- Persona
- fl. 1956-1974
Carol Anne McCormack was a high school student in Madoc in 1974.
Carol Anne McCormack was a high school student in Madoc in 1974.
Stella-Marie Brown was a high school student in Napanee, Ontario in 1978.
Richard M. Hughes is a resident of Rossmore, Ontario and President of the Hastings County Historical Society.
Frederick Manlis Miller was born in Madoc, Ontario on 23 April 1891. He worked as the day ticket clerk for the Grand Trunk Railway in Belleville, Ontario until he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He died of pneumonia in France on 9 December 1916. Service record: http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?op=pdf&app=CEF&id=B6181-S001
Rea Covert Symonds was born in Belleville, Ontario, the daughter of Alfred Symonds and Agnes (Covert). She lived in Belleville all her life and died on 21 April 2011.
Mary Ellen Sills is a resident of Stirling, Ontario. Her maiden name was Chambers and she married Russell Sills (1925-2012) around 1950.
Russell J. Barber was an archaeologist who worked for the Peabody Museum, Harvard University.
Anne Elspeth Rector is a writer, artist, and photographer and a resident of Belleville, Ontario.
Phillip Clement Jones was a dry good merchant and resident of Belleville, Ontario.
Sean Scally is a photographer and filmmaker based in Trenton, Ontario. Website: http://seanscally.ca/
William Wallbridge was born on July 13, 1825 to parents Asa Wallbridge and Hannah Every, in Clarke Township, Durham County, Ontario. He received his land surveying license, in Ontario, on January 8, 1853. He died of scarlet fever on February 3, 1863.
William's grandfather was the local pioneer Elijah Wallbridge.
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 1871-1873). 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.
Haslett, John James, P.L.S. & D.P.S.
John James Haslett was born on June 17, 1811 at Sanfield House, Tyrone County, Ireland, the child of Matthew Haslett and Sarah McCrae. He received his education to be a surveyor in Ireland, and later when on to survey England and the south coast of Ireland. Around 1842, he came to Canada. After six months of training with P.L.S. John Emerson, he became a Provincial Land Surveyor. He then moved to Belleville, Ontario and began surveying Upper Canada. In February 1851, he married Frances Colhoun Woods. He died in Belleville on January 21, 1878 leaving his wife, four sons and three daughters.