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2010.26(6).jpg
Newspaper advertisement for the White & Morris Funeral Home, 78 Centre Street, Deseronto, Ontario, c.1960s.

Loaned for scanning by Elaine Gardner, daughter of Evan Gardner, who ran a funeral home in the same premises in the 1940s.

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Newspaper cutting about the establishment of a community parking lot on Main Street, Deseronto, Ontario.

Loaned for scanning by Elaine Gardner, October 27, 2010.

2010.25 (edited - part 1).mp3
Oral history interview with Don Fingland, who has lived in or near to Deseronto, Ontario, most of his life.

2010.26 (edited).mp3
Oral history interview with Delores Freeman and Elaine Gardner, who spent their childhoods in Deseronto. Their father, Evan J. Gardner, owned a number of stores in the town and was also the town's funeral director between 1932 and 1949.

2010.27 (edited).mp3
Oral history interview with Tillie (Matilda) Sherman, born 1916, who lived in Deseronto for much of her life. Her father, Joseph Laverture, was the projectionist in Naylor's theatre and her brother, Alec, worked at Clapperton's glass factory.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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…

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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.
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