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Deseronto Archives subject files

  • CA ON00156 DA SF
  • Collection
  • 1881-2007

A series of files originally maintained as vertical files in the Deseronto Archives, covering a wide range of topics related to the history of Deseronto, Ontario, and the surrounding area.

Deseronto Archives

Deseronto Cemetery Company materials

  • CA ON00156 DA 2008.07
  • Collection
  • 1888-1977

Deseronto Cemetery Company out-letter book (some entries too faint to read), 1888-1898
‘The Cemetery Lot Book’ List of cemetery lot numbers (1-900) and the price per lot, [1888]
Deseronto Cemetery Company ledger. Includes names of stock-holders, lists of expenses and lots sold (by date), 1888-1907
Deseronto Cemetery Company ledger, including plot-owners’ names and some addresses. Front board detached (has printed schedule of fees attached to it from 1 June 1930), 1928-1954
(2008.07/1) Deseronto Cemetery Company journal of receipts and expenses from 1 June 1928 to 27 Feb 1950
(2008.07/2) Deseronto Cemetery receipts and disbursements from 1 Jan 1950 to 5 Feb 1960
(2008.07/3) Deseronto Cemetery receipts and expenditure, 24 Jan 1966 to 4 July 1977

Deseronto Cemetery Company

Deseronto Fire Department collection

  • CA ON00156 DA 2010.31
  • Collection
  • 1933-2000s

Materials relating to the Deseronto Fire Department, including photographs and press cutting and fund-raising materials.

Deseronto High School publications

  • CA ON00156 DA 2014.15 & 2014.16
  • File
  • 1959-1971

2014.15
1) Issue of the Deseronto Post was transferred to the newspaper collection
2) Commencement Exercises of Deseronto High School - program from 1959
3) Commencement Exercises of Deseronto High School - program from 1960
4) Commencement Exercises of Deseronto High School - program from 1963
5) ‘Decision, 1963’ Deseronto High School’s first (and last) yearbook
6) News clipping from a 1971 Napanee newspaper about Howard Hawley of Hawley Brothers furniture in Deseronto

2014.16
1) Commencement Exercises of Deseronto High School - program from 1959
2) Commencement Exercises of Deseronto High School - program from 1960
3) Commencement Exercises of Deseronto High School - program from 1961
4) Commencement Exercises of Deseronto High School - program from 1962
5) Commencement Exercises of Deseronto High School - program from 1963
6) Five news clippings relating to activities in Deseronto schools, 1959

Deseronto High School

Deseronto Illustrated

  • CA ON00156 DA DI
  • File
  • c.1894

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

Osborne, Herbert A.

Deseronto Navigation Company luggage tag

  • CA ON00156 DA 2015.17
  • Item
  • c.1895

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

American Railway Supply Company

Deseronto Public Library photographs

  • CA ON00156 DA 2020.13
  • File
  • 1959-1981

Photographs are principally of staff and patrons of the Deseronto Public Library and were apparently taken by staff of The Quinte Scanner newspaper. Other images include staff of Deseronto Public School and photographs of buildings in Deseronto, Ontario.

Deseronto Public Library records

  • CA ON00156 DA DPL
  • Fonds
  • 1885-1970
  • Library minute books, 1885-1950

  • Library minutes (bound file), 1950-1961

  • Library minutes (file), 1976-1986

  • File of Library minutes, 1989-1994

  • Board Meeting Business file, 1988-1989

  • Library catalogue, 1895

  • Library statistics, 1902-1911

  • Library cash book, 1907-1919

  • Library cash book, 1920-1955

  • Library disbursements, 1955-1960

  • Library rolls (patrons and reference numbers of books borrowed), 1909, 1910 and 1911-12

  • Library books issued, March-October 1921

  • Library books issued, November 1921-December 1924

  • File of Library correspondence, 1920s

  • Deseronto Public Library Circulation Register (total numbers of books borrowed each day, by subject), 1951-1954

  • Deseronto Public Library Circulation Register (total numbers of books borrowed each day, by subject), 1954-1957

  • Deseronto Public Library Circulation Register (total numbers of books borrowed each day, by subject), 1957-1960

  • Deseronto Public Library Circulation Register (total numbers of books borrowed each day, by subject), 1960-1963

  • Deseronto Public Library Circulation Register (total numbers of books borrowed each day, by subject), 1964-1966

  • Library scrapbook, 1964-1970

  • File of library newsclippings, 2001

Deseronto Public Library

Deseronto Remembrance Day photographs

  • CA ON00156 DA 2009.08
  • Series
  • 2007-2008

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

Simpson, Don

Deseronto souvenirs

  • CA ON00156 DA 2011.12
  • Collection
  • 1929-1982

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

Deseronto Town Hall photograph collection

  • CA ON00156 DA 2015.13
  • Collection
  • 1970s-2011

Photographs of Deseronto, Ontario dating from the 1970s to 2011, depicting a variety of Town events. They include a set of aerial photographs of the town from the 1980s; the interior of the former Home Hardware store in the Baker Block on Main Street; the O’Connor House on Main Street before its demolition; the 1989 100th Anniversary celebrations, photographs of Centennial Park and Rathbun Memorial Park; the opening of the Deseronto Public Library in its 358 Main Street location in 2001; the Ontario Provincial Police handover ceremony in 2001; an Easter Parade from the early 2000s; a Santa Parade; the 2002 New Year’s Levee; and the 2010 Olympic Flame run in Deseronto.

Most of the photographs appear to have been taken by Town staff. One envelope was donated to the Town by Irene Usher and contains photographs taken by her late husband, Tom.

Deseronto Tribune volumes

  • Series
  • 1883-1900

The following volumes are held:

  • 1883, Sep 27 – 1884, Sep 11
  • 1883, Oct 4 – 1884, Sep 18
  • 1884, Sep 25 – 1885, Sep 11
  • 1885, Sep 18 – 1886, Sep 10
  • Sep 1886 – Sep 1887 MISSING
  • 1887, Sep 30 – 1888, Sep 21
  • Sep 1888 – Sep 1889 MISSING
  • 1889, Sep 27 – 1890, Sep 19
  • Sep 1890 – Sep 1892 MISSING
  • 1892, Sep 23 – 1893, Sep 15
  • 1894, Sep 21 – 1895, Sep 27
  • 1895, Oct 4 – 1896, Sep 25
  • 1896, Oct 2 – 1897, Sep 24
  • 1897, Oct 1 – 1898, Sep 23
  • 1898, Sep 30 – 1899, Sep 22
  • 1899, Sep 29 – 1900, Sep 21

Detlor family collection

  • CA ON00156 DA 2011.15 & DA 2011.16
  • Collection
  • 1860-1951

Materials relating to the Ostrander and Detlor families.
1) [Loaned for scanning] ‘The House of Ostrander’, family history of the Ostranders of Prince Edward County’, compiled by Manly Ostrander, who was Principal of Deseronto Public School
2) Negative of Bismark Detlor’s bake shop on St. George Street, Deseronto
3) a & b – negative and print of horse with ‘B L Detlor Baker & Confectioner, Home Made Bread’ wagon.
4) Laura (Moore?) Blake, Mark Detlor, Winnifred Detlor (nee Moore) and Ken Detlor, son of Mark and Winnifred, outside the Detlor bake shop with a car
5) Interior of shop (possibly Detlor bake shop), early 20th century
6) Woman and man seated at different tables inside a store. Note on back reads ‘Ice Cream Parlour, St. George Street, Bake Shop, Deseronto, Ont., M. Detlor’
7) Group of scouts (duplicate of YCLB-06-01) – standing individuals identified as Francis Brennan, Paul Maloney, ? Harold, Paul Brennan, Mr Vic Pearce, Howard Ostrander, Morley Rendell, Jeff Culhane. Boy on right of seated boys is P. Pearce.
8) Group of scouts (duplicate of YCLB-06-02). Howard Ostrander is identified as the boy carrying the dark flag.
9) Group of children from Deseronto Public School, including grade 4. Taken c. 1953. Back row: Billy Whitton, Mitchel Claus, Dennis Vick, John Wells, Fred Woodcock, Howard Fraser, Helena Loft, Roselean Green, Monica Tinney, Mary Harvey, Marilyn Stuart, Helen Barnhardt, Donna Brant, Mrs. R. Aylsworth Middle row: Brenda Allport, Carole Harvey, Kathleen Marlow, Lanna Pritchard, Donna Whitton, Brenda Potter, Carole Cole, Mary Jane Steeves, Brenda Fitch, Donna Hill, Heather Tompson, Sharon Unger, Joan Green Front row: George Maracle, Leonard Losee, Bert Sly, Michael Claus, Gary Tompkins, Roger Cole, Rodney Stuart, Phillip Bennett, Eugene Marlow, Betty Grey, Bobby Detlor, Billy Perry
10) Typewritten notes on the history of Deseronto, including lists of businesses in the town in 1907.

Printed items

11) Rules of order of the Municipal Council of the Town of Deseronto
12) Voters’ List of the Town of Deseronto, 1892
13) Photocopy of ‘The D. H. S. Pointer’, published by Deseronto High School, Easter 1920, including a short history of the school
14) Programme for the opening of the new wing of Deseronto Public School, May 27th, 1969.
15) Programme for the official opening of the Deseronto Lions Medical Centre, 444 Main Street, Deseronto, November 19, 1973.
16)-18) Newspaper cuttings about Howard Ostrander, Blanche Detlor and Reg Dawson.

2011.16 Additional items relating to Detlor family:

1) Scan of photogaph of Anna Moore, born Anna Moss, September 24, 1854
2) Scan of photograph of Winnifred Moore, born 1879
3) Scan of photograph of Winnifred Moore, aged about 4
4) Scans of Bell magazine ‘The Blue Bell’ about the Diamond Jubilee broadcast of 1927, in which William Kenneth Detlor played a part. His photo is n the article.
5) Graduation photograph of William Kenneth Detlor, taken by CH Boyes of Kingston
6) Editorial from the Deseronto Post of November 23, 1940, on the departure of editor Maurice Detlor to join the army
7) Issue of the Deseronto Post for January 10, 1951, with obituary for Bismarck Leroy Detlor (died January 6, 1951)
8) Photocopy of list of individuals buried in the Detlor family plot (#119) of Deseronto Cemetery.
9) Photocopied pages of a printed history of the Detlor Family, 1777-1917 (by Allen Detlor).
10) Scan of photograph of William Kenneth Detlor as a child, aged about 8 (c.1911)

Ostrander, Manly

Digital copies of badges and postcards

  • CA ON00156 DA 2013.04
  • Collection
  • 1906-c.1975

Scanned copies of Deseronto Police and Deseronto High School patches, with 13 postcards of Deseronto scenes and buildings.

Digital copies of C. P. Devos photographs of Camp Mohawk

  • CA ON00156 DA 2009.09 & 2009.20
  • Series
  • 1917-1918

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.

Devos, Christopher Paulus

Digital copies of photographs from Bev Boomhour

  • CA ON00156 DA 2015.06
  • File
  • 1956-1982

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

Digital copies of photographs from Robert J. Burkitt

  • CA ON00156 DA 2011.28
  • Series
  • 1950-1970

Ten photographs taken in and around Deseronto by the Burkitt family. Bill Burkitt ran Burkitt's Groceteria at 344 Main Street, Deseronto in the 1950s and 1960s.

2011.28 (1) Snapshot of Robert Burkitt. c.1953
2011.28 (2) George Wannamaker, the butcher in the Burkitt Groceteria, Main Street, Deseronto, Ontario, during the 1950s.
2011.28 (3) Snapshot of Tom Burkitt, c.1960
2011.28 (4) Snapshot of Tom Burkitt and Arthur Dawson taken at Camp Quin-Mo-Lac near Tweed.
2011.28 (5) Snapshot of Phyllis Twiddy Creaser and Doris Twiddy Rendell
2011.28 (6) Snapshot of Robert Burkitt taken on Main Street, Deseronto, Ontario with Chapman's Restaurant on the left and Jackson's Hardware to the right.
2011.28 (7) Photograph of Robert Burkitt taken at Deseronto Public School, Deseronto, Ontario.
2011.28 (8) Tom and Robert Burkitt, with their mother, Marjorie, outside the family's grocery store, Burkitt's Groceteria, at 344 Main Street, Deseronto, Ontario, c.1960.
2011.28 (9) Five members of the Burkitt family: Tom and Robert at the rear, Bill and Marjorie Burkitt at the front, with Jim Warder, Marjorie's father. Taken outside the Deseronto Post Office, c.1975.
2011.28 (10) Snapshot of the front of Burkitt's Groceteria, 344 Main Street, Deseronto, Ontario, c.1955.

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