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Stroll of Discovery: Riverfront Trail, Belleville

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Tour Overview

Explore the history of the natural and built environment of the Moira River in Belleville, Ontario.

Archaeological remains show us that the river flowing through the City of Belleville has been a focus of human activity since the last Ice Age. To the Anishinaabe people, it was the Sagonaska, while Europeans have called it Singleton’s Creek, Meyers’ Creek, and the Moira.

The river has been a focus for industry; for powering grist and lumber mills, and as a mode of transport for the vast quantities of timber felled in its watershed during the 1800s. Its fish and its waters have supported human life, while its ice and floods have threatened it.

This tour was researched by John Lowry and produced by the Hastings County Historical Society and the Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County. Its aim is to highlight the history of this stretch of river and the buildings that surround it.

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Stops

  1. Stop 1: Parking at Meyers' Pier

  2. Stop 2: Meyers' Pier

  3. Stop 3: The Thurlow Purchase

  4. Stop 4: Jane Forrester Park

  5. Stop 5: 16 South Front Street

  6. Stop 6: Sir Mackenzie Bowell monument

  7. Stop 7: Wharf Street Debating Club plaque

  8. Stop 8: 45-47 South Front Street (McIntosh-Ridley house)

  9. Stop 9: Turn left for a detour to Victoria Park

  10. Stop 10: Belleville plaque

  11. Stop 11: Canadian Pacific Railway bridge

  12. Stop 12: The Parrott Riverfront Trail

  13. Stop 13: Wilbur C. Purcell Bridge

  14. Stop 14: United Empire Loyalist monument

  15. Stop 15: Simpson's Tavern plaque

  16. Stop 16: Moira River

  17. Stop 17: 160 Front Street: Bogart-Carman building

  18. Stop 18: 169 Front Street: Belleville City Hall

  19. Stop 19: Belleville Bridge

  20. Stop 20: Quinte Consolidated Courthouse

  21. Stop 21: Billa Flint house

  22. Stop 22: J. B. (Ben) Corke footbridge

  23. Stop 23: 257 Coleman Street: Lanning Headwear

  24. Stop 24: Christ Church Anglican Church

  25. Stop 25: Moira Bridge

  26. Stop 26: Sagonaska Bridge

  27. Stop 27: Detour to 5 Moira Street: Belleville Chamber of Commerce

  28. Stop 28: 54 Station Street

  29. Stop 29: Captain John Walden Meyers plaque

  30. Stop 30: Lions Park

  31. Stop 31: Detour to Memorial Park

  32. Stop 32: Lott Dam

  33. Stop 33: Canadian National Railway bridge

  34. Stop 34: College Street bridge

  35. Stop 35: Riverside Park West

  36. Stop 36: J. H. McLeod Dam

  37. Stop 37: Lazier's Dam ruins

  38. Stop 38: Belleville Kiwanis Skatepark

  39. Stop 39: Belleville Yardmen Dam

  40. Stop 40: Rick Meagher Rotary Play Park

  41. Stop 41: Veterans Memorial Bridge

  42. Stop 42: Military organizations memorial

  43. Stop 43: Merchant Navy memorial

  44. Stop 44: Riverside Park East

  45. Stop 45: Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre

  46. Stop 46: Harry Mulhall Dam

  47. Stop 47: Riverside Park West parking

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