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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.

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.

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.

Oral history interview with Don Fingland, who has lived in or near to Deseronto, Ontario, most of his life.

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

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

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.

"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…

Snapshot of Delores Gardner, aged about six, standing on the south side of Main Street, Deseronto, Ontario. Behind her is the Stewart House (formerly the O'Connor House), which was demolished in the 1990s.

Photograph loaned for scanning by Dolores…

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…

Photograph of Delores Gardner at around five years old, on a Santa Parade float designed as a garden, dressed as the nursery rhyme character Mistress Mary.

Photograph loaned by Elaine Gardner (Delores's sister) for scanning on October 27, 2010.