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Research notes (including photographs), text of a talk, and 35mm slides relating to Lois Foster's research into the McCurdy family of Belleville, Ontario. Lois presented a talk on the family at a reunion in Belleville in 1994. The file contains related correspondence.

Eight small digital images. These are 3 photos of Gerald Pope's store in Corbyville, Ontario, during the 1950s, the section gang working on the tracks in 1954, a photo of Main Street, Trenton, Ontario, and the Pope farm in Victoria Church, in Prince Edward County.

File of news clippings on the floods of 1936 in Belleville, Ontario.

File of materials relating to parks in Belleville, Ontario:

• Report on proposed redevelopment of Corby Park, [1966]
• Correspondence concering Duff Park at Dundas Street West and Sidney Street in Belleville, 1970-1971, 2001
• News clipping from Belleville Intelligencer concerning the start of construction on the Quinte Sports Centre, 8 October 1976
• Registered plan of land at the corner of Front and Pinnacle Streets in Belleville, later known as Connor Park, 20 October 1976
• Memoranda about the designation of Corby Park, May 2007
• Invitation and program of events for dedication of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment Parkette at Dundas Street West/Bay Bridge Road intersection, 23 September 2017

File of materials relating to waterfront development:

• Final Report on Belleville's East Bayshore by the City of Belleville in partnership with the Waterfront Regeneration Trust, Environment Canada and Quinte Conservation, March 2003
• Belleville Waterfront Master Plan and Development Plan by Brook McIlroy Planning + Urban Design, May 2005
• Stage 1 Archaeological Assessment for the Belleville Waterfront Redevelopment Master Plan Class EA by Archeoworks Inc., October 2005
• The Belleville Waterfront Redevelopment Master Plan by Brook McIlroy Planning + Urban Design, November 2006

Bound history of Barber's Flowers in Belleville, with newspaper clippings about the family firm.

Newspaper articles from the Intelligencer and The Pioneer on the death of Sheila Turnbull, a long-serving volunteer with Bridge Street United Church who was actively involved in developing programs to help people in need.

Newsletters for the following dates:
February 1985
December 1985
November/December 1987
May/June 1990
April/May 1991

Also a flyer encouraging people to come to the annual meeting of the Belleville Runner's Club in May 1999.

Commemorative print made from a postcard showing the Post Office building at Pinnacle and Bridge Streets in Belleville, with special cancellation mark for the 100th anniversary of letter carrier delivery in Belleville. With accompanying explanatory article.

Collection includes correspondence between Donna Fano and Claire Mowat about the circumstances in which Alice was donated to the Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf. Includes a photograph of Farley and Claire Mowat. Also includes 51 digital images taken at an event in Belleville Public Library on 27 June 2013 at which a caricature of Mowat by Susan Moshynski was presented to the library by John Lowry.

Standing orders of Royal Canadian Sea Cadet training ship 'Trent', of Trenton, Ontario, with list of duties of the members of the organization.

Deeds and papers relating to part of lot 28 on the west side of Pinnacle Street in Belleville, Ontario.

Dates and parties:
1) 18 Jan 1886: Francis Marskeel to William Bleecker
2) 10 Feb 1886: William Bleecker to Thomas Bales Coombs
3) 3 Sep 1889: Thomas Bales Coombs and Ellen Coombs to Thomas Henry Adams
4) 1 Jun 1891: Thomas Henry Adams and Jane Ann Adams to David Matthias Rees
5) 15 Jun 1892: David Matthias Rees and Ruth H. Rees to Herbert Henry Booth
6) 1 Jun 1896: Herbert Henry Booth and Cornelie Booth to Evangeline Cory Booth
7) 22 Nov 1904: Evangeline Cory Booth to Thomas Bales Coombs

8) 17 May 1910: Notice that the parcel of land is held in trust for the Salvation Army
9) 19 Mar 1926: Declaration by John Noble, Secretary of the Governing Council of the Salvation Army, Canada East, that the Salvation Army had held the parcel of land undisturbed since 22 Nov 1904.
10) 28 Dec 1939: Plan by Fraser Aylsworth, Ontario Land Surveyor, of the lot on which the Salvation Army Citadel (later the Pinnacle Playhouse) was located on Pinnacle Street in Belleville

Two files retrieved by Gerry Boyce from Thurlow Township materials destined for shredding in 2005:

• File on Ault Foods' acquisition of Black Diamond Cheese, including a photograph of the factory and Labatt's annual report for 1991
• 31 page proposal to restore 2.5 miles of railway line between College Street West in Belleville and the Corby Distillery in Corbyville, 1994

George Wishart's file of minutes and correspondence relating to the winding up of the congregation of the John Street United Church in Belleville after it was destroyed by fire on 31 October 1936.