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Mountney, William Charles Alexander

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  • 1904-1997

William Charles Alexander Mountney was born on March 4, 1904 in Musclow, Monteagle Township, the son of Cornelius E. Mountney and Christina A. Lake. He married Elizabeth Bradford. As a carpenter, he began by building barns and from that went on to building and renovating houses. Initially, he worked for Ed Rutherford and then for William Belch. He died in Belleville on December 15, 1997.

Haig, Eliza Irene

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  • 1908-2003

Eliza Irene Haig was born on September 7, 1908 in Morrisburg, the daughter of Charles Seymour and Ella Hummell. She was raised in Morrisburg and Brockville, and later graduated from Queen's University. She married John McLean Haig. She was known as Harriet Stevens to CJBQ listeners and Intelligencer readers. Mrs. Haig spent several years in the children's branch of the Belleville Public Library. She was a member of the University Women's Club and the Business and Professional Women's Club, representing the Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women in 19159 at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. She was a founding member of the Hastings County Historical Society and a member of the Bridge Street United Church Choir. She died on April 15, 2003.

Walsh, Dorothy Annette

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  • 1912-1977

Dorothy Annette Walsh was born on December 10, 1912 in Kenora, Ontario. She was the daughter of Leo Mark Chambers and Annie Elizabeth Hamilton. Dorothy Walsh was predeceased by her husband, Ralph. She was educated at the University of Saskatchewan (B.A.). Mr. and Mrs. Walsh lived for some time in Deloro, Hastings County where he worked as manager of the smelting plant. They later moved to Belleville. Dorothy Walsh was a member of Bridge Street United Church in Belleville and a member of the University Women's Club of Belleville. She died on December 4, 1977 in Belleville.

Hill, Kenneth Sinclair

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  • 1892-1982

Kenneth Sinclair Hill was born on October 11, 1892 in Melrose, Township of Tyendinaga, the son of James Hill and Charlotte Rollins. He was a high school teacher when he enlisted on December 14, 1915 during the First World War. He served overseas with the Medical Corps attached to the Queen's Own Rifles. Mr. Sinclair lived in Madoc and Pembroke for a few years before moving to Belleville in 1923 where he began teaching science at Belleville High School, retiring in 1957 as vice-principal. He married Jennie Curtis Livingstone on July 8, 1924. He was a member of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, serving as treasurer, a member of the board of trustees and in 1950, elder. In 1967 he wrote a short history of St. Andrew's in Belleville from 1821 to 1967 and was awarded a citation of merit by the Presbyterian Church of Canada. Kenneth Hill died on April 18, 1982.

McConnell, Archibald Shaw

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  • 1899-1978

Archdeacon A.S. McConnell was born in County Fermanagh, Ireland on September 5, 1899, the son of John and Maria Jane McConnell. He immigrated to Canada and later fought in the First World War, enlisting in Toronto. He was married to Mary Emily Rebecca (Ruby) Foy. He became rector of St. Thomas Anglican Church, Belleville in 1955 and Archdeacon of Ontario. He died on June 21, 1978. He is buried in St. George's Cemetery, Trenton, Ontario.

Appleby, Nathaniel S.

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  • 1820-

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.

Wilkinson, Bertha

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  • 1891-1982

Bertha Wilkinson was born in 1891 in Hanging Heaton, Yorkshire, England. She married her husband, George William Wilkinson, in 1912 in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England. They immigrated to Canada, settling in Belleville, Ontario. She was a member of St. Thomas' Anglican Church. Bertha Wilkinson died on January 9, 1982.

Smith, Sarah Almina

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  • 1902-1987

Sarah Almina Smith was born on August 15, 1902 in Sidney Township, the daughter of James Albert Stapley and Annette Eggleton. She married John Roy Wilson on March 8, 1922; Alfred Lake on August 20, 1941; and Franklin Smith on June 17, 1953. She died on November 9, 1987 in Belleville, having formerly lived on RR 4 Stirling, Hastings County.

Cherry, Cecil Greville

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  • 1895-1982

Cecil Greville Cherry was born in London, England on July 5, 1895. He came to Canada in 1902, and went to school in Thomasburg, enlisting in Belleville in 1915. He later became a cabinet maker and superintendent, working for the Houston Company for about forty-five years. Mr. Cherry married Clara Susannah Smith. He was a member of Christ Church and a life member of Belleville Lodge A.F. and A.M. Eureka Lodge 283 Quinte Friendship. He died in Belleville on October 31, 1982.

Beare, William Frederick

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  • 1901-1976

William Frederick Beare was born in England in 1901. He came to Toronto with his family about 1905, moving to Belleville a few years later. On September 16, 1925, he married Esther Taylor in Belleville. He worked for Bill Cook's cigar store on Front Street for thirty-five years. Mr. Beare died on July 30, 1976.

Eliphlet Adams

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  • 1775-1816

Eliphalet Adams had been born in New England. In 1798, he had decided to move to the Eastern Townships in Lower Canada, settling in the Westbury area northeast of present-day Sherbrooke. The reference to the ferry in Prince Edward County, Ontario c follows: A future ferry owner, Eliphalet Adams born at Cheshire, New Hampshire in 1775 and a relative of American President John Quincy Adams, built up a thriving lumbering and building business out of Picton and began buying land at Van Alstine’s Mills. Adams bought parcels of land between 1807 and 1814 from Loyalist pioneer Matthew Steel, William Moore and David Rattan in lots 7 and 8 west of the ferry landing and began to build a tavern and hotel on this property. This building may be the present white house or former Stage and Ferry Hotel at the lip of the hill before going down to the present ferry docks.

Aylsworth, Charles Fraser Sr., P.L.S.

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  • 1834-1911

Charles Fraser Aylsworth was a land surveyor for the Ontario government. Most notably he surveyed what would become Carlow Township, paving the way for settlement. He was born on 5 March 1834, the son of Robert Aylsworth, a farmer, township clerk, and Methodist preacher while his grandfather was MPP for Lennox. Charles' son, who shared his father's name was also a noted surveyor of the region during the early 1900s. In 1861, he married Elizabeth Gillespie in Stratford. He lived in Madoc, Ontario until his death on 27 June 1911.

Reid, A. Newton

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  • 1894-1991

Reverend A. Newton Reid was born in Quebec in 1894. He had a B.A. degree from Queen's University as well as a Bachelor of Theology degree from Queen's. He also had a M. A. degree from Columbia University in New York City. Reid was the minister at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Stirling, Ontario, in 1931. After Stirling, he served in Cookstown and Richmond, Ontario where he met Evyleen Stewart. After their marriage in July 1944, they served in Presbyterian Churches in Colborne, Avonton, Chesley and Holstein in southwest and western Ontario. Newton was a member of the Keystone Masonic Lodge of the Royal Arch Masons. He died in Brockville in 1991.

Buck, Ruth

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  • c. 1905 - 2009

Ruth Matheson was born at Onion Lake, Saskatchewan and married Geoffrey J. Buck. They lived in Regina for many years.

Freeman, W.Ray

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  • fl. 1961-1967

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

Christie, Margaret

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  • 1846-1933

Margaret Christie lived in Madoc, Ontario. She was born in Berwick, Ontario, as Margaret Groves. She was married to Joseph Christie in 1866 and in 1869 and 1871 she was listed in directories as a photographer. Margaret died in South Elgin Street, Madoc in 1933.

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