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By Cosmos Mariner, May 30, 2024
Site of the Wharf Street Debating Club from 1921-2013 Marker
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1 ► Ontario, Hastings County, Belleville — Site of the Wharf Street Debating Club from 1921-2013 —
On South Front Street at St. Paul Street, on the left when traveling north on South Front Street.
For nearly a century, a converted wooden boat house housed the City of Belleville's most colourful & controversial institution. Every civic election, aspiring politicians would nervously endure caustic jabs & verbal skewering by Foster Ward's . . . — — Map (db m262262) HM
2 ► Ontario, Hastings County, Belleville — Home of the Wharf Rats —
On Harbour Drive at South John Street, on the right when traveling east on Harbour Drive.
Foster Ward historically has been one of the most colorful areas of Belleville, with all its characters and the shenanigans that occurred in this area south of the CPR tracks. During the Prohibition era of the 1920s, major shipments of whiskey and . . . — — Map (db m262571) HM
 
 
  
  
  
 
 
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