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File contains an Ontario Intelligencer article, 20 July 1963 concerning improvements in plant facilities by the Shamrock Cheese Factory, Stirling, and several newspaper clippings concerning the history of Stirling in the period 1859-1871. Also present is a photocopied typescript extract from Historic Hastings regarding an excursion by residents to Belleville to Stirling to attend a festival by the Stirling Masonic Lodge, 15 June 1877.

File contains several typed letters from 1964 to 1967 with a brief history on Ontario's early railways and mines in Hastings county. They also include some local family histories for the Chard family.

Article from The Intelligencer observing the 100th Birthday of Mrs. Rebecca Sine.

File contains a manuscript census of the village of Stirling, 14-15 December 1858, for the process of incorporation of the village. The census lists heads of households and number of members.

File contains thirty-two miscellaneous newspaper clippings about Stirling, Ontario c.1956.

File contains a one page printed completed letters patent form authorizing the establishment of semi-annual fairs in the Village of Stirling, issued by the Province of Canada, 15 November 1861.

File contains a newspaper article from the Ontario Intelligencer, 16 May 1957 concerning major fires in 1883 and 1908 which damaged and destroyed several businesses and homes in Stirling.

File contains a photocopied printed pamphlet announcing the reopening of the Stirling High School for its fall 1888 session, the only high school in North Hastings in that period. Includes lists of programs and tuition rates.

File contains 3 newspaper clippings regarding enrolments, and staffing at Stirling elementary schools and King George High School in 1957. Also contains a newspaper article from the Ontario Intelligencer, 2 October 1961 concerning the official opening of the Sidney-Rawdon District High School in Stirling.

File contains a newspaper article from the Stirling News-Argus, 26 September 1957 concerning the events of the 1957 Stirling Fair, and an article from the Ontario Intelligencer, 21 September 1959 with photographs, concerning the 1959 Stirling fair and agricultural exhibits. Also present is an undated colour postcard reminder of an upcoming Stirling fair.

File contains 8 newspaper clippings on the preparations for and celebration of the 100th birthday of Stirling in 1958. Also includes a raffle ticket associated with the Centennial celebrations, two printed programmes, and a poster advertising events of August 3-6, 1858. Also present is a printed booklet entitled Stirling Centennial Souvenir, 1967 by Mrs. Ethel Luery and Mrs. Jessie Warren.

File contains two newspaper clippings regarding the celebration of Stirling's Centennial in 1958. Includes background on the early settlement of Rawdon Township ca. 1807 and the founding of Stirling. Also present is a mimeographed undated circular letter issued by the Hastings Historical Society, showing the cost of memberships possibly in the 1960s.

File contains an Ontario Intelligencer article, 26 June 1959, concerning the 1959 annual flower show organized by the Stirling Horticultural Society.

File contains a manuscript accounting of cash and in-kind payment to Reverend E.W. Roughley, Stirling Regular Baptist Church, April-August 1892.

File contains several newspaper articles concerning the 1957, 1959 and 1969 occurrences of the annual Stirling Festival of Sacred Praise, a competition of church and school choirs and individual performers.

File contains 2 newspaper clippings regarding Reverend Arthur Packman, who left his post in Stirling, to be come an itinerant minister in beverage rooms in Toronto in 1960. Also contains a newspaper clipping entitled St. Paul's Notes by Reverend Packman.

File contains a printed, illustrated miniature 1914 calendar distributed by Reginald A Sutcliffe Patent Medicines and Stationery, Stirling, Ontario.

File contains photocopied excerpts of the Hastings County Directory, 1860-1861, 1864-1865 listing residents of Stirling by occupation, and property location. Includes a photocopied newspaper photograph with identifications, of the members of the Stirling Cheese Board for 1894. Also present are four newspaper clippings on miscellaneous aspects of Stirling's history including a history of Corner Block, Stirling by Mrs. Roy Bush.

File contains several issues of the Stirling News-Argus from 1956 and 1957. Also present are two manuscript receipts dated 1888 and 1930 and a printing order, 1922.

File contains a Stirling News article dated 1 November 1956 commemorating the 102nd anniversary of the St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Stirling. Also present is an Ontario Intelligencer article, 31 January 1959 concerning a farewell celebration in honour of Reverend Walker, departing pastor of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church.