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 photocopied and original manuscript notes concerning the history of Marmora, Eldorado and Bannockburn village. Also contains photocopied manuscript notes on the history of railroads in Hastings County.
File contains a photocopy of a printed by law concerning animal control in Limerick Township, 1887. Also contains a photocopy of a printed article entitled History of Limerick Township since 1888, by Mrs. Thomas Ham, Steenburg, Ontario. First published in The North Hastings Review ca. 1955.
File contains a photocopy of a printed essay contributed by Mrs. G.V. Thompson, Mrs. Thomas Ham, and Mr. A. G. Giles, concerning early settlement, the erection of schools , lumbering and agricultural development of Limerick Township in the period from 1863 to ca. 1935. Also contains a two-page photocopied excerpt from the Hastings Directory, 1864-1865 listing landholders by concession and lot in Limerick Township. Includes a newsclipping from the Ontario Intelligencer announcing the opening of Limerick Central School in St. Ola in 1964.
File contains a newspaper article concerning the settlement of Madoc in 1830 and its development in association with the agricultural and mining industry.
File contains a photocopied manuscript history of Marmora from ca. 1820 to 1965. Includes a hand-drawn map of the townsite. Also present is a photocopy of a one page extract from a survey of Midland District, 1822.
File contains a photocopied manuscript memoir by Gertrude Hay Caverly, relating her experiences as an early settler in northern Marmora Township and describing conditions in the township ca. 1850-1857. Submitted to Gerry Boyce for his book, Historic Hastings.
File contains a printed report of the Gladstone and Sulphuret Gold Mining Company concerning the company's organization, by-laws, and operations in Marmora Township in 1881.
File contains a printed program of events at the unveiling of a historical plaque commemorating the opening of the Marmora Iron Works in Blairton in 1823. Also contains two photocopied engravings of the Blairton Iron Mine.
File contains a photocopied typescript history of Mayo Township from 1858-ca. 1964 by Marjorie Slater, McArthur's Mill, Ontario. Also contains a printed brochure ca. 1960s, of YMCA Camp Wangoma near McArthur's Mills, Mayo Township.
File contains communications from 1865 discussing sending copies of the Hastings County Council Directory to every council in Upper Canada, to the United States, and Europe, and the Office of Immigration. The 1868 communications discuss the inclusion of mineral resource locations and maps.
File contains a printed fact sheet relating characteristics of Hastings County including population figures for the year 1918, enlistment totals in the Great War, extent of land and roads and types of resources.
File contains a newspaper clipping from 1924 about a book “Over the Hills of Hastings” about the mineral deposits in Hastings County on the back of this article are maps of Hastings County.
File contains two copies of a tourist brochure from 1923, “Over the Hills of Hastings: To the Haunts of the Gamey Black Bass, the Elusive Speckled Trout and the Fighting Maskinonge, Treasure House of Gold, Copper, Iron, Talc, Marble and Many Other Minerals, Beauties and Resources”.
File contains a newspaper article on Wesley Reid of Cannifton's 60th annual participation in deer hunting season in October, 1966. Also contains newspaper clippings regarding hunter safety in 1960 and wildlife sightings, 1957-1960.
File contains the history of Moira Village and the Huntingdon Township, including first nations, french settlers, agriculture, lumbering, churches, population, politics, etc.
