Visitors' books from Deseronto Centennial celebrations
- CA ON00156 DA 2021.02
- File
- 1971, 1989
Town of Deseronto
8 results with digital objects Show results with digital objects
Visitors' books from Deseronto Centennial celebrations
Town of Deseronto
Records of the Town of Deseronto
Minute books and financial records from the Town of Deseronto:
Town of Deseronto
Materials transferred from Deseronto Town Hall
Collection comprises the following items:
Volumes
‘Decision 1963’ Printed yearbook for Deseronto High School. Includes photographs and names of the six faculty and the 65 students, advertisements from local businesses and descriptions of school activities throughout the year.
‘Foreign Procedure Book’, of third division court of the County of Hastings, 1912, March 6 – 1935, November 18, giving name of defendant and plaintiff, details of fees. Indexed by surname of defendant.
‘Procedure Book : A. B. Randall, clerk, 3rd D. C. Hastings’, of the third division of the County of Hastings, sitting at Shannonville, 1889, February 5 – 1910, September 13, giving name of defendant and plaintiff, details of bailiff and clerk’s fees. Indexed by surname of defendant. Includes some correspondence and statements of account. Randall was the clerk throughout the volume.
‘D. C. Clerk’s Cash Book’ Receipts and expenditures of the seventh division court in the County of HastingsCourt register, 1921 – 1932, giving name of defendant and plaintiff, and amount paid out, with signature of recipient.
Receipt book for the third division court of the County of Hastings, Shannonville, 1916-1935, recording names of defendants and plaintiffs and amount received for debts and costs.
Canadian Bank of Commerce account book for the ‘Town of Deseronto Street Fund’, 1930-1932
Municipal Accounting in Ontario, L. G. Macpherson and W. G. Leonard (1961)
Papers
Town of Deseronto
Auditor's Report for the Town of Deseronto for 1930
Town of Deseronto
Photographs transferred from Deseronto Town Hall
Photographs found in Deseronto Town Hall, dating from the 1970s to 2011, depicting a variety of Town events. They include a set of aerial photographs from the 1980s (some duplicates), photographs of Centennial and Rathbun Memorial Park, the opening of the Deseronto Public Library in its 358 Main Street location in 2001, the 2010 Olympic Flame run in Deseronto, an Easter Parade from the early 2000s, a Santa Parade, the OPP handover (2007?), interior of the Home Hardware store in the Baker Block, 1989 100th Anniversary celebrations, 2002 New Year’s Levee, the O’Connor House before demolition.
Some were taken by Tom Usher (donated by Irene Usher), others are of unknown provenance: probably taken by Town staff.
Town of Deseronto
Materials transferred from Deseronto Town Hall
Town of Deseronto
Materials transferred from Deseronto Town Hall
Town of Deseronto
Voters' List of the Town of Deseronto for the year 1914
Town of Deseronto
Ribbons from Deseronto's 100th Anniversary Homecoming
Four ribbons from ‘Deseronto’s 100th Anniversary Homecoming 1989’, a red one for first prize, a dark blue for second prize, a white for third prize and a pale blue for ‘I particpated’. Duplicate ribbons were discarded.
Town of Deseronto
1) ‘Souvenir and Programme’ of the 1929 Loyalist celebrations in Deseronto
2) ‘Deseronto is 100 Years Old this Year’ article from the Napanee Beaver, c. May 1971 (mentions Rathbun head office building as being owned by Redi-Heat appliance manufacturers, later by Dravo and "now empty")
3) ‘Deserontonian of the week’ newspaper article from the Napanee Beaver about Gerald and Kay Lott, owners of a Deseronto jewelry store from 1950-1982 (the approximate date of the article).
Town of Deseronto
Tax bill from Town of Deseronto
Property tax bill addressed to Reuben Cronk of Deseronto.
Town of Deseronto
Materials relating to Deseronto Town Council
1) Large format photographs (mostly mounted) which were formerly on display in Deseronto Town Hall.
Town Council portraits from the following years:
1967
1971
[1970s]
1982-1985
1985-1988
1988-1991
1991-1994
1997-2000
2000-2003
2003-2006
Mounted copy of letter asking E.W. Rathbun to be Mayor in 1889
Letters of congratulations on 100th anniversary of Deseronto in 1989
Photo of Town Hall
Portraits of Glenn Balcour as Warden of Hastings County
2) Four files of press cuttings relating to Deseronto Town Council from 1970s to 2003, covering water works, policing, taxes, events
Town of Deseronto
Photocopy of plot plan of the Deseronto Cemetery
Plan of the Deseronto Cemetery, with plot numbers.
Town of Deseronto
Collage of photographs of members of the Town Council of Deseronto, Ontario
Photographs of members of the council of the Town of Deseronto:
George E. Clement
James Sexsmith
William Irvine
James Whitton
J. M. Olliver
George Parnham
A. A. Richardson, Deputy Reeve
Frederick S. Rathbun, Treasurer
Edward Wilkes Rathbun, Mayor
Robert Irvine, Clerk
James Dryden, Reeve
J. McCollough, Assessor
George Gonyou, Chief of Police
G. E. Deroche, Solicitor
T. D. Galt
William Mellow
James Saunders
Town of Deseronto