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Biographical notes and photographs relating to the Belleville and Hastings County individuals covered by the book Quinte Women of Distinction. Files relating to women of Prince Edward County were donated to the archives there.

Files are present for the following women:

• Muriel Andrews
• Mary Graham Archibald
• Pearl Brant
• Mary Baldwin Breakenridge
• Emma Connor
• Mary Conner Deacon
• Olive Delaney
• Flora MacDonald Merrill Denison
• Eva Grace Curitis Dyer
• Hazel Farley
• Philippa Faulkner
• Phoebe Sawyer Clement Flint
• Ada Alfaretta Funnell
• Ella Gardener
• Marvel Garrett
• Annetta Green
• Martha (Mattie) Hardinge
• Fanny McCrae Hutton
• Jane Clement Jones
• Alison Kuglin
• Nellie Ryerson Ludgate
• Jane Davidson Marshall
• Lily Farlardeaugh Boyington Mathieson
• Effie Alice Matthews McCabe
• Martha Ostrom McIntosh
• Dorothy McKinnon
• Nellie Merry
• Polly Kruger Meyers
• Susanna Moodie
• Joy Nichols
• Lillian O'Connor
• Jenny O'Hara Pincock
• Leona Kathleen Riggs
• Mary Elizabeth Schuster
• Jessie Barbara Tuite
• Catherine Chrysler White
• Bea Williamson
• Marian Wilson
• Letitia Creighton Youmans
• Diane Karis Zegouras

Scrapbook compiled by Alice Deacon of 107 Station Street, Belleville, 1914-1919, including newspaper cuttings about Belleville servicemen, theatre programmes and flyers, postcards. The book used to paste the clippings into was Richardson's New Method for the Piano-Forte. The collection also includes 'The Canadian Forces in the Great War' by Colonel A. Foretescue Duguid, 1947, stamped 'Belleville Poppy Committee' on the front cover, 14pp.

The fonds consist of minute and cash books, newsletters, handbooks, reports and songbooks of the Tyendinaga East Women's Institute. Materials added in 2016 include six photograph albums, five volumes of Tweedsmuir histories, autograph books and memorabilia.

The collection also includes a school register for School Section Number 10, Tyendinaga Township, 1879-1921.

Minute books for the Huntingdon East Women's Institute, 1952-1977. File of information including: a history of Fuller and Moira United Churches; reproduction 1954 voters' list for Huntingdon, notes on cemeteries in South Huntingdon Township and 'Memories of Huntingdon Township' by Elmer Wilson as told to Betty Workman.

Albums and files of newspaper clippings and photographs compiled by members of the Marmora Women's Institute.
The files cover the following years: File 1 1930-1945 File 2 1943-1951 File 3 1952-1982 File 4 1973-1979 File 5 1975-1977 File 6 1976-1982 File 7 1979-1983 File 8 1979-1984 File 9 1979-1984 File 10 1974-1994 File 11 1980 File 12 1983-1984 File 13 1984 File 14 1986 File 15 1986-1988 File 16 1989-1994 File 17 1989-1994 File 18 1995-1996
*File 19 1996-1998

Fonds consists of 17 minute books of the Quinte Women's Institute and the group's Tweedsmuir history, which includes postcards, press clippings and photographs. Also included is a banner for the institute, history of the institute and files of loose papers for each minute book (letters, receipts, newspaper articles, reports, programmes and newsletters).

Minute books cover the following dates:
May 1914 - April 1919
May 1929 - April 1936
May 1939 - April 1942
May 1942 - April 1947
May 1947 - April 1959
April 1950 - April 1953
April 1953 - April 1957
April 1957 - April 1961
April 1961 - March 1965
April 1965 - March 1968
April 1968 - March 1971
April 1971 - March 1974
April 1974 - March 1977
April 1977 - March 1980
April 1980 - March 1984
April 1984 - March 1989
April 1989 - March 1992

Documentary video by Gerry Fraiberg and Gilaine Mitchell about the work of the Three Oaks Foundation in Belleville, Ontario and its shelter for women and children who were victims of domestic violence. Music by Michael Tarry McDermott.

Fonds consist of 3 Tweedsmuir scrapbooks compiled by the Cannifton Corbyville Women's Institute. Also included are 2 minute books and 1 binder of president's notes. Books contain newsclippings, photographs, minutes, brochures, expenditures, handwritten notes, poems, maps and reports of local history and the Cannifton Corbyville Women's Institute. Subjects covered within the scrapbooks are programmes, banquets and miscellaneous events.

Two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, invitations and cards compiled by Mary Elizabeth Roberts (later Mary Elizabeth Haig).

Minutes of the Thurlow Junior Farmers and Junior Institute for young women on the fifth concession of Thurlow Township in Hastings County, Ontario.

Recipe book.

1. Volumes of annual meeting minutes and financial statements for the following years:

   1. 1916-1921
   2. 1921-1925
   3. 1925-1928
   4. 1928-1933
   5. 1933-1937
   6. 1937-1941
   7. 1941-1944
   8. 1945-1951
   9. 1947-1948
   10. 1950-1954
   11. 1954-1958
   12. 1958-1962
   13. 1962-1965
   14. 1965-1969
   15. 1969-1973
   16. 1973-1977
   17. 1978-1981

2. Alphabetical membership lists for the following years:

   1. 1921-1925
   2. 1925-1930
   3. 1930-1935

3. File of miscellaneous receipts, correspondence, etc., 1937-1964