HMR2-09-47
"John Gzowski & Adrian 'Socks' Apl 11/09"..The photographer's brother, Adrian Rathbun, and John Gzowski, comparing socks [!]. Photograph taken April 11, 1909, one of a series taken on the veranda of the Rathbun... more
Deseronto Archive Photos
Deck of Str. Alberta CPR [Canadian Pacific Railway] Line..Passengers on the upper deck of the steamer Alberta, in unknown port [Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, has been suggested ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/deser... more
Canadian photographs from U.S. National archives, 1990s
"Moira logs running, paper mill dam"..Logs coming over the paper mill dam on the River Moira in Belleville, Ontario...Photograph taken in 1907. It was later published in Lost Horizons by Donald M. Wilson (1983)... more
Deseronto Archive Photos
Reproduction of photograph of two Curtiss JN-4 training aircraft. The one nearest the camera bears the number C696, a roundel, and a castle on the tail fin. This was Captain Vernon Castle's favourite aircraft (... more
Deseronto Archive Photos
Betty Caldwell ..Photograph taken in the garden of the Rathbun family's house on the south side of Main Street, Deseronto, Ontario, in 1909.
Deseronto Archive Photos
Photographic portrait of a baby, taken at the J. M. Brigham studio in Plainwell, Michigan. The image is slightly scratched...This is one of a set of photographs found in a photograph album donated to the Archiv... more
Canadian photographs from U.S. National archives, 1990s
"Mr & Mrs E.H. Bickford & F K Hall"..F. K. Hall is Frank Hall. Mr Bickford might be the E. H. Bickford listed in the 1901 census as a barrister in Toronto, born in 1869. His wife was called Ethel and was born i... more
Canadian photographs from U.S. National archives, 1990s
"Boy with gophir at Warman Jct."..Four men [on a station platform?] at Warman, Saskatchewan, watching a boy holding a gopher on a piece of string, taken in 1907.
HMR2-09-35c
"Napanee River bet. S'cona & Napanee, July '08"..View of a stretch of the Napanee River between Strathcona and Napanee, taken in July 1908. Shows a number of logs floating in the water, with a man standing on s... more
Deseronto Archive Photos
"Resting in Peace 1917"..Photo-postcard of aircraft which has crashed into a tree...Part of an album of Royal Flying Corps photographs which belonged to the Hobbs family...[Oshawa Community Museum & Archives re... more
Canadian photographs from U.S. National archives, 1990s
"Our C.N.R. Engine at Warman Jct."..Photograph of Canadian Northern Railway locomotive, number 75, at Warman Junction, Saskatchewan, taken in 1907.
Deseronto Archive Photos
"Curtiss J.N. 4 a." Photograph of Curtiss JN4a in flight...Page of the photograph album compiled by Sergeant C. P. Devos while the Royal Flying Corps were training in their winter quarters near Fort Worth, Texa... more
Deseronto Archive Photos
Aerial photograph of Curtiss JN-4 aircraft number C126, taken over open fields with some stretches of water from another aircraft, whose wing is visible. The aircraft were from Camp Mohawk, one of the World War... more
HMR2-10-86
"Mother, Adrian and Betty, Thompson's Point Picnic"..Two women and a man at a lakeside picnic. One of a series of photographs taken of a picnic at Thompson's Point [possibly on Howe Island, Ontario], c.1909.
HMR2-09-14b
"Loading E motor on car for shipment, Apl '08"..Locomotive on a Bay of Quinte flat car, with other railway cars in the background...Photograph taken in April 1908, probably outside the Rathbun Company's car wor... more
Canadian photographs from U.S. National archives, 1990s
"Nightingale & T. Lawson"..Two men sitting on the front steps of the house in HMR1-09-49 ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserontoarchives/3805310037/in/set-72157621912654660/ ) .
HMR2-09-14c
"Loading E motor on car for shipment, Apl '08"..Men loading a locomotive on to a Bay of Quinte flat railway car (number 601). On the right is a box car with "CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO, 4993" on the side...Photograph ... more
Canadian photographs from U.S. National archives, 1990s
"Unloading coal, F. Hall in foreground"..Four men and a boy unloading coal from a sailing ship into flat cars with wooden walls. The boy is stoking the firebox of a portable engine that is being used to lift th... more
HMR2-06-45
“J. Gzowski, B. Caldwell, M. Braithwaite, Adrian Apl 11/09”..John Gzowski, Betty Caldwell, M. [possibly Marjorie?] Braithwaite, Adrian Rathbun. One of a series of photographs taken on the veranda of the Rathbun... more
Deseronto Archive Photos
Mrs March, Gladys Jeanette, Grassy Point picnic, Aug '09"..Three women taking tea beside the Bay of Quinte in Prince Edward County, Ontario. Photograph taken in August 1909. Jeanette may be Jeanette McMurrich ... more
Deseronto Archive Photos
Curtiss JN-4 aircraft C140 after a crash.
Deseronto Archive Photos
Aircraft C214 in flight.
Canadian photographs from U.S. National archives, 1990s
"Pansy, Mother & Barbara"..The photographer's younger sister, Bunella 'Pansy' Jones (born Bunella Rathbun on 26 August 1880), with her daughter, Barbara, and her mother, Bunella Rathbun (née McMurrich) taken in 1907.
HMR2-09-79b
"Crossing ferry to high shore"..Group of people and a vehicle on a horse-powered ferry (probably to Prince Edward County, Ontario).
HMR2-09-01a
"Duck Lodge Point showing Decoys"..Picture of lake with duck decoys.
Deseronto Archive Photos
Lowering canoe down rapids..Two men manoeuvering a canoe down a set of rapids, possibly on the Lady Evelyn River, Ontario...One of a set of photographs from a trip to "Gow Ganda", May 19 - June 28, 1909.
HMR2-09-37
"Marjorie R. & Cat, Aug. '08"..Marjorie Rathbun (1891-1966), the photographer's younger sister, sitting on the bench that is also visible in HMR2-09-38b ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserontoarchives/38591561... more
HMR2-06-52
"First Sunday in camp, Lady Evelyn River"..A camp site in a forest, with a tent, a man standing and another preparing a meal. Hats and boots are drying on the stumps of saplings that had been cut to support the... more
Canadian photographs from U.S. National archives, 1990s
"C. H. McCool"..Two men standing on the tramway at the Burriss mill. Location uncertain, but may be Burriss, Ontario (north of the Canadian Northern Railway at La Vallée). Photograph taken in 1907.
HMR2-06-54
"Lowering canoe down rapids"..Two men manoeuvering a canoe down a set of rapids, possibly on the Lady Evelyn River, Ontario...One of a set of photographs from a trip to "Gow Ganda", May 19 - June 28, 1909.
Deseronto Archive Photos
Scout troupe and leader standing and sitting on a platform bedecked with flags.The same troupe as in YCLB-06-01 ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserontoarchives/3778244374/ ) and YCLB-06-02 ( http://www.flickr... more
Deseronto Archive Photos
Photo postcard of two Curtiss JN-4 aircraft. The one in the foreground has roundel insignia and number C 696. On the tail is a castle symbol, indicating that this was the training aircraft used by Vernon Castl... more
HMR2-09-60b
"Gow Ganda & our camp there"..View of Gowganda from the lake...One of a set of photographs from a trip to "Gow Ganda", May 19 - June 28, 1909.
Deseronto Archive Photos
Photograph of Mayor Jim (James) Sharpe, addressing the audience at the unveiling of the plaque in Centennial Park, Deseronto, Ontario, on Saturday, 19th June, 1971. ..Photograph possibly taken by Lloyd Thompso... more
Deseronto Archive Photos
Aileen & Mr Freer at Duck Lodge, July 09..Man and woman at the side of a lake. Photograph taken in July 1909. Aileen may be Aileen Rathbun, born 1875, wife of the photographer's elder half-brother, Edward Walter Rathbun.
HMR2-06-42B
"Mitchell, Callaghan & Kennedy - Lake St. Peter Sept '08"..Three men sitting on some logs. Photograph taken September 1908 at Lake St. Peter, Ontario.
HMR2-09-35b
"Napanee River bet. S'cona & Napanee, July '08"..View of a stretch of the Napanee River between Strathcona and Napanee, taken in July 1908.
Deseronto Archive Photos
Group of three men and two women standing outside Deseronto Junction station, Ontario, in the early part of the twentieth century.
HMR2-06-44
“John Gzowski and Betty Caldwell Apl 11/09”..John Gzowski and Betty Caldwell. One of a series of photographs taken on the veranda of the Rathbun house in Main Street, Deseronto, Ontario, on 11 April 1909. Railw... more
Canadian photographs from U.S. National archives, 1990s
"Breaking Jam Moira River"..Men using peavey hooks to break up a log jam on the Moira River in Ontario. Photograph taken 1907.
Deseronto Archive Photos
Aircraft C636, crashed upside down between two trees with three men standing in front of it. The aircraft bears the skull-and-crossbones insignia of 90 C.T.S., based at Camp Rathbun, one of the Royal Flying Cor... more
Canadian photographs from U.S. National archives, 1990s
"Portion of Lumber at Burriss"..Stacked lumber. Photograph taken in 1907. Location uncertain, but may be Burriss, Ontario (north of the Canadian Northern Railway at La Vallée).
HMR2-09-77
"Winifred Heron and Sydney Fellowes"..Photograph taken in the garden of the Rathbun family's house in Main Street, Deseronto, Ontario. Winifred Heron was born on 24 September 1885 in Carleton County, Ontario. S... more
Deseronto Archive Photos
Photograph of the Circle Six Orchestra, a band based in Deseronto, Ontario. Band members include: Roy Kitchen, Leo McVicker (the original drummer for the band, who later moved to Kingston) Marshall Woodcock, R... more
Deseronto Archive Photos
Photograph of John Robert (Bob) Almey (1895-1989) in his flying uniform, standing in front of a Curtiss JN-4 aircraft at Camp Mohawk in 1918. Almey joined the Royal Air Force in 1918 and was in the last cohort ... more
HMR1-06-95
"Refuse burners and Chemical works from the Bay"..Image of the Rathbun Company's industrial sites at the east end of the waterfront in Deseronto, Ontario, looking north from the Bay of Quinte. In the centre are... more
Canadian photographs from U.S. National archives, 1990s
"Ralph Connors Church W'p'g."..Photograph of St Stephen's Presbyterian church on Portage Avenue in Winnipeg, Manitoba, taken in 1907. Ralph Connor ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Connor ) was the pen name... more
Deseronto Archive Photos
"Marjorie R., Marjorie Wilson, E. Creelman"..Photograph of three women sitting outside a building. Marjorie Rathbun (1891-1966) was the younger sister of the photographer, Harold McMurrich Rathbun. E. Creelman ... more
HMR2-09-58a
"Montreal River Views East Branch"..Campsite with tent and campfire...One of a set of photographs from a trip to "Gow Ganda", May 19 - June 28, 1909.
Canadian photographs from U.S. National archives, 1990s
"Pansy & Barbara in arms"..The photographer's younger sister, Bunella 'Pansy' Jones (born Bunella Rathbun on 26 August 1880), with her daughter, Barbara, taken in 1907.
HMR2-06-49
"Adrian and Betty Caldwell"..A woman and man leaning against a veranda railing, possibly at the house which had been owned by Edward Wilkes Rathbun, on Main Street, Deseronto, Ontario. The man is likely to be A... more
Deseronto Archive Photos
Head-and-shoulders portrait of a man, taken in the Surrey studio, Watertown, New York. The caption to the left of this photograph in the album read Bill Charnside, Watertown, N. Y....This is one of a set ( http... more
HMR2-06-42A
"Mitchell, Callaghan & Kennedy - Lake St. Peter Sept '08"..Three men standing in front of a misty Lake St. Peter, Ontario. Photograph taken September 1908.
HMR2-09-30
"Sand Banks Shore line towards Wellington, July '08"..Photograph taken at the Sandbanks in Prince Edward County, July 1908. The negative has suffered water damage.
Deseronto Archive Photos
Reproduction of a photograph of Deseronto Post Office and the United Restaurant, Main Street, Deseronto, Ontario. c.1975...The post office was designed by Thomas Fuller (1823-1898) ( http://www.biographi.ca/009... more
James Whitton
One of the members of Deseronto's Town Council in 1898.
HMR2-09-58b
"Montreal River Views East Branch"..Man cooking over a woodburning stove on the banks of a river, with a canoe in the background...One of a set of photographs from a trip to "Gow Ganda", May 19 - June 28, 1909.
HMR2-09-31
"Sand Banks Shore line looking South, July '08"..Photograph taken at the Sandbanks in Prince Edward County, Ontario, in July 1908.
HMR2-09-34b
"Steamer Brockville S. S. Picnic"..The Brockville, with many people on board. This photograph was taken on 9 July 1908, possibly at Massassauga Point, Prince Edward County, Ontario, as part of a Sunday School e... more
Canadian photographs from U.S. National archives, 1990s
"Lumber with McCool's House in distance"..Location uncertain, but may be Burriss, Ontario (north of the Canadian Northern Railway at La Vallée). Photograph taken in 1907.
Deseronto Archive Photos
"Pansy & Barbara on shoulder"..The photographer's younger sister, Bunella 'Pansy' Jones (born Bunella Rathbun on 26 August 1880), with her daughter, Barbara, taken in 1907.
Deseronto Archive Photos
Photograph of C. M. Luffman ‘Dad/Pete’, Herbert Luffman ‘Uncle Herb’ and Nate Luffman ‘cousin’. Taken by H. A. Osborne, photographer, Main Street, Deseronto, c.1898. According to freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.an... more
HMR2-09-59a
"Groups 'Fly Island' Montreal River"..Two men sitting beneath a tree with their heads wrapped in cloth (presumably to protect them from biting flies)...One of a set of photographs from a trip to "Gow Ganda", Ma... more
Deseronto Archive Photos
Reproduction of a photograph of a Royal Flying Corps ambulance outside the Quinte House Hospital. The ambulance, known as a Hungry Lizzie would have been stationed at the edge of the airfield during flying hour... more
Deseronto Archive Photos
"Armour Heights: 'Some' Stunting" Photograph of aircraft in a steep climb above hangars at Armour Heights...Page of the photograph album compiled by Sergeant C. P. Devos while the Royal Flying Corps were traini... more
Deseronto Archive Photos
Interior of the ‘Wigwam’, Dr. Oronhyatekha’s ( http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?BioId=41098&query=peter AND martin ) residence on Foresters' Island, near Deseronto, Ontario. The room appears to be a... more
HMR2-06-33
"Group at S. S. Picnic - Massassauga"..Adults outside the ice-cream pavilion at Massassauga Point, Prince Edward County, Ontari, part of a Sunday School excursion (presumably from the Presbyterian Church of the... more
HMR2-07-66
"Aileen & Mr Freer at Duck Lodge, July 09"..Man and woman at the side of a lake. Photograph taken in July 1909. Aileen may be Aileen Rathbun, born 1875, wife of the photographer's elder half-brother, Edward Wal... more
Deseronto Archive Photos
Airman standing in front of one of the barracks buildings at Camp Rathbun, one of the Royal Flying Corps' pilot training camps at Deseronto. ..One of a set of photographs taken in Deseronto, Ontario, during th... more
Deseronto Archive Photos
Photograph of a group of men and boys, three in clerical robes, in front of the south wall of Christ Church, Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, Ontario...The man on the far left is the Rector of Christ Church, Herbert Pringle.
HMR2-09-58e
"Montreal River Views East Branch"..View of the river, with trees on both banks...One of a set of photographs from a trip to "Gow Ganda", May 19 - June 28, 1909.
HMR2-06-34
"Steamer Brockville S. S. Picnic"..The Brockville, with many people on board. This photograph was taken on 9 July 1908, possibly at Massassauga Point, Prince Edward County, Ontario, as part of a Sunday School e... more
HMR1-06-85
"Looking N.E. from Top of Office"..Photograph taken in 1907 from the top of the Rathbun Company's office building on the east side of Mill Street, Deseronto, Ontario. The Post Office is visible on the left of t... more
Deseronto Archive Photos
Interior of the iron works in Deseronto, Ontario, taken by James Fairbairn, photographer.
Deseronto Archive Photos
"Small group in garden"..Photograph taken in 1909.
HMR2-09-58c
"Montreal River Views East Branch"..Rapids, with rocky river bank in foreground and trees on both banks. The negative has been slightly water-damaged...One of a set of photographs from a trip to "Gow Ganda", Ma... more
HMR2-10-83
"Miss Gildersleeve. Thompson's Point picnic"..One of a series of photographs taken of a picnic at Thompson's Point [possibly on Howe Island, Ontario], taken c.1909.
Deseronto Archive Photos
"Jimmie Russell": photograph of young boy holding a small dog outside a wooden house...One of a set of photographs taken in Deseronto, Ontario, during the First World War which came into the possession of the S... more
HMR2-06-41.1
"Iron Works fire"..Photograph of the shell of the iron works in Deseronto, Ontario, after the fire of September 1908.
Deseronto Archive Photos
Pansy, Mother Barbara..The photographer's younger sister, Bunella 'Pansy' Jones (born Bunella Rathbun on 26 August 1880), with her daughter, Barbara, and her mother, Bunella Rathbun (née McMurrich) taken in 1907.
HMR1-06-80
"Lumber docks E. from top of C. M."..Photograph taken in 1907 from the top of the Rathbun Company's cedar mill on the waterfront of Deseronto, Ontario. The photographer was looking east over railway tracks and ... more
Deseronto Archive Photos
Photograph of Mayor Jim (James) Sharpe, addressing the audience at the unveiling of the plaque in Centennial Park, Deseronto, Ontario, on Saturday, 19th June, 1971. ..Photograph possibly taken by Lloyd Thompso... more
HMR2-09-15
"East from Water Mill Bridge, June '08"..Possibly the Salmon River, near Lonsdale, Ontario.
Deseronto Archive Photos
Reproduction of a photograph of a military burial. Believed to be the funeral of 2nd Lieutenant Colin Coleridge, of Norfolk, England, who died on 23 July 1918 and was buried in Deseronto Cemetery, Ontario.
HMR2-09-29
"Shore line South from top of Sandhill, July "..Photograph taken at the Sandbanks in Prince Edward County, Ontario, July 1908, possibly in the same location as HMR2-06-28 ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/deseront... more
HMR1-09-72
"Pansy and Guy Rogers playing Badminton"..The photographer's younger sister, Bunella 'Pansy' Jones (born Bunella Rathbun on 26 August 1880). Photograph taken c.1907, possibly in the garden of the Rathun house o... more
HMR2-09-21
"Party at Glenora, July 1/08"..Group of men and women at Glenora, Prince Edward County, Ontario. Taken 1 July 1908.
Canadian photographs from U.S. National archives, 1990s
"Mill & Log Pond, Burriss"..Location uncertain, but may be Burriss, Ontario (north of the Canadian Northern Railway at La Vallée). Photograph taken in 1907.
Deseronto Archive Photos
Mitchell, Callaghan Kennedy - Lake St. Peter Sept '08 ..Three men sitting on some logs. Photograph taken September 1908 at Lake St. Peter, Ontario.
HMR2-09-11b
"Trumpour House, rear, Mch. '08"..Back of a house, possibly belonging to the Trumpour family of Adolphustown, Ontario [Luke, Edith and their daughter Marjorie are listed as living there in the 1911 census]. Pho... more
HMR2-09-09
"Group at N'hampton, Feby '08"..Man and three women underneath a tree on a winter's day. Photograph taken in Northampton, Massachusetts, February 1908.
Deseronto Archive Photos
Three men walking around a crashed aircraft with skull-and-crossbones insignia, the symbol used by 90 C.T.S., based at Camp Rathbun, one of the Royal Flying Corps' pilot training camps near Deseronto. The aircr... more
HMR2-09-71
"Marjorie & Lynn Plummer"..A man and woman standing in a garden, with another man behind them on the right of the image. The man may be Harry Lynne Plummer, who was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, in 1882. H... more
Deseronto Archive Photos
Our Birdman: photograph of a pilot in the rear seat of one of the Royal Flying Corps' training aircraft. ..Part of an album of Royal Flying Corps photographs which belonged to the Hobbs family...[Oshawa Communi... more
Canadian photographs from U.S. National archives, 1990s
"On River Burriss"..Location uncertain, but may be Burriss, Ontario (north of the Canadian Northern Railway at La Vallée). Photograph taken in 1907.
HMR2-09-03
"Part of Ungars Island"..Unger Island, near Deseronto, Ontario, taken from the lake, c.1908.
George Gonyou, Chief of Police
One of the members of Deseronto's Town Council in 1898.