Belleville

Belleville
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Publisher : Dundurn
Total Pages : 315
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ISBN-10 : 9781770705135
ISBN-13 : 1770705139
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Book Synopsis Belleville by : Gerry Boyce

Download or read book Belleville written by Gerry Boyce and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Ontario Historical Society’s Fred Landon Award for Best Regional History. Belleville, on the shores of the Bay of Quinte, traces its beginnings to the arrival of the United Empire Loyalists. For 30 years the centre of the present city was reserved for the Mississauga First Nation. White settlers who built dwellings and businesses on the land paid annual rent to them until the land was "surrendered" and a town plot laid out in 1816. The new town quickly became an important lumbering, farming, and manufacturing centre. Early influences include the Marmora Iron Works of the 1820s, the first railway in 1856, Ontario’s first gold rush in 1866, and prominent citizens such as noted pioneer author Susanna Moodie and Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Canada’s fifth prime minister. This is a personal history of Belleville, based on Gerry Boyce’s half-century of research. Embedded throughout are interesting and obscure stories about scandals, murders, and hauntings — the underbelly of the growth of a city.


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