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File contains a printed booklet entitled “Presentation of Colours to the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment by the Honourable W. Earle Rowe, P.C.” 17 May 1964. Also present are the following printed booklets: The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment Canada : a short history / by Lt. Col. K.D.H. Willcocks, ca. 1967; Guide for Officers: The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment, n.d.; The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment Canada : Customs and Traditions of the Regiment / by Lt. Col. K.D. H. Willcocks, 1968. File also includes newspaper articles concerning the presentation of colours on 17 May 1964, and a printed poster of the colours of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment.

File contains typescript and manuscript lists of veterans (pensioners) of the War of 1812, surviving in 1875. Also includes an original printed and manuscript Canadian Registration Board registration card for William Edgar Harvey, Trenton, 1918.

Materials gathered during the bicentennial year of the beginning of the War of 1812, including notes on the involvement of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte and the Hastings militia.

File contains a newspaper article dated February 23, 1899 recounting an unidentified veteran's recollection of the Battle of Shannonville on February 22, 1838 when Hastings Regiment militia members engaged in a brief military engagement with rebels and American sympathizers.

File contains one empty envelope addressed to Major Bowen, Marmora from a correspondent Lt. Col. McKenzie "On Her Majesty's Service."

File contains a map printed on linen of South Africa and an accompanying poem by Rudyard Kipling entitled The Absent Minded Beggar which had been set to music by Arthur Sullivan.

File contains a newspaper article of March 31, 1960 concerning the presentation of a medal to the Hastings County Historical Society on behalf of Major G. Franklin Lynn, former Belleville resident, who served in the Canadian Contingent in the South African [Boer] War. The medal, of which Major Lynn was one of the recipients, was originally presented to Belleville members of the Contingent by the Belleville City Council in 1901.

Eighteen photographs and one photocopy of the interior and exterior of the steam plant (building 27) at CFB Trenton. Ross Masters (the donor's father) worked at the plant.

1) Marriage certificate of George Hunt and Margaret Bell, October 19th, 1865.
2) B.C.I. footballers: George Locke and Bob Taylor c. 1948.
3) Unidentified sportsman receives a trophy.
4) Buckley's Food Market on Victoria Avenue, c. 1950.
5) Notes on Belleville census records 1818-1959 and federal elections results 1867-1924.
6) Booze, Boats and Bullets Interviews with Cecil Lobb and Norm Conley, Kem McConnell and Ann Jones, circa 1990.
7) DVD Slideshow of images relating to Royal Flying Corps in Canada, circa 2009.

Notes and newspaper clippings on Belleville airmen in the First World War.

Notes and newspaper articles on WWl German spies in relation to aviation camps.

The file contains a number of newspaper clippings from the 1930s about local residents and buildings. Also contains a piece of writing titled "The History of Friend Andrews told by Alexander Andrews (1959). The item is dated 20 January 1961 and is a genealogy of the Andrews family.

File contains memories of the history of the School for the Deaf, Belleville being turned into an RCAF technical training facility during WWII, written by J.W. Jack Hodgson.

File contains a letter to Captain Joseph Canniff in 1861, ordering him to assemble his company for parade.

File contains a printed booklet entitled "The Blockhouse Bergen Wood" by Lt. Col. H.C. Burleigh, published by the Bay of Quinte Branch of the United Empire Loyalists Association, which recounts a 1780 battle at Bergen Wood, [New Jersey] during the American Revolution.

File contains manuscript notes by Fred Bradley on the militia called out by Lt Col Bonnycastle in Hastings totaling 1668 men and 108 officers divided into the Mohawks 1 st Hastings Light Dragoons, 2nd and 3rd Prince Edward (Infantry), Belleville Rifles (Infantry), and the 2nd Hastings.

File contains a newspaper article, August 1, 1925 by Col. S.S. Lazier regarding the military training and performance of the 15th Battalion Argyll Light Infantry during World War One.