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Item is an edition of "60 Years on Ice" a publication of the Port Hope Figure Skating Club Inc., 13 Mar 2010. The programme includes photographs of each skating team and information about their performance at the 60th anniversary event.

Item is a hand-painted movie poster created by the Capitol Theatre, 1941. It features information about the showing of "A Bedtime Story" on Wednesday and Thursday September 2nd and 3rd, 1941. Additional text on the poster includes: 2nd Feature "Grand Central Murder" and "Also Capitol News."

Item is a history of Elias Smith, U.E. The book was written by Phyllis H. White and includes family history and details on Elias Smith's business ventures in Montreal and his time in Port Hope.

Fonds consists of issues of the "ACO Matters" Newsletters, 2008-2015. The newsletters contain various articles chronicling events and historic topics; and are produced between 3-4 times per year by the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario, Port Hope Branch. It includes: May 2008 (article by the Port Hope Archives), February 2009, May 2009, November 2009, February 2010, June 2010, September 2010, November 2010, February 2011, June 2011, September 2011, November 2011, February 2012, June 2012, September 2012, November 2012, Feburary 2013, June 2013 (article by the Port Hope Archives), September 2013, November 2013, February 2014, February 2015, June 2015, September 2015, November 2015.

Item is an "Absolute order for payment of a sum recovered" for the Division Court of the District of Newcastle. Form created by W. Furby for M. Falkner, Division Court of the District of Newcastle. Five hundred (500) copies were ordered, 27 Mar 1843.

Item is a production company movie poster for "Adventures of Martin Eden" used by the Capitol Theatre, 1942.

Series consists of three (3) binders entitled "B is for Barns," 2013. The binders contain photographs and information on various barns around Northumberland County, and formed part of the research project/exhibit undertaken by the Port Hope & District Agricultural Society for the Port Hope Fair in 2013. Specifically includes: Township of Alnwick Haldimand, Hamilton Township, and the Municipality of Port Hope.

Item is an edition of "Boys' Business: A Boy's Adventures with Birds and Beasts," 2015. The original manuscript was written by Charles Haultain and his mother, c1910. It was discovered, and published, by his daughter, Barbara in 2015. The book contains the musings of a young boy while hunting, fishing, and enjoying the life of a young naturalist in the area surround Port Hope, and Hope Township. It also includes sketches and watercolours created by Charles Haultain.

Item is an edition of "C.C.M. Exercise Book" for High School Entrance Examination Papers (Ontario), c1926-1932. It is inscribed as belonging to Irene Watts of Port Hope High School, and contains a sponsored add for John T. Steen Walton Street Port Hope 277W and 277J.

Item is one (1) edition of "Canadian House & Home" Magazine, Feb 2010. It includes a feature article of a renovated Port Hope home (68 Cavan Street) completed by Alan de la Vigne, p. 54.

Item is a "Cash for Oats" advertisement for R.W. Robson, 1843.

Series consists of three (3) publications of "Central Ontario Lakeshore Sports Look." Publications are for Port Hope and Cobourg and cost $0.85 each. They are for week #1 (9 Feb 1990), week #2 (23 Feb 1990) and week #3 (9 Mar 1990). All three publications include; tsn tv listings, local sports information, stats, schedules and OHL information. In week #3, there is also information about spring training and a Jays and Chiefs schedule.

File consists of a "Discharged" machine and a "Registered" perforating machine, once used at the old Land Registry Office of East Durham. Both machines are Cummins No. 15 Perforating Machines; Cummins Perforating Co., Chicago and New York.

Item is a framed print from the Douglas R. Greer Collection entitled: "Dragonfly Nymphs," 1996. Includes the following caption: "The nymphal form of the dragonfly (as with most aquatic insects) is the stage of the life-cycle spent underwater. The nymph stage of the dragonfly can exceed four years, during which period this fierce predator forages on smaller nymphs and baitfish." The adult dragonfly has been the subject of studies by scientists for centuries in the quest to analyze its spectacular ability for aeronautics, which are presumably performed by co-ordinating the function of 4 separate "brains" for the dragonfly's wings."

File consists of an essay written by H. R. S. Ryan on the 100th anniversary of the Baldwin Act. The essay was published in "Ontario History" in 1950 under the title "Echoes from the Minute books: Notes on the proceedings of the Board of police of Port Hope, 1834-1849" pages 184-204. The essay details early history of the town and its residents. Footnotes are given to document sources. It also includes the original transcript of the essay by H. R. S. Ryan.

Item is one (1) copy of "Everybody's Port Hope: In All Seasons" eBook, 2009. The "book" is a digital PDF file created by Albert Seaman, and includes the following chapters: (1) The Ganaraska River, (2) Spring, (3) Summer, (4) Autumn, (5) Christmas, (6) Winter, (7) Anytime.

Item is a framed print from the Douglas R. Greer Collection entitled: "Fan-wing Mayflies," 1996. Includes the following caption: "There are more than 700 living species of North American Mayflies, but only several dozen have been copied extensively by fly-tyers, and the Fan-wing patterns were largely abandoned in the late 1800s. Though some fly-tyers would disagree, the ADAMS pattern probably began as a Mayfly, and is now North America's most popular dry fly for Trout. Mayflies are common in the mid-Atlantic Ocean."

File consists of one (1) black and white poster of the "Fathers of Confederation." It includes: Hewitt Bernard, W.A. Henry, E. Palmer, W.H. Steeves, Chas. Fisher, Edward Whelan, G. Coles, J.H. Gray, F.B.T. Carter, A. Shea, J.C. Chapais, E.B. Chandler, S.L. Tilley, Adams G. Archibald, Alex Campbell, John A. Macdonald, H.L. Langevin, Geo. E. Cartier, E.P. Tache, Geo. Brown, A.T. Galt, Jas. Cockburn, Oliver Mowat, T.H. Haviland, P. Mitchell, R.B. Dickey, Chas. Tupper, J.H. Gray, W.H. Pope, A.A. Macdonald, J.M. Johnson, Wm. McDougall, J. McCully, T. D'Arcy McGee.

Item is an edition of "Foster Meharry Russell: The Life and Times of the Community Publisher," 1986. It includes the following sections: Millbrook, 1907-1925; Port Hope, 1925-1938 (pp. 26-55); Coldwater, 1938-1946; Cobourg, 1946-1984. Published by R.W. Jean Russell and Maracle Press, Oshawa. It is inscribed: "Ted [Watts] with love xxx on his 70th Birthday - Jean."

Series consists of a binder of genealogical research, copies of photographs, documents, and family trees from different branches of the Goheen family, 1795-2012. It is organized into divided sections starting with the five children of Thomas Goheen Sr.: Thomas Jr., Charles, Elizabeth, Samuel, and Jesse. The research was started by Raymond Goheen Sr., and completed by Doris Goheen, 2006.