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The collection contains the following textual records:

• Belleville High School Elevator yearbooks from ca. 1913-1926 (gaps)
• BCIVS yearbooks from ca. 1929-1978 (gaps)
  *1972 yearbook from York Regional School of Nursing
• Belleville Sports Hall of Fame program from Sept 12 1987
• Program- Tribute to Hastings & Prince Edward Regiment at St. Thomas Church
• A Flyer of Centennial House Tour May 13 1978
• Historic buildings of downtown Belleville walking tour pamphlet
• Heritage Belleville's Walking Tour pamphlet
• Bell Telephone Co. Subscribers lists for 1883 reproduction
• Official Telephone Directory 1900 reproduction pamphlet
• The Ont. Mutual Life Assurance Co. reproduction pamphlet
• Hastings County Historical Society "Outlook" Issue 88, November 1990
• Belleville's What's Happening Magazine Nov/Dec 1974

Fonds consists of records, including marriages, 1911-1922, of Trinity (formerly Eastern) Methodist Church in Napanee (pre-1872, also includes Napanee (Wesleyan) Methodist Circuit, made up of Napanee, Sand Hill, Houghs, Little Creek (now Anderson), Adolphustown Township, Olivers, Selby, Tyendinaga Township, Union Church, Morven, Big Creek, Mount Pleasant, and Mill Point (now Deseronto), 1851-1925; and records, including baptisms, 1897-1960, marriages, 1897-1984, and burials, 1897-1967, of Trinity United Church in Napanee (also includes Trinity Methodist Church), 1897-1988.

Fonds consists of 17 minute books of the Quinte Women's Institute and the group's Tweedsmuir history, which includes postcards, press clippings and photographs. Also included is a banner for the institute, history of the institute and files of loose papers for each minute book (letters, receipts, newspaper articles, reports, programmes and newsletters).

Collection comprises:

• File 1: Family photographs: mainly of farm scenes such as haymaking, corn harvesting, steam traction engines, horses. Two individuals are identified: George Avery and Will Roblin.
• File 2: Publications- newspaper clippings
• File 3: Nostalgic items and publications, newspaper clippings
• File 4: Miscellaneous publications and clippings
• File 5: Material relating to Belleville's 1978 Centennial

Materials added to the Community Archives' newspaper holdings: Belleville Intelligencer recipe supplements, 1964-1987

This series contains very limited records about the opening of a mission house in Tweed, Ontario by the Sisters of St. Joseph from the Pembroke diocese. There is a short note about the plan for Sisters Emma Castonguay, Clare Sullivan, and Mary Keizer to share a house on Irving Street in Tweed, beginning in June 1986, and to formally open the house on July 16, 1986. There is correspondence from Sister Margaret Glofcheskie, the General Superior, appointing Sister Clare as the local superior for the house. There is also a short note indicating that Sister Clare taught for two years at St. Cartagh’s in Tweed beginning in 1984. The school was part of the Hastings County Roman Catholic Separate School Board.

There are two files, one consisting of two folders containing the newsletter Albertalks, a publication designed, "for and about Graduates and Friends of the College." The second is a collection of notes from the 1962 Older Boys Parliament.

The collection reflects the publishing interests of Nick and Helma Mika. It comprises four main series: photographic files, reference files, printing process files and other materials. The collection is strong in local history materials, particularly relating to the history of the United Empire Loyalists, railways, and the city of Belleville.

Fonds consists of marriage register of Wooler Methodist Circuit, 1893-1906; marriage register of Stockdale Pastoral Charge (includes Stockdale Methodist Circuit, 1916-1929; marriage register of Wooler Pastoral Charge (includes Wooler Methodist Circuit, Wooler, Mount Zion Church in Murray Township, Bethel Church), 1917-1930; records, including baptisms, 1906-1946, marriages, 19906-1946, burials, 1906-1946, of Wooler - Stockdale Pastoral Charge (includes Wooler Methodist Circuit, Wooler Pastoral Charge, Wooler, Stockdale, Mount Zion Church in Murray Township), 1902-1986

Fonds consists of the following series: circuit register of Stirling Methodist Circuit (includes Stirling Methodist Episcopal Circuit, Stirling, Carmel, Salem, Ebenezer, Bethel, Mount Pleasant, Rawdon), 1873-1906; records, including marriages, 1896-1910, of Rawdon Methodist Circuit (includes Mount Pleasant, Bethel, Stirling, Rawdon), 1895-1915; records of Ivanhoe Methodist Circuit (includes Bethesda, Beulah, Salem, Minto), 1890-1924 financial record book of Springbrook Methodist Church, 1882-1909; records of Ivanhoe Pastoral Charge (includes Beulah, Bethesda, Salem, Minto), 1935-1965; records, including marriages, 1926-1984, burials, 1929-1984, of Springbrook Pastoral Charge (includes Rylestone, Stanwood), 1926-1984; records, including baptisms, 1905-1981, marriages, 1904-1967, burials, 1907-1981, of Rawdon Pastoral Charge (includes Rawdon Methodist Church, Rawdon, Bethel, Mount Pleasant), 1905-1981; marriages of Rawdon-Springbrook Pastoral Charge (includes Rawdon, Springbrook, Mount Pleasant, Bethel, Salem), 1967-1984; records, including baptisms, 1905-1967, of Rylstone United Church (includes Rhylstone Presbyterian Church), 1905-1968; communion roll and register of Springbrook United Church, 1925-1950; baptisms of Stanwood United Church, 1927-1963

Collection comprises photographs of the two First World War Royal Flying Corps training camps at Deseronto, Ontario and notes for an unpublished book, Wings Over Deseronto, on the history of the camps. Camp Mohawk and Camp Rathbun were in operation between May 1917 and November 1918, training men to be pilots for the Western Front. The photographs in this collection are originals and reproductions depicting the aircraft, staff and cadets of the Royal Flying Corps, principally in the Deseronto camps, but also at Camps Borden and Leaside (Ontario) and Camp Taliaferro, in Fort Worth, Texas.

Fonds consists of records, including marriages, 1896-1922, of Deseronto Methodist Church, 1882-1923; annual reports of Grace Methodist Church, Napanee, 1923-1925; records, including baptisms, 1899-1946, marriages, 1901-1958, burials, 1901-1974, of Deseronto United Church (includes Deseronto Methodist Church), 1899-1974; and anniversary records and annual reports of Grace United Church, Napanee, 1926-1983.

Fonds consists of records, including baptisms, 1807-1844, marriages, 1808, 1811, 1831-1832, of Belleville Wesleyan Methodist Circuit (includes Smith's Creek Methodist Episcopal Circuit, Port Hope Belleville Methodist Episcopal Circuit, Belleville Wesleyan Methodist Station), 1807-1863; records, including marriages, 1897-1903, 1910-1912, of Belleville Methodist Circuit (includes Belleville North Circuit, Bleecker Street Methodist Church), 1860-1912; Trustee Board minutes of Bleecker Street Methodist Church, Belleville, 1881-1911; records, including baptisms, 1900-1923, marriages, 1896-1919, burials, 1900-1924, of Bridge Street Methodist Church, Belleville, 1876-1920; records, including baptisms, 1924-1943, marriages, 1900-1940, burials, 1924-1943, photographs, of Bridge Street United Church, Belleville (includes Bridge Street Methodist Church), 1871-1980; baptism register of John Street United Church, Belleville, 1928-1937; baptism/burial register of Dundas Street Mission, Belleville, 1926-1941; and records of Kingston Road United Church, Belleville, 1926-1957.

Collection includes published annual reports of Deseronto Methodist Church for 1902, 1912, 1923 and 1924; souvenir booklet of the Methodist Church, 1911-1912; typewritten history of the Deseronto United Church from the 1860s up to 1976 (apparently extracted from minutes of the Board); newspaper clippings relating to church members and ministers, 1960s; a few photographs of church members, 1960s; printed orders of service 1970s-1980.

Minute book of the Monteagle Women's Institute.

The fonds contains a Daily Cash Transactions sheet with a hand-drawn layout of the coal yards, an envelope with the company name "The Schuster Co. Limited", miscellaneous materials copied from original documents including newspaper clippings from 1954; pages 62-66 of the Canadian Fuel Marketer ca. 1878-1978 issues; Weaver Liquifuels pages 55-60, 2 envelopes of negatives, and 110 photographs of various everyday operations at the Bill Schuster Coal and Lumber Company, as well as photographs of Bill Schuster and possibly his family. One is an aerial photograph of the site of the company.

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; 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 two volumes of scrapbooks.

The Wanamaker fonds consists of textual records and graphic materials of genealogical histories of various families. The fonds also contains records, brochures, pamphlets, publications, books, and other textual records from towns and cities throughout Ontario, predominantly from the Quinte Area and Hastings County.

• Family Photographs of the Sayers family, Ralph Wanamaker's family, the Hodgen family, of Loral Wanamaker's family, Parliament family, Van Cott family, Post family, as well as loose photographs of the Parliament family, the McTaggart family, various snapshots and negatives of sceneray and views, as well as 2 boxes of slides
• 1 box of Books and Binders with genealogical records, as well various records of various towns in Ontario ca. 1816 - 1957
• Genealogical notes, histories, birth records, death records, pages from family Bibles, receipts, and other textual records for over 40 individual families
• Genealogical charts, and ancesteral charts
• Genealogical correspondences
  *Newspapers, and News clippings from Hastings County, Hastings County Museum, Historical Society, Lennox and Addington, Prince Edward County, Trenton, Tyendinaga, and United Empire Loyalists
• Legal documents, seals and original deeds, and land records ca. 1803 - 1848
• Genealogy forms, research materials, reference materials
• Various artworks and postcards (of Hastngs County, the Quinte Region, the British Military and Navy, the Belleville Art Association, and travel)
• Quinte region, Belleville, Trenton, and Prince edward County miscellaneous publications, newspaper clippings, brochures, pamphlets, notes, directories, histories, records, and tourism guides and publications
• Ontario, New York , and Canada pamphlets, magazines, calendars, and an Ontario Liquor License Act, 1891
• Land Abstracts for Prince Edward County
• Maps and plans: 1778-1779 Blue Print Surveys from General Washington, New York Historical Society; 1784 Ontario (printed by Ministry of Natural Resources), 1984; 1860-1861 Hastings County, 1860-1861 from the Hastings County Directory; 1928 Lloyd's Map of Hastings County; c. 1930 Belleville Post Office Carrier Route #8, North Front and North Park Streets
• Scrapbooks ca. 1958-1972
• Miscellaneous Publications (almanacs, newspaper clippings, miscellaneous pins belonging to Loral Wanamaker, blue print surveys)

Genealogical family research names:

• Allison
• Alyea
• Babcock, John
• Bailey
• Belnap
• Benson
• Blair/Snider/Mumby/Spenser
• Brickman, Lewis
• Brighton
• Canniff
• Clapp
• Cole
• Cunningham
  *Davis
• Embury
• Finkle
• Fraser
• Gallagher
• Gerow
• Giraud/Gero-Gerow
• Hodgens
• Johnson
• Loveless, Absolam
• McTaggart
• Meyers, John W.
• Mitchell, Alfred
• Orser
• Parliament
• Peck
• Redner
• Roblin
• Scott
• Spencer
• Sprung
• Van Cott, John
• Vander Woort
• Waite (see also Sprung and Putnam)
• Wallbridge
• Wanamaker
• Wanamaker, Judge George Washington
• Wanamaker
• Weese
• Whitney
• Williams and Schermerhorn
• Yarrow

Copies of The Belleville Times, a weekly newspaper, published on Wednesdays in Belleville, Ontario by Roger Worth in 1969 and 1970.

The Belleville Chamber of Commerce fonds is composed of:

• one file of correspondence including a press release, a ballot for the election for the 1968 election
• one file containing two newsletters from 1956 and the last page of another newsletter from 1958.
• one file of industrial brochures and promotional material containing three brochures circa 1953.
• one file has annual reports from 1922, 1954, 1955, and 1956 in it, and a better service survey from 1953. * one file contains three guides about Belleville from 1950, three information guides for visitors to Belleville from 1961.
• one file of directories and maps from 1949 to 1963.
• two files containing “The Highlands of Hastings” travel brochures from 1940 to 1967, and a Quinte Isle tourist directory.
• one file containing files from the “Jaycees,” also known as the Belleville Junior Chamber of Commerce.
• one file of material from the Belleville Board of Trade for Hastings County period in the organizations history.
• one file containing ephemera pieces including a sign indicating membership and a menu.
• one file contains various newspaper clippings.
• series of scrapbooks dedicated to the Chamber of Commerce.