Deseronto snapshots from Robert N. Burkitt
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, the butcher in the Burkitt Groceteria, Main Street, Deseronto, Ontario, during the 1950s.
2011.28 (3) Snapshot of Tom Burkitt, c.1960
2011.28 (4) Snapshot of Tom Burkitt and Arthur Dawson taken at Camp Quin-Mo-Lac near Tweed.
2011.28 (5) Snapshot of Phyllis Twiddy Creaser and Doris Twiddy Rendell
2011.28 (6) Snapshot of Robert Burkitt taken on Main Street, Deseronto, Ontario with Chapman's Restaurant on the left and Jackson's Hardware to the right.
2011.28 (7) Photograph of Robert Burkitt aken at Deseronto Public School, Deseronto, Ontario.
2011.28 (8) Tom and Robert Burkitt, with their mother, Marjorie, outside the family's grocery store, Burkitt's Groceteria, at 344 Main Street, Deseronto, Ontario, c.1960.
2011.28 (9) Five members of the Burkitt family: Tom and Robert at the rear, Bill and Marjorie Burkitt at the front, with Jim Warder, Marjorie's father. Taken outside the Deseronto Post Office, c.1975.
2011.28 (10) Snapshot of the front of Burkitt's Groceteria, 344 Main Street, Deseronto, Ontario, c.1955.
1950-1970
Robert N. Burkitt
2011.28
Deseronto Fire Department, c.1960
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 Hubble, Bennie Brant?, Grant Venton, Don 'Buff' Whitton, Don Kimmett, Ralph Lawlor, Jack Hamilton, Mitch Roebuck, Vern Boomhour, Al Fraser, Frank Tinney.
2011.02 (2)
Deseronto firemen, 1979
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.
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Deseronto Firemen's wives, 1979
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.
1979
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Deseronto Fire Department, 1979
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 series of photographs from a trip to Ottawa by the Deseronto Fire Department in 1979.
From a collection of images relating to the Fire Department, donated by Ealaine Lawlor of Deseronto, Ontario.
1979
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Deseronto Fire Department vehicles, 1979
Deseronto Fire Department's 1937 fire truck and van.
One of a series of photographs from a trip to Ottawa by the Deseronto Fire Department in 1979.
From a collection of images relating to the Fire Department, donated by Ealaine Lawlor of Deseronto, Ontario.
1979
Fire truck, 1961
Photograph of Deseronto Fire Department fire-truck, taken in June 1961.
From a collection of images relating to the Fire Department, donated by Ealaine Lawlor of Deseronto, Ontario.
June 1961
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George L. Cole
Photograph of George L. Cole, standing next to a car outside the Covert house, 94 Fourth Street, Deseronto, Ontario.
Photograph loaned for scanning by Bev Boomhour, George's daughter, December 2010.
1930s
2010.27 (4)
Delores and Evan Gardner
"Delores & Daddy"
Photograph of Delores and Evan Gardner. Evan was a funeral director in Deseronto, Ontario, between 1932 and 1949. His first premises were in Green Street and he later moved to the property at 78 Centre Street, north of the Post Office.
Photograph loaned for scanning by Delores Freeman (née Gardner), October 27, 2010.
c.1940
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"Little Funeral Director"
Delores Gardner, aged about four, dressed for Halloween as a funeral director (her father's profession). She is sitting in a chair on the veranda of her parent's house at 122 Green Street, Deseronto, Ontario.
Photograph loaned for scanning by Delores Freeman (née Gardner), October 27, 2010.
c.1940
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