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Gordon Gazley worked for the Belleville Fire Department between 1986 and 2008. He retired as Chief on January 18, 2008.

William Thomas Miles was born on September 19, 1899 in Scarborough, Ontario. At the age of 10, he and his family moved to Belleville, Ontario. He was one of eight boys and three girls. At 16 he enlisted in the Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force. He survived the war to become a machinist. He stayed in the Belleville area for a time, then went to the Canadian West to bring in the wheat harvest, then went to Ottawa to train as a machinist. He went to Detroit, Michigan and found permanent work with Timken Roller Bearings. He participated in sit down strikes in the 1930s. He married Jean Hay in 1935. In 1941, Jean gave birth to twin boys, Thomas and Jerry. Jerry was stillborn but Tom survived. William Jay was born in 1948. The family lived in Michigan until Jean's death in 1978. Will Miles died on January 16, 1969.

Harold Stinson was a taxi driver and later a service station owner in Trenton, Ontario. In 1927-1928 he was employed in driving members of the cast and crew of the 'Carry On Sergeant!' movie from their lodgings to the sets of the film.

Rona is a museum professional who was formerly the curator at Glanmore National Historic Site.

Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Gilbert_Parker,_1st_Baronet

Proprietor of Bishop Seeds in Belleville, Ontario, founded by his grandfather in 1890.

Mabel Anna Fleming was born in Huntingdon Township, Hastings County, Ontario, in 1887. In 1914 she married Herbert James Gay in Stockdale, Murray Township, Northumberland.

John Fairbairn Anderson was born in Nairn, Ontario to John Anderson (a Presbyterian pastor from Ireland) and Isabella Austin Stuart. In 1891 the family were living in Charlotte, New Brunswick. Isabella and her children were living in Pasadena, California at the time of the 1900 US census with Isabella's mother, Elspeth Stuart. They had all moved to the US in 1896. In 1901 John Anderson senior died in Palmerston, Ontario. Elspeth Stuart died in Chicago in 1903.

At the time of the 1911 census John was lodging with Isabella Gardiner at 455 Hunter Street, Peterborough, with his siblings Stuart and Margaret. John was working as a machinist in a foundry. His brother enlisted in June 1915 and served in France with the Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry. He was killed at Ypres on 2nd June 1916 (http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/921793?Arthur%20Stuart%20Anderson). John Anderson signed up one month later. In 1921 he was back in Peterborough, still lodging with Isabella Gardiner, and working as a civil engineer.

Anderson was still living in Gilmour Street, Peterborough, in 1931 when he registered his friend Isabella Gardiner's death. In 1938 he was listed as living in Turnbull Street, Belleville, where he was a chief operator for Hydro, the electricity provider. He remained in that street until he died on 16 January 1963. His obituary was published in the Belleville Intelligencer of 21 January 1963 and it reads as follows:

"After an illness of a few days' duration John Fairburn Anderson of 33 Turnbull St., passed away in the Belleville General Hospital last Wednesday evening in his seventy-seventh year. Son of the late Rev. John Anderson and Isabella Stewart, Mr. Anderson was born at Nairn, near Ailsa Craig, Ontario.
"Having lived some of his early years in California and Chicago he came to Belleville in 1911 as an employee of the Ontario Hydro. At the time of his retirement from the Hydro fourteen years ago he had advanced to the position of Operating Superintendent of the East Central Region of the Hydro. He served with the Cobourg Heavy Battery overseas in the First World War.
"Mr. Anderson was deeply interested in classical music and had one of the largest record collections in this part of the province. Although not an executant of any musical instrument he had a very acute musical intelligencer [sic] and a high degree of knowledge in things pertaining to this art. Over the years untold numbers of local residents and district acquaintances gathered at his home to spend evenings of satisfying enjoyment listening to the music of their choice through the medium of his vast record collection. He had a very kind disposition and will be sorely missed by scores of friends that knew him and respected him for his sagacity and humility.
"Mr. Anderson was a life member of Moira Lodge, A.F. and A.M., No. 11 and just a short time ago was presented with his 50-Year Jewel in the Masonic order.
"Surviving him are two sisters, Miss Elsie Anderson of Peterborough, and Miss Margaret Anderson of Toronto.
"His funeral was held from the Comstock Funeral Home in Peterborough with Rev. Stanley Gibson of St. Andrew's United Church, officiating, both there and at the committal ceremony at Little Lake cemetery, Peterborough.
"The honorary bearers were: F. D. Kerr, Q.C., Hugh Waddell, Robert Beal and Hamilton Munro of Peterborough, and Carl Fisher of Belleville.
Many friends from Belleville were present to pay their final respects to this departed true companion whom they knew simply as 'John.'"

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Canadian artist: National Gallery of Canada: https://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artist.php?iartistid=4583;
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Agnew_Reid

William Ashley was born in Ontario about 1808 and is listed on the 1851 Census, Hastings County, Thurlow, District #15, age 45, born Canada and occupation Wagonmaker.

Mayor of Belleville, 1918-1919.

Article by Don Brearley: https://firstworldwarbelleville.ca/2018/10/13/nurses-of-world-war-i-grace-brown-waters/