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Album of photographs compiled by a member of the Hobbs family. Teddie Hobbs appears in one of the photographs and there is also a photograph of the grave of J. E. Hobbs. The majority of photographs are of the First World War Royal Flying Corps training camps in North America: Camps Borden and Mohawk in Ontario and Camp Taliaferro in Texas.

Found in file labelled “Old Papers Found 77 Brant Street, Deseronto, 1997”
Papers, including:

1. Directory listing for a canteen in Deseronto for Miss A. Mungo, 1931;
2. Chattel mortgage for Mrs Alice Freeman, 785 Princess Street, Kingston, 1949;
3. Calendar of movies playing at the Bayview [Naylor's] Theatre, Deseronto, Ontario, during April [1952]. Includes advertisements for Ernie Luck's Plumbing & Heating, Burkitt's Groceteria, Moody's Men's Wear, Gerald Lott's Jewellery, and Rosebay Dairy. Movies include Hollywood Story, Illegal Entry, Texas Rangers, That's My Boy, Wing and a Prayer, Royal Wedding, Father's Little Dividend, The Mating Season, Fury of the Congo, The Great Caruso, Bird of Paradise, Tall in the Saddle and Wabash Avenue.
4. Letter from Avis [Mungo?] on the S.S. Ralph Budd, heading for Fort William and Port Arthur [Thunder Bay], written October 29, 1955 (and envelope addressed to Mr Marshall Claus, 44 Johnston Street, Kingston, Ontario);
5. Sheet of recipes for date bread, raisin rolls and basic muffins (undated);
6. Card for Art Nelson, Parkdale wines, Toronto (undated)
7. List of prices for various named items (including ‘inca tie tack’).

Photographs taken inside the Post Office building in Deseronto, Ontario, in May 2011 by Dana Valentyne.

Scanned copies of five photographs collected by Flying Officer Lawrence, an instructor at one of the Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force pilot training camps in Deseronto, Ontario, during the First World War.
1) Aircraft being recovered from the Bay of Quinte by a launch
2–4) Aerial photographs of aircraft C187 with a man ‘wing-walking’ [Lieutenant Ned Ballough]
5) Three men standing next to crashed aircraft C245

Scanned copies of 25 photographs taken during Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment training exercises in Petawawa during the Second World War, with transcription of notes made on the reverse of the photographs.

Two negative-holders with annotations by Harold McMurrich Rathbun for negatives he took between 1907 and 1914, with loose negatives from 1920-1940. Most of the photographs were taken in and around Deseronto, Ontario, but they also include photographs taken on a journey by rail to Alberta in 1907.

Photocopy of a photograph of John Freeman (1836-1905) and his wife, Ann Naphan (1824-1923). At one time they owned the Arlington Hotel in Deseronto, Ontario.

1. Photograph of Louise Rathbun
2. Family tree information for Louise Rathbun

Postcards:

1. Foresters’ Orphan’s Home (East end)
2. ‘The Castle’ home of the late hon. Dr. Oronhyatekha
3. Market, Napanee, Ont., Canada

Photograph of Stanley (Stan) McTaggart (1924-2007) and Lalia Histed (1921-2014) on their wedding day in November 1942 at their home on Dundas Street, Deseronto, Ontario. St. Mark's Anglican Church is visible in the background. Stan worked at Gibbard's in Napanee and later was a police officer in Deseronto for five years.

The individuals have been identified as:

Back row: Stan Sigsworth, Clarence Taylor, Stan Mastin, Elanora Histed, Mrs Robinson, ?, Mrs Mastin [?], ?

Front row: Katherine McTaggart, Herb Histed, Stan McTaggart, Lalia Histed, Blennet Histed, Annie ?, Pastor Leach.

Donated by Esther Wood, September 2015.

Staff of Shannonville Canning Ltd., Shannonville, Ontario, in September 1938.

Names supplied:

Back row: Nellie Howard, Maggie Brant, Maggie Maracle, Mae Hill, Ethel Bardy, Georgina Rupert, Edna Maracle, Beatarice Brant, John Weese, ?, Mac FitzGerald, Lena FitzGerald, Edna Fuller, Harold Burtt, Mavis John, ?, Beatrice Smart, ?, Blanche Hill, Ivan Hill, Cora Maracle, Harold Elmy, Mr. Rightmyer, Tommy Howard and Percy "Diner" Howard

Second row: Marjorie FitzGerald, Dorsey Brant, Josie FitzGerald, Ethel John, Lydia Marion, Winnifred Maracle, Julia Maracle, Lydia Maracle, Kathleen Louis, Sadie Maracle, Gladys Brant, Eva Burtt, Anita Goodfellow, Stella Breadman, ?, Mrs Burtt, Winnie Howard and Marjorie Brant

Third row: Vincent Bardy, Madeline Spencer, ?, Pearl Brant, Leola Brant, Evelyn Noye, Muriel Hill, Alice Dow, Marjorie Elmy, Marion Hill, Reta Conley, Edna McCarthy, Helena Sager, Maggie Hill, Bertha Reed, Flossie ?, and Helen Fuller

Front row: Austin Fuller, Ross Brant, Clifford Hill, Eugene Maracle, Lorne Maracle, Harry Uens, ?, William Hill, ?, Carmon Spencer, Laural Burtt, Gerald Louis, Blake Cook and Roy Sager

Postcards:

1. St. George Street, Deseronto, looking south from Edmon St.
2. Upper Mill Street, Deseronto

Scanned photos relating to the Murphy/Gaulin family of Deseronto:

1. Scan of photograph of James Gaulin (1870-1920, former postmaster of Deseronto) taken by Richardson of Napanee
2. Scan of photograph of James Gaulin, taken by James Fairbairn of Deseronto
3. Scan of photograph of James Gaulin and his wife, Elizabeth Jane Nealon and two others (possibly Mary Flood and Edward Gaulin)
4. Scanned copy of photo of Marie Murphy’s first communion – along with Carol Lord, Joseph Smith, Tom Dowling and Colleen ? – priest was Father Martin
5. Scanned copy of photo of first communion – same children with Nora Fox, who prepared them for communion
6. Scanned copy of Deseronto Public School grade 1 class photo, c.1953 (duplicate of DA 2009.30 (1)).
7. Photo of Nora Rathbun’s woven placemats
8. Photo of Red Cross buttons from Deseronto Public school
9. Photo of front of school Coronation medal
10. Photo of reverse of school Coronation medal

Scanned images of two photograph albums compiled by Harry McBride while he was serving as a rigger in the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force at Camp Mohawk near Deseronto, Ontario, and in Texas. Includes a copy of his discharge papers.

Collection of materials relating to the Canada Optical Company in Deseronto, Ontario, including:

• Typescript catalogue of glasses frames, 1947
• Postcard with drawing of outside of plant, c.1950
• Visitor book with Polaroid photographs of visitors, 1969-1974
• Photograph album of staff events and activities, c.1975-1990
• Magazine and newspaper articles about the company, 1980-1993
• Product information sheets, 1980s
• Employee benefits book, 1986
• 14 colour photographs of people and equipment at the plant, 1980s

The materials were collected by Don Simpson, former general manager of the Deseronto plant.

1. Photo of Lucinda Hill wiith her children (from left): Susan, Elizabeth and James, and her grand-daughter, Elsie (Elizabeth's daughter). Lucinda was born on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in around 1843, the daughter of Isaac and Catherine Hill and she married another Isaac Hill. By the time of the 1871 census she was a widow, living with her three children (Elizabeth, 10, James, 8 and Susan 5) in the household of her nephew, William Claus. Elsie was 15 at the time of the 1901 census, when she was living in Deseronto, Ontario with her mother and grandmother. In the photograph, she looks about five or six years old, which would date the portrait to around 1892. The photo was taken by Herbert A. Osborne, who was active in Deseronto in the mid-1890s. The image has damaged edges and is broken into two pieces.
2. Mounted photograph of the Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer and the Manse in St. George Street, Deseronto, Ontario. Taken by James Fairbairn, photographer (born 1866) in around 1910.
3. Photo of Deseronto High School
4. Photo album – none of the images identified. Inscribed “To Lizzie from a little fried Weber Featherstonhaugh Deseronto Ont”
5. Bible
6. Bible
7. Martine’s Handbook of Etiquette
8. Common Sense in the Household
9. Searchlights or Light on Dark Corners
10. The Victory Readers Book I
11. Pocket Ready Reckoner
12. Photograph of Cyril W. Bird [married in Belleville 1891, evangelist – died in Africa, 12 Feb 1896]
13. Letter from James Hill to his sister, Susan Maracle, 1904
14. Various loose papers: permit to leave Canada for William Smith, 1918, Christmas Card, newspaper cuttings of marriages and obituaries; ‘In Memoriam” 1898 publication on the death of Frederick Sherwood Rathbun; instructions on removing afterbirth from cows[?]; marriage certificate for William Smith and Lydia Claus, 1902; stub of marriage certificate of David Powliss and Harriet Baptiste, 1917; embroidery reading “Thou Art my Hope”

Luggage tag for route "Local 26" of the Deseronto Navigation Company Ltd. of Deseronto, Ontario.

Digital images of the roof of the attic space in the Anglican Rectory building in Deseronto, Ontario, taken by Edgar Tumak.

Two pairs of glasses made at the Canada Optical Company in Deseronto, with paper casings. Models: Lana Brown Silk and Lana Black (both made of plastic with seven diamanté stones over each eye).