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Eleanor Herchmer Robertson was a descendant of Johan Jost Herchmer and a librarian in the Douglas Library of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.

Stuart Hilton Plante was born in Wiarton, Ontario on 21 April 1898, the child of Frederick William Plante and Florence (McKinnon). He served in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War as ground crew for 90 Canadian Training Squadron, principally at Camp Rathbun in Deseronto and Camp Taliaferro in Texas. He married Fossia Alfretta Dawe on 28 May 1924. He died in Wiarton on 3 June 1979.

Margaret Helena Jean Wilson was born in 11 May 1912 in Belleville, Ontario, the child of Herbert Roy Wilson and Isabel Adella (Ford). She married Henry Wilfrid Dean Thomas in Winnipeg on 21 February 1940. The couple had one son, Herbert Wilfrid Thomas. She died in Langley, British Columbia, on 24 October 1987.

Lorena Marjorie Haight was born in Rawdon Township, Ontario, in 1924, the child of Charles Frederick Haight and Flossie Mabel (Wright). She worked as a seamstress for many years at MacIntosh Bros. in Belleville. She married George Vernon Ashley (1923-2001) in around 1956 and died in 2009. She was buried in the Stirling cemetery.

Author page at the Canadian Encyclopedia: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/author/natasha-l-henry
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natasha_Henry-Dixon

Lucy Holton was born in Belleville, Ontario on 13 August 1874, the child of Charles Phillip Holton and Caroline Harriet Bowell. She studied music in New York and returned to Belleville to teach "Voice Culture" in 1902. She was a member of Bridge Street Methodist Church and its choir. At the time of the 1911 census she was living in Saskatoon where she owned a boarding house at 428 5th Avenue North. From 1916 to 1929 she taught shorthand and typewriting at the Bermuda Commercial School. She died in Bermuda on 13 April 1956.

Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna_Moodie

Ida May Boyce married Oliver Mather (1856-1925) in Cannifton, Ontario, on 10 April 1912. Mather's first wife was Ida Ketcheson, who had died in 1906.

Alexander W. Smith was a school inspector based in Bancroft, Ontario.

Alfred Briggs Baird was an entomologist. He was born in Lake Stream, New Brunswick, on 11 October 1891. He was placed in charge of the Dominion Entomological Laboratory in Belleville in 1929 and spent the rest of his career there, retiring in 1956. He died on 17 September 1960 and was buried in Pinecrest Cemetery, Ottawa.

Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_C._Cox

Arthur Francis Sherwin, Honorary Colonel, 426 Squadron, born April 19, 1923 and died May 10, 2015. Arthur was born in Coventry, England and earned his pilot's license through the RAF at Fort William, Ontario. He fought bravely in WWII and was shot down on his 20th birthday, April 19, 1943. He was transported to Stalag Luft 3 camp in Germany, the location of "The Great Escape" and was one of the "penguins", spreading the dirt from the tunnels around the compound.

After his military career, where he flew Tiger Moths and Harvards from 1941 - 1947, he immigrated to Canada in 1950 and worked for Ontario Hydro in Telecommunications and Protection and Control. He retired after 33 years to Belleville, Ontario.

Text from obituary at https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/thestar/name/arthur-sherwin-obituary?id=43101602

Mitch Panciuk was elected as a City Councillor of Belleville, Ontario, in October 2014. He became Mayor of the city in December 2018.

Roy Wardle was a firefighter who lived and worked in Belleville, Ontario. He was born in England in 1916 and came to Canada with his family in 1924. He died in Kingston, Ontario on 10 May 1968.

Taught at Comenius University in Bratislava before Second World War. Served as captain of Slovakian Army under the Soviets during Second World War. Became member of Czechoslovak National Assembly for Democratic Party from 1945 to 1946 subsequently member of Slovak National Council from 1946 to 1948. He was expelled from National Council during 1948 coup by Soviet-backed communists. From 1945 to 1946 he was mayor of Presov. He went into exile in 1948 becoming involved in the Slovak diaspora. He moved to Canada where he worked for Bata Shoe Company. Served as Vice-President of the South Hastings Liberal Association during the 1960s.

Obituary at https://intelligencer.remembering.ca/obituary/elaine-preston-1088344432

Lieutenant-Colonel K. D. H. Willcocks was the commanding officer of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment from 1964 to 1967.

John D. Evans was born in Goderich, Ontario on 27 May 1843. He was educated at the Upper Canada College in Toronto. He trained as a land surveyor and moved to Belleville, Ontario, in 1867. He worked as a surveyor and architect, being responsible for a number of buildings in Belleville including what is now City Hall (built 1872-1873). He worked as the Chief Engineer of the Central Ontario Railway from 1881, retiring in 1925. Evans died in Toronto on 7 November 1930.

His son, John Walter Evans was a prominent engineer and surveyor in the City of Belleville.