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.
Photograph of members of the Hawley family on the occasion of the baptism of the youngest member. From left to right are: Olive Esther Delmage Hawley (1878-1951); Mary Minetta Hawley MacDonald Selby (1916-2009); Howard Delmage Hawley (1908-1982); George Elmer Hawley (1875-1966); and George Rockwell Hawley (1914-1984). George and Olive moved with their family to Deseronto, Ontario,in 1930 and lived at what is now 317 Main Street next to the small park.
Envelope of signed and sealed by-laws. Also an agreement of 9th October 1928 between the County of Hastings and the Town of Deseronto regarding paving Front and Fourth Streets in Deseronto.
File contains a notice regarding the application of the Village of Mill Point applying to the Legislature of Ontario to change the name from Mill Point to Deseronto.
Two reproduction photographs of Wayne Foley, who was a police constable in Deseronto, Ontario, between 1965 and 1967. One shows the police cruiser, a 1965 Plymouth Fury.
File contains newspaper clippings from the column “Historic Hastings” featuring the Iroquois First Nations community, “Fallacies About Indians”, and a short biography of Peter Martin.
