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Minute book of the Canadian Order of Foresters, Court Quinte No. 1. The fraternal society met in Deseronto, Ontario. The minutes record applications for membership of the society, payments of bills and notes of people who addressed the group. There are some loose papers inside the volume, mainly applications for admission, with reports of character committees on the back.

Typescript transcription of the diary of Constable John McCrodan of Belleville Police, Belleville, Ontario from August 1869 to March 1870. The original diary is in the possession of Mrs Cathy Atkinson, a descendant of McCrodan. It was transcribed by Lindi Pierce in 2016.

Bound 1976 reprint of the Bancroft Old Home Week (August 6th-9th, 1961) souvenir programme, written by author-editor Mr. A. F. 'Mike' Burns of Bancroft.
List of genealogies available at Bancroft Public Library.

File contains a newspaper column printed in 1919 “Peering Into the Past with Bright Hopes for a Future: Bigger and Better Belleville” by John J.B. Flint.

List of past presidents of the Belleville & District Shrine Club, from 1946 to 2016.

File contains a letter to MacKenzie Bowell regarding a cannon for Victoria Park in Belleville.

Typescript memoir of life in Lonsdale by Annie Margaret Farrell.

File contains City of Belleville printed tax receipts issued to Thos. Rutherford for various years, 1879-1891. Also present is a printed membership card for David Rutherford in the Mechanics Institute and Library, Belleville, 1878.

Reproductions of petition letters from 1816, regarding lots. Sourced from Library and Archives Canada (1960).

File contains a printed poem by H.D. Hulme entitled, “Only His Companions, or What Called Forth the Charge of 'Rowdyism on Hotel Street.'

File contains a poem published in a newspaper written by Arthur L. Burke from Bayside about the increased cost of living.

Collection comprises:
1) Typewritten history of the Argyll Chapter, IODE, printed in 1980 for the organization's 70th anniversary
2) Menu and program for 90th anniversary dinner held on 10 November 2000
3) Undated newspaper clipping on plans for a military ball on 19 November
4) Printed history of the Argyll Chapter, updating the 1980 edition to mark the closure of the group in 2000

Draw ticket for a Nash-Lafayette four door sedan from Riggs Motor Sales, Belleville, sold at the Belleville Fair in August 1939.

Program for an ice show held on 21 February 1947 at the Memorial/Hume Arena in Belleville, Ontario, with advertisements from local businesses.

Autograph book and typed transcription of all the entries.

File contains a typescript copy of letters exchanged between Marianne Wallbridge (Mrs. H.E. Howard) of Ballston New York, and her brothers and sisters in Belleville. Transcript made by Lois Foster in July 1979.

Guidebook to Hastings County produced to attract tourists and investment in the county.

Belleville Yardmen Benefit Fund lottery ticket, photograph of six members of the Board of the Fund and fifteen colour slides of the Quinte Sports Centre under construction.

Flyer produced by the Belleville Chamber of Commerce, promoting the city of Belleville, Ontario.

Photographs of scenes in and around Belleville, Ontario, including a circus parade, Lincoln Beachey's aircraft, the talc mine at Madoc and military groups.