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"Indian Land Sale" Grant of land for Deseronto High School

  • CA ON00156 DA 2020.19
  • Item
  • 2 October 1889

Grant of three acres in Deseronto, Ontario, part of the territory of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte, to the Board of the Deseronto High School (John Newton, Frederick Sherwood Rathbun, Thomas Roach, Arthur Stanley Valleau, Herbert Burt Rathbun and Thomas Hamlin Nasmith), for the sum of $2,500. A stamp on the reverse of the deed states that it was registered on 12 May 1965.

Government of Canada

Digital copy of a letter from Preston North

  • CA ON00156 DA 2012.15
  • Item
  • 14 September 1939

Letter from Preston North to his daughter, Alice (grandmother of the donor):

Deseronto
Sept 14th 1939

Dear Alice, and all at home,
The war has started
I was glad to get your letter on sept 12th and I did not get any other letters you sent before Christmas. It is a fight to the finish Canada has gone to a finish no fooling this time.
Returning men are going up by the thousands and no turning back. They have got into Warsaw and the women are fighting like tigers.
I am very well but I don't work much only at my own clothes. 3 years war if not more. Hoping to hear from you at any time. Give my best wishes to all.
From your father Preston North
Deseronto Canada xxxx Bye bye

North, Preston John

Does Deseronto have a future?

  • CA ON00156 DA 2008.21
  • Item
  • October 2008

Article on the industries of the Rathbun Company by Ken Brown and newspaper copy of the published version from The Intelligencer of 25 October 2008 (titled 'Back to the Future').

Brown, Kenneth Murray

Rathbun family descendants

  • CA ON00156 DA 2008.14
  • Item
  • 2008

Scanned copy of hand-written family tree showing seven generations of descendants of Hugo Berghardt Rathbun (1812-1886) and Louisa Storm (1820-1885) of Deseronto, Ontario.

A Lancaster from 630 Squadron of the Royal Air Force

  • CA ON00156 2024-015
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  • 2024

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.

Inès, Warme

Province of Ontario congratulations on the ninetieth birthday of Margaret Johnston of Belleville

  • CA ON00156 2023-111
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  • 1967

Text reads: "To Mrs Margaret Johnston - Belleville =
On behalf of The Hon. John Robarts, Prime Minister, - and the Government of Ontario - I extend heartiest congratulations on your Ninetieth Birthday.
May you enjoy many more anniversaries in good health and happiness.
Parliament Buildings
Toronto
January 23, 1967
[signed] Robert Welch
Provincial Secretary
and Minister of Citizenship
Presented by W. E. Sandercock M.P.P"

Ontario. Ministry of Citizenship

Advertisement for Herndon's Opera House Company

  • CA ON00156 2023-049
  • Item
  • 1881

Advertisement for a production of Divorced, or Lost and Won, performed 27 May 1881 at the Metropolitan Hall, Belleville, Ontario.

Daily Ontario

Report on a tour of Western Canada

  • CA ON00156 2023-043
  • Item
  • 1920

Report on a tour of Western Canada to study what the author describes as "the Oriental problem in Canada."

Smith, W. G. [William George]

Scanned copy of O'Hara Mill recipe book

  • CA ON00156 2023-040
  • Item
  • c.2006

Recipe book with pen-and-ink drawings by Sandi Warren Marrow. This copy includes photographs taken by Sandi which were used as the inspiration for her drawings.

Warren Marrow, Sandi

War memoir of Arthur Robert Jenkinson

  • CA ON00156 2023-038
  • Item
  • c.1920

Account of Arthur Robert Jenkinson's First World War experiences as a soldier in Europe.

Jenkinson, Arthur Robert

Share certificate for Springer Lock Manufacturing Company

  • CA ON00156 2023-037
  • Item
  • 1915

Certificate for one share of $100 of the capital stock of the Springer Lock Manufacturing Company Limited, issued to C. A. Campbell on 24 November 1915. Signed by W. C. Springer, Managing Director, A. J. Bird, Secretary-Treasurer, and Mackenzie Bowell, President.

Springer Lock Manufacturing Company

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