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Bleecker, John

  • Person
  • 1762-1807

Born in Albany, New York. He settled in Trenton, and married Mary, the daughter of John Meyers. From the Pioneer Life on the Bay of Quinte "the Trenton pioneer, came from near Albany, in which city his father was a merchant. Shortly after his father's death his mother brought him and his sister to Kingston in company with a McKenzie family. ... His mother married the McKenzie pioneer. His sister married [Henry] Finkle."

Baekeland, Leo Hendrik Dr.

  • Person
  • 1863-1944

Leo Hendrik Baekeland was born in Ghent, Belgium. He was a chemist who went to the United States on a scholarship and later lived with his Belgian wife and son and daughter in Yonkers, New York. He formed the Bakelite Company in 1910 and was president until his retirement in 1939.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Baekeland

Belnap, Pete

  • Person
  • 1896-c. 1966

Pete Belnap was born in 1896. He was in business as a barber since 1915 except for time out fighting in the First World War. He retired in 1966.

Belleville Yardmen Benefit Fund

  • Corporate body
  • fl. 1977

The Belleville Yardmen Benefit Fund was a fundraising organization which ran a lottery in the 1970s. The group donated funds for the construction of the Quinte Sports Centre on Cannifton Road in Belleville, Ontario, in 1977.

Art Gallery of Ontario

  • Corporate body
  • 1900-

The Art Gallery of Ontario is an art museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its collection includes close to 95,000 works spanning the first century to the present day. The gallery has 45,000 square metres of physical space, making it one of the largest galleries in North America. https://ago.ca/

Argue (family)

  • Family
  • 1860-1980

The Argue family have lived in Belleville, Ontario since 1929. Prior to that date, Cecil Elmer (John) Argue, born April 30, 1885, had been manager of the Standard Bank in Deseronto and served as that town's mayor. He and his wife, Mary Elizabeth West, moved to Belleville after the Standard Bank merged with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. John Argue then became involved in the construction of power plants to supply electricity in both Bancroft and Stirling. John and Elizabeth Argue died in 1974, he on May 4 and she on January 30. They were survived by three sons, John West (Jack), William Armstrong and Alan Edward.

Appleby, Nathaniel S.

  • Person
  • 1820-

Nathaniel S. Appleby, the eldest and only living son of Thomas D. Appleby, was born in the County of Prince Edward in the year 1820, and came with his father to Tyendinaga in 1828. Reeve of the township for 20 consecutive years, appointed justice of the peace in 1854, Census Commissioner for Hastings in 1861 and 1871; Warden for the county for 3 years, elected M.P.P. for East Hastings in 1875.

The Canadian Century

  • Corporate body
  • fl. 1911

A national weekly, The Canadian Century and Canadian Life & Resources

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