the Ruttan family and Maud Ruttan Way (1889-1952) of Wooler, Ontario, in particular. Includes; diaries, photos, memorial cards, letters, Albert College items, and financial letters.