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Printed illustrated card with poem entitled 'The Union Jack'. The card was produced as a souvenir of the raising of the British flag on No. 3 School House, Octavia Street, Belleville on Tuesday 24 May 1892, Queen Victoria's 73rd birthday. "With Compliments of the 'Old Belleville Rifle Co.' (No. 1 Co., 49th Battalion, Hastings Rifles)."

File contains a typescript note on the status of Thurlow schools by school section, indicating the dates of their establishment and their current use.

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.

A report on the Queensboro School written by 6th grader Laura McNeil for Madoc Township. Includes photographs and statistics. 14 pages.

A report on the Moore's School written by 6th grader Rebecca Best for the Madoc Township. Includes photographs and maps. 10 pages.

A report on the Madoc Township School written by 6th grader Angela Paranuik. Includes photographs and maps. 55 pages.

A report on the Cooper School written by 6th grader Michelle Graham for Madoc Township. Includes photographs and maps. 19 pages.

Two photographs of classes at the Ontario Business college. The 1900 photograph shows students from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, the 1913 photo shows students in the shorthand department.

List of students taken from Register 1 at the Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf. More information on these students is available by emailing the School Archives.

A "Map of the Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland" published by the Copp Clark Co. Ltd. of Toronto in 1945.

The map served dual commercial and educational purposes. It advertises for a chocolate company with slogans and images: "Neilson's, The best chocolate bars in Canada [and] Neilson's Jersey milk chocolate - The best milk chocolate made." On the top right corner, an inscription writes that the map was for rural, underprivileged schools and was not to be removed from such locations.

Entry for Historical Fiction Writing Contest by Wilfrid A. Forestell. Includes newspaper clipping. 7 pages.

File contains the history of Ivanhoe, including the post office, religion, and early settlers.

Large framed item with individual photographs of:

• Queen Victoria School with students outside
  and the following Belleville Board of Education members:
• B. Mallory
• S. S. Moore
• F. S. Deacon
• William Johnson (Deceased)
• F. E. O'Flynn, B.A.
• W. C. Reid
• A. McGie
• H. Sneyd
• T. E. Ketcheson
• [name missing: possibly Alfred J. McCrodan]
• A. E. Bailey
• Frank Sharpe
• S. T. Harris
• Thomas Cushing
• George T. Woodley
• W. J. Diamond (Secretary Treasurer)
• A. C. Wilkin (Principal)
• H. J. Clarke, B.A. (Inspector of South Hastings)
• John Muir
• S. A. Gardner (Supernumerary teacher and superintendent)
• John Elliott
• L. C. Pascoe
• L. R. Terwilligar
• W. R. Taylor
• J. B. Ives
• P. Harrison
• H. L. Ingram
• Colonel W. N. Ponton M.A. K.C. (Chairman of Board 1914-1915)
• C. M. Reid (Chairman of Board 1912-1913)

Celia File's description of her life as a teacher at the Central Mohawk School on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, where she worked for six years from 1921.

Diploma from the Commercial Department of Albert College, awarded to John W. Richardson on 12th April 1900.

Four photographs:

1. Class photograph of children at Belleville Central School (later Victoria School), c.1891
2. Class photograph of children at Belleville Central School (later Victoria School), c.1891
3. Choir of St. Thomas's Anglican Church, Belleville, 1893
4. Helen Corby's Young Men's Class of St. Thomas's Sunday School, Belleville, 1901

File contains a newspaper clipping from 1959 discussing the history of the Belleville Memorial Arena and how it was once a public school.

File contains two newspaper clippings regarding the history of the Marsh Hill Public School ca. 1860s-1957, and the opening of the new Marsh Hill School in 1964, respectively.