File contains several manuscript and typescript memoranda and correspondence concerning the history of Hastings County by C. S. Chard of Stirling as related by his ancestors.
"The file contains the original documents from the 1800's:1) 1830 Indenture - Christopher Lenox to John L.W. Meyers, mortgage to Edward Fidlar - Huntingdon Twp, Con 4., Lot 1, 100 acres2) 1832 Sale - John L.W. Meyers to Jonathan Horton -...
File contains a newspaper clipping about an auction held in Stirling to auction 29 schools from the Huntingdon, Hungerford, and Rawdon area - $72,000 was raised for the school board.
File of items relating to the founding of Stirling, Ontario, and to education in Stirling and Rawdon, copied from the holdings of the Hastings County Historical Society and the Archives of Ontario. These items were sent to Stirling Public Library ...
File contains a newspaper clipping regarding underwater fishing activities by local skin divers Gary Cranston and George Woodhouse, Sportsmen Helldivers Club, in Oak Lake in July, 1959.
File contains two newspaper clippings regarding the destruction by fire on August 29, 1960 of the Rosebush Home, a pioneer dwelling constructed by Lewis Smith Rosebush on the Trent River, near Stirling, in 1841. The home had been converted to a ...
File contains a newspaper article concerning the renovation and reopening of the Rylstone country store which was established by William T. Bateman ca. 1862.
Scrapbook of news clipping relating to people in the Rawdon area of Hastings County, Ontario. Includes announcements of births, marriages and deaths and reports on people serving in the Second World War. Compiled by Eileen MacMullen.
File contains photocopied excerpts of the Hastings County Directory, 1860-1861, 1864-1865 listing residents of Stirling by occupation, and property location. Includes a photocopied newspaper photograph with identifications, of the members of the ...
File contains two newspaper clippings regarding the celebration of Stirling's Centennial in 1958. Includes background on the early settlement of Rawdon Township ca. 1807 and the founding of Stirling. Also present is a mimeographed undated c...
File contains 8 newspaper clippings on the preparations for and celebration of the 100th birthday of Stirling in 1958. Also includes a raffle ticket associated with the Centennial celebrations, two printed programmes, and a poster advertising ev...
File contains miscellaneous newspaper clippings about citizens of Stirling, Ontario c.1961. Including, but not limited to; John Wesley Morrison, Thomas Allan Eggleton, Thomas Patterson, William James Montgomery, Ewart Samuel Bailey, Waldo E. Roseb...
File contains a newspaper article from the Stirling News-Argus, 26 September 1957 concerning the events of the 1957 Stirling Fair, and an article from the Ontario Intelligencer, 21 September 1959 with photographs, concerning the 1959 Stirling fair...
File contains a one page printed completed letters patent form authorizing the establishment of semi-annual fairs in the Village of Stirling, issued by the Province of Canada, 15 November 1861.