Annual reports, minutes, publications, photographs, knitting patterns, newspaper clippings and a ledger relating to the Belleville and District (later Quinte) branch of the Canadian Red Cross.
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.
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.
Photo of Deseronto High School
Photo album – none of the images identified. Inscribed “To Lizzie from a little fried Weber Featherstonhaugh Deseronto Ont”
Bible
Bible
Martine’s Handbook of Etiquette
Common Sense in the Household
Searchlights or Light on Dark Corners
The Victory Readers Book I
Pocket Ready Reckoner
Photograph of Cyril W. Bird [married in Belleville 1891, evangelist – died in Africa, 12 Feb 1896]
Letter from James Hill to his sister, Susan Maracle, 1904
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”
Four items originally owned by William Nisbet Ponton: 1) Writ of summons addressed to Francis Papineau, James Blacklock and James Hill of Belleville, defendants in a case brought by Henry Fowler, served on 10 May 1865 2) Typescript copy of Section 11 of By-law 476 of the City of Belleville, prohibiting people from setting off firearms or rockets or throwing snowballs in streets or public places in the city. By-law originally passed on 16 May 1881 3) Sale poster for auction mortgage sale of the Albion Hotel in Belleville, Ontario on 4 July 1900 4) Menu, program, seating plan, and toast list for the Sixth Congress of Chambers of Commerce of the Empire, held at the Hotel Cecil in London, England on 13 July 1906. (W. N. Ponton was one of the attendees.)
Materials produced to support a webinar held in June 2021 by the Bay of Quinte Regional Marketing Board, in partnership with SAGA-LGBTQ and Bay of Quinte Pride:
Canada’s LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce report on recommendations for creating a successful LGBT+ tourism strategy in the Bay of Quinte
‘Decision 1963’ Printed yearbook for Deseronto High School. Includes photographs and names of the six faculty and the 65 students, advertisements from local businesses and descriptions of school activities throughout the year.
‘Foreign Procedure Book’, of third division court of the County of Hastings, 1912, March 6 – 1935, November 18, giving name of defendant and plaintiff, details of fees. Indexed by surname of defendant.
‘Procedure Book : A. B. Randall, clerk, 3rd D. C. Hastings’, of the third division of the County of Hastings, sitting at Shannonville, 1889, February 5 – 1910, September 13, giving name of defendant and plaintiff, details of bailiff and clerk’s fees. Indexed by surname of defendant. Includes some correspondence and statements of account. Randall was the clerk throughout the volume.
‘D. C. Clerk’s Cash Book’ Receipts and expenditures of the seventh division court in the County of HastingsCourt register, 1921 – 1932, giving name of defendant and plaintiff, and amount paid out, with signature of recipient.
Receipt book for the third division court of the County of Hastings, Shannonville, 1916-1935, recording names of defendants and plaintiffs and amount received for debts and costs.
Canadian Bank of Commerce account book for the ‘Town of Deseronto Street Fund’, 1930-1932
Municipal Accounting in Ontario, L. G. Macpherson and W. G. Leonard (1961)
Papers
Relief vouchers issued by the Town of Deseronto, 1938-1941, recording name of recipients and amount awarded to them, with receipts from shopkeepers showing what was purchased by the recipients.
Printed ‘Rules of Order of the Municipal Council of the Town of Deseronto’ 18 Feb 1889
Printed pro-forma for a certificate of public recognition by the town of Halifax for service in the Second World War (with pencilled alterations to make reference to Deseronto instead), 1945
Printed booklet on ‘The Future of the Liberal Party’, address by Brooke Claxton, Minister of National Defence, 4 Aug 1948
Auditor’s report on road expenditures for the Town of Deseronto, 1949
Edition of ‘Roads and Road Construction’ journal, March 1951, Vol. 29, no. 339
Leases between the Town of Deseronto and the Deseronto Lions Club (of the Skating Rink) and Deseronto Boating Club (part of the old saw mill property), 1953-1954
Published report by the Select Committee on Indian Affairs on ‘Civil Liberties and Rights of Indians [Indigenous People] in Ontario’, 19 Mar 1954
Letter from J.D. Lee and Company to the Deseronto Medical Officer of Health, Dr W. H. Duffett, with two copies of blueprint relating to modifications to the septic tank of the Deseronto Public School, 4 Dec 1956
Plan of part of the Town of Deseronto, before 1898 (the Terra Cotta works are still standing), showing roads, railways, buildings and lot numbers for properties south of Dundas Street, east of College Street (which has no name on the map) and west of Boundary Road. The map is hand-coloured to show the blocks and railways.
Negative photocopy (in 4 parts) of a plan of Mill Point village, 1875
Volumes
Bank of Montreal account book for A.S. Valleau, Collector of Customs. 1901 March 26 – 1905 December 30. Includes six official Customs Canada cheques, one for the salary of Thomas Maloney.
Auditors’ Report, Financial Statement and Minutes and Bylaws for the year 1947, the Corporation of the County of Hastings
1950 Municipal directory, Department of Municipal Affairs, Province of Ontario. Includes brief details on towns and villages. Mayor of Deseronto was R.K.Jackson, clerk Miss M.C. Maher, population 1,473.
Minutes of the Local Board of Health, 1920, May 14 - 1941, Nov 18. Includes loose papers – correspondence, some annual reports
‘Record’, Local Board of Health minutes, 1942, February 23 – 1966, May 25, includes copies of correspondence and draft minutes
‘Docket No. 2’ Court register, 1932, July 29- 1933, July 18, giving name of defendant, details of offence and outcome of hearing. Indexed by surname of defendant
Division Court judges’ list for sittings, 1933, July 26 – 1944, March 7, includes names of plaintiffs, defendants and garnishees, with the amount owed and a brief record of the outcome of each case.
County of Hastings report and statements, December 31, 1946, by Garrett D. C. Morton, certified General Accountant. Typescript auditor’s account.
Bound ‘Population Census’ summary, 1951-1953, showing number of individuals in each lot by age.
Bound ‘Population Census’ summary, 1954-1955, showing number of individuals in each lot by age.
Bound ‘Population Census’ summary, 1956-1964, showing number of individuals in each lot by age.
Materials collected by Maureen Phillips and her mother, Phyllis Neal:
Ration card for Maureen Neal, 1940
Scrap book compiled by Phyllis Neal, including news clippings on the Dionne quintuplets and the royal family, correspondence relating to the death of her husband George Neal, who died while on active service in 1941 and news clippings relating to Mountain View, 1937-1963
Scrap book compiled by Phyllis Neal on Prince Edward County and Trenton history (including a story called 'Policemen are human too'), 1960-1963, 1988
Shopper's Market 50th anniversary souvenir edition on CFB Trenton
The Story of Jesus, by the Saalfield Publishing Co., 6ff., with colour illustrations, 1941
‘Teacher’s War Savings Record Ledger’, c.1943
School exercise books of John F. (Jack) McCullough of Lonsdale, Ontario, 1946
Rules and instructions for the Lennox and Addington Fish and Game Protective Association’s Annual Bird House Building Contest, March 1946
‘Record Book for Ontario Boys’ and Girls’ Swine Clubs’ for James McCullough, of Lonsdale, Tyendinaga, a member of the Napanee Swine Club, May to Sep 1950
Letters addressed to Jack McCullough from Bobby Gerow of Edmonton, Alberta, Oct 8 and Nov 1, 1950
Album of photographs and tintypes taken between 1869 and 1874, mainly by photographers in Belleville, Ontario. Two individuals are identified by name: Rev. William Craig and Miss Bogart. Also 21 snapshots from 1900 to 1910, including photographs of Helen McKeown's uncle Arthur, who was undertaking medical training as a nurse. One photograph shows 'prisoners at work' taken from Arthur's room in a hospital.