Photographs and certificates relating to J. Ben Corke's time on Belleville City Council: as Alderman and as Mayor.

File contains a newspaper article discussing what William Lyon MacKenzie King wrote about his father, who once lived in Belleville.

File contains a newspaper article concerning a meeting for the selection of delegates by the Hastings County Liberal Association to attend the 1968 Liberal Party leadership convention. The article also relates the details of an address given by Hon. Paul Martin Sr. to the Hastings County Liberal Association at the delegation meeting.

Materials include:
1) Transcription by Lois Foster of an interview from the Daily Intelligencer of 21 November 1903 with Arthur McGinnis, Moira Lodge historian, on 'The Fraternal Societies of Belleville', focusing on the Freemasons
2) Biographical information compiled by the Historical Committee [of Hastings County Historical Society?] in 1982, and introduction to Betsy Boyce's book 'The Accidental Prime Minister', 2000
3) Newspaper clippings relating to Mackenzie Bowell, 1982-2005
4) Correspondence, research materials and speech by Gerry Boyce in relation to the Ontario Heritage Foundation plaque on Mackenzie Bowell's former home at 194 William Street, Belleville, 1982-1984
5) Print of a drawing of Glanmore and the fountain in front of the house by Phillipa Faulkner, 1984
6) Poster 'Beautiful City, Belleville, Ontario' by Terri L. Horricks for the Canadian Mental Health Association, 2006

File contains a copy of an 1891 poem about Mackenzie Bowell, written by William Wilfred Campbell.

File contains a 1967 Intelligencer article on Sir Mackenzie Bowell and an anecdote about Mackenzie Bowell as remembered by Mr. M. Pope in 1958. There are also newspaper clippings about life in Belleville during the 1890s.

File contains a printed letter to the electors of Marmora and Lake Townships from Thomas Southworth, Vice President of Delora Mining and Eduction Co. encouraging voters to decide against the sale of liquor in Marmora and Lake Townships in 1914. Also contains several newspaper clippings regarding muncipal elections and finances, ca. 1956-1960.

1. Printed ‘Rules of Order of the Municipal Council of the Town of Deseronto’ 18 Feb 1889
2. Printed pro-forma for a certificate of public recognition by the town of Halifax for service in the Second World War (with pencilled alterations to make reference to Deseronto instead), 1945
3. Printed booklet on ‘The Future of the Liberal Party’, address by Brooke Claxton, Minister of National Defence, 4 Aug 1948
4. Auditor’s report on road expenditures for the Town of Deseronto, 1949
5. Edition of ‘Roads and Road Construction’ journal, March 1951, Vol. 29, no. 339
6. Leases between the Town of Deseronto and the Deseronto Lions Club (of the Skating Rink) and Deseronto Boating Club (part of the old saw mill property), 1953-1954
7. Published report by the Select Committee on Indian Affairs on ‘Civil Liberties and Rights of Indians [Indigenous People] in Ontario’, 19 Mar 1954
8. Letter from J.D. Lee and Company to the Deseronto Medical Officer of Health, Dr W. H. Duffett, with two copies of blueprint relating to modifications to the septic tank of the Deseronto Public School, 4 Dec 1956

File contains two newspaper articles from The Intelligencer concerning Harvey McFarland's mayoral campaign and re-election in Picton, December 1969.

Proclamation made by George III on the formation of the District of Mecklenburg.

Printouts of Facebook pages of Deseronto Town Council candidates for 2014 election (Dan Johnston, Edgar Tumak, Trish Dickinson, Steve Everhardus, Deanna Deary and Catherine Houard) and materials they printed for distribution (Dan Johnston, Trish Dickinson, Edgar Tumak, Norman Clark, Catherine Houard)

File contains a typescript brief history of the life of the Honourable Edmund Murney, member of the Provincial Legislature of Upper Canada and Canada West during the period 1836 to 1857. Also contains a newspaper article from The Ontario Intelligencer, 13 August 1964 concerning the Murney-Faulkner [Falkiner] House, West Bridge Street, Belleville. Includes a reprint of a drawing of the home.

Sixty black and white negatives taken of photographs of Mayors of the City of Belleville. These images were used for the Mayors' Gallery on the fourth floor of City Hall.

File contains a newspaper article concerning a rally of the New Party, forerunner of the New Democratic Party, in South Hastings Riding in June, 1961, featuring a speech by Walter G. Pitman, M.P. for Peterborough Riding. Also present is the October, 1967 edition of the 'New Democrat' Vol. 7, no.1 concerning the Ontario election campaign in October, 1967.