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George L. T. Bull was born in Bertierville, Quebec, the child of Henry and Madalene Bull. He died in Isabel Street, Belleville in February 1905.

George Hoggard was born in Reighton, Yorkshire, England in February 1836. He arrived in Canada in 1855. He was the proprietor of the Anglo-American Hotel in Belleville in the 1880s. He died in San Anselmo, California, in February 1928.

Celia Vandervoort was born in January 1887, the child of Charles Vandervoort and Frances (Roblin). She married Herbert Clifton File on 5 August 1908. Celia worked as a teacher on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory from 1921. She died in 1973.

Henry Egerton Foster Ostrom was a teacher and evangelist minister. He married Mary Emily McCullough in Prince Edward County, Ontario, on 21 July 1886 and died in Greencastle, Indiana, on 20 December 1941.

George Finch was a jeweller specializing in watches, with a store at 212 Front Street, Belleville, Ontario.

James Dryden was born in Napanee, Ontario on 31 August 1855. He was a successful merchant in Deseronto and lived in the house to the north of the Post Office on Centre Street, later used as a funeral home. He married Melissa Ann Irvine on 9 November 1881 and they had one daughter, Jennie. James Dryden died on 7 September 1921.

Clifford Belch worked for the City of Belleville in its Recreation Department, then as the City's first Chief Administrative Officer and, in retirement, he served two terms as a Councillor.

Bill Stovin was born in Unity, Saskatchewan in 1920 and gained early experience in radio in CHSC, based in the dispensary of his father's pharmacy. He worked at CKSO in Sudbury, Ontario, before joining the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942, where he served as a Signal Technical Officer in England, finishing his service as a Flight Lieutenant Commanding Officer at RAF Dunkirk in Kent and RAF Fairlight in Sussex. Stovin married Doreen Blackwell (1920-2013), a radar operator, in Cornwall, England in 1945. He was employed as the station manager of CJBQ in Belleville in January 1946, where he worked until returning to Saskatchewan in January 1959. He died in 2011.

Mary Gladys Lloyd Johnson was born in Ontario c. 1917 to John and Grace (née Shier) Lloyd. She grew up in Kaladar, Ontario within Lennox and Addington County with three siblings. Johnson was an avid photographer beginning in the 1930s, capturing her daily life and travels. In 1948, she formed the 1st North Addington Girl Guide Company. She also worked as a court stenographer. Additionally, she contributed to local organizations as a member of the Ladies’ Auxiliary Branch 328 (Northbrook) of the Canada Legion of the British Empire Service League and the Secretary of the Belleville chapter of the Soroptimist Club (c. 1940s). In 1947, as reported in an Intelligencer newspaper clipping, Johnson was awarded with two personal gifts during the inaugural dinner meeting of the Belleville Soroptimist Club “in appreciation of her untiring efforts in assisting to organize the club, one from Soroptimist Bertha Hutchings, Peterboro, and one from the Belleville Club, by Miss Laura Johnston.” Johnson eventually moved to Northbrook, Ontario where she married John R. Johnson in 1957. She passed away in Northbrook, Ontario c. 2010.

Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_St._Laurent