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Ten photographs taken in and around Deseronto by the Burkitt family. Bill Burkitt ran Burkitt's Groceteria at 344 Main Street, Deseronto in the 1950s and 1960s.

2011.28 (1) Snapshot of Robert N. Burkitt. c.1953

2011.28 (2) George Wannamaker,…

Oral history interview with Gord Burley, former Deseronto resident, and his son, Gordon A. Burley.

January 2, 1999

Subject: Great Depression 1930's

Interview with Mary Selby Born 1916


I was born December 1916, and the Great Depression was triggered by the stock market crash of 1929. That made me about 12 or 13years old. I do not know…

Oral history interview with Marvin and Linda Brooks, who lived in Deseronto until 1981.

Copy of a photograph of members of the Deseronto Fire Department in front of their fire truck, outside the Fire Hall in Edmon Street, Deseronto, Ontario. An accompanying note gives the names of the firemen as: Captain Jim McVicker, Percy Knight, Don…

My father, William J. Burkitt, owned and operated a grocery and meat market (1951 -1967), aptly named Burkitt’s Groceteria on Main St., across the street from the Post Office. Next door, to the east, was Ernie Luck’s Plumbing Shop; he also owned…

When 'ere I feel my spirits start to wane
In longing for my home town on the Bay,
I close my eyes and dream of her again,
My mind returning to a boyhood day.
Whether diving from the dock on Quinte's shore
Or skating on the Mill Pond's frozen…

Snapshot of five firemen on the 1937 Deseronto Fire Department fire truck, at a parade in Ottawa. The men are: Ralph Lawlor (Fire Chief), Clayton Moon, Vern Boomhour, Grant Venton and Don Kimmett.

Snapshot of five firemen's wives on the 1937 Deseronto Fire Department fire truck, at a parade in Ottawa. The women are: Ealaine Lawlor, Muriel Kimmett, Bev Boomhour, Doris Moon and Maxine Venton.

Deseronto Fire Department's 1937 fire truck and van, with members of the Fire Department and their families.

Ralph and Ealaine Lawlor, Clayton and Doris Moon, Bev and Vern Boomhour, Don and Muriel Kimmett, Maxine and Grant Ventor

One of a…