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Cosford Chalmers Forneri was born in Belfast, Ireland, on 5 September 1842, the child of James (Giacomo Felice Carlo) DeForneri and Elizabeth Susannah Wiles. The family arrived in Nova Scotia in 1851 and moved to Toronto in 1853. Cosford became a Provincial Land Surveyor in 1864 and moved to Madoc, Ontario. He married Isabell Agar in 1868. Forneri died at Rat Portage [now Kenora], Ontario, on 15 August 1880.

The Transportation and Operations Services is responsible for:

• maintaining City’s roads and traffic management appurtenances (signals, signs, lights, etc.);
• maintaining the City’s sidewalks and trails;
• maintaining the City’s parks and open spaces (sports fields, boulevards, passive parks, and other City lands and natural areas) including all trees/plant materials;
• overseeing the contract for the maintenance of the City’s street lights;
• delivering fleet management services;
• operating the municipal transit service including maintaining related appurtenances (ie. shelters and benches) and overseeing operation of the transit terminal;
• providing winter control services;
• operating the municipal landfill site and managing closed municipal landfill sites (conducting required environmental studies, remedial works, etc.);
• providing waste collection services (where not under contract to others) and supporting contracted waste collection service providers;
• providing administrative and by-law enforcement services respecting street occupancies and public lands (i.e. parks use, garbage, etc.), and noxious weeds;
• providing assistance to organizers in the delivery of special events on public lands (as needed or set out in agreements or prior arrangements).
• operating and maintaining the sanitary sewer and storm water management; systems (sewers, pump stations, ponds, related appurtenances, etc.)

[Information taken from the City of Belleville's website at https://belleville.ca/city-hall/directory/transportation-operational-services on 10 April 2019]

James Garry Sherman was a photographer who lived in Belleville, Ontario.

Paul Robertson was a museum professional and former resident of Deseronto, Ontario. He was the chair of the Deseronto Archives Board from 2007-2016.

Shirley Birchard is a resident of Belleville, Ontario. She was a member of the Historic Structures Committee of the Hastings County Historical Society.

Maurice Rollins was the owner of the Rollins Construction and Rollins Lumber companies and the Journey's End motel chain. He was active in sports and became a well-known philanthropist in the Belleville area.

Wikipedia entry for John W. Meyers

Sarah Latimer was born in Belleville, Ontario on 5 February 1865, the child of James Latimer and Margaret (Suttle). She married Thomas DeLong and had three children with him. After Thomas's death in 1893 she married William Wallbridge in 1897 and had another child. She died in Picton, Ontario on 26 Feb 1947.

Nora Pearl Delong was born in Picton, Prince Edward County, Ontario, on 19 December 1886, the child of Sarah (Latimer) and Thomas DeLong. She married Earnest Ward of Stirling in 1909, with whom she had five children. Nora died in Belleville, Ontario on 9 January 1963.

The Thurlow Junior Farmers and Junior Institute was an organization of young women from the fifth concession of Thurlow Township in Hastings County, Ontario.

George Wishart was born on 18 December 1896 in Kinburn, Ontario. He studied entomology at the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph and in 1929 he moved to Belleville, Ontario, to take up a position at the Dominion Entomological Laboratory on Dundas Street. He married Lois Keatley on 5 June 1929 and the couple had three daughters. George was active in a number of organizations and charities, including the Belleville Children's Aid Society, the Moira River Conservation Authority and the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. He served as an alderman for the City of Belleville from 1958 to 1964. He died on 23 February 1970 at the Belleville General Hospital and was buried in Arnprior, Ontario.

Mary Geneva Edwards was born in Deseronto, Ontario on 13 February 1904, the child of Evan Edwards and Harriett (Dunn). She had a career as a nurse at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto and four children. Her married name was Williamson.

Ryrie Bros. were a Toronto firm of jewellers and watchmakers. See history at https://web.archive.org/web/20220604121952/http://www.silversocietyofcanada.ca/sites/default/files/Ryrie.pdf