File contains an Intelligencer article, 6 December 1966, announcing the forthcoming retirement of Elmer “Sandy” Sandercock, deputy-speaker of the Ontario Legislature and MPP (Conservative) for Hastings West since 1948. Also present is a printed program for a Testimonial Dinner in honour of the MPP at the Masonic Temple in Belleville, 8 December 1966.

File contains a newspaper advertisement dated 21 November 1961, announcing the candidacy of Benjamin Safe, Chairman of Public Works, for the office of Mayor of Belleville, and announcement on 1 December 1961 of Mr. Safe's withdrawal from the mayoralty contest due to illness.

File contains a newspaper article from the Toronto Daily Star, dated 24-February-1965 about the 90th Birthday of Senator Arthur Wentworth Roebuck, born in Hamilton, and at the time of the article the oldest active member in the Senate.

File contains a typescript transcript of an entry for Alexander Robertson, Belleville, from A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography. Robertson served as mayor of Belleville in 1870 and in 1878-1879, and as an MPP for West Hastings from 1878, resigning his seat to run for federal office in 1882.

File contains correspondence from the Public Archives of Canada (Ottawa) dated 1969 and addressed to Mary G. Plumpton, Curator, Hastings County Historical Society giving information for Robert Read, M.P. Senator. Tanner, distiller and farmer in Belleville. Director Grand Junction Railway; elected Legislative Council for Quinte Division. Elected House of Commons for Hastings East. Called to the Senate 1871.

File contains printed copy of "House of Commons Debates" fourth session - tenth Parliament, speech of Mr. W.B. Northrup, M.P. on G.T.R. -- Belleville & North Hastings Railway; Ottawa, Monday, February 10, 1908.

File contains a printed issue of the Bulletin of the Departments of History and Political and Economic Science, Queen's University, No. 46 (November, 1923). The issue is devoted to an essay entitled “Pioneer Problems in Upper Canada,” by R.W. Cumberland, concerning political unrest in Upper Canada leading to the Rebellion of 1837.

File contains two printed issues of Douglas Library Notes, Queen's University Volume XIV, no. 1 (Winter, 1965) and Vol. XIV, no.3 (Summer, 1965). The latter contains reprints of excerpts of correspondence by Sir John A. MacDonald, 1849-1881, in the holdings of the Douglas Library.

File contains a typescript list of manuscript groups in the holdings of the Douglas Library Archives, Queen's University, which involve correspondence and papers of prominent Canadian political figures ca. 1775-1931. Also present is a typescript letter from E.C.Beer, Douglas Library Archivist to Gerald E. Boyce, 21 January 1965, concerning the list of holdings.

File contains a newspaper article regarding Quinte District Catholic electors' perspectives on Dr. Hope, of the Baldwin-LaFontaine Party, and Robert Read, his opponent in the United Canadas election.

File contains a newspaper article concerning the history of leadership conventions in Canada, which were introduced by the Liberal Party in 1919.

File contains a two-page manuscript biography of Sir Gilbert Parker with a list of the books which he authored, 1888-1910.

File contains a newspaper article dated 22 April 1969 regarding a meeting of the NDP in which concerns about industrial pollution were discussed.

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.

File contains copies of The Intelligencer, 14 March 1966 which include an article concerning Gerda Munsinger, who was at the centre of a political scandal in Ottawa in the early 1960s.

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 House, West Bridge Street, Belleville. Includes a reprint of a drawing of the home.

File contains a printed copy of a poster inciting Prince Edward County residents to join in opposition to the Rebellion Losses Bill in 1849. On verso is a copy of a similar poster issued in Kingston.

File contains typescript transcripts of colonial newspaper articles and correspondence regarding events associated with the Rebellion of 1837 and its aftermath in the area from Presqu'ile to Brockville, Ontario.

File contains typescript transcript of a letter from Colonel de Rottenburg to Governor George Arthur concerning the destruction of the printing presses and types of the local paper over concerns that they were sympathetic to the Rebellion of 1837-38.

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.