File contains newspaper clipping from 1968 featuring the history of Flinton; including: a photograph of Sargent Edmund Vance of Flinton who took part in the battle of Vimy Ridge, and two copies of an article about items of local history found in an old box after the house of the former postmaster was purchased.
File contains the obituary of Joseph Andrew Lessard (b. 1864 d. 1968) Flinton's oldest resident; and the obituary of Howard Emerson Thompson (d. 1968) of Thomasburg, Ontario.
File contains a newspaper column printed in 1919 “Peering Into the Past with Bright Hopes for a Future: Bigger and Better Belleville” by John J.B. Flint.
File contains a biography of Billa Flint published in Ontario volume of “The Canadian Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men”.
File contains miscellaneous biographical information about Billa Flint (b. 1805 d. 1894) who owned lumber and saw mills in Bridgewater and became Mayor of Belleville 1866 and warden of the County of Hastings in 1873 and held other elected positions, he was appointed to the Senate by MacKenzie. Documents include: newspaper clippings, a directory of his businesses, and typed and written notes.
File contains an obituary of Sidney James Fisher (b. 1872 d. 1961). He was born in Pickering but moved to Belleville and lived here for 40 years, working as an insurance broker, auctioneer, and alderman.
File contains a manuscript letter from Mrs. A.E. Hall to the Hastings County Historical Society concerning the Fraser and Eastman families of Madoc ca. 1850-1893.
File contains a newspaper clipping concerning a reunion at Oak Lake, Rawdon Township, of the extended Morton, McKeown, Ashley and Bateman families, each of whom had pioneer roots in early Hastings County.
File contains a photocopied manuscript biographical sketch of lawyer and council member, Andrew Ball Elmer, together with genealogical information regarding the Elmer Family of Belleville, compiled by G.E. Boyce.
