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 events of August 3-6, 1858. Also present is a printed booklet entitled Stirling Centennial Souvenir, 1967 by Mrs. Ethel Luery and Mrs. Jessie Warren.

File contains a newspaper article dated 21 June 1956 concerning membership expansion of the Stirling Chamber of Commerce . Also present is a newspaper article about the 1957 annual meeting of the Stirling Chamber of Commerce and the organization of the 1958 Stirling centennial celebrations.

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. Rosebush, Ivan Sine, Charles Thompson and, Edmund Allan Carleton.

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 and agricultural exhibits. Also present is an undated colour postcard reminder of an upcoming 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.

File contains a booklet that is the prize list from the Stirling Fall Fair held August 30 & 31, 1974.

File contains several newspaper articles concerning the 1957, 1959 and 1969 occurrences of the annual Stirling Festival of Sacred Praise, a competition of church and school choirs and individual performers.

The file contains the Stirling Festival Theatre House Programs for 2000 and 2004 and Theatrics Summer Playhouse (Bancroft); also a program for Anne of Green Gables (Stirling); Menopositive (The Empire Theatre, Belleville).

File contains a newspaper article from the Ontario Intelligencer, 16 May 1957 concerning major fires in 1883 and 1908 which damaged and destroyed several businesses and homes in Stirling.

File contains a copy of a yearbook for Stirling High School, 1929; and a copy of the 125th Stirling High School Reunion book.

File contains a photocopied printed pamphlet announcing the reopening of the Stirling High School for its fall 1888 session, the only high school in North Hastings in that period. Includes lists of programs and tuition rates.

Materials produced by the Stirling Historical Society, including:

• Four editions of 'The Heritage Clarion', Volume 1 numbers 1, 3, and 4, Volume 2 number 2
• Partial list of artifact donations, 1993
• Map and text for walking tour of Stirling, 1993
• Photocopy of a register of members of Stirling Public Library, 1903
• Typescript 'brief history of the Stirling Public Library', c.1975
• Update on the history of the library to 1989
• List of contributors to the purchase of the site for the Stirling Public Library, 1914
• Photocopy of a flyer promoting the Stirling Public Library, 1910
• Reproduction of article about the opening of Stirling Public Library, 1903
• Hand-written notes on aspects of Stirling history, c.1990

Visitor book for events put on by the Stirling Historical Society.

An unbound history of Stirling titled "The Heritage Years: A History of Stirling and District" , edited by Blanche Faulkner and Rosella Clancy, and published by the Stirling Historical Book Committee in 1984. It is 555 pages with photographs and an index. It is placed in three folders. (a,b,c).

File contains an Ontario Intelligencer article, 26 June 1959, concerning the 1959 annual flower show organized by the Stirling Horticultural Society.

File contains several newspaper articles regarding the 1956 centennial of the Stirling Masonic Lodge, No. 69, and the installation of officers in 1956 and 1957.

File contains 2 newspaper clippings regarding Reverend Arthur Packman, who left his post in Stirling, to be come an itinerant minister in beverage rooms in Toronto in 1960. Also contains a newspaper clipping entitled St. Paul's Notes by Reverend Packman.

Newspaper published in Stirling, Ontario.

File contains several issues of the Stirling News-Argus from 1956 and 1957. Also present are two manuscript receipts dated 1888 and 1930 and a printing order, 1922.

Items from a binder labelled 'Stirling Odds & Ends'. Includes:

• Photograph of three women and four men, c.1910, given by Terry Bust ("one is his grandfather & uncle")
• Newspaper clippings relating to Stirling buildings and history
• Huntingdon Township Voters' List, 1948
• Souvenir booklet of the 90th anniversary of St. John's Anglican Church, Stirling, 1950
• Order of service for St. Paul's United Church, Stirling, 8 June 2008
• Photocopy of 1890 Fire Insurance map showing Mill and North Streets, Stirling
• Items relating to the history of the Bank of Montreal in Stirling
• Printed 'Stirling Centennial Souvenir', 1967
• Butler and Young family trees
• 'Souvenir Story of our school Allan & Williams Mount Pleasant - Rawdon Township' by Mrs Percy MacMullen, 1968
• 'Sidney Baptist Church celebrates 165th' by Lewis Zandbergen
• 'Sidney Baptist Church' by Harry V. Faulkner, Lorne C. Reid and Luella Carson, 1976
• Unveiling of historical plaque in memory of Asa Turner at Sidney Baptist Church, 27 May 1984
• 'Those Radical Elzevirs!' by Michael Dawber
• 'The History of St. Thomas [Anglican] Church Rawdon, 1892-1973'
• 'Grace Chapel Stirling' by Everett Elliott, c.1980
• Booklet titled Welcome to Stirling's 150th Anniversary, 2008