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Letter from Preston North to his daughter, Alice (grandmother of the donor):

Deseronto
Sept 14th 1939

Dear Alice, and all at home,
The war has started
I was glad to get your letter on sept 12th and I did not get any other letters you sent before Christmas. It is a fight to the finish Canada has gone to a finish no fooling this time.
Returning men are going up by the thousands and no turning back. They have got into Warsaw and the women are fighting like tigers.
I am very well but I don't work much only at my own clothes. 3 years war if not more. Hoping to hear from you at any time. Give my best wishes to all.
From your father Preston North
Deseronto Canada xxxx Bye bye

Report on the ancestors of Hugo Burghardt Rathbun.

Copies of two photographs:

1. Deseronto High School
   Central Ontario Inter-Scholastic League Champs
   FRONT - L. Bruyea, l.w.; F. Whitton, centre; Maurice Detlor, r.w.; C. McVicker, goal.
   TOP - J. Whitton, Manager; J. McVicker, Mascot; L. McVicker, sub.; M. Perry, r. defense; C. Cole, l. defense; F. Butzer, sub.; E. I. Gale, Principal of Deseronto High School.
   The picture is undated, but E. I. Gale was Principal of the school between 1922 and 1926. There is a high overlap of team members with the 1926-1927 team photograph, so this may be the 1925-1926 hockey team.

2. Deseronto High School Hockey Team
   Central Ontario Interscholastic Champs for the years 1926 and 1927
   FIRST ROW - C. McVicker, goal; L. Bruyea, left wing; J. Whitton, Manager; F. Whitton, centre; Maurice Detlor, right wing.
   SECOND ROW - A. D. Campbell, Principal; C. Cole, left defense; B. Campbell, sub; L. McVicker, right defense; G. Green, sub; B. Brant, coach.

Photograph of a young woman with inscription reading "Dear Mother With best Love Lettie, Aug 12th 1903". The woman is possibly Lettie Howard (born Lettie Young: 1874-1961). Lettie Howard is the only person in Deseronto in the 1901 census with that first name. She married Robert Howard in Belleville on 10 April 1894.

Recipes for bread interspersed with advertisements for Vinol Cod Liver Oil and Iron, distributed by W. J. Malley, druggist, of Deseronto, Ontario.

Scanned photographs of Nealon family members (Denis, Jane, Margaret and Rose) of Marysville, Ontario, with four printed images of Denis Nealon and two pages of information about his father, Michael Nealon.

Digital copies of photographs taken by Sergeant Christopher Paulus Devos, a flight instructor for 84 Canadian Training Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force at Camp Mohawk near Deseronto, Ontario.

Digital photographs of the Cenotaph ceremonies held in Deseronto on 11 November 2007 and 2008.

List of names scanned from an autograph book owned by Agnes Sexsmith in 1929. Names are:
Olive Hewitt
Frank McCable
Thelma Melburn
Ralph Melburn
Walter Winter
Harold Winter
WIlfrid Winter
Eileen McAllister
Percy Marshall
Ross Marshall
Andrew Tulluch
Donald Tulluch
Vincent Sexsmith

Copy of letter from the Draper Manuscripts from Kenwendeshon, written from Mill Point [Deseronto], Ontario, in March 1878, with transcription and family tree.

Scanned copy of hand-written family tree showing seven generations of descendants of Hugo Berghardt Rathbun (1812-1886) and Louisa Storm (1820-1885) of Deseronto, Ontario.

List of 11 women from Deseronto who studied nursing in Kingston, Ontario.

Photographs, some composite, of buildings and views in Deseronto, Ontario, pasted onto paper pages and bound into a volume.

A group of glass negatives associated with Herbert 'Burt' Rathbun (1861-1897) and his family.

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.

Snapshot of children and Santa Claus at a Christmas party held by the Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer in Deseronto, Ontario, c.1960.

The children have been identified (left to right) as: Frances Klaver, Teresa Idzenga, Stella Idzenga, [?], [?], Shirley Klaver, [?], [?], Allan Klaver, ? Pringle, Gail Reid.

Photographs:
1) Bev and Vern Boomhour on their wedding day, 28 July 1956
2-10) Quinte Classic boat races in Deseronto in 1980
11) Dignitaries at the entrance to Deseronto Town Hall for the Terry Fox Run in 1982

Scanned photographs and newspaper cutting relating to the family of John Poitras, who lived in Deseronto from 1875 to around 1896 and worked for the Rathbun Company as a superintendent.

1. Herbert 'Bert' Poitras, part of a Deseronto sports team
2. Poitras home on St. George Street, north of the Presbyterian Church
3. Same house from a more oblique angle
4. ‘Sol Markle’
5. Grace Poitras (b.1883) and her brother Bert as small children
6. Deseronto Tribune article about the Poitras’s cottage and summer camp at Butternut Cove, Aug 24, 1894
7. Grace Poitras in a nurse’s uniform, 1904, taken in Watertown, NY
8. Man on an ice-boat
9. Man on an ice boat, labelled ‘Tom Tierney, 1896’

Photographs:

1. Memorial to RAF men who died in Canada
2. Grave of Cadet John Robson
3. Grave of Private Frederick W. Grand
4. Grave of 1st Air Mechanic George Marshall
5. Grave of Sergeant John Holland
6. Grave of Lieutenant Colin G. Coleridge
7. Grave of Lieutenant C. J. Humphreys
8. Grave of Cadet Carl A. Bender (taken in April 2015)

Photographs of an iron made by the Redi-Heat Electric Company Limited in Deseronto, Ontario in the 1930s or 1940s.