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Postcards:

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

Album pages with photographs of Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force activities in Deseronto, Ontario, and some snapshots of local buildings and Cole family members.

Notes on Deseronto’s history and a number of postcards and photographs. Includes a collection of 43 calendars from firms in Napanee, Newburgh and Selby from 1941-1970.

1. Plan of the Town of Deseronto, with lot numbers, 1931
2. File of correspondence labelled 'Police Court' containing letters relating to fines issued for speeding in Deseronto, 1950-1951
3. Printed copy of The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan broadcast by Mackenzie King on 17 December 1939

Photographs of work to install a ramp leading from Main Street to the entrance of Deseronto Town Hall.

Scanned image of a certificate of first communion and confirmation for Virginia Houle (1874-1944), the donor's grandmother. She received her first communion in Deseronto, Ontario, in August 1885 [at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church] and was confirmed in Napanee, Ontario on November 3rd, 1887 [at St. Patrick's Catholic Church].

The certificate was printed by L. Turgis, 60 Rue Des Ecoles, Paris.

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

• Business card for Deseronto House Hotel
• Postcards of Deseronto: Post Office; Bank of Montreal; hockey team of 1909; 'Greetings from Deseronto'
• Postcard showing a 22 April 1918 aircraft crash into a building in Oshawa
  Newspapers:
• Napanee Post-Express for 27 May 1954 and 22 November 1956
• Deseronto Special Centennial Edition, 1967
• Napanee Beaver, 25 November 1970

Collection principally comprises research notes, newspaper clippings, promotional publications and postcards relating to the history of the town of Deseronto, Ontario. It also includes a file of materials relating to a voyage on the Empress of Scotland ship in 1956.

1. Deseronto postcards and photographs, 1900-1920
2. Notes and ephemera relating to Kay Allin's voyage on the Empress of Scotland, July 1956
3. Publication Kente Mission, 1668-1680, 1968
4. Notes by Kay Allin on the history of Deseronto, c.1980-1990
5. Notes by Kay Allin on the history of the Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer in Deseronto, c.1980-1990
6. File of newspaper clipping relating to Deseronto, 1967-1980
7. Scrapbook of newspaper clippings relating to the Rathbun family, 1972-1980
8. Scrapbook of newspaper clippings relating to Deseronto, 1978-1990
9. Reproduction of Deseronto High School 'Ballyhoo' publication, May 1928
10. Deseronto flyers and publications, including 1978 program for the North American Outboard Championships, 1967-1989
11. Publications relating to centennial celebrations in Deseronto, 1971 and 1989

1. Letters addressed to Cassie Robinson of 214 Coleman Street, Belleville
2. Paper copies of Deseronto postcards
3. One postcard of Belleville buildings

Letters to Cassie Robinson:

1. From St. Lucia, 3 Feb 1909
2. Love letter to Frank Robinson, 1 Aug 1912
3. Letter from Arthur McCoy in Palestine, 4 Oct 1914
4. Invitation to wedding of P. G. Johnson and Phyllis Lewis in Belleville, 22 Apr 1915
5. Christmas card from Private Cecil Holway, 1915
6. Christmas card from Bruce [Sills], 1915
7. Christmas card from Frank McDonell, 1915
8. Letter from Mary O'Connor in Detroit, 10 Jan 1916
9. Letter from W A. Hutchinson 'Yankee', France, 18 Feb 1916
10. Letter from Sergeant W. A. Hutchinson, France, 28 Mar 1916
11. Letter from Bruce Sills describing journey to England, 14 Jul 1916
12. Field postcard from 'Scud', 13 Oct 1916
13. Christmas card from Bugler Bert Robson [killed 30 Nov 1917], 1916
14. Christmas card from Mary in Toronto, Dec 1916
15. Christmas card from Bugler Charles Rand, Godalming, Dec 1917
16. Letter from Mrs. F. Stevens, Detroit, [mentions that sugar is hard to get] 19 Jan 1918
17. Letter from Frank [Robinson], Toronto, 21 May 1918
18. Letter from Frank [Robinson], Toronto, 26 Aug 1918
19. Letter from F. Farrell, Toronto, 16 Sep 1918
20. Letter from Eliza Clark of Peterborough (with dried leaf), 15 Dec 1918
21. Letter from Eliza Clark of Peterborough, 20 Jan 1919
22. Letter from Frank [Robinson], Toronto, 20 Jan 1920
23. Letter from Gladys and Oscar, Picton, 23 Jan 1920
24. Letter from Jean M. [?], Toronto, 8 Feb 1920
25. Letter from Frank [Robinson], Toronto, 8 Apr 1920
26. Letter from Bill [Robinson], Oshawa, 10 Apr 1920
27. Letter from Frank [Robinson], Toronto, 12 Apr 1920
28. Letter from Frank [Robinson], Toronto, 14 Apr 1920
29. Letter from Frank [Robinson], Toronto, 20 Apr 1920
30. Letter from Thomas F. Diamond, Toronto, 23 Apr 1920
31. Letter from Thomas F. Diamond, Toronto, 26 Apr 1920
32. Letter from Frank [Robinson], Toronto, 27 Apr 1920
33. Letter from Ethel, 474 Brock Avenue, Toronto, [mentions that potatoes are a luxury] 5 May 1920
34. Letter from Bill [Robinson], Oshawa, 2 May 1920
35. Letter from Thomas F. Diamond, Toronto, 6 May 1920
36. Letter from Thomas F. Diamond, Toronto, 6 May 1920
37. Invitation to wedding of Ella Priscilla Moore and Edward D. Clarke on 16 Jun, sent 7 Jun 1920
38. Letter from Bill [Robinson], Oshawa, 8 Jun 1920
39. Letter from Ethel (Mrs. Joe Belch), Toronto, 8 Jun 1920
40. Letter from Thomas F. Diamond, Toronto, 11 Jun 1920
41. Letter from Marie [?], Belleville, 20 Jun 1920

This collection contains a variety of materials relating to the history of Deseronto and Hastings County. Items include:

• video of the 1989 Deseronto Centennial and Homecoming celebration, 4-5 August 1989, including performances of the Centennial Song, a Main Street parade, a baby show, karate demonstration and fireworks
• File on the 1989 Deseronto Centennial celebrations
• 35mm slides of historic views of Deseronto
• Morrison family snapshots of unidentified people
• Photograph of an aircraft from Camp Mohawk on the shore of the Bay of Quinte, August 1917
• Programme and photograph (https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/29760539332/) of the United Empire Loyalist Celebration, June 1929
• Plan of Deseronto lots, 1943
• Series of 120 photographs of Deseronto, taken around 1995. Many are aerial shots, others are of individual houses. A few depict individuals: Don Lindsay, Dennis Vick, Dick Beare, Joe Carter, Ed Gordanier
• 'A Building Code for Smaller Municipalities' by the National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, 1947
• County of Hastings directories for 1983, 1984, 1985
• County of Hastings receipts and expenditures statement, 1921
• By-law to Regulate the Running At Large of Animals and for Other Purposes, Township of Tyendinaga, 6 August 1895
• File of 'Deseronto Firsts' compiled by Ken Brown
• File of photographs, press clippings and list of entrants in Deseronto's Easter Parade of 2006
• 16 photographs of empty lots in Deseronto, taken 2004
• File of partial letters from Joe Goold to his sweetheart, Marnie, written while he was based in Detroit, 11 September to 11 October 1919, with blank postcards of Deseronto scenes and a letter from Elizabeth Goold to Bill Hunt concerning the letters
• File on James Fairbairn including a newspaper extract and a studio photograph taken by him.
• Typescript biography of Harry B. Free (Camp Rathbun flight instructor) by Margaret Crothers, 1991
• File on the Dryden family, including a photograph of the Drydens at the Peterborough Lift Lock (https://flic.kr/p/9dmEYZ)
• File of clippings about Gwen Lazier Braidwood, 2005
• File of clippings about Deseronto mayor Glen Belcour, 1995-2002
• File relating to the Asten family, including a letter from James Asten, Town Scavenger, to the Deseronto Town Council, 1936 (available at https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/albums/72157674226629315)
• Promotional brochure and news clipping on Bridgeline Ropes of Deseronto, 1999
• Listing by plot number of owners of plots in the Deseronto cemetery and names of people buried there, with their year of death, 2003
• File on the Deseronto Theatre Guild's formation, 2004
• File on a Deseronto Waterfront Study Workshop held February 2005
• File and photographs on the 'Leander Electra' electric yacht, 1986
• Bakery token for R. Marrigan, Baker, Deseronto
• File of materials relating to E. A. Rixen, including three letters from Deseronto teacher Lena Warren, 1908
• File on Deseronto Arts & Culture Society, 2004-2007
• File and photographs relating to the Deseronto Yacht Club, 1993-2003
• 'Dear Hame hid awa' in the Glen' photocopy of sheet music by Archibald Duncan MacIntyre (oversize - stored in box 66)
• List of members of St. Mark's Anglican Church who volunteered for active service in World War Two (oversize - stored in box 66)
• Folder of Deseronto Yacht Club materials: photographs and news clippings (part of the Floyd Marlin collection - stored in box 46), 1950-1997

Minute book of the Canadian Order of Foresters, Court Quinte No. 1. The fraternal society met in Deseronto, Ontario. The minutes record applications for membership of the society, payments of bills and notes of people who addressed the group. There are some loose papers inside the volume, mainly applications for admission, with reports of character committees on the back.

The Quinte Scanner was a newspaper published in Deseronto, Ontario, between 1968 and 1981.

Photographs of scenes in and around Belleville, Ontario, including a circus parade, Lincoln Beachey's aircraft, the talc mine at Madoc and military groups.