File contains newspaper clippings about the opening of the Madoc Township Public School in 1961. There is also a newspaper clipping about the federal government approving a technical training school for the Centre Hastings High School in Madoc.
File contains affidavits signed in the 1860s for various individuals in Faraday, Madoc, Marmora, Belleville, Dungannon, Hungerford, Hershal, and Huntingdon taking office.
File contains micro-copied manuscript field notes Provincial Land Surveyor, H.A. F. MacLeod, concerning concessions and boundaries of Madoc Township, Hastings County in 1867. Also contains micro-copied manuscript field notes on a survey undertaken by C. F. Aylsworth, P.L.S. of Madoc Township in 1891.
File contains a manuscript certification of assessment of the number of householders in Madoc Township in 1865 sufficient to warrant the election of a deputyreeve.
File contains a typescript extract from the Hastings County Court Registry Office concerning the ownership of a piece of land in Madoc Township, granted to C. Gordon Hannah in 1861. The lot is not identified, but information from the land index maintained by the Marilyn Adams Genealogical Research Centre suggest that it is lot 24 in the seventh concession of Madoc Township.
File contains original and photocopied manuscript histories of the settlement and early development of Bannockburn including the lumbering and sawmilling industries. Includes a printout of a webpage on Maitland House (available on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine at https://web.archive.org/web/20010805101431/http://casa-de.vrx.net/buildings/) and an article from the Fall 2019 Country Roads magazine about the conversion of St. Bartholomew Anglican Church in Bannockburn into a private home.
File contains a newspaper clipping and photocopied manuscript history of Madoc Township from early French exploration in 1615 to ca. 1965, including a discussion of the creation of roads, schools and local churches. The historical research was composed by Mrs. Ken Bateman for Gerry Boyce as background for Historic Hastings.
File contains photocopied manuscript notes on Orange Lodge branches and other social organizations including the Women's Institute and the Oddfellows in the period from 1885-ca. 1949. Also contains brief manuscript notes on railways in Madoc Township from ca. 1882-1964.
File contains several newspaper clippings regarding initial gold discoveries in Madoc Township by Marcus and Daniel Powell in 1866 and the subsequent history of the mining industry in the township to ca. 1967
File contains a newspaper article on the history and development of talc mining in Madoc Township. Also contains photocopied printed notes from the Hastings County Directory, 1860-61 concerning Madoc Township and its resources with a list of landowners by concession and lot.
File contains a newspaper article from the North Hastings Review August 16, 1956 concerning members of the Madoc Platoon , 155th Battalion, during World War One.
File contains printed announcements and booklets concerning the opening of O'Hara's Mill Conservation Area in July 1957, the restoration of the property and the official opening of the pioneer house in July 1969. Also contains several newspaper clippings regarding the restoration of the pioneer home.