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Maribeth Bird photograph collection

  • CA ON00156 1981-03
  • Collection
  • c.1880-1947

Photographs of members of the Winsor, Holgate and Searle families of Hastings County, Ontario and the Cannifton Mills of Charles Arthur Holgate.

Bird, Maribeth Lillian

W.H. Waldorf records

  • CA ON00156 1985-01
  • Fonds
  • 1904-1938

This fonds contains one folder of family records, twenty-seven folders of invoices from the following businesses:

  • W.M. Davies Pork Packers and Provision Merchants of Toronto, 1917
  • Dominion Sugar Companies Limited of Chatham, 1917
  • S. Domenico, Wholesale Fruit Merchants of Belleville, 1912-1917
  • Eby-Blain Limited, Wholesale Importing and Manufacturing Grocers of Toronto, 1916-1917
  • Grand Trunk Railroad System, 1917
  • R.B. Hayhoe & Company Importers of Teas and Coffees, Confectioners Supplies of Toronto, 1917
  • H.J. Heinz Company of Toronto, 1916-1917
  • Hodgens and Roberts Limited Tobacconists, Scales and Roberts Company Limited Tobacconists of Toronto, 1917
  • L.P. Hughes Flour and Feeds, Seeds, Rolled Oats and All Kinds of Breakfast Cereals of Belleville, 1917
  • Hydro Electric Power Commission of Ontario – Central Ontario System-Trenton, 1917-1918
  • P.C. Larkin and Company Tea Merchants of Toronto, 1917
  • S.B. McClung, Paints, Oils, Glass, etc. of Trenton, 1917
  • W.E. Mayhew – Trent Valley Mills of Trenton 1916-1917
  • William Patterson and Son Company of Belleville, 1916 to 1918
  • Wm. Rennie Company Limited Seeds of Toronto, 1916-1917
  • George A. Robertson and Son Limited, Wholesale Groceries of Kingston, 1908-1917
  • John Sloan & Company of Belleville, 1917
  • Swift Canadian Company of Toronto, 1917
  • Telfer Bros. Limited of Toronto, 1917
  • Trenton Garage, 1916 1917
  • White and Company Limited Fruit, Produce and Fish of Toronto, 1917
  • Dalley Products Limited of Hamilton, 1917
  • W.J. Crothers Company of Kingston, 1917
  • R.B. Cooper of Belleville, 1917
  • Belleville Creameries, 1917
  • Belleville Cider and Vinegar Company, 1917
  • Bell Telephone of Trenton, 1917
  • Armstrong and Paffard of Toronto, 1917

There is also: one folder containing pages from a ledger, one cash book volume, one folder of sales slips with a sales slip book, and one folder of receipts, orders and correspondence.
There is a folder containing land deeds and personal papers.

Waldorf, William H.

Smith family photograph album

  • CA ON00156 2010.06
  • File
  • c.1860-1920

The photographs include members of the Smith family. Some were taken in Napanee, Belleville, Brighton and Deseronto, Ontario, others in Watertown and Carthage, New York and Plainwell, Michigan.

Many of the photographs had become detached from the album and their captions. The names mentioned on the pages of the album (not all of them with associated photographs) are:

Irve Smith
E. M. F. Thibault
Samuel Smith
Jim Rattery
Robert Smith
Chas.
Annie Belton
Miss Roblin, Brighton, Ontario
Henry Ford, Watertown, New York
Bill Charnside, Watertown, New York
Fred Smith
Carol Jane 1946
Debo
Eliza & Frank Fulligar & Laura, Plainwell, Michigan
Dick Greene
Libbie & Henry Hawley & Bernice
Alice Campbell
Mrs Harrick
Joe Gonkins, Watertown, New York
Chas. Smith
John See & family
Bill Davison, Charlotte & Hugh
John Breeze
Sam
Neal Maloney
Irvine Smith
Fred Smith

Information from Eric and Linda Wilde shows that many of these individuals are descendants of Samuel See (1808-1854) and his sister Ann (1803-1871), who married Benjamin Smith (1808-1895). They were born in England and settled in Lennox and Addington County, Ontario.

Photographs relating to the Wanamaker family

  • CA ON00156 2011-51
  • Collection
  • 1880-1950

1) Photograph of a large family gathering at a building identified as "Reed House".

2) Photograph of a gathering of young people, c.1905 [probably a school group from Ameliasburgh, Ontario]. Names identified are:

  1. Horace Root
  2. Ernest Morris
  3. Grace Morris
  4. James Milton Root (teacher)
  5. Lena Van Wart
  6. Vivian Van Wart
  7. Billie Van Wart
  8. Walter Cunningham
  9. John Thompson
  10. Clarence (Peter) Way
  11. Charles Wood
  12. Russell Dickson
  13. Tommy Armistead
  14. Thomas Van Cott
  15. Harry Cunningham
  16. Zenas Palmer
  17. Mary Bell Black
  18. Clara Duncan
  19. Donald Anderson
    23 Eva Van Cott
    24 Marjorie Sprung
  20. Katherine Root
  21. Rossie Welch
  22. Letitia Palmer
  23. Claude Root
  24. Edith Lauder
    32 Morley Wood
  25. Oral Lauder
  26. Thomas Armistead
    35 Loral Wanamaker
  27. Gerald Morris
  28. Clark Sprung
  29. Liz Armistead
  30. ? Moy
  31. Elizabeth Armistead
  32. Ruth Pymer
  33. Maud Cunningham
  34. Myrtle Jones
  35. Grace Sprung
  36. Pearl Sprung
  37. Percy Welch
  38. Everett Jones
  39. John Anderson
  40. Clarence Cunningham
  41. Roy Van Cott
  42. John Black
  43. Leonard Frederick
  44. Hazel Titus
  45. Mabel Lauder
  46. Elizabeth Potter
  47. Clement Frederick
  48. Grace Titus

3) Photograph of an unidentified young man, taken by W. S. Clarke of Belleville, c.1910

4) Reproduction of a photograph of Hay Bay Church, taken by J. S. Hulett of Napanee in 1892

5) Reproduction of a photograph of Hay Bay Church, c.1900

6) Group photograph of Belleville, Ontario, Post Office workers, taken on the retirement of Morris Stork (c.1950) by William E. Riley.
Names supplied:

Front row:
Robert Andrews, former Letter Carrier #9
Wilson Bird (Birdie), former Letter Carrier #3
(Blind friend of Morris Stork)
A. E. Geen (Peg), former Collector of Customs
J. C. Waddell, Postmaster
Morris Stork (Morrie), Assistant Postmaster
MacKlew, District Director, Ottawa
MacDonald, Inspector for district
Charles Moore, former Mail Clerk
Douglas Burns, Supervisor Letter Carrier

Second row:
Harry Baker, former Letter Carrier #7
C. L. R. Wanamaker (Wanny), Senior Letter Carrier #1
Arnold Revoy, Supervisory Letter Carrier
Dale, Postal Clerk
Pat Melchoir, M. O. Clerk
J. V. C. Truaisch, former Postmaster
Carman Massey, new Assistant Postmaster
Clinton C. Evan (Clint), General Delivery Clerk
Fred Sprague, former Chief Excise Officer

Third row:
Eugene Lang (Jeeps), Register Clerk
Cyril Hermon, Letter Carrier (now retired)
Radway, Temporary Postal Clerk
George Butler, Letter Carrier #7
Russel Post, M. O. Clerk
S. M. McBridge (Stew), Letter Carrier #3
Harold Griffin, Letter Carrier #6
Gerald Turner (Jerry), former Letter Carrier now Postal Clerk
Jack Geen, former Postal Clerk
Doug Stock, former Postal Clerk
?

Back row:
Cecil Scofield, Supervisory Letter Carrier
Bernard Balyx, Supervisory Letter Carrier
Douglas Galpin, Supervisory Letter Carrier
Al Kelleher, Letter Carrier #12
Jerry Powers, Postal Clerk
O. B. MacMullen, Letter Carrier #1
Jack Smith, Supervisory Postal Clerk
Harold Baukier, Financial Clerk

7) Photograph taken on the occasion of the unveiling of a plaque at Sandhurst in South Fredericksburg, Lennox and Addington County to commemorate James Rogers, a Loyalist settler and veteran of the Revolutionary war, 16 June 1963.

8) Reproduction of a photograph of two men in military uniforms, one identified as Benjamin Jacques, "dressed for Fenian War", c.1865

9) Photograph of couple on a porch with a mounted stag's head, identified as Mr & Mrs Jack Clark, c.1930

Riley, William E.

Letter from Frederick Manlis Miller and research materials

  • CA ON00156 2013-34
  • Collection
  • 1915, 2004-2013

Letter from Frederick Manlis Miller to Thomas Henry Coppin, agent, informing him that Miller had enlisted for active service. Several pages and printouts of 2013 research by Richard Hughes on Miller's family history. Also a copy of a newspaper article on a family history story relating to Hughes' grandmother in England and Belleville mayor George Zegouras, with a copy of a photograph of Zegouras and Hughes.

Hughes, Richard M.

Smith family photographs

  • CA ON00156 2014-49
  • Fonds
  • 1872-2000

The fonds consists of 633 photographs, 23 negatives, letters, sympathy cards, business cards, newspaper clippings, genealogy and family history and a few business papers belonging to the Smith family, primarily Frank Smith of Madoc. The photographs found in this fonds mainly depict the area around Madoc, with some from Bancroft, Maynooth and other places in Hastings County. A large number of the photographs were taken on vacation or while travelling through Canada and the United States. The photographs were taken in Florida, Atlantic City, Pittsburgh, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Healy Falls, Shaw Falls, Coppercliffe, Ottawa, Port Carling, Gaspe, Napanee, Madoc, Bancroft, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick.

The families primarily depicted in the photographs are the Smith family, McCaw family, Swayne family and Cassidy family. Many of the photographs have names and places written on the back of them. Other people mentioned on the photographs include: Jean Phillips Thompson, Mary Smith Barton, Aunt Vera, Muriel Smith, George Wright, Hugh Pepper, Frank Smith, Frank and Jane Packer Ingersoll, Elizabeth Baker, Martin Porter, Kay Seaton, Helen Whycock, Bessie Woods, Tom Ross, Jack and Ann Yonkers.

There are 3 letters from Henry and Eliza Smith between 1872 and 1874; a birth certificate for Frank Smith, news clippings on the Smith and McCaw families and events in Madoc. There are also family trees and other genealogical information connecting the Smith, McCaw and other families. Much of the information appears to have been gathered by Mary Elizabeth Barton (born Smith: lived from 1921 to 2017).

Smith (family)

Cornell family photograph album

  • CA ON00156 2014-72
  • File
  • c.1915-1925

Photographs taken by members of the Cornell family of 47 John Street in Belleville, Ontario. Family snapshots, photographs of boats in Belleville Harbour, Presqu'ile lighthouse, cars, Billy Bishop's float plane.

Hannah Harrison collection

  • CA ON00156 2018-006
  • Collection
  • c.1900-1970

Collection comprises:

  • album with 128 photographs of family scenes taken by Hannah Harrison of 64 Emily Street, Belleville, Ontario
  • mounted photograph of the house at 64 Emily Street, c.1900
  • photograph of six young women in naval costumes (Hannah Harrison bottom right), c. 1910
  • Methodist Church annual ticket for 1902-1903 in the name of Hannah Harrison
  • Canadian National Railways passes for David Harrison, blacksmith, 1935-1942
  • 'Happy Birthday Sweetheart' card addressed to Hannah Harrison, 1939
  • Wharf Street Debating Club membership card in the name of D. Harrison, 1941
  • photographs of Hannah Harrison holding a baby, c.1970.

Harrison, Hannah Mary

White family marriage certificate and family tree

  • CA ON00156 2019-007
  • File
  • 1901, c.2000

Marriage certificate of Richard White and Alma Beer, married in Corbyville, Ontario on 25 December 1901 (fragile). With family tree showing the ancestors of William Ross White (grandson of Richard White and Alma Beer).

Photograph album of James Robert Byron Ketcheson

  • CA ON00156 2019-108
  • Item
  • c.1914-1938

Album of family photographs compiled by James R. B. Ketcheson. Many of the people in the pictures are identified. Names listed include:

  • Grandad [James] Forbes
  • Grandad [James E.] Ketcheson
  • Isobell Ketcheson
  • Annie Ketcheson
  • Mother [Jessie Forbes]
  • Dad [Lee Albert Ketcheson]
  • Mabel Langley
  • Madge Howard
  • Eric Holmes
  • Jack "Chief" Kiop
  • Sam Pappas
  • Jack Grills
  • William McGee
  • C. Carter
  • May Lewis
  • Bertha "Bert" Perkin
  • Frank Howard
  • B.C.I. rugby team at Cobourg
  • Jim Harley at God's Lake, Manitoba
  • Chuck Norris
  • Alice Hart
  • Harry Mullett
  • Shorty English
  • Percy Hinch
  • Wally Walshe
  • Doug Wise at Ottawa
  • Allan "Dewy" Millard
  • Una "Punkie" Millard
  • Agnes Millard
  • Len Millard
  • Irene Crabtree
  • Ed Holmes
  • Nat Holmes
  • Mabel Duncan
  • Betty Hendricks
  • Cliff Howie
  • Ken & Larry Crabtree

Places pictured include:

  • Lower Bridge [official opening of concrete bridge in 1929]
  • Old Home Week headquarters at Four Corners on Front Street
  • Family dogs Major and Luckie
  • Outlet Beach at Sandbanks
  • Sailboat passing through Bay Bridge
  • "Alaska" sailboat in Belleville Harbour
  • Rideau Ferry
  • Crowe River
  • Fort Henry, Kingston
  • Murray Canal, Trenton

Ketcheson, James Robert Byron

Palmer family photograph album

  • CA ON00156 2021-093
  • Item
  • c.1908-1920

Photograph album with snapshots of children and pets. Some of the images show cars, trains, and manufacturing sites in and around Trenton, Ontario. One photograph shows Harry Palmer after winning the Deacon Road Race between Trenton and Belleville on 7 September 1908.

Correspondence of the Little and King families of Milltown

  • CA ON00156 2023-12
  • Collection
  • 1907-2001

Letters written by members of the Little and King families of Tyendinaga Township and Fulton, New York. Includes some family history information, a postcard of Stirling and a photograph of Edith Roulston, taken in 1960.

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.

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 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’

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 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

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".

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.

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