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A recent accession from the Town of Deseronto included this certificate of Public Recognition which was designed to honour those returning from overseas service after World War II.
If you look closely at the document (click on the image to see a bigger version), you will see that the town mentioned is Halifax and the crests are those for Halifax (as it was before 1964) and Nova Scotia. Pencilled annotations state ‘Your crest here’ and ‘Ontario crest here’ and the name Deseronto has been pencilled in next to the main block of text, where it would replace the word Halifax.
What is not clear from the certificate is whether the Town went ahead and ordered their own version of the certificate for servicemen returning to Deseronto. Did any Deseronto veterans receive such a thing? Has anyone seen a certificate like this among the papers of a friend or relative?
Deseronto Archives 
November 7, 2007 at 8:03 pm
On looking at the Council Minutes of the town for 1945 it seems that the suggestion at the September 17th meeting “that the Council do something for the Returned Men” was discussed at two further meetings, in November and December and then carried over to the meeting in January 1946, where it was not discussed at all. It seems unlikely, therefore, that returning veterans received any official recognition from the town of Deseronto.