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 printed page titled "To The Electors of Murney Ward", dated December 1st, 1888 and written by E. Guss Porter who was seeking re-election to the City Council. It outlines his services of the previous year.

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 petition to the Municipal Council of the County of Hastings; for the process of incorporating the village.

File contains a printed booklet entitled Federal Elections 1908 for Conservative Scrutineers and Workers. The booklet provides guidelines for the conduct of polls and includes a ballot sample.

File contains four original documents from the Clerks Office, Village of Trenton, with the names and dates of appointments of the local Reeve. (Archibald Thomson 1855; William Shea 1863 & 1865; James Cumming 1871).

File contains information regarding Hastings Electoral Districts from 1867-1930.

File contains a 1964 booklet “Canada Elections Act: Instructions for the Deputy Returning Officer at an Advance Poll” and an affidavit for voting at an advance poll in Hastings with Mary Plumpton's signature as Deputy Returning Officer.

File contains newspaper clippings on the Ontario provincial election results, October, 1967 provincially and for Quinte Riding.

File contains miscellaneous biographical information about Billa Flint (b. 1805 d. 1894) who owned lumber and saw mills in Bridgewater and became Mayor of Belleville 1866 and warden of the County of Hastings in 1873 and held other elected positions, he was appointed to the Senate by MacKenzie. Documents include: newspaper clippings, a directory of his businesses, and typed and written notes.

File contains information about M.P.P. Robert Ketchum Graham's time in office from 1867-1879.

File contains newspaper clippings about the re-election of MP Lee Grills from the Hastings riding.

File contains a manuscript letter from Robert R. Perry, to the Warden and County Council of Hastings protesting the proceedings of an election in Huntingdon and relating his subsequent arrest .

File contains a bylaw from 1860 regarding elections in Hastings County.

This fonds contains 22 folders. It consists of A. McLean Haig's biographical data which includes a brief summary of his life. The second folder contains his incoming correspondence which includes letters from: Assistant Deputy Minister of national Defence James A. Sharpe; a copy of a letter forwarded to Haig from C.C. Wimperly of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs to Mr. A.B. Sprague; two letters between Wimperly and Haig, one with statistics concerning Northumberland and Durham Counties, the communities of Campbellford and Seymour, and the former District of Newcastle; one from A.R. Wilson, the Belleville Superintendent of the Canadian National Railway; one telegram and one business card congratulating Mayor Haig on his election in 1962 from Quebec Premiere Jean Lesage – in the telegram, it is interesting to note that Lesage is spelled Lesarge; a letter from Trans-Canada Air Lines and Air Canada Vice President Howard Cotterell with a small picture sent from Cotterell to Haig from the air carrier's annual report; a letter from CNR Rideau Manager Keith Hunt that had a piece of the rail-track from Pinnacle Street in Belleville enclosed with it after the line had been pulled from the ground in 1964; and three Christmas cards received from constituents.

The are also pieces of Haig's outgoing correspondence including: four pieces of correspondence to CNR the St. Lawrence Region Vice President, W.H. Kyle and Belleville Superintendent A.R. Wilson respectively; and a letter thanking Premiere Lesage – again spelled Lesarge, for his congratulations on winning the 1962 Belleville municipal election.

There is a folder of his municipal papers consisting of: newspaper clippings; a press release from Postmaster M.A. Murray; a program from the opening of the new wing of the Belleville General Hospital in 1956; and a report on major accomplishments achieved by the Haig administration between 1960 and 1963 prepared by City Manager J.R. Reynolds. Additional folders in this fonds include: one folder of federal government papers, nine folders containing copies of his addresses and speeches; one folder of speeches given by other people that the Mayor kept; a folder with copies of the report of the Willmott Royal Commission which looked into the McFarlands hockey team scandal and the City Auditor's report of 1959; one folder of military related documents; one folder with items pertaining to the history of Belleville and Thurlow; a file with printed jokes and other items that Haig found humourous; one folder labeled miscellaneous by the original record keeper; and the contents of a scrapbook.

Printed handbill asking for support in the forthcoming municipal election. Patterson had been nominated to represent Baldwin Ward as an alderman.

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

Scrapbook with photocopies of newspaper clippings from the Intelligencer newspaper on the topic of the Wharf Street Debating Club of Belleville, Ontario.