The photographs are arranged by subject matter and cover activities in and around the town of Deseronto, Ontario. The majority date from the late nineteenth century and many depict the lumber-related industries of the Rathbun Company in Deseronto. There are also photographs of school groups, churches, railways, First World War airfields and portraits of Deseronto citizens.
Article on a Lancaster bomber which crashed near the French villages of Tramont Emy and Tramont Lassus on the night of July 24/25, 1944. One of the two men who died in the crash was Pilot Officer Ross William Lough of Belleville, Ontario.
File contains typescript and manuscript lists of veterans (pensioners) of the War of 1812, surviving in 1875. Also includes an original printed and manuscript Canadian Registration Board registration card for William Edgar Harvey, Trenton, 1918.
File contains a printed extract of the Northumberland Militia Return for 1828 including annotated names of individuals from Sidney and Rawdon Townships.
Materials gathered during the bicentennial year of the beginning of the War of 1812, including notes on the involvement of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte and the Hastings militia.
One framed and four unframed honour rolls from the Second World War, recording the names of members of St. Andrew's Presbyterian who served in the armed forces.
File contains a newspaper clipping regarding a document about a June 1839 court martial trial held in Consecon, Ontario, of thirty-five members of the Prince Edward Militia charged with various offences.
File contains a newspaper article dated February 23, 1899 recounting an unidentified veteran's recollection of the Battle of Shannonville on February 22, 1838 when Hastings Regiment militia members engaged in a brief military engagement with rebels and American sympathizers.
Illustrated booklet on the Second World War takeover of the Ontario School for the Deaf properties in Belleville by the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan for the Royal Canadian Air Force No. 5 Initial Training School.
File contains a map printed on linen of South Africa and an accompanying poem by Rudyard Kipling entitled The Absent Minded Beggar which had been set to music by Arthur Sullivan.
File contains a newspaper article of March 31, 1960 concerning the presentation of a medal to the Hastings County Historical Society on behalf of Major G. Franklin Lynn, former Belleville resident, who served in the Canadian Contingent in the South African [Boer] War. The medal, of which Major Lynn was one of the recipients, was originally presented to Belleville members of the Contingent by the Belleville City Council in 1901.
Eighteen photographs and one photocopy of the interior and exterior of the steam plant (building 27) at CFB Trenton. Ross Masters (the donor's father) worked at the plant.