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Minute books and financial records from the Town of Deseronto:

1. Council Minutes (bound volume), 1872, Jan 18 – 1887, Dec 20
2. Council Minutes (bound volume in envelope – in poor condition), 1916, Jul 18 – 1920, Feb 12
3. Council Minutes (bound volume), 1920, Mar 16 – 1927, Jul 18
4. Council Minutes (bound volume), 1927, Aug 15 – 1934, Aug 24
5. Council Minutes (bound volume), 1934, Sep 17 – 1941, Sep 15
6. Council Minutes (bound volume), 1941, Oct 20 – 1945, May 4
7. Council Minutes (bound volume), 1945, May 21 – 1953, Feb 16
8. Council Minutes (files), 1993-1996
9. Council Minutes (files), 1997-2008
10. General Journal, 1943-1965
11. General Journal, 1966-1973

Collection comprises the following items:

Volumes

1. ‘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.

2. ‘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.

3. ‘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.

4. ‘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.

5. 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.

6. Canadian Bank of Commerce account book for the ‘Town of Deseronto Street Fund’, 1930-1932

7. Municipal Accounting in Ontario, L. G. Macpherson and W. G. Leonard (1961)

Papers

8. Relief vouchers issued by the Town of Deseronto, 1938-1941, recording name of recipients and amount awarded to them, with receipts from shopkeepers showing what was purchased by the recipients.

1. Printed ‘Rules of Order of the Municipal Council of the Town of Deseronto’ 18 Feb 1889
2. Printed pro-forma for a certificate of public recognition by the town of Halifax for service in the Second World War (with pencilled alterations to make reference to Deseronto instead), 1945
3. Printed booklet on ‘The Future of the Liberal Party’, address by Brooke Claxton, Minister of National Defence, 4 Aug 1948
4. Auditor’s report on road expenditures for the Town of Deseronto, 1949
5. Edition of ‘Roads and Road Construction’ journal, March 1951, Vol. 29, no. 339
6. Leases between the Town of Deseronto and the Deseronto Lions Club (of the Skating Rink) and Deseronto Boating Club (part of the old saw mill property), 1953-1954
7. Published report by the Select Committee on Indian Affairs on ‘Civil Liberties and Rights of Indians [Indigenous People] in Ontario’, 19 Mar 1954
8. Letter from J.D. Lee and Company to the Deseronto Medical Officer of Health, Dr W. H. Duffett, with two copies of blueprint relating to modifications to the septic tank of the Deseronto Public School, 4 Dec 1956

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