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Detail of wine container, bearing the words "R. ADAMS, WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANT DESERONTO ONT."

Robert Adams is listed in the 1891 census as a 'Liquor Merchant' in Deseronto, Ontario. He was born in Ontario to Irish parents on 30 March 1852…

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Photograph of William Purvis (on right) and a colleague, standing next to the Deseronto Utilities Commission vehicle beside the pump house by the waterfront in Deseronto, Ontario.

Photograph loaned for scanning by Purvis's granddaughter, Cathie…

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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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Group of teenagers from Deseronto, Ontario, heading to Kingston to take part in the CKWS television show 'Teenage Dance Party' in May 1959.

Back row: Roger Cole, Wally Vick, George Russell
Front row: Carole Cole, Cathie Murphy, Sharon…

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A penny token from the Deseronto lodge of the Royal Black Preceptory, a protestant fraternal society.

The wording around the edge of the coin reads "DESERONTO R. B. P. No.928 * DESERONTO ONT *". In the centre of the coin is a skull and cross bones…

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William MacDonald Mackintosh (on the right) with a trade-show stand for the Rainbow Protex Company. The firm manufactured auto top dressing and boot polish. Its works were in Deseronto. Mackintosh was a chemist who worked with waterproofing, textiles…

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Photo-postcard of the Canadian Northern Railway station on the southeast corner of Main and Mill Streets, Deseronto, Ontario. On the right of the picture is a Bay of Quinte Railway boxcar. The message on the back of this postcard refers to the…

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This photograph shows Roy, Ruth, Audrey and Vernon Mosier (all siblings). It was taken in Deseronto c.1926-1927.

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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.

Memories submitted in a comment to the Deseronto Archives blog (http://deserontoarchives.wordpress.com/town-history/memories-of-deseronto/#comment-2588).
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