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Courtesy Hastings County Heritage Center & C.W. Hunt
Marker detail: “King of the Rumrunners” Ben Kerr
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1 ► Ontario, Hastings County, Belleville — Home of the Wharf Rats —
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
2 ► Ontario, Hastings County, Belleville — Site of the Wharf Street Debating Club from 1921-2013 —
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
 
 
  
  
  
 
 
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Oct. 1, 2026