File contains newspaper articles about the Trenton Public Utilities Commission, included items such as new premises, employment, rates, meetings, and domestic usage.
File contains several newspaper clippings from the Ontario Intelligencer and other sources regarding various issues including : proceedings of Trenton council meetings, bridge reconstruction, and school construction.
File contains two newspaper articles regarding the formation of the Trenton Flying Club in October, 1956. Includes a brief profile of Flying Officer Frances Finkle, a Belleville resident, who was the first woman member of the Trenton Flying Club to fly solo.
File contains a manuscript license issued by the Province of Ontario on 13 October 1879 approving the operation of a ferry from Sidney Township in Hastings County to Ameliasburgh Township in Prince Edward County. Also present are two printed, completed bills of sale, dated 5 November 1880 transferring 64 shares in the steam paddler, Mary Ethel, built at Trenton, to the Bay of Quinte Navigation Company (Limited).
File contains a newspaper article and a photocopy of the same, with a reproduction of a sketch of Bleecker's hotel and ferry as they appeared in the 1830s. The ferry served as a crossing for the Trent at the location of the present Highway 2 bridge in Trenton.
File contains manuscript and typescript correspondence, telegrams and memos received by C.H. Bonter, Chairman of the Light Committee, Trenton concerning tenders for the creation of a power plant and the installation of electric lighting in the town of Trenton in 1890. Also present is an undated newspaper article, regarding Trenton municipal opposition to a monopoly by a private electrical company in the town.
File contains a newspaper article from The Intelligencer, dated 22-July-1967 and titled "It's Only Five Minutes But it Starts Drivers Fuming" and is about the swing bridge in Trenton.
File contains a number of newspaper photos from various dates and titled "Picture Peeks Into The Past", these are pictures of boats in and on the Trent River and about boating in Trenton.
File contains a printed booklet entitled “Report on the most eligible route for a canal between Lake Simcoe ..and Georgian Bay...to the Bay of Quinte...” by N.H. Baird, C.E., published at Belleville in 1855. The report discusses proposed routes for a Trent-Severn Canal project.
File contains several newspaper articles concerning the history of the Trent-Severn Waterway, including pre- and early contact travel by the Haudenosaunee or Iroquois. Also present is an Intelligencer article , 3 January 1962, regarding plans to substantially renovate the lock system on the Trent Canal.
File contains a photocopied manuscript note by Mrs. C.H. La Rue, concerning a steam-operated vehicle in Foxboro which was won in a draw by a local resident in 1900.
File contains newspaper advertisements of sailings of steamers including the Allan transatlantic line, and several offerings by the Rathbun Co., Belleville agents, for the Hero, Steamer Varuna, and Quinte, which plied local waters.
File contains newspaper articles, including an Open Letter to the Citizens of Belleville regarding the inception and service of the Rawson Bus. Co. Ltd.
File contains a manuscript petition to the County Council of Hastings by residents of the Township of Rawdon, dated 1 November 1871 requesting the construction of a road between Rawdon Township and Marmora for the purpose of moving goods to market or mill, and for the repair of a causeway to Seymore which was destroyed by fire in the summer of 1871.
File contains a printed timetable of the Rathbun Bus Service Ltd., for the company's Trenton-Belleville and Trenton-Picton routes, effective Feb. 4, 1955.
