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This collection contains a variety of materials relating to the history of Deseronto and Hastings County. Items include:

• video of the 1989 Deseronto Centennial and Homecoming celebration, 4-5 August 1989, including performances of the Centennial Song, a Main Street parade, a baby show, karate demonstration and fireworks
• File on the 1989 Deseronto Centennial celebrations
• 35mm slides of historic views of Deseronto
• Morrison family snapshots of unidentified people
• Photograph of an aircraft from Camp Mohawk on the shore of the Bay of Quinte, August 1917
• Programme and photograph (https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/29760539332/) of the United Empire Loyalist Celebration, June 1929
• Plan of Deseronto lots, 1943
• Series of 120 photographs of Deseronto, taken around 1995. Many are aerial shots, others are of individual houses. A few depict individuals: Don Lindsay, Dennis Vick, Dick Beare, Joe Carter, Ed Gordanier
• 'A Building Code for Smaller Municipalities' by the National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, 1947
• County of Hastings directories for 1983, 1984, 1985
• County of Hastings receipts and expenditures statement, 1921
• By-law to Regulate the Running At Large of Animals and for Other Purposes, Township of Tyendinaga, 6 August 1895
• File of 'Deseronto Firsts' compiled by Ken Brown
• File of photographs, press clippings and list of entrants in Deseronto's Easter Parade of 2006
• 16 photographs of empty lots in Deseronto, taken 2004
• File of partial letters from Joe Goold to his sweetheart, Marnie, written while he was based in Detroit, 11 September to 11 October 1919, with blank postcards of Deseronto scenes and a letter from Elizabeth Goold to Bill Hunt concerning the letters
• File on James Fairbairn including a newspaper extract and a studio photograph taken by him.
• Typescript biography of Harry B. Free (Camp Rathbun flight instructor) by Margaret Crothers, 1991
• File on the Dryden family, including a photograph of the Drydens at the Peterborough Lift Lock (https://flic.kr/p/9dmEYZ)
• File of clippings about Gwen Lazier Braidwood, 2005
• File of clippings about Deseronto mayor Glen Belcour, 1995-2002
• File relating to the Asten family, including a letter from James Asten, Town Scavenger, to the Deseronto Town Council, 1936 (available at https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/albums/72157674226629315)
• Promotional brochure and news clipping on Bridgeline Ropes of Deseronto, 1999
• Listing by plot number of owners of plots in the Deseronto cemetery and names of people buried there, with their year of death, 2003
• File on the Deseronto Theatre Guild's formation, 2004
• File on a Deseronto Waterfront Study Workshop held February 2005
• File and photographs on the 'Leander Electra' electric yacht, 1986
• Bakery token for R. Marrigan, Baker, Deseronto
• File of materials relating to E. A. Rixen, including three letters from Deseronto teacher Lena Warren, 1908
• File on Deseronto Arts & Culture Society, 2004-2007
• File and photographs relating to the Deseronto Yacht Club, 1993-2003
• 'Dear Hame hid awa' in the Glen' photocopy of sheet music by Archibald Duncan MacIntyre (oversize - stored in box 66)
• List of members of St. Mark's Anglican Church who volunteered for active service in World War Two (oversize - stored in box 66)
• Folder of Deseronto Yacht Club materials (part of the Floyd Marlin collection - stored in box 46)

Collection of photographs from the Scott and Cooney families of Belleville, Ontario:
1) Streetcars and Tickell furniture factory on Foundry Street in Belleville, c.1895
2) Photograph of horses at the Quinte Exhibition grounds, c.1900
3-10) Photographs of the Quinte Exhibition (James Scott (1879-1947), the donor's grandfather, was the groundskeeper), c.1925
11) Page 9 and 10 of the S-A Conveyor, with photos from the Stephen-Adamson Christmas party, 1945
12) Photograph of children with Santa at a Stephens-Adamson Christmas party, c.1950
13) Photograph of Stephens-Adamson baseball team in front of the fountain at the Quinte Exhibition grounds (including Gordon Cooney, 1912-1968), c.1950
14) Gordon Cooney (father of Fay Bradshaw) and two other men having their hair cut at Seely's barber shop on Front Street in Belleville, c.1963

Five photographs of Canadian National Railways locomotives. The engine numbers are 6100, 6065, 6066 and 6079.

Eighteen photo-postcards of Hastings County scenes, taken by William Freeman. They include images of Bannockburn (2), Eldorado (4), Moscow (1), and Trenton (3). Items donated in 2011 include a photograph of Oran Tripp at Trenton, snapshots of the Rose family of Millbridge, a Model T at Bannockburn in 1911 and three C.N.R. engines at Bannockburn in 1912.

Ontario Hydro maps for parts of Hastings County and copies of Grand Trunk Railway plans from Library and Archives Canada. Includes a photograph of Canadian National Railway employees at Belleville, Ontario (online at https://www.flickr.com/photos/cabhc/39400300370/) and booklet C.T. 405 from Penn Central with "Special Instructions Governing Operation of Signals and Interlockings", 1968

Photographs of members of the Ruttan family of Belleville, Ontario and houses in the Great St. James Street area of Belleville. The photographs include some reproductions, including one of a fire at Trudeau Motors in 1948. 111 photographs show construction work for the Quinte Conservation Green Energy Hydro Project at the McLeod Dam on the Moira River between College Street and Cannifton Road in Belleville between 2007 and 2009.

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.

Items produced to mark CN Railway Week in Belleville, May 21-27, 1978.