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Negatives of photographs taken by John Fairbairn Anderson. They include images of dams, electricity generating plants, the Beal family cottage on Stoney Lake and photographs of places Anderson visited, including Orillia, Los Angeles, Peterborough, Young's Point, Sulphide, Port Hope, Muskegon (Michigan), Chicago and Trenton (Ontario).

Many of the negatives are associated with an index card, on which Anderson wrote the number of the negative, the subject of the photograph and the date it was taken. There were also a number of negatives with no associated card.

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.

Photograph album with snapshots of children and pets. Some of the images show cars, trains, and manufacturing sites in and around Trenton, Ontario. One photograph shows Harry Palmer after winning the Deacon Road Race between Trenton and Belleville on 7 September 1908.

A certified reproduction of the "Section No. 3 of the Trent Canal, Ontario – Rice Lake Division, being parts of Lots # 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, Concession 8, Township of Sidney.” Dated April 30, 1909.

This copy was made in 1972 of plan #349, as registered in the Hastings Land Registry Office.

Donated by Walter I. Watson, P. L. S.

An original map produced for the Seymour Power & Electric Co. Limited, concerning proposed transmission lines within the Township of Murray. However, the map also features railways, roads, mills and land boundaries. Circa 1910. Scale: 50 chains = 1 inch. Map composed by Smith, Kerry and Chace Engineers located in Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver.

Donated by David Pershick.

An original map produced for the Trenton Electric & Water Co. Limited, concerning proposed transmission lines within the Township of Sidney. However, the map also features railways, roads and land boundaries. Circa 1910. Scale: 50 chains = 1 inch. Map composed by Smith, Kerry and Chace Engineers located in Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver.

Donated by David Pershick.

Coloured postcard of the covered bridge at Trenton, Ontario.

An original map produced for the Trenton Electric & Water Co. Limited, concerning their water mains, towers and substations within the Township of Thurlow. However, the map also features railways, roads and land boundaries. Circa 1910. Scale: 50 chains = 1 inch. Map composed by Smith, Kerry and Chace Engineers located in Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver.

Donated by David Pershick.

An original map produced for the Trenton Electric & Water Co. Limited, concerning proposed transmission lines within the Townships of Thurlow and Sidney. However, the map also features railways, roads, mills and land boundaries. Dated March 31, 1910. Scale: 1/4 mile = 1 inch. Map composed by Smith, Kerry and Chace Engineers located in Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver.

The map includes the first 4 concessions, Lots 33-38 in Sidney Township and Lots 1-13 in Thurlow Township.

Donated by David Pershick.

Eighteen photo-postcards of Hastings County scenes, taken by William Freeman. They include images of Bannockburn (2), Eldorado (4), Moscow (1), and Trenton (3). Items donated in 2011 include a photograph of Oran Tripp at Trenton, snapshots of the Rose family of Millbridge, a Model T at Bannockburn in 1911 and three C.N.R. engines at Bannockburn in 1912.

Digital photographs of two fire insurance plans of Trenton, Ontario.

1. 1911 revised to 1924
2. 1949

A certified reproduction of the "Sidney Heights subdivision of Part of Park Lots # 16 & 17 - west side of Byron Street, Trenton.” Surveyed by John D. Evans O. L. S. and signed May 15, 1912.

This copy was made in 1972 of plan #419, as registered in the Hastings Land Registry Office.

Donated by Walter I. Watson, P. L. S.