File contains a newspaper article about a report by Community Services Director Robert Porter on the lack of women in decision making positions in city organizations.

File contain typescript and manuscript photocopies of volumes one to three of theTweedsmuir History of the Plainfield Women's Institute

File contains a newspaper clipping from the Ontario Intelligencer, 14 April 1959 concerning the election of officers of the Plainfield Women's Institute. Also includes an obituary of Harry McCreary, Plainfield, telephone pioneer and former owner-operator of the McCreary Telephone Company who created early rural telephone lines in Thurlow and Sidney Townships. Also present is a duplicate copy of a printed booklet entitled “Progress Report : Ontario Homes for Mentally Retarded Infants, Plainfield, May 1951-December 1965. “

File contains a printed programme of “Women's Parliament of Prophecy, A.D. 2901,” an all-female performance of a mock parliament in two acts, which took place at the Belleville Opera House in May, 1901.

File contains a printed Victorian Order of Nurses membership card, and a printed Women's Canadian Club membership card, for 1936-1937 for Dr. Ethel A. Noble, Belleville. Also present is a blank printed statement of accounts for professional services rendered by Dr. Ethel A. Noble, ca. 1940.

File contains a manuscript claim submitted to the Provincial Government by Mary Melvin for the provision of a horse team for six days in 1838.

File contains a newspaper article concerning Mrs. Margaret Merson, Belleville, who designed and built dollhouses for hobby and charity.

File contains a newspaper article concerning the institution of the Belleville chapter of the International Order of Rainbow Girls, sponsored by the Order of the Eastern Star.

File contains a newspaper clipping concerning a ceremony to honour Mrs. Evelynne M. Little, Grand Secretary of the Belleville Minerva Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, March 21, 1969.

File contains a newspaper article concerning the branch history of the Madoc Women's Institute from 1914-1960.

File contains three newspaper clippings about Ivanhoe including the Beulah Cooperative Cheese Company, a public notice about the Canadian Pacific discontinuing the Agency at the Ivanhoe Station, and Women's Institute at St. Andrew's Church marked the 50th anniversary.

File contains a newspaper clipping from 1969 about Rebekah Lodges in Belleville, Stirling, and Thomasburg being visited by Provincial Assembly President.

File contains a photocopy of a newspaper clipping from 1922 about the start of Glenford Rebekah Lodge No. 230 in Frankford with a visit from D.D.P. Sister M Naylor of the Quinte Lodge in Belleville.

File contains newspaper clippings about the Argyll Chapter and St. Julien Chapter of the Imperial Order Daughter of the Empire (I.O.D.E) printed in 1969.

File contains newspaper clippings about the Argyll Chapter of the Imperial Order Daughter of the Empire (I.O.D.E) printed in 1968.

File contains miscellaneous newspaper clippings about the St. Julien Chapter of Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (I.O.D.E) printed in 1959.

File contains a newspaper clipping about former Chief Melville Hill giving a speaking at the Napanee Business and Professional Women's Club in 1966.

File contains the history of the Ivanhoe Women's Institute and it celebrating its 50th anniversary in 1961.

Eighteen volumes of minutes for the Hastings West District Women's Institutes: 1921-1925; 1925-1928; 1929-1931; 1932-1935; 1935-1938; 1939-1942; 1941-1944; 1944-1947; 1947-1950; 1950-1952; 1953-1955; 1955-1960; 1960-1965; 1965-1969; 1969-1974; 1974-1978; 1979-1984; 1984-1991

Two microfilms of minutes from 1921-1952 and 1953-1984.

Minute books for 1917-1918; 1918-1919; 1919-1920; 1926-1928; 1928-1930; 1937-1938; 1939-1944; 1945-1948.
Microfilm of minute books 1926-1967.

Tweedsmuir history of the Chatterton Women's Institute, compiled by Nora Prest between 1955 and 1967. Includes photographs, maps, and news clippings relating to the Halloway area of Sidney township, Hastings County, Ontario.
Master negative of microfilm of Tweedsmuir histories.