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Diane Sule is a resident of Belleville, Ontario, and a member of the Hastings County Historical Society.

Nicholas (Nick) White is a resident of Belleville, Ontario, and a former volunteer with the Hastings County Historical Society and the Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County.

James Robert Byron Ketcheson was born in Belleville, Ontario in 1914, the child of Lee Albert Ketcheson and Jessie Forbes. He worked as a civil servant for the Department of Justice. He died in 1988, at which time his home address was 168 Burnham Street, Belleville.

The Coronation Committee was formed on 13 May 1902 to plan the celebrations in Belleville, Ontario, attending the coronation of Edward VII. The chair of the committee was R. J. Graham, Mayor of Belleville, and its secretary was Fred Adams. The chair of the Finance Committee was Charles Sulman.

Robert Shann was a flax spinner who lived and worked in Knaresborough, Yorkshire between 1822 and 1839.

The Wharf Street Debating Club began as a working class men's club in the Foster Ward area of Belleville, Ontario. At the time of municipal elections the club runs a 'Bun Feed', at which prospective candidates address the group. For many years, women candidates were admitted only to give their speech, then had to leave the room. The exclusion of women from the club continued until November 1988, when Julia Drake crashed the bun feed, dressed as a man. After that, the event became open to all.

Frank Lowe was an associate editor for the Toronto Telegram Weekend Magazine in 1960.

Quinte Grannies for Africa is part of the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign which was established by the Stephen Lewis Foundation to support grandmothers who are caring for children left orphaned by AIDS in African countries.

Marshall Alexander Jackson was a photographer who was active in Tweed, Ontario, between 1885 and 1896.

Ice dealer, son of John Callaghan, husband of Ellen Tighe, died March 1972.

The Belleville Life Members Club of the Telephone Pioneers of America was established in 1988 by a group of retired Northern Telecom and Bell employees in Belleville, Ontario.

Flossie Hall was born in Deseronto, Ontario, in 1887, daughter of James Montgomery Hall, a tailor, and Emma Frances Hall (née Johnston). She became a school teacher and was working at School Section 10, Mariposa, Victoria County, Ontario in 1912. Between 1921 and 1926 she was Deseronto's librarian. She married Thomas Chalmers in Deseronto in 1926.

Deseronto Archives was established in 1997 with a mandate to collect materials relating to the history of the Town of Deseronto and its people. In September 2016 the collections of the Deseronto Archives were transferred to the Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County.

James Montgomery Hall was born in St. Peter Port in the Channel Island of Guernsey in 1851, the son of Stewart Hall and Margaret (née Johnson). Stewart was a tailor and James and his brother John followed his career. In 1881 James and John were residing at a hotel in Trenton, Hastings County, Ontario. In June of that year, James married Emma Johnson (1857-1937) of Trenton in Brighton, Ontario. By 1891 the couple were living in Deseronto, Ontario, with their two daughters, Evelyn 'Tottie' (b. 1882) and Flossie (b. 1887). James was continuing to work as a tailor. The Halls had a third child, Gordon, in 1894. They lived at 426 Thomas Street.

James died on August 4, 1919. His daughter Flossie became a school teacher and married Thomas Chalmers in Deseronto in 1926. The couple had one daughter, Frances.

James Russell Scott was mayor of Belleville from 1968 to 1972.

Born in Belleville, Ontario, Donald John Barrett was a former insurance agent and Harbour master. He was President of Belleville Sales and Ad Club and a member of St. Joseph's Church.