Showing 1566 results

Jack Christie was the Director of the Glenora Fisheries Research Station near Picton, Ontario. He was married to Susan Hepburn.

Thomas Wills was born in Newfoundland in 1826. He was the County Treasurer for Hastings County and lived on Church Street in Belleville, Ontario. He married Anna Maria LeVesconte and they had eight children from 1853 to 1867. Thomas died on 11 March 1907.

Harold Douglas Bateman was born in Belleville, Ontario on 26 March 1896, the child of Robert Bateman and Blanche (Fuller). He married Beryl Isabel Hendricks in November 1918 and the couple had one son. Harold worked for the Liquor Control Board of Ontario and as an insurance agent. He was elected as an alderman for the City of Belleville, but resigned after taking on the role of Assessor for the City in 1937. In 1940 he was appointed City Comptroller and in 1953 he became Clerk-Comptroller. He was one of the founders of the Association of Assessing Officers of Ontario in 1941 and became its president. He suffered a heart attack and died at his home, 246 George Street, on 9 June 1955.

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.

Walter Aselstine was born in Trenton, Ontario, on 23 April 1888, the child of Adelbert Aselstine and Lucy (Wallace). The family moved to Belleville in around 1898 and operated a stage coach business between Belleville and Trenton. Walter Aselstine drove the first motor bus operated by the company. Buses ran between the station and the Hotel Quinte and from Belleville to Marmora and Tweed.

Walter Aselstine was a trombonist who played in the orchestra at the Griffin Opera House and was the sound effects man for silent pictures. He played in the Belleville Municipal Band, the Toronto Kilties Band, Odd Fellows Band and military bands including the Princess Pats and the Shrine Band in Toronto. He was a member of the Commodores orchestra and played on excursion boats on the St. Lawrence River. He was a member of Moira Lodge No. 11 and of Christ Church in Belleville. He married Mae Oliphant and the couple had one son and one daughter. He died in Toronto on 27 February 1968.

Frederick Earl Thain was convicted in October 1940 of the murder of Arnold and Nancy Wellman in Rawdon Township, Ontario, on 31 January 1940. He was executed by hanging on 14 January 1941.

Donna Fano works as a teacher at the Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf in Belleville, Ontario, and looks after the school's archives and museum.

Aimé Dupont was a photographer based in New York City. Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aim%C3%A9_Dupont

Manly Ostrander was the child of Isaac Ostrander and Clarissa (Ferguson). He was the Principal of the Deseronto Public School.

Rollin Corrobus Benedict was born in Vermont in 1812. He published the Hastings Times and Farmer's Journal in Belleville, Ontario, in 1833. He died in Kingston, Ontario on 22 January 1879.

Joseph Wilson was the publisher of a newspaper called Wilson's Experiment in Belleville, Ontario, in 1848.

Edgar Tumak is an architectural historian and former resident of Deseronto, Ontario. He served as a Councillor for the Town from 2006 to 2014.