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Bridge Street United Church

  • Corporate body
  • 1815-

The first Methodist meeting held in Belleville took place in 1815. The first meeting house was built on Pinnacle Street in 1818 and expanded in later years. In 1865 a new church opened on Bridge Street, on land provided by Billa Flint.

Brearley, Donald T.

  • Person
  • fl. 1970-2022

Donald Brearley is a native of Belleville, son of Dr. and Mrs. Guy Gage Brearley, and a graduate of Queen’s University Medical School in 1970.

Brant, Diane

  • Person
  • fl. 2007-2016

Diane Brant is a resident of the Town of Deseronto, Ontario.

Branscombe, Nan

  • Person
  • 1880-1971

Annie Elizabeth Paterson was born in Brantford, Ontario on 13th May 1880 to William Paterson, a confectioner and Lucy (née Davies). She married Morley Elwood Branscombe on 10th September 1907. She died in Belleville on 25th March 1971.

Bramley, Molly

  • Person
  • d. 1990

Molly Bramley was a photographer based in Ivanhoe, Ontario. She was born Mary Elizabeth Roushorne in Bala, Ontario. She married Stanley Bramley in Bala on 30 September 1950 and died in Ottawa on 15 April 1990.

Braidwood, Jack W.

  • Person
  • 1898-1984

Jack Braidwood was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1898, the son of a British engineer. During the First World War his duties included that of Russian translator aboard a Royal Navy aircraft carrier. Following the war, he emigrated to Canada and began building boats in Toronto. He was an avid yachtsman and sailed around the world. In the Second World War, Jack trained as a bomb demolition expert and commanded a high-speed submarine chaser used for coastal command. He married Gwendolyn Lazier of Belleville. They retired to the Quinte area in 1965. In 1975 he established the Jack Braidwood Trophy Race held annually on the Bay of Quinte. He died in 1984.

Braidwood, Gwendolyn

  • Person
  • 1905-2007

Gwendolyn Braidwood was born in Belleville on June 28, 1905, the daughter of Stephen Dunbar Lazier and Florence May Lingham. She attended St. Agnes School in Belleville, Bishop Strachan School in Toronto, Belleville Collegiate and Ontario Business College in Belleville. Gwen Lazier achieved fame when she responded to the request of the Belleville mayor, W.C. Mikel to ride a horse to Washington, D.C. to advertise the 140th anniversary of the landing of the Loyalists in the Quinte area. She delivered invitations in towns all the way to Washington, offering one to President Calvin Coolidge on the White House grounds. Her ride was recorded in newspapers in Canada and the United States. Gwen Lazier later worked as a stenographer in Toronto and married Jack Braidwood after the Second World War. They retired to the Quinte area in 1965. Gwendolyn Braidwood died in Belleville on October 5, 2007.

Bradshaw, Capt. James

  • Person
  • 1723-1797

Born in Ireland immigrated to the United States, was commissioned in 1777. Incorporated as a Loyalist in 1780, settled Lot 14, 5th Concession Fredericksburgh, died February 1797, buried 20 Feb 1797. Langhorn's Anglican Registers 1787 - 1814

Boyle, Donald James

  • Person
  • 1927-2019

Don Boyle was an enthusiastic family historian who was born in Belleville, Ontario in 1927 and died in Brantford, Ontario in February 2019. He was descended from James Boyle (1812-1900) who immigrated to Canada from Belfast, Ireland and settled in Belleville.

Boyle, David

  • Person
  • 1842-1911

David Boyle, born abt. 1842 in Scotland was the 1st Curator of the Royal Ontario Museum. The 19th century collector David Boyle, whose work at the Canadian Institute Museum (1884-1896) and the Ontario Provincial Museum (1896-1911) would eventually form the core of the ROM’s own Ontario archaeology collection.

Boyd, Ezekial

  • Person
  • 1827-1903

Born in Marmora, one of the oldest residents at the time of his death, buried Marmora Cemetery.

Boyce, Ruth

  • Person
  • b. 1930

Ruth Boyce is a resident of Cannifton, Ontario and a former volunteer with the Hastings County Historical Society.

Boyce, John W.

  • Person
  • b.1838

John W. Boyce was a photographer active in Belleville, Ontario between 1865 and 1886. He was born in Ontario on 13 May 1838.

Boyce, Gerry

  • Person
  • 1933-2022

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.

Boyce, Betsy Dewar

  • Person
  • 1913-2007

Betsy Boyce was born in Hamilton, Ontario, on 27 March 1913, to William Carr and Elizabeth (Ralston). She graduated in constitutional studies from McMaster University in 1933 as the gold medallist, and attended Osgoode Hall Law School until 1935. She was active in the Hastings County Historical Society, serving for many years as picture archivist, as well as the University Women's Club in Toronto and Belleville, Amnesty International and the New Democratic Party. She was the author of The Rebels of Hastings and The Accidental Prime Minister (Mackenzie Bowell), and articles on Louis Riel and other historical subjects.

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