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Digital photographs of items relating to the Murphy and Gaulin family of Deseronto

  • CA ON00156 DA 2015.24
  • Collection
  • c.1900-1960

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

Fairbairn, James

Materials relating to the Hill, Powless and Smith families of Deseronto and Tyendinaga

  • CA ON00156 DA 2015.19
  • Collection
  • 1892-1918
  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”

Osborne, Herbert A.

Vandervoort family collection

  • CA ON00156 DA 2015.16
  • Collection
  • 1917-c.1930

Scans and digital photographs of images relating to Dr Elgin Vandervoort and his family, taken from an album belonging to his family and loaned for the purpose. Include pictures of May Vandervoort and her husband, Hugh Rothwell, who met her when he was installing electricity to Deseronto. They married on September 1st, 1917 in Deseronto.

Deseronto Lioness Club collection

  • CA ON00156 DA 2015.07
  • Collection
  • 1974-1984

Membership award presented to the Deseronto Lions Club by Lions International "In Recognition of Outstanding Support of the Founders Growth Program".

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 copy of photograph of Christmas party

  • CA ON00156 DA 2015.05
  • Item
  • c.1960

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.

Klaver, Henry

Digital copies of photographs relating to the Poitras family of Deseronto

  • CA ON00156 DA 2015.04
  • File
  • 1885-1896

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’

Letters found in former Cronk property in Deseronto, Ontario

  • CA ON00156 DA 2013.19
  • File
  • 1881-1882

Letters found in the Cronk house.
1) Feb 1881 draft letter to Willliam Aull from his sister, Sarah Jane Cronk (wife of Reuben)
2 & 3) Two letters from E.G. Webb, postmaster of Elkland, Tioga County, Pennsylvania to Reuben Cronk, Chief of Police in Deseronto, re a fugitive staying in the town. 28 Jan and 21 Feb 1882
4) Nov 1882 letter to Reuben Cronk from J. N. Emerson complaining about boys interrupting rehearsals at the school in Deseronto

Cronk (family)

Digital materials relating to the McGreer family of Deseronto and Napanee

  • CA ON00156 DA 2013.07
  • Collection
  • c.1900-1973

PDFs of:

  1. McGreer family history by Eric McGreer of Calgary, Alberta, November 1973
  2. Family tree report on the descendants of Daniel McGreer (1719-1805) of County Antrim, Ireland

8 low-resolution JPEGS of McGreer family members, St. Mark’s Church exterior and bayview of Deseronto:

  1. Aunt Annie Mrs Thomas Stanton (born Anne Portt, lived 1837-1918, her mother was Mary Anne McGreer) ,Mr & Mrs Egar
  2. Aunt Annie Mrs Thomas Stanton Mrs Egar
  3. Aunt Rose Mrs Thomas Stanton Aunt Annie
  4. Deseronto Church [St. Mark's Anglican]
  5. Mrs Thomas Stanton
  6. Nephews and Nieces of Mrs Thomas Stanton 1882
  7. Stanton McGreer and Mrs Thomas Stanton abt 1910
  8. View of Deseronto

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

Scanned photographs and information on the Nealon family

  • CA ON00156 DA 2009.11
  • File
  • 1890-1930

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.

Rathbun family descendants

  • CA ON00156 DA 2008.14
  • Item
  • 2008

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.

Claus family collection

  • CA ON00156 DA 2007.08
  • Collection
  • c.1952-c.1963

Collection comprises:

  • Identity card of Ira Claus, aged 68, member of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte [c.1952]
  • ‘In Memoriam’ book (supplied by White Funeral Home, Deseronto) for Ira Alfred Claus, died Mar 18, 1957, aged 73, Brant St., Deseronto, includes names of the bearers and visitors
  • Particulars of War Veteran’s Allowance payable to Bertha Claus, widow of Ira, from Mar 19, 1958
  • Statement of contents insurance coverage of Bertha Claus, Thomas Street, Deseronto, with the John S. White Insurance Agency, Deseronto, Feb 11, 1959
  • ‘Souvenir Booklet published by the 1960-1961 Council of Tyendinaga Indian Reserve, Deseronto, Ontario, Canada’ [1961], front page torn
  • Photograph of boy’s hockey team, sponsored by Sam’s Aluminum [after 1963]

Autograph book of Mary Jane 'Minnie' Noble

  • CA ON00156 DA 2007.03
  • Item
  • 1890-1897

‘Forget-me-not’ autograph book of Mary Jane (Minnie) Noble, of Deseronto, 1890-1897.

Noble, Mary Jane 'Minnie'

Correspondence of Donald M. Holton

Letters home from England by Donald M. Holton, who was serving in England in No.1 Canadian Armoured Corps Reinforcement Unit among other units. The writer and his family numbered the letters (N.B. some numbers are repeated) and there is a list of the first 15 that includes Sent and Received dates. Some of the envelopes are embellished with the emblem of the Canadian Armoured Corps. Most of the envelopes are annotated with the date of dispatch and reception.
Some letters are not present in the file.
Letter #28, Letter #33,Letter #44, Letter #61 are not in file.

Included in the file are letters from Don Holton's father.

Letter #4 (6 Nov 1944) discusses victory bonds as good investments.
Letter #6 (15 Nov 1944) discusses the Conscription Crisis and military men's negative opinions re the King government.
Letter #6a (28 Nov 1944) also discusses the Conscription Crisis and soldiers not remaining Liberals.
Letter #7 (4 Dec 1944) mentions Major Currie V.C. and his daring and bravery. There is a long discussion of G.H. Holton's political plans.
Letter #7a (10 Dec 1944) discusses Conscription Crisis and political fallout.
Letter #10a (Jan 1945) is a letter to D.M. Holton from Capt. D.M.W Wilson, somewhere in Holland, and is annotated “Bill's last letter to me.”
Letter #13 (28 Jan 1945) G.H. Holton seems to have written to General McNaughton informing him of Canadian troops' attitudes to the Conscription Crisis as reported by D.M. Holton.
Letter #16 (27 Feb 1945) Writer is making plans for an economic magazine.
Letter #17 (7 Mar 1945) Writer has eye problems and is issued two pairs of glasses. Discussion of McNaughton and his cabinet position.
Letter #18 (20 Feb 1945) A note to accompany a photograph of Harry Grey. Asks his father to put it in a scrapbook.
Letter #19 (13 Mar 1945) Thanks parents for taking care of financial arrangements. Mention of Holton Enterprises.
Letter #19 (28 Mar 1945) [N.B. There are TWO Letter 19.] Talk of ecclesiastical affairs.
Letter #19a (28 Mar 1945) Account of leave: stayed overnight in Chesterfield Club for Officers; dined at Ritz; stayed at Blossoms Hotel in Chester; much to say about history of Chester; rest of leave in Edinburgh; saw chapel “where Great Grandfather Wilson preached as a young man”
Letter #19b (28 Mar 1945) Enthusiastic descriptions of girls met while on leave, one was at finishing school.
Letter #20 (4 Apr 1945) Refers to January issue of “the Economist” and your editorial “The Challenge of 1945”.
Letter #21 (4 Apr 1945) Devoted to politics and publication of “Economist”. Refers to “anti-King Canadian Army abroad”
Letter #22 (4 Apr 1945) Devoted to politics and publication of “Economist”.
Letter #25 (16 Apr 1945) Describes mourning in England on the death of FDR.
Letter #26 (1 May 1945) Much discussion of Ontario politics and relationship between GH Holton and Mitch Hepburn. Discusses money to be made in insuring postwar construction by Holton Enterprises Ltd.
Letter #27 (10 May 1945) Describes participating in VE Day celebrations in London.
Letter #30 (22 May 1945) Discussion of relationship between Russia and rest of Allies. Mentions upcoming elections.
Letter #31 (3 Jun 1945) Mentions Conservatives and senior army officials spreading anti-Mackenzie King propaganda.
Letter #28 Not in file.
Letter #33 Not in file.
Letter #34 (25 June 1945) Mentions mouth surgery. Comments on British General Election.
Letter #35 (29 June 1945) Looking forward to starting his “life's work”.
Letter #36 (1 July 1945) Refers to Winston Churchill as “the dirtiest campaigner”
a “his true colours and a tory”. Discusses the future of Great Britain and of Canada and of a new Canadian anthem”.
Letter #38 (12 July 1945) Discusses his parents' Indian Road house and its inadequacy for business entertaining when he and his father start a business together.
Letter #39 (12 July 1945) [numbered “38” inside] More discussion of house sale/purchase and moving.
Letter #41 (27 July 1945) More discussion of housing choices and price regulations.
Letter #42 (27 July 1945) Out of hospital after 30 days treatment of problem wisdom teeth.
Letter #44 not present
Letter #45 (18 Aug 1945) Discussion of insurance policies and wartime conditions.
Letter #46 (18 Aug 1945) Waiting to be repatriated – discussion of “points”
Letter #47 (3 Sept 1945) Much discussion of Canadian soldiers' discontent about slow repatriation and possible political reasons for slowness. Possibility of using influence in Ottawa to speed things up for Don.
Letter #49 (15 Sept 1945) This letter was cut open incorrectly and is in two pieces. DH says his job of OC Transport at the Canadian Repatriation Depot is the best he has had in army since it keeps him busy.
Letter #51 (9 Oct 1945) Complains of expense of everything. Pound costs $4.47 but is only worth about $2.00.
Letter #52 (18 Oct 1945) Discusses men being unfairly repatriated under Industrial Release or Priority at request of their MP's or union. He is considering taking advantage of family connections to get him home early.
Letter #53A (18 Oct 1945) Complaints about this and that. Has a date with a Canadian Red Cross girl – Meriam Blake.
Letter #53 (23 Oct 1945) Discusses lack of shipping capacity to speed repatriation to Canada even though the Queen Elizabeth has been added to the fleet. Mention of visit to England by Mackenzie King and his deemed avoidance of Canadian troops. Compares him unfavourably with George Drew. Is not happy about repatriation delay.
Letter #54 (6 Nov 1945) Very discontented. Refers to chaps have never had a job in their lives being called home as key men of industry. Troops think government is afraid to bring them home.
Letter #55 (6 Nov 1945) Buying more Victory Bonds to create a fund to help him restart in civilian life; it will be hard to pay for the Bonds. Buying chickens on the Black Market for military party.
Letter #56 (17 Nov 1945) His camp is making 250 toys for village children and will have a Xmas party for them. Still has not received copies of The Advocate.
Letter #57 (20 Nov 1945) Complains of English winter weather. James Howard (now Lt Col) who taught in Belleville Collegiate is in the depot on his way home to Canada. Speaks of Bill who marriage has broken up during the war.
Letter #58 (6 Dec 1945) Received 3 issues of The Liberal Economist and 2 copies of Ontario Intelligencer sent by his parents. (DHs father may have been editor ofThe Liberal Economist.) Does not like design of new Canadian flag.Canada has been a dupe`.
Letter #59 (6 Dec 1945) Plans to visit Ireland; talks of seeing lot of England and Scotland. Compares repatriation to that during WWI. Still 128,000 Canadians to be repatriated. Regrets turning down promotion to captain.
Letter #60 (20 Dec 1945) Reports never having a more enjoyable leave than one just passed in Ireland.
Letter #61 not present
Letter #62 (9 Jan 1946) Expects to be one of the last to be repatriated. Still dating a Canadian Red Cross officer.
Letter #63 (13 Jan 1946) 55,000 Canadians being repatriated “this month”.
Letter #63[64] (23 Jan 1946) Brother-in-law is out of RCAF and off to Yellowknife. Don's fellow officer is named “Parks” and lived in Belleville as a child and his grandfather did business with the Holton Lumber Company.
Letter #64 (31 Jan 1946) Don's sister, Carolyn has not accompanied her husband to Yellowknife. Talks of housing situation back home.
Letter #65 (18 Feb 1946) To be best man at wedding of a Seaforth captain, “Dusty” D.C. Rhoades to a Canadian Red Cross Lieut. named Joan Raymond. May sail for Canada on 28 Feb.
Letter #66 (27 Feb 1946) He is now a “repat”. The repatriation sailing of Feb 28 was cancelled and he may have to wait a few more weeks since large vessels are no longer being used for repatriation.
Letter #67 (8 Mar 1946) “My last letter from overseas this trip”. To board French liner Ile de France the next day.

Unnumbered envelope (no date) contains ephemera from visit to Edinburgh.
Unnumbered envelope (13 Mar 1945) Hotel bills and note to parents.
Unnumbered envelope (14 Jun 1945) containing the 1945 party election statements issue of Canadian Affairs with an annotation by Don re a printer's error and the political consequences.
Unnumbered envelope (14 Jun 1945) is a note to accompany a business card and concerns Liberal politics.
Unnumbered envelope (24 Aug 1945) Political letter which expresses admiration for The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich von Hayek.
Unnumbered envelope (postmarked Nov 21, 1945) contains a humorous party invitation.

Letters from father:
Letter # 17 (29 Mar 1945) Family news; "business is good"; news of Belleville including re druggist Charlie Dolan, re Mr McCarthy "who owned the Belle Theatre".
Letter # 18 (5 Apr 1945) Latest grandson has "bewitching smile". Much family news.

Holton, Donald Mackenzie

Queens Park, Toronto

1 postcard with Queens Park, Toronto on the front. The postcard was sent to Mrs. D Morrison, in Tweed, Ontario.

Morrison (family)

Riggs Family Miscellaneous

The series consists of the following miscellaneous textual records and graphic material created and accumulated by the Riggs family:

  • Financial records, Receipts,
  • Legal documents, land deed, leases, notices Personal correspondence, business correspondence Memberships, pamphlets, brochures
  • Riggs Motor buinsess records, documents, receipts, financial records Musical notes, cards, documents, cartoons, programs, recitals Dance cards School records, and documents Photographs

Riggs (family)

Baby health record book

'Baby's Heath and Record' book, 1929, with advice for parents, published by Merton Corporation Ltd. of Winnipeg. Details have been completed for baby Margaret Mary Benn, born in Belleville in 1931.

George Harold Holton's scrapbook

Scrapbook containing news clippings, photographs and ephemeral material relating to George Harold Holton and his family. It includes articles on Holton's political career with the Liberals, clippings relating to Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Liberal party promotional materials and family news clippings. The scrapbook contains two photographs of George Harold Holton, one in uniform, and one of his wife, Minnie Georgina Holton.

Holton, George Harold

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