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deseronto public.jpg
This is a picture of the staff of the school in about 1970 or so. I don't remember a lot of the names. Bottom row left to right Louise O'sullivan, then I don't know, then me (Linda Nickason) in black white dress, green shirt don't know,Tucker can't…

Snapshot of 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,…

2010.21(3).tif
Photograph of Deseronto's hockey team of 1910, "won 6, lost 1".
Back row: J. H. Wonnacott, secretary-treasurer; Rev. A. H. Creegan, vice-president; Alex. Therrien, P. J. Johnson, George Houle, executive committee; R. J. S. Dewar, president.
Centre…

Duncan interview.mp3
Recording by Don Duncan, made November 26th, 1990, comprising two older recordings.
(01:16) The first is of Jack and Bill Duncan (Don's father), made in 1967. The two men reminisce about their early days in Canada. Jack [John] was born in 1896 and…

2010.31(3).tif
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.

2010.27(4).tif
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.

2010.21(7).tif
Studio portrait of a group of ten boys, all dressed alike. The boy in the centre of the front row is holding a small trophy. The boy immediately behind him has been identified as Fletcher Vick, but the identities of the other boys and the occasion…

2010.21(5).tif
Photograph of Helena Purvis in front of a car on Main Street, Deseronto, Ontario. The car's licence plate is 623N8.

Photograph loaned for scanning by Helena's daughter, Cathie Vick.

2010.19.mp3
Oral history interview with Beverley Boomhour (née Cole), who has lived in Deseronto, Ontario, all her life.

2010.21 (edited).mp3
Oral history interview with Cathie Vick (née Murphy), who has lived in Deseronto, Ontario, from the age of eight.
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