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The Observer was a Bible Christian newspaper of the Bowmanville area, in operation from 1868 to 1883.

Marion Webb was a member of the Kingston Arts Council, and Director of the Ontario Community Arts Conference (1968) and seminar leader for the OVCAM Conference (1976).

Edward Owen was Commander in Chief of British naval forces on the Great Lakes.

The Parrot family were United Empire Loyalists who settled in the Bay of Quinte district. The family included John Parrot, a mariner who owned property in Beverly and New Boston at the time of the American Revolution, and his sons James and John. The two sons came to Canada, where James became a farmer and a colonel in the militia and John became a school teacher.

Lester Bowles Pearson was born at Newtonbrook, Ontario in 1897. He was educated at the University of Toronto (B.A. 1919) and Oxford (B.A. 1923, M.A. 1925). After service in World War I, he joined the Faculty of the University of Toronto. In 1928, he joined the Department of External Affairs and served in a number of responsible positions with that department including service at Canada House in London from 1935 to1941 and at the Canadian Legation in Washington from 1942 to 1945. He was appointed Ambassador to Washington, 1945-1946 and Deputy Minister of External Affairs 1946-1948. He was named to the cabinet of the Rt. Hon. Louis St-Laurent as Secretary of State for External Affairs, when he was first elected to the House of Commons in 1948. Pearson held that post from 1948 until 1957. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957. Mr. Pearson was elected Leader of the Liberal Party in 1958 and served as Leader of the Opposition from that date until 22 April 1963 when he became Prime Minister. He retired from politics in 1968, assuming the chairmanship of the Commission on International Development, whose report was issued in 1969. Mr Pearson was Chairman of the International Development Research Centre from 1970 until his death in 1972.

Student, Queen's University, Kingston and Ottawa, Ont.

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The Township of Pittsburgh, Frontenac County, Ontario, was incorporated effective January 1, 1850 under the terms of the Baldwin Act, Chapter 81, Canada Statutes, 1849. This act provided for the creation of municipal governments at the town, village and township levels and identified those which would automatically be granted municipal status when the act came into effect, January 1, 1850. Communities not named in the original act could petition the county council or legislative assembly for incorporation on reaching specified population levels. An incorporated township, lower tier municipality, has a council consisting of an elected Reeve, Deputy Reeves, and councillors the number of which depend on the population of the township. Its responsibilities relate largely to the upkeep of the local road system and the delivery of services such as water and sewage. It has wide powers relating to the regulation of land and local administration through by-laws. It has the power to raise money through direct taxation on land and through the use of debentures. Under the provisions of Bill 26, the Savings and Restructuring Act, 1996, Pittsburgh Township was annexed by the City of Kingston, effective January 1, 1998. Under this legislation the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing is authorized to make changes in municipal boundaries and status to increase the efficiency of local government and lower costs.

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Portsmouth was incorporated as a village in 1859 and was annexed to the City of Kingston in 1952. The area which became Portsmouth Village was part of Kingston Township in the original survey of 1783-1784. The township lots were numbered from Collins Bay to Kingston and the settlement that grew up on lots 18, 19, and 20 came to be known as Portsmouth.