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A collection of yearbooks from educational institutions in Belleville, Ontario.

Photographs taken from the roof of the Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School in September 1997. They show the Hastings County offices on Church Street, Patterson Street and St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Belleville, Ontario.

A letter to R. Vanderwater in response to a newspaper article on pioneering offering Vanderwater the use of certain artifacts owned by this individual.

Record of work undertaken at Napanee Station in August 1917 by foreman A. Bowen and trackmen S. Sweet, E. Wager, J. Grange, W. Thompson, H. Matthews and S. Youngs.

The story of a house on Front and Emily Streets in Stirling.

Two items:
1) Hand-written poem about becoming a circus ringmaster entitled 'A Coming Barnam'
2) Typescript description of the Mead Johnson factory and its products, including Pablum baby food

Photographs and text of a speech by Lewis Zandbergen on plans for the restoration of Stirling Station. The file includes three photographs of a derailment at the station in around the 1920s.

Large crowd of people standing outside Stirling railway station in Ontario. A poster on the wall of the station is entitled 'Peace Year'.

Items from a photo-album scrapbook of materials relating to Stirling Public Library, including press clippings and photographs of library activities, mainly dating from the late 1990s to 2007.

Item from a binder labelled 'Stirling Odds & Ends', comprising a photocopy of Kathleen Bailey's inventory of historic buildings in Stirling, Ontario, compiled in 1968.

Items from a binder labelled 'Stirling Odds & Ends'. Includes:

• Photograph of three women and four men, c.1910, given by Terry Bust ("one is his grandfather & uncle")
• Newspaper clippings relating to Stirling buildings and history
• Huntingdon Township Voters' List, 1948
• Souvenir booklet of the 90th anniversary of St. John's Anglican Church, Stirling, 1950
• Order of service for St. Paul's United Church, Stirling, 8 June 2008
• Photocopy of 1890 Fire Insurance map showing Mill and North Streets, Stirling
• Items relating to the history of the Bank of Montreal in Stirling
• Printed 'Stirling Centennial Souvenir', 1967
• Butler and Young family trees
• 'Souvenir Story of our school Allan & Williams Mount Pleasant - Rawdon Township' by Mrs Percy MacMullen, 1968
• 'Sidney Baptist Church celebrates 165th' by Lewis Zandbergen
• 'Sidney Baptist Church' by Harry V. Faulkner, Lorne C. Reid and Luella Carson, 1976
• Unveiling of historical plaque in memory of Asa Turner at Sidney Baptist Church, 27 May 1984
• 'Those Radical Elzevirs!' by Michael Dawber
• 'The History of St. Thomas [Anglican] Church Rawdon, 1892-1973'
• 'Grace Chapel Stirling' by Everett Elliott, c.1980
• Booklet titled Welcome to Stirling's 150th Anniversary, 2008

An unbound history of Stirling titled "The Heritage Years: A History of Stirling and District" , edited by Blanche Faulkner and Rosella Clancy, and published by the Stirling Historical Book Committee in 1984. It is 555 pages with photographs and an index. It is placed in three folders. (a,b,c).

Visitor book for events put on by the Stirling Historical Society.

Materials produced by the Stirling Historical Society, including:

• Four editions of 'The Heritage Clarion', Volume 1 numbers 1, 3, and 4, Volume 2 number 2
• Partial list of artifact donations, 1993
• Map and text for walking tour of Stirling, 1993
• Photocopy of a register of members of Stirling Public Library, 1903
• Typescript 'brief history of the Stirling Public Library', c.1975
• Update on the history of the library to 1989
• List of contributors to the purchase of the site for the Stirling Public Library, 1914
• Photocopy of a flyer promoting the Stirling Public Library, 1910
• Reproduction of article about the opening of Stirling Public Library, 1903
• Hand-written notes on aspects of Stirling history, c.1990

Photograph of 17 boys and two men in front of a building. The centre boy in the front row is holding a football with 'S.H.S. 1936' written on it.

Photograph of staff and students at Stirling High School, Ontario, taken by E.J. Powell of Hamilton. Attached is a photocopy with names of students added.

Flyer with list of businesses and services in Stirling, Ontario.

Three views published by Underwood & Underwood:
1) 'The Last Drop - a scene of the Battlefield at Dordrecth, South Africa, Dec. 30th', 1900
2) 'The great floating City - where 400,000 dwell in Boat-houses - at Canton, China, 1900
3) 'Dr. Leopold Kann, the Arctic Explorer, in his winter quarters, Ellesmere Land', 1902

One view published by Strohmeyer & Whyman of New York:
4) 'Arrival of a Chinese Fishing Boat, Hong Kong, China', 1906

A souvenir ticket from 'Railroad Week' in Belleville from 22-28 June 1964.

Printed map showing the extent of forests and location of fire lookout towers in the northern part of the Moira River watershed in Hastings County, around Skootamatta and Lingham lakes [Grimsthorpe Township].