File contains numerous newspaper articles about various Service Clubs in Trenton, such as: Rotary Club, John Howard Society, Lions Club, Kinsmen Club, Business & Professional Women's Club, Women's Auxiliary, and Kiwanis.
File contains a number of newspaper articles about the Trenton Community Centre, Also known as; Trenton Community Gardens (1958), Duncan McDonald Memorial Gardens (present). These articles provide a detailed history of this arena that has held many events for the local community, ranging from; bingo to basketball.
File contains a number of newspaper articles, financial statements, and receipts of payment, ranging in years from c. 1876 to c. 1922. The oldest item in the file is an article in an unknown newspaper, written by Eugene Schuyler c. 1876; about issues regarding the country of Turkey. There are financial statements from The Town of Trenton, Ontario, and purchase receipts from the same municipality.
File contains a newspaper article by Thomas Ritchie, Belleville, entitled “The Old Sun Dial on Parliament Hill,” which appeared in The Weekly Intelligencer, 26 May 1921. Ritchie was a member of the Historic Landmarks Association of Canada which furnished the funds to restore the sundial, which dated to the building of the Rideau Canal in the 1830s.
File contains a paper titled "Conflict and Cooperation: The Cemeteries of Belleville, Ontario" prepared by Gerry Boyce for presentation at Session 5: "Nineteenth-Century Built Environments" at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS May 2003.
The file contains two copies of the September 1986 issue of the magazine "What's Happening" published 8 times a year by Susan K. Bailey Enterprises Ltd. Belleville. Pages 18-21 contains an article titled "The Belleville Young Men's Christian Association (Y.M.C.A.)" with picture, written by Elaine Preston, Researcher, Hastings County Historical Society.
Account and property book for William J. Taylor of Belleville. Includes account for Mr. William Baker for clothing, tea, cheese, etc., 1851-1853; assessed values of properties on Ann, William, George, Dundas (north side), Hotel Streets plus some sales and trades of lots.
The file contains a number of items connected with the Symons Family:
Labels from Symons' Ladies Store, Belleville
Program from Annual Commencement Exercises Belleville High School 16 December 1921
Copy of money order, London, England 27 November 1924 to Mrs. Clara A. Symons, Belleville
Program from Annual Commencement Exercises Belleville High School 28 November 1924
Envelope and card printed 1867-1927 Diamond Jubilee Souvenir Peony Plants from H.R.H. The Prince of Wales
Letter from Susan Tweedsmuir, Elsfield Manor, Oxford, England dated 24 May 1943 addressed to Mr. Watson thanking Belleville Horticultural Society for vegetable seeds
