The opera house at the southwest corner of Church and Bridge Street East opened in 1884 and operated under various names (the Belleville Opera House, Queen's Opera House, Carman Opera House, and finally the Griffin Opera House or Griffin Theatre). It was demolished in 1933.
Allan A. Ralley was a teacher at Prince Edward Collegiate Institute in Picton and a veteran of the Second World War with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
W. G. Smith was a Methodist minister and a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/nflds/article/view/21236/24540
Kathryn Rachel Asselstine was born in Marlbank, Ontario on 6 December 1884, the child of Oscar William Asselstine and Marion Ann (Lochhead). She served as a nursing sister during the First World War, and subsequently as a nurse in Detroit, Michigan. She died in 1970.
Arthur Robert Jenkinson was born in Norwich, England in 1889. He married Maggie Prior in 1908 and the couple moved to Canada in 1911. Arthur joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in September 1914 and served overseas until 1918. He died in 1972 and was buried in the Belleville cemetery.
The Morrell family lived at 239 Ann Street, Belleville, Ontario.
The main branch of the Quinte West Public Library opened at Creswell Drive in Trenton in 2004. Its predecessor was the Trenton Memorial Public Library at 18 Albert Street.
Stephens-Adamson Manufacturing Company, Belleville
Stephens Adamson (a firm with headquarters in Aurora, Illinois) took over the Marsh Engineering Works site on Franklin Street in Belleville in 1927. The firm specialized in the manufacture of conveying systems. The Franklin Street site was closed in 2013.
The work of the firm was taken over by Metso Minerals Inc. https://www.mogroup.com/
Indian-Eskimo Association of Canada
Leona Hendry was the Chief Librarian of the Belleville Public Library in Belleville, Ontario.
Gerald Egerton (Gerry) Boyce was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1933. He graduated from McMaster University with a B.A. in History in 1955 and received an M.A. in History from the University of Manitoba in 1960.
Boyce taught for 32 years in secondary schools in the Quinte region. He retired in 1989 to concentrate on research and writing. His many publications include: Historic Hastings (1967), Hutton of Hastings (1972), The St. Andrew's Chronicles (1978), and Belleville: A Popular History (2008). He was a founding member of the Hastings County Historical Society in 1957 and has remained closely associated with the Society and its collections. He was instrumental in establishing the Hastings County Museum and the Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County and he served as a Councillor for the City of Belleville from 1991 to 1997.
Gerry died on 5 October 2022 in Belleville.