File contains a copy of the "Railway Week Official Program -- Belleville, June 22-28, 1964", a newspaper article "CNR and City Plan Week-Long Railway Exhibit and Program and three copies of a booklet titled "Pioneer Railways of Central Ontario From the Past to the Present" written by William Michaud.
File contains a manuscript paper entitled “The Grand Trunk Railway Strike at Belleville, 1876-1877 : a brief outline,” presented by Gerald E. Boyce at a winter, 1965 meeting of the Belleville Rotary Club. The paper discusses the strike action by trainmen and the dispatch of police and companies of the local battalion to deal with strikers and their supporters.
File contains newspaper advertisements of sailings of steamers including the Allan transatlantic line, and several offerings by the Rathbun Co., Belleville agents, for the Hero, Steamer Varuna, and Quinte, which plied local waters.
File contains newspaper articles, including an Open Letter to the Citizens of Belleville regarding the inception and service of the Rawson Bus. Co. Ltd.
File contains a a letter, dated 10-January-1964, from Sanborn Worthen, Archivist and Custodian, Canadian Railroad Historical Association, Quebec and addressed to Mr. Gerald Boyce, Hastings County Museum.
File contains newspaper articles from the Daily Ontario and the Daily Intelligencer dated 12-December-1922 about a banquet given by the City of Belleville and the Chamber of Commerce for the introduction of the new President of the Board of Directors of the C.N.R., Sir Henry Worth Thornton, K.B.E.
File contains letter dated 24-January-1914 from A.M. Chapman, Secretary, Municipal Railway Tax Association, Secretary's Office, Shire Hall addressed to the County Clerk, Belleville.
File contains printed copy of "House of Commons Debates" fourth session - tenth Parliament, speech of Mr. W.B. Northrup, M.P. on G.T.R. -- Belleville & North Hastings Railway; Ottawa, Monday, February 10, 1908.
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 typescript letter from Sir William Cornelius Van Horne to J.E. Walmsley, Belleville, 28 November 1891 rejecting an offer to establish a branch of the CPR in Belleville.
File contains a typescript letter from W.N. Ponton to L.J. Sergeant, General Manager, Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, Montreal regarding a proposed deputation of the Hastings County Council and the Board of Trade to the G.T.R. in Montreal pressing the need for a dining room at the Belleville terminus.
File contains a photocopied newspaper notice of a shareholders meeting of the Belleville and North Hastings Railway Company, 1 October 1878. Also present is manuscript letter from [G. Sergeant] General Manager of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada 29 April 1891 to W.N. Ponton rejecting the extension of a double track at Belleville.