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The settlement was first called Singleton's Creek after an early settler, George Singleton. Next it was called Meyer's Creek, after prominent settler and industrialist John Walden Meyers (1745–1821), one of the founders of Belleville. He built a sawmill and grist mill.
Belleville, city, seat (1792) of Hastings county, southeastern Ontario, Canada, situated on the Bay of Quinte, an inlet of Lake Ontario, at the mouth of the Moira River. The site was first visited by the French explorer Samuel de Champlain in 1615; it was settled after 1776 by loyalists from the United States and named Meyers’ Creek for John ...
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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 arrival of the Grand Trunk Railway in 1856 gave Belleville a link with Montreal and Toronto.
Oct 17, 2012 · Settlement. Belleville's founder is considered to be Captain John Meyers, a Loyalist who built a gristmill beside the river in 1790. The village of Meyer's Creek grew up at the site. In 1816, it was officially surveyed and the name was changed to Belleville after Arabella, wife of Francis Gore, lieutenant governor of Upper Canada. Development
Land, settlement and immigration. An outline of the history of Belleville, Ontario, published by the Hastings County Historical Society in 1962.
Jul 12, 2018 · The City of Belleville, the seat of Hastings County, is located on the Bay of Quinte, an arm of Lake Ontario about 180 km east of Toronto at the mouth of the Moira River. The original inhabitants were fur traders, but the settlement's founder is considered to be the Loyalist, [Captain] John Meyers, who built a gristmill beside the river in 1790.
Belleville, Ontario, is a small but storied city of 50,000 situated at the southern extremity of Hastings County where the Moira River enters the Bay of Quinte. The government selected this location for a town in 1811, but put the project on hold for the duration of the War of 1812.
