The Art Gallery of Ontario is an art museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its collection includes close to 95,000 works spanning the first century to the present day. The gallery has 45,000 square metres of physical space, making it one of the largest galleries in North America. https://ago.ca/
The Argue family have lived in Belleville, Ontario since 1929. Prior to that date, Cecil Elmer (John) Argue, born April 30, 1885, had been manager of the Standard Bank in Deseronto and served as that town's mayor. He and his wife, Mary Elizabeth West, moved to Belleville after the Standard Bank merged with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. John Argue then became involved in the construction of power plants to supply electricity in both Bancroft and Stirling. John and Elizabeth Argue died in 1974, he on May 4 and she on January 30. They were survived by three sons, John West (Jack), William Armstrong and Alan Edward.
Nathaniel S. Appleby, the eldest and only living son of Thomas D. Appleby, was born in the County of Prince Edward in the year 1820, and came with his father to Tyendinaga in 1828. Reeve of the township for 20 consecutive years, appointed justice of the peace in 1854, Census Commissioner for Hastings in 1861 and 1871; Warden for the county for 3 years, elected M.P.P. for East Hastings in 1875.
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Rev. Cyrus Richmond Allison was born in Adolphustown and died in Picton, Methodist Episcopal. https://krassoc.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/cyrus-richmond-allison-methodist-episcopal-minister/
Alcoholics Anonymous is an international mutual aid fellowship whose stated purpose is to enable its members to "stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety." It was founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Bob Smith in Akron, Ohio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholics_Anonymous
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Philip Herbert Etter was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia on July 14th, 1924, and later settled in Belleville, Ontario. As a young man he worked in the offices of steamship agents, Pickford and Black. During World War Two he served with the Royal Canadian Merchant Navy. He joined the crew of Her Majesty's Number One Canadian hospital ship, Lady Nelson, a hospital ship, on April 21, 1943 as a Junior Purser and made several Atlantic crossings totalling 160,000 sea miles. They would travel over to the Mediterranean, pick up troops from the battlefields, transport them to England and then take convalescents to Halifax or Montreal. He wrote an account of his time at sea. After the war, Philip worked hard to help get recognition for the veterans who had served in the Canadian Merchant Navy and enable them to be eligible for the same benefits as the Navy veterans. He was the eastern region director of the Canadian Merchant Navy Veterans Association and its representative on the National Council of Veterans Associations in Canada. He died at the Belleville General Hospital on August 6th, 2016.
Cyrus Fulford was born in Northumberland County, Ontario in 1899. He married Pearl May Humphrey in Consecon, Ontario in 1922. He died in 1984 and was buried in Carrying Place, Ontario.
Charles Andrew Tupper was born in Owen Sound, Ontario, in 1914. He lived in Foxboro, Hastings County and worked for Canadian National Railways, writing poems in his spare time. He died on December 20th, 1990 and was buried in the Black River Bridge Memorial Cemetery, South Marysburgh, Prince Edward County.
Lillian Emily Kent was born in Simcoe County, Ontario, on 5 August 1907, the daughter of Horace Kent and Emily Pugh. She married Cecil Henry Davis, a Canadian National Railways employee in Belleville and the couple had three sons. They lived at 143 Lingham Street, Belleville. Cecil died in 1975 and Lillian died on 8 January 2005.