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The Quinte Arts Council (QAC) was established in 1967 as a registered charitable organization dedicated to supporting artists and arts organizations in the Quinte region by developing various events, bursaries, and workshops. In a QAC mission statement, the organization declares its goal “to provide leadership within [the] community, to foster and develop creative excellence among artists and to promote awareness of and appreciation for the arts.”

The QAC was created as a result of the successful “Arts Fest” event in 1967, which led to an interest for an arts council that served the Quinte area. The Chairman of the Steering Committee for establishing the Council was Marian M. Wilson, who became the QAC’s charter president. After conversing with the Ontario Council for the Arts and sixty representatives from Belleville, Brighton, Picton, and Trenton, the QAC was officially created on September 25, 1967. The QAC was incorporated in 1984.

The QAC is administered by a volunteer Board of Directors with committees responsible for different aspects of the QAC’s operations. The Board, Committees and other volunteers are supported by hired members of staff. Artists, arts organizations and businesses can apply to join the QAC’s membership. The QAC also publishes the Umbrella, which informs readers about arts and culture in the Quinte region.

Website: https://quinteartscouncil.org/about-2/

Website: http://csheritage.org/

The foundry was established in 1855 and operated as Walker Foundry, which manufactured agriculture machinery. In 1917, Francis "Frank" Bernard Foley and R.J. Graham purchased the factory from J.C. McCarthy to manufacture a line of evaporating and dehydrating machinery invented by Frank B. Foley. The business then became known as Fruit Machinery Company Limited. After World War I, the factory became a custom machine shop and foundry, repairing all types of machinery.

In 1948, the company became Foley Foundry & Machine Co. Ltd. Following Frank B. Foley's death in 1947, his son Frank H. Foley was elected President and General Manager. The Vice President of the business, the eldest son of Frank B. Foley, Thomas L. Foley, was killed in action while serving in the R.C.A.F. as a Bomber Pilot in World War II. A fire severely damaged the factory and its equipment in December 1960.

The business moved to a new building on Wallbridge Crescent in Belleville, ON, in 1961, operating as a repair and steel fabrication business. The company also operated as a supply business, distributing the products of Canadian Liquid Air Co. as well as automotive supplies on route to Cobourg, Kingston, and South to Picton, Ontario.

Lloyd Alic Pigden was the child of Ernie Pigden and Susie (Parm). He was born in Belleville and moved to Oshawa to work at General Motors. He died in Belleville on 7 December 2020.

Obituary online at: https://intelligencer.remembering.ca/obituary/lloyd-pigden-1081134487

John Millett was the historian for the Moira Lodge No. 11 G.R.C. in Belleville, Ontario. He died in Belleville on 16 February 2011.

John Elliott was born in Ireland in January 1864. He arrived in Canada in 1880 and worked as a bank clerk. By 1911 he was the manager of the Standard Bank in Belleville, Ontario, living at 58 Commercial Street (later named Highland Avenue). He was active in the community, serving as president of the Board of Trade and chair of the Board of Education. He died in 1933.

Edward James Elliott was born on 14 February 1897 in Bradford, Ontario, the child of John Elliott and Eva (Speight). He served as a lieutenant in the First World War, and married Theda Grant McCargar in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1919. He died in 1974 and was buried in the Belleville cemetery.

The Thurlow Circulating Library was established in 1847.

Helen Fraleck was born on October 14, 1890 in Hastings, Ontario to Judge Edison Fraleck and Jane Judd. She became a secretary with the Belleville Chamber of Commerce and a served as a member of the United Empire Loyalist (UEL) Association and the Hastings County Historical Society. She died on September 10, 1989.

William Horace Waldorf was born in Trenton on September 7th, 1865, the son of James Waldorf and Minerva Hollister. He married Edith Emily Cathcart and the couple had two sons. Waldorf was the proprietor of W.H. Waldorf Grocer in Trenton at the turn of the 20th century. He died at 30 Burton Street, Belleville on December 14th, 1937.

Samuel Shaw Lazier was born in Tyendinaga Township in 1840 and became a lawyer in 1864. He practiced in Belleville, Ontario, for 10 years and in 1874 he was appointed Master-in-Chancery, a position he held until his death on 4 July 1928. Lazier was also an honorary colonel of the Argyll Light Infantry.

Maud Reeves was born in Belleville, Ontario on 30 August 1869, according to her baptismal record. Her parents were George Reeves and Mary (WIlson). Maud was active in the Bridge Street Methodist Church and in the Women's Christian Temperance Union. She died in Belleville on 4 May 1960.

Information from Queen's University Archives: http://db-archives.library.queensu.ca/index.php/burleigh-herbert-clarence

William Harold Reid was born on July 26, 1895 to William Charles Reid (1853–1932) and Frances Ann Reid (1855–1936). Reid lived in Belleville until 1914 where he served in the Army as a Signaling Instructor, served two years as a Radio Officer in the Navy. Afterwards, he went to University and served as a Minister of the Presbyterian Church, mainly in Quebec.

Reid then taught Hebrew at the Presbyterian College in Montreal until retirement. He also completed museum work as the President of the Argenteuil Historical Society, and was once the Vice President of the Quebec Museums Association.

He was married to Rotha Aileen McKenzie (1905-1944) on July 1, 1939. He later married Edith Kathleen Black (1899-2000) on July 5, 1946.

Reid died on December 21, 1991.

Edison Baldwin Fraleck was a judge who lived in Belleville, Ontario at 113 Moira Street West.

Ray Freeman was a historian of Brighton and Marmora, Ontario.

John Wesley 'Jack' Hodgson was a teacher at the Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf from 1938. He died in Belleville on 3 May 2002.