The file contains a newspaper article from the Ontario Intelligencer. It is a letter to the Editor from T.G. Wrightmeyer about the proposition by the then Mayor Haig to change the name of Zwick's Island. The article gives the history of this parcel of land dating back to 1790 given to Captain Phillip Zwick and subsequent generations.
Two plans of Belleville (east and west) showing zoning categories for properties in the city, with lists of zoning by-law numbers and dates since 1977.
A map showing a zoning limits street plan within the City of Belleville. The zones and symbols can be referenced on the legend. The map was published on February 6, 1974.
A map showing, primarily, zoning limits within the City of Belleville. The limits are coloured in crayon and can be referenced on the legend (left). The map was first created c. 1959 (as written in pencil). However, more recent revisions were made June 4, 1970. Scale: 1:12,000. Additional information about by-laws is available on the map's border.
Note the two names listed on the top left corner: K. Murray and D. Williams - possible authors or owners.
File contains the obituary (7-February-1899) for Lt. Col. Reuben Young. Born 19-July-1805 in Carrying Place, oldest son of Lieut. Col. James Young, M.P. Lt. Col. Reuben Young married Nancy Briant in 1829, she predeceased him 10 years.
File contain the newspaper obituary for Eugene Claude Young, born 23-November-1882 and died 23-June-1963. Mr. Young was born in Belleville, was the founding member of the Bay of Quinte Branch of the U.E.L. Association, he lived in Wellington at the time of his death and is buried in Zion Hill Cemetery in Thurlow Twsp.
File contains the genealogy for George & Mary Lawrence Young, descended from Oliver Cromwell, settled Hastings County and donated land for present day Belleville Cemetery. The file also contains newspaper clippings from 1955 about the celebrations for Beniah Young's 101st birthday (January 12, 1955) and his obituary (November 2, 1955). Mr. Ben Young was born in Roblin's Mills, Prince Edward County and died in Trenton, Ontario. He is buried in Carrying Place Cemetery. Mr. Beniah Young was a decedent of George & Mary Lawrence Young.
File contains research material for Yeomans Genealogy; including excerpts from the 1851, and 1871 Census' for Hastings County. Family names include Yeomans, Osborn, Clapp.
File contains copies of the original field notes of the Township of Wollaston by Quintin Johnston 1857; and Returns of the survey of the Township of Wollaston, Crown Lands, 6-October-1863 by John Allen Snow.
File contains correspondence between Mrs. June Bowden of Richmond, Virginia and the County of Hastings, dated June 1968, requesting information about her ancestors. The file also contains a brief genealogy of the Chambers and McDougall Families, U.E. Loyalists.
File contains original documents, presented to the Hastings County Historical Society in 1960; Biographical sketch written on 22-September-1869 covers the years 1862 to 1869 when Willson was teaching school in the southern part of Hastings County; educational papers; legal papers; correspondence and a poem entitled "To The Mohawks".
File contains original copies: 1848 Account Book for Thomas Wills; Deed of Land, dated 7 May 1868 sold by John Kerry to Thomas Wills for Lot 35 on the east side of Church Street (half an acre) in the town of Belleville; Mortgage between Thomas Wills and John Kerry for the same land, dated 1868 for $2200.00.