File contains a typescript transcript of a presidential address by William Nisbet Ponton, President of the Ontario Associated Board of Trades, 24 February 1914, concerning economic indicators, development and investment in Ontario.
File contains a newspaper article recounting the inaugural trip of the Grand Trunk Railway from Montreal to Toronto 16 October 1856. Also present is a photocopied newsclipping announcing the reopening of the British American Hotel on Front Street in Belleville, in March, 1861.
File contains a reference book for the townships of Hungerford and Elzevir, county of Hastings of land taken for the right of way through the perspective townships. Lists names, lots numbers and amount of land.
File contains an obituary, dated 29 August 1958 for Abraham Safe, a prominent Belleville businessman who was instrumental in the building of the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville.
File contains a newspaper article dated 21 June 1956 concerning membership expansion of the Stirling Chamber of Commerce . Also present is a newspaper article about the 1957 annual meeting of the Stirling Chamber of Commerce and the organization of the 1958 Stirling centennial celebrations.
File contains an original letter, dated 21-September-1896 from R. Weddell, Proprietor, Weddell Bridge and Engine Works and address ed Mr. N. Ponton Esq. regarding a lake lot.
File contains cardboard backing from a picture frame that reported held a picture of Robert Finley Houston (1848-1919), founder of the Houston Lumber Company in Tweed, Ontario in 1893.