The file contains a photocopy of the original Royal Letter dated 15 September 1856, granting permission by Queen Victoria to J.W. Dunbar Moodie of Hastings County to establish a Public Fair and Mart in the Village of Shannonville.
File contains 3 newspaper clippings, 2 about the marriage of Charles B. Scantlebury to Elizabeth V. Osborne on 30 January 1889; one about the marriage of Nathan Howard Woof to Annie Tonkin Osborne on 12 January 1887.
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 printed issue of The Quinte Foremen's Club News, Volume 2, no.5 (January, 1956) including executive meeting highlights. Also present is a newspaper clipping concerning the Foremen's Club sponsorship of the fourth annual YMCA-Laura Secord Easter Egg Hunt, March, 1959.
The file contains a newspaper article titled "Looking Backward"; it contains the obituary of Jeremiah Gatchell Squier born in Consecon and Fire Chief in 1875 as well as Superintentdent on Murray and Trent Canals.
The file contains a number of newspaper articles about local events and history of Shannonville. Included are 2 obituaries for 2 local residents; Lemuel E. Mills and J.F. "Ferg" MacFarlane.
File contains a typescript circular letter from Norman J. Banfield, Councillor, Town of Trenton to Trenton schoolteachers regarding instructions for attendance of students and teachers at the Royal Visit, 12 October 1951.
File contains several newspaper clippings regarding local personalities in Trenton including, Major W.G Grant, operations officer of CFB Trenton: Allison Liversidge, winner of the Peterborough Kiwanis Music Festival; and former mayor Kenneth Couch and O.W. Larry, recipients of a Centennial year medal.
File contains the July 2, 1880 issue of the Daily Intelligencer which recounts the celebration of Trenton's inauguration as a town on Dominion Day, 1880. Includes a brief account of the growth and development of the community.