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Handwritten acccount statement and envelope, from The Rathbun Company to Messrs. Woods Bros. of Roblin, Ontario.

Sylva magazine article about The Rathbun Company, written by James Ruxton.

File contains an Almanac as well as various business adverts.

File contains original documents from 1891 pertaining to the Belleville Canning Factory.

File contains invoices for St. Charles & Pringle Belleville business ca. 1894 and a news clipping about Alderman James St. Charles receiving the contract for painting and repairing the wagons of the Pullman & Hamilton Show and building five new ones, at a cost of $1,200.

File contains a newspaper clipping about Weese's Candy Store in Belleville and a short history of the firm by Tom Ransom and Walt Watson.

File contains 2 newspaper clippings about Deacon Shirt Co. - a 1934 article advertising the local Belleville business, and a 1968 article on Mrs. Elizabeth McEvoy, long time employee of Deacon Shirt Co. Being honored.

File contains a newspaper clip on the establishment of the new W.T. Hawkins Cheezie factory, published 23 January 1956.

File contains a newspaper clipping about the possibility of Four Seasons building a hotel in Belleville.

File contains a newspaper clipping about the reforestation of the Corby Distillery farm.

File contains a magazine, “The Home of Good Spirits”, published by the Corby Distillery in 1960.

1968 annual report for the Corby Distillery

Two copies of a 50th anniversary publication by Stephens-Adamson Ltd of Belleville, Ontario.

File contains a typescript item on “Deseronto and the Rathbun Company” written by T. Dane Martin and edited by Gerry Boyce. Also a copy of the final printed version.

Photocopy of a 1902 directory of businesses in Hastings County.

File contains the history of Ivanhoe, including the post office, religion, and early settlers.

File contains a Deed of Land Sale between Agnes Fitzgibbon of Toronto and Eliza Jones of lots one and two on Bridge Street in Belleville, Ontario.

This fonds contains one folder of family records, twenty-seven folders of invoices from the following businesses:

• W.M. Davies Pork Packers and Provision Merchants of Toronto, 1917
• Dominion Sugar Companies Limited of Chatham, 1917
• S. Domenico, Wholesale Fruit Merchants of Belleville, 1912-1917
• Eby-Blain Limited, Wholesale Importing and Manufacturing Grocers of Toronto, 1916-1917
• Grand Trunk Railroad System, 1917
• R.B. Hayhoe & Company Importers of Teas and Coffees, Confectioners Supplies of Toronto, 1917
• H.J. Heinz Company of Toronto, 1916-1917
• Hodgens and Roberts Limited Tobacconists, Scales and Roberts Company Limited Tobacconists of Toronto, 1917
• L.P. Hughes Flour and Feeds, Seeds, Rolled Oats and All Kinds of Breakfast Cereals of Belleville, 1917
• Hydro Electric Power Commission of Ontario – Central Ontario System-Trenton, 1917-1918
• P.C. Larkin and Company Tea Merchants of Toronto, 1917
• S.B. McClung, Paints, Oils, Glass, etc. of Trenton, 1917
• W.E. Mayhew – Trent Valley Mills of Trenton 1916-1917
• William Patterson and Son Company of Belleville, 1916 to 1918
• Wm. Rennie Company Limited Seeds of Toronto, 1916-1917
• George A. Robertson and Son Limited, Wholesale Groceries of Kingston, 1908-1917
• John Sloan & Company of Belleville, 1917
• Swift Canadian Company of Toronto, 1917
• Telfer Bros. Limited of Toronto, 1917
• Trenton Garage, 1916 1917
• White and Company Limited Fruit, Produce and Fish of Toronto, 1917
• Dalley Products Limited of Hamilton, 1917
• W.J. Crothers Company of Kingston, 1917
• R.B. Cooper of Belleville, 1917
• Belleville Creameries, 1917
• Belleville Cider and Vinegar Company, 1917
• Bell Telephone of Trenton, 1917
• Armstrong and Paffard of Toronto, 1917

There is also: one folder containing pages from a ledger, one cash book volume, one folder of sales slips with a sales slip book, and one folder of receipts, orders and correspondence.
There is a folder containing land deeds and personal papers.

A short local history of Henry Corby and the Corby Distillery, taken from the Nick and Helma Mika book 'Belleville Friendly City', 1973.

Materials collected by Arthur Tufts (father of Marilyn Hughes), including:

• Negative of a photograph of children and staff of Tweed Consolidated School, 1932-1933
• Printed letter from Harold Walsh to the voters of East Hastings, 1 October 1937
• 'A History of St. John's United Church, Tweed, Ontario 1957-1969' by Mrs C. R. Porritt, 1967
• Printed photo directory of St. John's United Church, Tweed, Ontario, 2000
• Printed 'seniority list' of names of 266 employees of Corby Distilleris Limited at 15 September 1974, with their date of starting work
• Published history of 'Moira Lodge A.F. & A.M. No. 11 G.R.C. March 10th, 1801 to 1976' by H. S. Robbins
• Published history 'Moira Lodge A.F. & A.M. No. 11 G.R.C. Bicentennial 1801-2001' by Paul Foster