File contains copies of business pages from the Hastings County Directory. Business include: Bridgewater Store; Geo. H. Haymes Manufacturer and Importer [of Hats]; G.G. German, Manufacturer and Wholesale & Retail Dealer in Boots, Shoes, Rubbers, and Leathers; The Canton Tea Store; R.A. Becket Bookseller and Stationer; etc.
File contains photocopies of newspaper advertisements for millwrights and sawyers for Hungerford Mills, Hungerford Township in 1838. Also contains an article describing land and soil conditions and settlement of Hungerford Township in 1837.
File contains a portion of the 1860-61 Hungerford Directory list and the Thomasburgh Directory. There is also a portion of the Hungerford Directory list from 1889.
File contains newspaper clippings about various council activities in Hungerford and Hungtingdon. There are also newspaper clippings about the opening of the Foxboro Cheese Factory in Carmel District.
File contains typescript and printed press releases of the Lake Ontario Development Association [LODA] concerning the growth and promotion of industry and tourism in the Hastings, Lennox-Addington, Northumberland and Peterborough regions. Also contains several newspaper clippings concerning the activities and appointment of LODA executive officers.
File contains a special supplement to The Intelligencer commemorating the 50th anniversary of Leslie's Shoe Store, Front Street, Belleville. Also contains a newspaper article concerning the career of William Leslie, and the history of the Leslie's Shoe Store.
File contains several newspaper clippings concerning retail hours of local merchants in Madoc. Also contains a newspaper clipping regarding the history of the Madoc Women's Institute from its inception in 1910 to 1957.
File contains a mimeographed typescript letters originating from and received by W.N. Ponton in the period 1911 to 1913 concerning the sale of right-of-ways for railway crossings on lands belonging to W.N. Ponton and Ponton family members in Belleville.
File contains an offprint of an article entitled “Capt. John Walden Meyers, Loyalist Pioneer,” published in the Ontario Historical Society Papers and Records, Vol XXX1 (1936): 11-55
File contains newspaper clipping printed from 1957 to 1959, regarding historic sites in Belleville such as a new steam mill being announced in 1837 and the O'Hara Mill near Madoc. There are also articles about historical times and what life was like, such as Christmas in 1830, developments in transportation, the gold rush, etc.
File contains various newspaper clippings from 1957 about Hastings County Council activities, such as committee appointments, tree-cutting by-laws, the budget, an extension of Highway 41 to meet Highway 2, etc.
File contains miscellaneous newspaper clippings printed in 1968 about Hasting County Council activities such as: opening a Foster Home in North Hastings, a request for a Home Economist, standing committees, the election of Reeve William Shannon as Warden, Calvin While named Warden, etc. There is also a “class photo” of the 1967 Hastings County Council.
File contains miscellaneous newspaper clippings from 1968-1969 about Hastings County activities such as: the County Welfare system, education, year-end surplus, assessments, and increased grant for a rural fairs.
File contains a motion from 1859 to ask the Crown to open up land in the North Riding of Hastings for settlement, as well as correspondences regarding the payment of land taxes for 1860-1861.