Materials collected by Mary Lu Toms:

1. Thirteen black and white Hall family photographs and three negatives, 1895-1929, including: George Alex Hall, his first wife, Esther Frost and their children Russell and Arthur and his second wife, Mary Clarke Clazie and their children Aleck, Helen, and Frank
2. Temperance pledge card signed by Mary Clazie, 1907
3. Embroidered section of Mary Clazie's home-made wedding dress, 1912
4. Ration books for members of the Toms family, 1944-1945
5. Letters of congratulation to Mary Lu Toms for winning drawing and academic prizes, 1955-1961
6. Artwork by Mary Lu Toms for Moira and Quinte Secondary School, including school pins for Moira and the cover of Quintessence, 1958 and a card carrying her sketch of the Hastings County Registry Office building, c.1961
7. Certificates for completion of 4H home economics courses and Spelling Bee School Champion, 1956-1958
8. Correspondence concerning Mary Lu Tom's summer job at the Entomology Research Institute in Belleville, 1962
9. Single page "Brief History of Belleville" by Gerry Boyce, 1982 and correspondence concerning the donation of a dress to Glanmore by Mary Lu Toms, 1985

Minutes of the Thurlow Junior Farmers and Junior Institute for young women on the fifth concession of Thurlow Township in Hastings County, Ontario.

File contains biographical information of Anthony Burgess, an immigrant from Portugal who lived in Thurlow and was a sheep breeder in the 1870s.

This file contains the original accounts book for School Section No. 23, in the Township of Thurlow from 1863 to 1914.

This file contains an original Certificate of Honor issued to Keith Garbutt who won the greatest number of points in School Township of Thurlow at the Thurlow Rural School Fair held at Cannifton on 17 September 1925. Awarded by the Ontario Department of Agriculture.

The file contains a typed copy of Samuel Sherwood's account book. Included is a brief biography as well as a genealogy of Samuel, his wife and children, dated from 1754-1924.

File contains a questionnaire completed by Ed Clarke about his family farm's history for a Tweedsmuir history.

This file contains a personal writing by Maribeth L. Bird of Belleville, dated 1983 and titled "Cannifton, The Seat of Thurlow Township, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada". It contains: a brief history of Cannifton and the people; several reproduced articles from the Intelligencer (death of a child, Clarence William Holgate), unveiling of a plaque in memory of Miss Mary Cowan, "Reminiscent of a Mark Twain Novel" by John Bateman. The majority of the book is a family genealogy starting with John and Mary Holgate, born in England and Scotland in the years 1791 and 1797. The family history also contains photocopies of family pictures.

The file contains a copy of By-Law No. 3013, to adopt the Official Plan for Part of the Township of Thurlow.

The file contains an original copy of the handbook "Regulations and Programme for Religious Education in the Public Schools, 1949" from the Cannifton-Corbyville Public School, Thurlow Township School Area.

File contains a newspaper article dated 28 May 1966 titled "Crown Grant Found In Attic Will Be Presented to Museum"; the file also contains an original "Exemplification of Grant to John Taylor" dated 13 February 1870.

File contains research material for Yeomans Genealogy; including excerpts from the 1851, and 1871 Census' for Hastings County. Family names include Yeomans, Osborn, Clapp.

A map showing a plan of survey for lots 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and lots 37, 38, 39, 40 on the south side of Bridge Street East between Dufferin and Macdonald Avenues in Belleville, Ontario. Surveyed by John T. Ransom on March 1, 1951 and amended April 14, 1960. Scale: 1'':50'.

The file contains a number of legal documents dating from 1907 through to 1929 pertaining to land ownership of various parcels of land including: Hastings Paper Mills (Township of Thurlow), Lazier Paper Mills, Belleville Paper Mills, Lazier Dam. Family names included in these documents are: Colon Bruce Burnham, John Bell, Thomas P. Birchall, Samuel J. Bull, Jonas Canniff, James Canniff, William James Craig, William Oliver Luscomb (wife Coralie), Samuel H. Traverton, S.A. Lazier, Robert Elliott Lazier, Alec Robertson, Charles Edward Ford, Albert Ford, Frederick Ford, Walter Ford, Mary Ford, Mary Fenwick, William Moore, Clara Yeomans, Mary Yoemans, Louis C. Yeomans, Alicia Fenton Russell Yeomans , Horace Yeomans.

Original newspaper clippings of obituaries for: J. Wesley Glass, Orlean Glass, E. Carl Bleeker, Tom Ketcheson, Marjory K. Grass, Sussana Green nee Hart, Howard Bleecker Ketcheson, Charles Ketcheson, Mrs. Nancy Victoria Green, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Ketcheson nee Whitley. Photocopies of pages from family bible recording the deaths of: Arthur Ketcheson, Howard Bleecker Ketcheson, Tom Ketcheson; the births of : Howard Bleecker Ketcheson, Arthur Ketcheson, Tom Ketcheson and Mary Jane Glass. Old handwritten note recording births of: Nancy Victoria Glass, Mary Jane Glass, Orlean Glass, Frankie Alberta Glass, Emaly Glass and James Wesley Glass. Memorium cards and church membership cards.

File contains multiple copies of maps and concession surveys; of the Thurlow Township c. 1961.