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Ostrom, Henry

  • Person
  • 1861-1941

Henry Egerton Foster Ostrom was a teacher and evangelist minister. He married Mary Emily McCullough in Prince Edward County, Ontario, on 21 July 1886 and died in Greencastle, Indiana, on 20 December 1941.

Finch, George

  • Person
  • fl.1937

George Finch was a jeweller specializing in watches, with a store at 212 Front Street, Belleville, Ontario.

Dryden, James

  • Person
  • 1855-1921

James Dryden was born in Napanee, Ontario on 31 August 1855. He was a successful merchant in Deseronto and lived in the house to the north of the Post Office on Centre Street, later used as a funeral home. He married Melissa Ann Irvine on 9 November 1881 and they had one daughter, Jennie. James Dryden died on 7 September 1921.

Belch, Clifford John

  • Person
  • 1933-2020

Clifford Belch worked for the City of Belleville in its Recreation Department, then as the City's first Chief Administrative Officer and, in retirement, he served two terms as a Councillor.

Stovin, William Horace 'Bill'

  • Person
  • 1920-2011

Bill Stovin was born in Unity, Saskatchewan in 1920 and gained early experience in radio in CHSC, based in the dispensary of his father's pharmacy. He worked at CKSO in Sudbury, Ontario, before joining the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942, where he served as a Signal Technical Officer in England, finishing his service as a Flight Lieutenant Commanding Officer at RAF Dunkirk in Kent and RAF Fairlight in Sussex. Stovin married Doreen Blackwell (1920-2013), a radar operator, in Cornwall, England in 1945. He was employed as the station manager of CJBQ in Belleville in January 1946, where he worked until returning to Saskatchewan in January 1959. He died in 2011.

Johnson, Mary Lloyd

  • Person
  • 1917-c. 2010

Mary Gladys Lloyd Johnson was born in Ontario c. 1917 to John and Grace (née Shier) Lloyd. She grew up in Kaladar, Ontario within Lennox and Addington County with three siblings. Johnson was an avid photographer beginning in the 1930s, capturing her daily life and travels. In 1948, she formed the 1st North Addington Girl Guide Company. She also worked as a court stenographer. Additionally, she contributed to local organizations as a member of the Ladies’ Auxiliary Branch 328 (Northbrook) of the Canada Legion of the British Empire Service League and the Secretary of the Belleville chapter of the Soroptimist Club (c. 1940s). In 1947, as reported in an Intelligencer newspaper clipping, Johnson was awarded with two personal gifts during the inaugural dinner meeting of the Belleville Soroptimist Club “in appreciation of her untiring efforts in assisting to organize the club, one from Soroptimist Bertha Hutchings, Peterboro, and one from the Belleville Club, by Miss Laura Johnston.” Johnson eventually moved to Northbrook, Ontario where she married John R. Johnson in 1957. She passed away in Northbrook, Ontario c. 2010.

Elliott, Edward James

  • Person
  • 1897-1974

Edward James Elliott was born on 14 February 1897 in Bradford, Ontario, the child of John Elliott and Eva (Speight). He served as a lieutenant in the First World War, and married Theda Grant McCargar in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1919. He died in 1974 and was buried in the Belleville cemetery.

Fraleck, Helen Agnes

  • Person
  • 1890-1989

Helen Fraleck was born on October 14, 1890 in Hastings, Ontario to Judge Edison Fraleck and Jane Judd. She became a secretary with the Belleville Chamber of Commerce and a served as a member of the United Empire Loyalist (UEL) Association and the Hastings County Historical Society. She died on September 10, 1989.

Lazier, Samuel Shaw

  • Person
  • 1840-1928

Samuel Shaw Lazier was born in Tyendinaga Township in 1840 and became a lawyer in 1864. He practiced in Belleville, Ontario, for 10 years and in 1874 he was appointed Master-in-Chancery, a position he held until his death on 4 July 1928. Lazier was also an honorary colonel of the Argyll Light Infantry.

Reid, Harold

  • Person
  • 1895-1991

William Harold Reid was born on July 26, 1895 to William Charles Reid (1853–1932) and Frances Ann Reid (1855–1936). Reid lived in Belleville until 1914 where he served in the Army as a Signaling Instructor, served two years as a Radio Officer in the Navy. Afterwards, he went to University and served as a Minister of the Presbyterian Church, mainly in Quebec.

Reid then taught Hebrew at the Presbyterian College in Montreal until retirement. He also completed museum work as the President of the Argenteuil Historical Society, and was once the Vice President of the Quebec Museums Association.

He was married to Rotha Aileen McKenzie (1905-1944) on July 1, 1939. He later married Edith Kathleen Black (1899-2000) on July 5, 1946.

Reid died on December 21, 1991.

Stapley, James George

  • Person
  • 1918-1988

James George 'Jim' Stapley was a resident of Stirling-Rawdon Township. He served in the Second World War and was employed by the Canadian National Railway. He died in 1988 and was buried in the Eggleton-Clark Cemetery at Stirling, Ontario.

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