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Mounted clippings with drawings of Belleville institutions

  • CA ON00156 2021-026
  • File
  • 1840-1876

Three mounted newspaper clippings with printed illustrations of Belleville institutions:

  1. Deaf and Dumb Asylum, November 1870
  2. Albert College, December 1870
  3. Marchmont House, 1876

Also a reproduction of HC01468 (view of Bridge Street West in 1840). This item was originally donated to Glanmore National Historic Site by Edith Clapp in March 2015 (as 005.502.005).

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.

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’

Certificates from Tonic Sol-Fa College, London, for Joseph Canniff

  • CA ON00156 2012-29
  • File
  • 1885-1886

Two certificates for Joseph Canniff:
1) Elementary certificated in musical memory in time, in tune and in sight singing, 1885
2) Intermediate certificate in reading music, writing it from ear, and of eligibility for an advanced choir, 1886

Tonic Sol-Fa College

Cole family collection

  • CA ON00156 DA 2014.01
  • File
  • 1885-1914

Items found during the renovation of a house on Mill Street
1) Large family studio photograph showing a man, woman, four boys and a girl
2) W. E. Johnson of Picton studio photograph of three children: Hazel Annie Cole, aged 3 years and 5 months; Murney Nelson Cole, aged 1 year, 9 months; Edna Kathleen Cole, aged 6 months. Hazel was born July 27 1910 in Milford, Prince Edward County – dating the picture to late 1913/early 1914.
3) Felted piece of wood with memorial plaque ‘The Gates Ajar’ and the name ‘Eliza Dodge, 42 years, 4 mons, 14 days’

Cole (family)

Digital copies of photographs of Rixen family members

  • CA ON00156 DA 2014.13
  • File
  • c.1885, c.1920

Copies of photographs:

  1. Ebenezer Arthur Rixen of Deseronto, Ontario. Rixen was born in London, England on February 5th, 1857, the son of James Rixen and Elizabeth (née Moore). He married Ellen Gault in Deseronto on November 5th, 1884 and died in Thomas Street, Deseronto on June 10th, 1928. He was buried in the Deseronto Cemetery. Rixen was an accountant and insurance agent. He served as Mayor of Deseronto in 1917 and 1918.
  2. Ellen Rixen (née Gault) of Deseronto, Ontario. Ellen was born in Mill Point (Deseronto) in 1862, the daughter of John and Sarah Gault. She married Ebenezer Arthur Rixen in Deseronto on November 5th, 1884. She died on April 4th, 1955 and was buried in the Deseronto Cemetery.

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.

Belleville Central School and St. Thomas church photographs

  • CA ON00156 2015-13
  • File
  • 1891-1901

Four photographs:

  1. Class photograph of children at Belleville Central School (later Victoria School), c.1891
  2. Class photograph of children at Belleville Central School (later Victoria School), c.1891
  3. Choir of St. Thomas's Anglican Church, Belleville, 1893
  4. Helen Corby's Young Men's Class of St. Thomas's Sunday School, Belleville, 1901

Deseronto Illustrated

  • CA ON00156 DA DI
  • File
  • c.1894

Photographs, some composite, of buildings and views in Deseronto, Ontario, pasted onto paper pages and bound into a volume.

Osborne, Herbert A.

Two class photographs taken at Ontario Business College

  • CA ON00156 2023-078
  • File
  • 1900-1913

Two photographs of classes at the Ontario Business college. The 1900 photograph shows students from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, the 1913 photo shows students in the shorthand department.

Clarke, W. S.

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).

Todd Cole collection

  • CA ON00156 DA 2020.14
  • File
  • 1909-1970
  • Business card for Deseronto House Hotel
  • Postcards of Deseronto: Post Office; Bank of Montreal; hockey team of 1909; 'Greetings from Deseronto'
  • Postcard showing a 22 April 1918 aircraft crash into a building in Oshawa
    Newspapers:
  • Napanee Post-Express for 27 May 1954 and 22 November 1956
  • Deseronto Special Centennial Edition, 1967
  • Napanee Beaver, 25 November 1970

Photographs by William Spence Clarke

  • CA ON00156 2020-008
  • File
  • c.1910

Two interior views of an unidentified butcher's store and a photograph of an Albert College hockey team from Belleville, Ontario.

Clarke, W. S.

Postcards of Deseronto

  • CA ON00156 DA 2015.26
  • File
  • c.1910

Postcards:

  1. St. George Street, Deseronto, looking south from Edmon St.
  2. Upper Mill Street, Deseronto

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.

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