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Bleecker, John

  • Person
  • 1762-1807

Born in Albany, New York. He settled in Trenton, and married Mary, the daughter of John Meyers. From the Pioneer Life on the Bay of Quinte "the Trenton pioneer, came from near Albany, in which city his father was a merchant. Shortly after his father's death his mother brought him and his sister to Kingston in company with a McKenzie family. ... His mother married the McKenzie pioneer. His sister married [Henry] Finkle."

Bogart (family)

  • Family
  • fl. 1821-1900

The Bogart family lived in Belleville, Ontario, from 1821.

Bohemian

  • Corporate body
  • fl. 2007

The Bohemian was a nightclub at 248 Front Street, Belleville, Ontario.

Boldrick, William

  • Person
  • 1886-1976

William Boldrick was born in 1886 at Concession 7, Tyendinaga Township, the son of George Boldrick and Margaret Millan. He married Alma Sarah Johnston on August 29, 1912 in Belleville, Hastings County. He was self-employed as a farmer and a carpenter, working until the early 1970s. He was employed by the Tyendinaga School Board and was a member of Roslin United Church, where he was an elder. He died on June 3, 1976.

Bolger and Drewry, P.L.S.

  • Person
  • c. 1885

A land surveying firm based in Hastings County, Ontario, owned by Thomas Oliver Bolger, P.L.S., and William Stewart Drewry, P.L.S. & D.L.S.

Bolger, Thomas Oliver, P.L.S.

  • Person
  • b. 1841

Thomas O. Bolger was a Provincial Land Surveyor who formed a partnership with John D. Evans in Belleville between 1876 and 1881. He was listed in the 1881 census as a 40-year-old engineer, living with his wife, Cordelie, and four children. In 1891 the family were in Kingston, where Thomas was working as the City Engineer.

Booth, John Rudolphus

  • Person
  • 1827-1925

John Rudolphus Booth was a Canadian lumber tycoon and railroad baron. He controlled logging rights for large tracts of forest land in central Ontario, and built the Canada Atlantic Railway to extract his logs and to export lumber and grain to the United States and Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rudolphus_Booth

Boulanger, Claudette

  • Person
  • fl. 2002-2013

Claudette is one of the founding members of Gallery 121, 48 Bridge Street East in Belleville, where she continues to exhibit. She is also a member of the Belleville Art Association where her artwork can be seen in most monthly exhibits held at the BAA gallery at 392 Front Street in Belleville. Now retired as a graphic designer from Loyalist College, she enjoys family and friends, painting, teaching, travelling and spending time at her cabin in the woods. Her work is represented in a number of private and permanent collections including Crayola Crayons (Binney & Smith), Scarborough Board of Education, Corby Library Gallery, Georgetown Helson Gallery (2013), John and Gisella Sommer Collection and the University of Guelph, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre (2002).

Boulter, Wellington

  • Person
  • 1837-1927

Wellington Boulter was born in Sophiasburg Township, in the County of Prince Edward, Ontario, the tenth in a family of 21 children of George Boulter. The latter settled on a farm at Demorestville in the bay front opposite Big Island. Wellington Boulter built a small canning factory there; his son Ed (G.E.) took charge of the factory at the age of 12.
In 1882 Wellington Boulter built a factory at Picton (W. Boulter and Sons), which was the first such east of Toronto, and the second in Canada. Corn and Tomatoes were processed there. It was the first commercial corn cannery of any lasting importance. This enterprising pioneer became known as "the father of commercial canning in Canada." He with his two sons George E. and Frank E.N. Boulter, started a factory in Toronto, which was guaranteed freedom from taxes for 10 years. It was on the old Toronto Esplanade at the foot of Cherry Street.

http://images.ourontario.ca/Partners/Burlington/BHS0027798411T.PDF

Bowell, Evalyn Margaret

  • Person
  • 1859-1944

Evalyn Bowell was the child of Mackenzie Bowell and Harriet Louisa Moore. She married George McCarthy in 1889 and she died in Belleville on 2 July 1944.

Bowell, Louisa Mahamah

  • Person
  • 1848-1919

Louisa Bowell was the child of Mackenzie Bowell and Harriet Louisa Moore. She married James Coleman Jamieson in 1868. She died in St. Paul, Minnesota, on 22 October 1919.

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