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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

Deseronto Public Library photographs

  • CA ON00156 DA 2020.13
  • File
  • 1959-1981

Photographs are principally of staff and patrons of the Deseronto Public Library and were apparently taken by staff of The Quinte Scanner newspaper. Other images include staff of Deseronto Public School and photographs of buildings in Deseronto, Ontario.

Wilfred French collection

  • CA ON00156 DA 2016.02
  • File
  • 1900-1985

Collection comprises:
1) Metal luggage tag “Deseronto Nav. Co. Ltd. Local 60”, c.1900
2) Fairbairn portrait of a group of young women, c.1900
3) Photograph of uniformed members of a Citizen's band (possibly the Napanee Citizen's Band), c.1900
4) Photo of Gibbards’ employees, Napanee (includes Wilfred French and his son), 1985

Fairbairn, James

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

Florrie Sexsmith columns for Deseronto Post

  • CA ON00156 DA 2009.24
  • File
  • 1949-1951

Florrie Sexsmith earned $1.00 per week by writing a column for the Deseronto Post newspaper. They include advice, history lessons, decorating tips, travelogues and recipes.

Sexsmith, Florrie

Ken Melhoff collection

  • CA ON00156 DA 2009.05
  • File
  • c.1944-1946

Five copies of photographs showing Louise Fitchett's house in Deseronto and Ken Melhoff as a young boy, c.1944-1946. Photocopy of an article from Our Canada magazine by Carolyn Lori about Joseph Laverture of Green Street, Deseronto, and his miniature cannons. Lavature was at one time the projectionist at Naylor's theatre in Deseronto.

Issues of the Post Express newspaper

  • CA ON00156 DA 2007.06
  • File
  • 1965

Four 1965 issues of The Post Express (Napanee and Deseronto), June 16 (2 copies), June 23, July 28 .

Stirling Historical Society publications

Materials produced by the Stirling Historical Society, including:

  • Four editions of 'The Heritage Clarion', Volume 1 numbers 1, 3, and 4, Volume 2 number 2
  • Partial list of artifact donations, 1993
  • Map and text for walking tour of Stirling, 1993
  • Photocopy of a register of members of Stirling Public Library, 1903
  • Typescript 'brief history of the Stirling Public Library', c.1975
  • Update on the history of the library to 1989
  • List of contributors to the purchase of the site for the Stirling Public Library, 1914
  • Photocopy of a flyer promoting the Stirling Public Library, 1910
  • Reproduction of article about the opening of Stirling Public Library, 1903
  • Hand-written notes on aspects of Stirling history, c.1990

Family and Farm Histories

Histories of farming families in Tyendinaga Township, with photographs of some farm properties.

Index of contents:
Richard & Sam Tripp
Mr & Mrs James Osborne
Mr & Mrs Joseph Forestell
Mr & Mrs John Milligan
Mr & Mrs Allan King (former Jacob Eaton property)
Mr & Mrs Newton Demille
Mr & Mrs Les Gnaedinger
Gerald & Orville Stratton
Mr & Mrs Ron Graham
Mr & Mrs Earl Badgley
Mr & Mrs Roy Badgley
Mr & Mrs Harold McMechan
Mr & Mrs Donald McLaren
Mr & Mrs Fred Robinson
Mr & Mrs Clare Weese
Mr & Mrs Larry Plews
Mr & Mrs John Blatherwick
Mr Jack Farrell (blacksmith)

Pictures:
Lonsdale Station
Farm Homes - J. Milligan, M. Dawson, J. Colson, A. Haight, Earl Lansing, S. Demille
Mr & Mrs Vernon Pascoe's store

Stories of the Community

Scrapbook containing: lists of local postmasters and postmistresses; notes on farming in Tyendinaga township; newspaper clippings of local births, deaths, marriages and family news. Some black and white photographs.

Miscellaneous textual records

Various items, including:

  • School report card from Queen Alexandra school for William Calbury (Ruth Boyce's brother), not dated
  • Commercial gasoline licence ration book, 1945-1946
  • Bata Shoe Company publication for Canada's International Trade Fair, 1948
  • Programme for Frankford's Old Boys' and Girls' Reunion, 27 July - 1 August 1955
  • Programme for the dedication of the Belleville Wesleyan Methodist Church on Everett Street, 20 November 1955
  • 'Voice of the Bay of Quinte' CJBQ program schedules, October 1962
  • Programme for the dedication of the Wesleyan Methodist Church at Dixon Drive in Trenton, 4 April 1965

People and Events

Index to volume:
County Warden Carman Gibson 1972
Pat McCormick's fire
Bill McLaren
William Walsh 1970
Harold McAvoy 1969
General Store, K. Bradshaw 1954
Trinity Anglican Church Centennial Shannonville
Tyendinaga History Research 1982
Marysville Holstein World Butterfat Record
Bicentennial Medal, Bernice Stratton
Retirement Harold Brennan - Mailman 32 yr
Retirement William Walsh 1985
Recreation complex
Junior Agriculturist Program
75th anniversary W.I. 1977
Dairy Princess Carol Brennan
Re-opening of Kingsford rock cut
Power line 1979
Dairy Princess Sandra Osborne
Corby closure
Scouting
Parliamentary Page Shane Pascoe 1989
Municipal garage official opening 1988
10 Acre truck stop
Ken Juby retirement 1989
Recreation complex official opening
90th anniversary Hastings East 1991
History - Lonsdale
Shannonville Country Festival Sandra Howard
Volunteer Fire Department Tyendinaga Township
Tyendinaga Public Library

Ed Thomas Emporium

Notes, photographs and newspaper articles in relation Ed Thomas and his cigar shop on Front Street in Belleville, Ontario.

BCIVS 'Elevators'

Two editions of the Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School 'Elevator' publication:

  • Easter 1931
  • 1966-1967

Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School

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