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Digital copies of materials relating to Harty Wilson Morden

  • CA ON00156 DA 2014.17
  • Collection
  • 1917-1919

Copies of textual materials relating to Harty Wilson Morden, a First World War veteran born in Deseronto: a letter of recommendation written by Morden about Barry Barnes’ father (Morden’s batman) and copies of British Army materials relating to Morden.

Copies of letters from Garnet Dobbs

  • CA ON00156 MG 651
  • Series
  • 1917-1919

Forty photocopied letters written from Europe by Garnet Dobbs during the First World War to his sister, Millie Dobbs of Toronto, and his brother, Walter Dobbs of Winnipeg.

Dobbs, Garnet

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

Copies of Daily Ontario and Daily Intelligencer articles about Vimy Ridge

  • CA ON00156 2016-89
  • Collection
  • April 1917, May 1932

Copies of Belleville's 'Daily Ontario' and 'Daily Intelligencer' newspaper articles relating to the Battle of Vimy Ridge, published in April 1917 and articles from the 'Ontario Intelligencer' relating to the opening of the Vimy Memorial in May 1932.

Donated by Laurel Bishop, November 2016.

Daily Ontario

Military book collection

  • Collection
  • 1882-1936

Collection of books, most formerly owned by William Nisbet Ponton, some from the collection of Grace B. Waters.

Ponton, William Nisbet

Photograph of RCAF Clinton Sergeant's mess

  • CA ON00156 2019-008
  • Item
  • 24 March 1953

Photograph of members of the Sergeant's mess at the Royal Canadian Air Force base in Clinton, Ontario.

Royal Canadian Air Force

Ponton family records

  • CA ON00156 Fonds 10
  • Fonds
  • 1809-1965

The fonds consists of 10 boxes of textual and graphic material about the Hutton-Ponton family. The fonds is organized chronologically by the following categories: Military and Civilian. The fonds consists of the following categories:
Boxes 1-3 files 1-26 (1879-1916 15th Battalion Argyll Light Infantry- correspondence: telegrams, financial/inspection reports, inventory lists, medal applications, order books, sergeant's mess meeting minutes, service rolls and how the infantry was named)
Boxes 3-5 files 27-46 (1896-1903 Belleville Rifle Range, 1896-1900 Bicycle Corps, 1900 Canadian Patriotic Fund, Deseronto Militia Company, Militia Headquarters-Ottawa: 1895-1906 discharge and pension documents, 49th Hastings Rifles Battalion order book, 1879-1917 infantry tests and military schools: applications, notebook of notes about Toronto School of Musketry, invitations to various events, letters, documents, militia orders and newspaper articles)
Box 5 files 46-53 (empty envelopes, documents about Queen Victoria's Jubilee, The Red Cross: booklet, The School for the Deaf: letters, the South African War: letters, applications and militia orders, World War 1 and "Wrinkles": letters and wall posters, pamphlets and newspaper clippings)
Box 6 files 54-64 (family papers: certificates, letters, notebook, family history:Hutton/Putton house, wills, estate matters and journal/travel/address book)
Boxes 6-7 files 65-76 (family accounts from 1869-1903)
Box 7 files 77-90A (Belleville Industrial Committee: minutes from meetings, letters, newspaper clippings and various documents about opening different factories in Belleville)
Boxes 7-8 files 91-101-2 (Land and Estate Papers: grants, deeds of land and mortgages and sale of part of a cricket field)
Box 9 files 102-106 (Legal papers: daily journal and legal documents)
Boxes 9-10 files 107-112-4 (Programs and invitations to various programs and events)
Box 10 files 113-117-2 (misc correspondence and newspaper clippings: letters, certificate, and notes)
Box 10 files 118-127 (misc business and other items: reports, letterheads, advertisements, postcards and brochures)
3 red books (The Quarterly Militia List:1897-1900)
small reddish brown book (Infantry Drill by Authority-1889)
2nd larger reddish brown book (Field Artillery Training-1914)
greyish book (The Militia Lists-1886)

Ponton (family)

Decoration Day leaflet and Corby Distillery photographs

  • CA ON00156 2021-052
  • Collection
  • 1921, c.1990
  1. Order of Service for 'Decoration Day' at the Armouries in Belleville, 21 August 1921
  2. Six colour photographs of buildings at the former Corby Distilleries site in Corbyville, c.1990

Kellaway, Don

Memorials

  • CA ON00156 2021-092
  • Item
  • 2021

A compilation of short character sketches about soldiers of the First and Second World Wars from Hastings County who died but are not memorialized at the cenotaph, monument, or memorial park where they were born.

Brearley, Donald T.

The Heroes of Batoche

  • CA ON00156 2022-018
  • Item
  • 2022

Account of the Hastings County individuals who served in the North-West Resistance/Rebellion of 1885.

Brearley, Donald T.

A Lancaster from 630 Squadron of the Royal Air Force

  • CA ON00156 2024-015
  • Item
  • 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

Deseronto Archives photographic collection

  • Collection
  • 1860-

The photographs are arranged by subject matter and cover activities in and around the town of Deseronto, Ontario. The majority date from the late nineteenth century and many depict the lumber-related industries of the Rathbun Company in Deseronto. There are also photographs of school groups, churches, railways, First World War airfields and portraits of Deseronto citizens.