File contains three typsecript pages by C.S. Chard concerning the first school house in Stirling, ca. 1820s, and an account of a wooden pump shop which operated near Stirling from 1875 to 1887.
File contains a typescript page of recollections by C. S. Chard concerning "The Money Hole," Sidney Township and its connections to early trade with local Aboriginal Peoples. Also contains one typescript page of related correspondence from C.S. Chard.
File contains a one page clipping from the Canadian Doctor, December, 1966 concerning financial operations of "The Front of Sidney" Cheese Factory ca. 19th century.
File contains manuscript and typescript copies of correspondence sent and received by Col. W. N. Ponton concerning the development of hydroelectric power on the Trent River. Also contains correspondence regarding the proposed electrification of the Belleville waterworks by the Trenton Electric and Water Company.
Tweedsmuir book containing news clippings, photographs, programmes, and notes on the history of the Bay of Quinte Women's Institute, compiled by Kathy Mastin.
File contains a petition submitted to Hastings County Council in 1857 regarding a gravel road to be built on the east side of the Moira River, and a document regarding 17 toll gates in Sindey.
Tweedsmuir histories for the Hastings West Women's Institutes District, covering Sidney Township and the village of Stirling, Ontario. Includes a scrapbook documenting the Women's Institutes' involvement with the International Plowing Match at Stirling, 16th-20th September 1986.
Tweedsmuir history of the Wallbridge Women's Institute, including photographs; press cuttings; lists of presidents and members; biographies of cheesemakers; notes on the National Farm Radio Forum; lists of people buried in Stone Church and Ketcheson Cemeteries; roll of ministers at Wallbridge United Church; list of members of Wallbridge Missionary Society and Stone's United Church Women's Organization; history of S.S. #23, Maple View School; the Foster and Tucker families; notes by William Ketcheson; various maps.
File on the Hastings West District's involvement with the Plowing Match, 1986 and two copies of the 'Manual for Compiling Tweedsmuir Histories' (1962 and 1987).
Minute books for 1917-1918; 1918-1919; 1919-1920; 1926-1928; 1928-1930; 1937-1938; 1939-1944; 1945-1948. Microfilm of minute books 1926-1967.
Tweedsmuir history of the Chatterton Women's Institute, compiled by Nora Prest between 1955 and 1967. Includes photographs, maps, and news clippings relating to the Halloway area of Sidney township, Hastings County, Ontario. Master negative of microfilm of Tweedsmuir histories.
File contains a newspaper article that features the history of the Ketcheson family farm and cemetery in Sidney. The farm had been in the family since the early 1800s.
File contains information about Col. Elijah Ketcheson (b. 1793) of Sidney. There are also newspaper clipping about the Ketcheson family reunion in 1962 in Tweed and Fred A. Ketcheson celebrating his 90th Birthday. There are two invitation to Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Boyce for the Ketcheson family reunion in 1959 and 1961, as well as information about the family reunion in 1964.
File contains a typescript letter from Olive Delaney, Belleville Public Library to Mary Plumpton, Hastings County Historical Society, dated 28 February 1969 inquiring for information regarding Dr. James Merritt, a physician who testified at the trial of the alleged assassins of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865, and who was a probable resident of Sidney Township in his youth.