File contains a newspaper clipping from the Ottawa Journal of 27 March 1920 concerning iron ore deposits in Canada, including Hastings County. Also contains two newspaper clippings concerning management-labour relations regarding the planned closure of the Dyno Uranium Mine, Bancroft, dated 28 January and 1 February 1960.
The photographs are arranged by subject matter and cover activities in and around the town of Deseronto, Ontario. The majority date from the late nineteenth century and many depict the lumber-related industries of the Rathbun Company in Deseronto. There are also photographs of school groups, churches, railways, First World War airfields and portraits of Deseronto citizens.
File contains a typescript item on “Deseronto and the Rathbun Company” written by T. Dane Martin and edited by Gerry Boyce. Also a copy of the final printed version.
This file contains a booklet titled "Over the Hills of Hastings" published in 1923 with the intent to bring attention to the advantages of Hastings County. It contains a brief history of the county, also featuring natural resources in the area, a description of the townships within the county and of Belleville and includes a map of Hasting County .
File contains original and photocopied manuscript histories of the settlement and early development of Bannockburn including the lumbering and sawmilling industries. Includes a printout of a webpage on Maitland House (available on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine at https://web.archive.org/web/20010805101431/http://casa-de.vrx.net/buildings/) and an article from the Fall 2019 Country Roads magazine about the conversion of St. Bartholomew Anglican Church in Bannockburn into a private home.
File contains several newspaper articles regarding control of the water level of the Moira River, the selection of officers of the Moira River Conservation Authority for 1962 and reforestation projects proposed for the MRCA watershed area. Also present are two printed booklets entitled respectively, : 'Moira River Conservation Authority : Progress and Achievements, 1947-1962' and a 1964 'Conservation Drive,' which outlines a self-guided auto tour through the Moira Valley.
File contains a typescript brief biography of Charles Hayes who was an early promoter of iron ore mining and smelting in Blairton, near Marmora, Ontario.
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.
Copy of McGeachie's book Bass Lake - Hastings County and correspondence between McGeachie and various authorities about the management of the McGeachie Conservation Area and his efforts to change the name of Steenburg Lake in Limerick Township, Hastings County, Ontario.
File contains a booklet and brochure published by the Ontario Water Resources Commission entitled "The Story of Water" exploring the water cycle as well as water treatment, how it occurs and its history in Ontario
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”.
This file contains a number of photocopies of newspaper articles by Judge E. B. Fraleck dating from 1902 to 1929 from Forest and Stream, North Hastings Review and The Bancroft Times. Subjects include: campfire stories, hunting , Madoc gold rush, and John Meyers' cave.
File contains correspondence from Department of the Interior, United States Patent Office to Mr. S.J. Ritchie, dated 1908, as well as from The Atlas Portland Cement Company regarding proposed crushed marble patents and deposit of limestone in Limerick Township. (1907-8).
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 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.
This file contains a paper written by Roy T. Bowles, Department of Sociology, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario April 1980 and titled "Deloro And The World The Local Manifestations Of The Ontario Mineral Industry . The paper focuses on technological and community patterns which occurred in the village of Deloro, Ontario between 1896 and 1919.