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Belleville was known as the most prosperous town in Upper Canada. A visit in 1816 by Lieutenant-Governor Sir Francis Gore inspired the residents to change the name of their settlement to Belleville in honour his wife Lady Arabella.
The Grand Trunk Railway passed through in 1855 and the town became a divisional point; the GTR station, dating from the 1850s, is a well-preserved example of the early railway era. Logging died out in the 1870s, but the city developed a thriving cheesemaking industry.
In 1998, the city was amalgamated with the surrounding Township of Thurlow to form an expanded City of Belleville as part of Ontario-wide municipal restructuring. The city also annexed portions of Quinte West to the west.
Belleville is a city in the southeastern part of Ontario, Canada. It is the seat of Hastings County. About 48,820 people were living in Belleville as of the year 2006.
Twenty years after that, in 1836, Belleville became incorporated as an independent municipality, with a population of about 1700. In 1850, she became a town, and in 1878 with a population of about 11,000 she took her place among the cities of Ontario.
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The first settler of what was to become the city of Belleville was Asa Belleville became the major market for Wallbridge who built a log cabin on the Thurlow, Sidney and Prince Edward banks of the Moira River in the early County farmers, the latter crossing the 1780s.
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Belleville became an incorporated village in 1836 and a town in 1850. The city's growth was further boosted with the completion of the Grand Trunk Railway in 1856. Belleville was legally incorporated as a city in 1877.
