File contains photocopied typescript notes on the history and development of Detlor and surrounding district by Mary J. Hennessy, Detlor and L'Amable Women's Institute.
Children of Riggs School, Madoc (S.S. #13) circa 1920. Top row, seventh child is Cecil Willis. Second row, seventh child is Elizabeth Jane Willis. Bottom row: third child is Bert Willis, sixth child is Edward Willis, last child is Oliver Willis. School was at the NE corner of Riggs and Pigden Roads in Madoc Township.
Harry Harrington and Joyce Dunk outside Cecil Willis and Frances WIllis's grocery store at 27 Front Street, Trenton, Ontario, circa 1943. Harry was Frances's father.
File contains a printed spiral-bound booklet entitled “The Descendants of Alexander and Grace McInroy, early settlers of Hastings County-Ontario Canada,” compiled by Robert Dean Sherry, great great grandon of the couple, Also present is a supplement to the genealogy produced by Robert Dean Sherry, 1973.
The file contains funeral memorial books for Alice Gertrude Joyce (formerly Mays) born 2 Feb 1870, died 17 Sept 1958; William James Joyce born 18 July 1880, died 24 April 1966. Also newspaper obituary for George H. Harris (age 80) born 22 Sept 1895 husband of Argena Tousignant.
File contains the family history of the Herchmers of Kingston, published in 1967 in the Kingston Historical Society Papers by Eleanor Herchmer Robertson.
This file contains the original copy of the marriage certificate, dated 22 October 1846 for William McCulloch and Rebecca Inglish, married in Tyendinaga.
File contains a manuscript history of Glen Ross from its founding ca. 1859 as the settlement of Tupperville to ca. 1918, by Mrs. Arthur Pyear. Also present is a letter from Mrs.Arthur Pyear to Gerry Boyce, 3 June 1965 accompanying the history.
Scrapbook containing postcards, photographs and newspaper clippings relating to Sir Mackenzie Bowell's family, compiled by his granddaughter, Lucy Holton.
File contains extensive typescript notes transcribed by Gerry Boyce from newspaper, archival and secondary sources concerning recruitment of volunteers, and military action in the Rebellion of 1837. Also present are mimeographs of two essays concerning Hastings County connections and military contributions to the defence of Upper Canada during the Rebellion.
File contains a reproduction of a proclamation announcing the Village of Stoco will have a Fair or Mart twice a year, in May and October, starting in 1860. The proclamation was forwarded from the office of Sheriff J.W. Dunbar Moodie.
File contains the spring 1959 issue of the Dalhousie Review with an index card making special reference to mention of Susanna Moodie in an article entitled "The English Gentlefolk in the Backwoods of Canada," by Lloyd D. Scott. Also contains a 1969 newspaper clipping on Robert Burns.
The file contains information on the 50th anniversary of the National Library of Canada with a set of stamps from Canada Post featuring sisters Catharine Parr Traill (1802-99) and Susanna Moodie (1803-85).
File contains a manuscript motion of the Hastings County Municipal Council, October 1869 expressing the Council's regret at the death of Sheriff Moodie, with a manuscript letter from Susanna Moodie to the County Council of Hastings , 26 October 1869 expressing her thanks.
File contains petitions to form a fire department, including: William Rankin and 35 other residents from upper part of Belleville petitioning for independent fire department.
