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Type of entity
Person
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Bedell, Bruce
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Description area
Dates of existence
1936-2014
History
Bruce William Bedell was born in Belleville in 1936. He was an educator with a love of history, dramatic arts and the outdoors. He was a graduate of Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School and served a year in the Royal Canadian Air Force before becoming a teacher. His first classroom was in Wilberforce, between Haliburton and Bancroft. Bedell lived in Dryden, Sault Ste. Marie and London before setting back in Belleville in 2004. He became Town Crier for Belleville in 2004 and a member of the Hastings County Historical Society. He died in 2014
Obituary in the Belleville Intelligencer: http://www.intelligencer.ca/2014/10/07/belleville-loses-biggest-voice