This spade was used during the sod turning ceremony for the Cobourg-Peterborough railway. The inscription reads: "Presented by the directors to Mrs. S.E. Mackechnie Lady Mayoress Cobourg on the occasion of her turning the first sod of the Cobourg and Peterboro Railroad on Monday the 7th day of February 1853."

This item is a debenture-mortgage issued to Samuel Zimmerman, or the holder thereof, and used as evidence in a case involving John Fisken, and the executors of the Company's stock affairs, Wm. Proudfoot and T.G. Ridout, in 1868.

This item is a foreman's wage and material book from the Engineer Department of the Grand Trunk Railway, showing the name and occupation of workers, rate and amount of pay and material used for each four week period, 1866 to March 7, 1874. Each page bears the notation "paid at Belleville".

The photograph is by A.R. Capon of steam engine no. 26, from the Canadian National Railway