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1. Series of PDF files summarizing activities of the Belleville Art Association in the following years:

   1. 1958-1979
   2. 1980-1999
   3. 2000-2009
   4. 2010-2015
   5. 2016-2018
   6. 2019-2023
   7. Appendix: PDF of 49 images of the Gallery pages of the Intelligencer newspaper, 2003-2023

2. Paper and audio-visual files:

   1. BAA: Historical Facts
   2. Newspaper clippings, 1967-1979
   3. Newspaper clippings, 1980-1989
   4. Newspaper clippings, 1990-1999
   5. Newspaper clippings, 2000-2009
   6. Newspaper clippings, 2010-2019
   7. "Artists Choice" selection of 35mm slides and written commentary from local visual artists, produced by the Hastings County Board of Education, 1988
   8. DVD version of "Artists Choice", produced in 2008

Interview with John Trudeau of Trudeau Motors in Belleville, Ontario, conducted by Tim Durkin.

1. Minutes of the Belleville Ladies Lawn Bowling Club

   1. 1910-1928
   2. 1929-1946
   3. 1946-1959
   4. 1960-1988

2. Account book of the Belleville Lawn Bowling Club (the men's club) with lists of members, 1939-1949

3. Notes from the first minute book, rules of bowling and a newspaper clipping from the Intelligencer on the 100th anniversary celebration of the Belleville Ladies Lawn Bowling Club, 13 August 2010

Three publications relating to the Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf:

1. Admission List of Pupils, 1870-1879 (2022)
2. Early Deaf Teache3rs, 1870-1931 (2023)
3. Charles Bernard Coughlin, Third School Head, 1906-1928 (2023)

File contains original documents relating to the early history of Belleville Mills, including a letter from Peter Ford to Walker's Foundry with sketches of a shaft and a paper machine, and newspaper clippings.

Typescript draft of "A Settlement at Meyers' Creek" (Chapter 6 of Historic Hastings by Gerry Boyce), with annotations and suggestions by H. C. Burleigh.

File contains a Rules and Regulations handbook for the Belleville Cemetery, 1873, and an 1899 By-Laws, Rules and Regulations handbook. Also rules and regulations from 9 April 2002 (donated by Gerry Boyce).

Comprises:

1. Certified copy of the Voters' List for Belleville, 1918 (poor condition)
2. Copies of Belleville Profile publication, produced by the Industrial Development Department/Economic Development Department, 1988-1996, 1999-2004, 2009
3. Photographs and negatives of buildings and events in Belleville, including some by Rick Roluf and aerial views by Richard Lumbers, 1988-1991
4. CD-ROMs with various photographic/documentary collections, 2002-c.2010:
   1. Quinte Economic Development Commission video by Floating Point, "We Mean Business", 2002
   2. Quinte Region Volume 1 and 2, 220 photographs by Crombie McNeill, 2002
   3. Downtown Belleville Master Plan, produced by Office for Urbanism, 4 PDF files, 2006
   4. Belleville Photos (unknown photographer), "First Impressions" 110 downtown views, taken in July and August 2006
   5. 247 photographs taken at Kellogg's groundbreaking, 27 October 2006
   6. 400 aerial photographs of Belleville, taken by Darko Zeljkovic in September 2007
   7. 50 photographs by Michael J. Brethour, 2007
   8. Slideshow of construction of the hydroelectric plant on the McLeod Dam in Belleville, photographs by Allen Montgomery, production by Doug Knutson, 2008
   9. Photos of visit by Kunpo delegation from Korea, taken by Euntaek Oh, 10-11 July 2008
   10. Belleville Christmas Tree photo by Gerry Fraiberg, December 2008: shared online at https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/53300566346
5. Collection of video tapes:
   1. VHS video The Choice Location, c.1990
   2. Sketches of Our Town VHS video, 1992 (available online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2ApuMb7864)
   3. VHS video: Quinte We Mean Business, c.1999
   4. VHS video: The City of Belleville: Where Industry Comes to Grow, 1999 (by Keepsake Productions)
6. Minutes of the City of Belleville's Economic Development Committee, 2000-2002

File contains Tom Ransom's transcript of Wilmot's notes on his survey of Belleville, including information on lot owners.

A booklet of rules and regulations governing the Hastings County House of Refuge and Industrial Farm. 12 pages.

File contains a c.1850 description of a fireman uniform and of activities of the fire department and men according to Mrs. Moodie, c.1851 petition by the residents of the upper part of town to form a separate fire company, c.1851 petition by G. & J. Brown to try and form a separate fire company, a brief history of the Belleville fire department, a newspaper clip of a fire at a cigar factory in Belleville, and a newspaper clip on the fire that destroyed Mr.Neilson's house.

Five files of newspaper clippings, Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School yearbooks and ephemeral materials.

School yearbooks for Albert College for 1961, 1962 and 1963.

Research materials, including:

• Notes on old Belleville newspapers (1833-1868), 1977
• Notes and 35mm slides for a presentation on 'A Family Compound on Bridge Street East', given at various venues between 1983 and 2008
• Notes for a presentation on 'Early Schools in Belleville', c.1989
• Printouts of data on baptisms, marriages, and burials at St. Thomas's church, Belleville, 1995
• Research notes for Paul Foster's book on the occasion of the bicentennial of the Moira Lodge of Freemasons, c.2000

This fonds contains 22 folders. It consists of A. McLean Haig's biographical data which includes a brief summary of his life. The second folder contains his incoming correspondence which includes letters from: Assistant Deputy Minister of national Defence James A. Sharpe; a copy of a letter forwarded to Haig from C.C. Wimperly of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs to Mr. A.B. Sprague; two letters between Wimperly and Haig, one with statistics concerning Northumberland and Durham Counties, the communities of Campbellford and Seymour, and the former District of Newcastle; one from A.R. Wilson, the Belleville Superintendent of the Canadian National Railway; one telegram and one business card congratulating Mayor Haig on his election in 1962 from Quebec Premiere Jean Lesage – in the telegram, it is interesting to note that Lesage is spelled Lesarge; a letter from Trans-Canada Air Lines and Air Canada Vice President Howard Cotterell with a small picture sent from Cotterell to Haig from the air carrier's annual report; a letter from CNR Rideau Manager Keith Hunt that had a piece of the rail-track from Pinnacle Street in Belleville enclosed with it after the line had been pulled from the ground in 1964; and three Christmas cards received from constituents.

The are also pieces of Haig's outgoing correspondence including: four pieces of correspondence to CNR the St. Lawrence Region Vice President, W.H. Kyle and Belleville Superintendent A.R. Wilson respectively; and a letter thanking Premiere Lesage – again spelled Lesarge, for his congratulations on winning the 1962 Belleville municipal election.

There is a folder of his municipal papers consisting of: newspaper clippings; a press release from Postmaster M.A. Murray; a program from the opening of the new wing of the Belleville General Hospital in 1956; and a report on major accomplishments achieved by the Haig administration between 1960 and 1963 prepared by City Manager J.R. Reynolds. Additional folders in this fonds include: one folder of federal government papers, nine folders containing copies of his addresses and speeches; one folder of speeches given by other people that the Mayor kept; a folder with copies of the report of the Willmott Royal Commission which looked into the McFarlands hockey team scandal and the City Auditor's report of 1959; one folder of military related documents; one folder with items pertaining to the history of Belleville and Thurlow; a file with printed jokes and other items that Haig found humourous; one folder labeled miscellaneous by the original record keeper; and the contents of a scrapbook.