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.
"A Newspaper 127 Years Old" from 1919 about an ancient journal owned by Mr. E.M. Fisk and highlighting the subjects of the then published (16 May 1792) includes sub-titles "Some Strange Punishments", "An Escaped Apprentice", "Cash for Rags" and "The Devil Appears"
"How Peace Came to the School Section", Bancroft 15 March 1920
"Find Hairy Wild Man Living Like Beast On Island", Ethelburt Masters husband of Florence, lived 22 years on Amherst Island.
File contains newspaper clippings from 1899 regarding the Canadian Historical Exhibition in Toronto and a letter from Mary Agnes Fitzgibbon of the Women's Canadian Historical Society of Toronto to Colonel Ponton discussing the exhibition.
Collection comprises: 1) Metal luggage tag “Deseronto Nav. Co. Ltd. Local 60”, c.1900 2) Fairbairn portrait of a group of young women, c.1900 3) Photograph of uniformed members of a Citizen's band (possibly the Napanee Citizen's Band), c.1900 4) Photo of Gibbards’ employees, Napanee (includes Wilfred French and his son), 1985
File contains newspaper articles about the Centennial events for the No. 7 Bethany public school in 1964; printed commemorative history of the school, written by George and Betty Beer; program for 'Sketches from School Days' event.
File contains two newspaper articles from the Napanee Beaver about the Marlbank Cement Company. founded when the Rathbun Lumber Co. built a cement plant and company town at the site of the present day village of Marlbank. The Marlbank plant was an early victim of downsizing. The ruins outside the town remain just as they were left almost 100 years ago.
This file contains a photocopy from the original in the L & A Museum and Archive, a brief view of the Township laws on the office of Constable, dated 1835.
This file contains a short account titled "My Favorite Ancestor" written by Edward G. Scott about his fourth great-grandfather Abel Scott 1782-1873 U.E.L. and Pioneer Settler.
File contains a newspaper clipping entitled “Religion in pioneer days,” by Viva Richmond Graham, concerning early Protestant churches in Prince Edward, Lennox and Addington and Dundas Counties in the period 1815-1882.