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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 of lumber camps and First World War infantry units in the Marmora area of Hastings County, Ontario.

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.

Digital copies of three photographs of Thomas Hanley (1842-1907), architect.

Photographs of Roy Bonisteel at Hastings County Historical Society events and beside the Moira River in Belleville with Doug Knutson.

Copies of photographs:

1. Ebenezer Arthur Rixen of Deseronto, Ontario. Rixen was born in London, England on February 5th, 1857, the son of James Rixen and Elizabeth (née Moore). He married Ellen Gault in Deseronto on November 5th, 1884 and died in Thomas Street, Deseronto on June 10th, 1928. He was buried in the Deseronto Cemetery. Rixen was an accountant and insurance agent. He served as Mayor of Deseronto in 1917 and 1918.
2. Ellen Rixen (née Gault) of Deseronto, Ontario. Ellen was born in Mill Point (Deseronto) in 1862, the daughter of John and Sarah Gault. She married Ebenezer Arthur Rixen in Deseronto on November 5th, 1884. She died on April 4th, 1955 and was buried in the Deseronto Cemetery.

Two digital images of Manly Ostrander (1874-1943), principal of the Deseronto Public School and his family.

Five reproductions of photographs of Frankford, Ontario, showing the area around Mill and Trent Streets and the Molsons Bank and Bank of Montreal building at 1 Mill Street.

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.

Scanned copies of two photographs (one a reproduction of a printed photograph) showing the Belleville General Hospital float in the Coronation Day parade in Belleville, Ontario, held on 2 June 1953. The float won second prize in the parade. On the float are nurses Joyce Lott (later Foster), Gwen Hart, Anne Crabbe and Doreen Dorland, with doctors McGreer, Winfield and Barfoot, staged as though performing an operation.

Two photographs:

1. Six police officers and a motorcycle. Individuals identified as:
   Inspector J. C. Hayes
   Constable Jim MacDonald
   Constable Harry McKee
   Constable Ken Redding
   Sergeant Douglas Ellis
   Constable Jack Bolyx

2. Police hockey team at the Memorial Arena in Belleville, 23 March 1960. Individuals identified as:
   Inspector J. C. Hayes
   Glenn Jacques
   Bill Armstrong
   Leo Kent
   Richard (Dick) Lewis
   Roy Wood
   Donald Thoms
   Donald Yearwood
   Bob Wright
   Robert Begbie
   Lorne Maclinton
   Bill Stephenson
   Harry McKee
   Charlie Peters
   ? Fullerton
   Donald Martin

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 copies of negatives and one photograph taken by staff of the Ontario School for the Deaf (now Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf). They include photographs of children taking part in classes, sports and activities at the school. The photograph shows City Hall in Belleville, Ontario, decorated for the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in May 1939.

Copies of textual materials relating to Harty Wilson Morden, a First World War veteran born in Deseronto: a letter of recommendation written by Morden about Barry Barnes’ father (Morden’s batman) and copies of British Army materials relating to Morden.

Materials donated are:

1. 1867 map of Trenton, showing lots
2. Trenton assessment rolls for 1884 and 1918
3. Fire insurance map of Trenton, 1924

Materials loaned for scanning are:

4. Map of Trenton, 1913
5. Map of Trenton, 1917
6. Panoramic view of Frankford, c. 1925
7. Group of Trenton soldiers, c.1915

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.