File contains several newspaper articles concerning the history and opening of Bon Echo Park on Mazinaw Lake in 1965. Also present is a newspaper article concerning Aboriginal pictograph paintings ca. 1500s at Great Rock, Bon Echo Park.
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 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 copies of tourist brochures from 1966, "Highland of Hastings", Scenic Lakes Abound", "Hastings and Land O' Lakes", "County of Hastings and The City of Belleville".
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 typescript copy of notes on the early settlement of Monteagle and Herschel Townships including information on settlement, education, railways and resources. The information was provided by children from Herschel school. Also contains two photocopy pages from the 1889 Monteagle and Herschel Directory listing landowners with surnames A-G.
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 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 the history of Moira Village and the Huntingdon Township, including first nations, french settlers, agriculture, lumbering, churches, population, politics, etc.
File contains various newspaper clippings about Kaladar in 1968, including: a Council meeting, Christmas, and an article about the history of the gold rush in Kaladar in 1897, etc.
File contains photocopies of typescript notes concerning the history, natural resources and early settlement, agricultural and industrial development of Limerick Township. Also contains a manuscript letter from Mrs. Lavoy to Gerry Boyce concerning lumbering in Carlow Township.
File contains photocopies of typescript notes by Mrs. Violet Carrol, St. Ola concerning the geography, natural resources, settlement and agricultural and logging in Limerick Township (in response to a survey by Gerry Boyce for his book, Historic Hastings.. Also contains a manuscript letter from Violet Carrol to Carl Bateman, Clerk-Treasurer, Hastings County, concerning the history of Limerick Township.
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 micro-copied manuscript field notes by Quentin Johnston, Provincial Land Surveyor, ca. 1857, concerning concessions and boundaries of Limerick Township. Also contains field notes on a survey of the residue of Limerick Township by H.A. McLeod, P.L.S., 1862.
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 printed booklet entitled "Why Do We Need a Lower Trent Valley Conservation Authority" produced by the Trenton Branch No. 110 of the Canadian Legion which argued for the establishment of a local conservation authority. Also contains newspaper articles concerning proposals to establish the TVCA, and issues surrounding dams in the Tweed area proposed by the Moira River Conservation Authority.