The Archives holds a large number of photographs. Where there are no copyright restrictions, we share our photographs on the Flickr site. These are photographs where the term of copyright has expired, or where the Archives owns the copyright.
Also held in the Archives are some local newspapers and the following collections and archival fonds:
Culbertson Tract Land Claim supporting documents collection (TD/CTLC)
Reproductions of documents from a variety of public archives, including Library and Archives Canada, the Archives of Ontario and Toronto Public Library. These materials relate to the history of the Culbertson Tract, part of the original grant of land to the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte. A catalogue (including summaries and quotations from the documents) of these materials is available [in PDF format].
Floyd Marlin collection
Notes on Deseronto’s history and a number of postcards and photographs. Many of the latter are now available through the Archives’ Flickr account.
Hall family fonds
Photographs, correspondence and printed materials relating to the activities of members of the Hall family of Deseronto, particularly Flossie Hall (later Flossie Chalmers).
J. Allan Smith collection
Materials gathered together for a planned book on the Royal Flying Corps training camps around Deseronto. The book was started by Captain James Allan Smith but not completed. The materials were shared with C.W. Hunt, who made use of them in his book Dancing in the Sky.
Publications
The Archives holds some newspapers for the late 1800s and for some years of the 1900s, although the collection is not at all complete. If you want to find out what papers we have for a particular date, you can use our Google Calendar listing.
You can search for archives all over Ontario on the Archives Association of Ontario’s Archeion service:
Deseronto Archives 