Comments for Prince Edward County Moments https://2022.countymoments.ca Experience the County through stories, photo tours and watercolour art Wed, 05 Mar 2025 01:09:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 Comment on Law and Disorder by tlover tonet https://2022.countymoments.ca/law-and-disorder/#comment-1132 Wed, 05 Mar 2025 01:09:53 +0000 https://2022.countymoments.ca/?p=565#comment-1132 Hello,my father was the one responsible for the reading of the riot act.one of the fair workers hit my cousin over the head with a crowbar and when my father found out,he went to the fair grounds and police were there to stop him,but that didn’t stop him,he was going in one way or the other,hit the policeman and all hell broke loose..True story

]]> Comment on How to speak “County” by Charles Calnan https://2022.countymoments.ca/how-to-speak-county/#comment-113 Thu, 23 Nov 2023 17:13:23 +0000 https://2022.countymoments.ca/?p=697#comment-113 The “upstreet” expression also had a Belleville connection. Because from both the east and west hills you went down to the business area many locals when I was a kid in the 40s and 50s said they were going “downstreet” instead of the universal “downtown”.

]]> Comment on How to speak “County” by Marion https://2022.countymoments.ca/how-to-speak-county/#comment-71 Thu, 21 Sep 2023 01:25:29 +0000 https://2022.countymoments.ca/?p=697#comment-71 I grew up in Belleville and my mother used to say..”they live different in the County”

]]> Comment on From Hessian soldier to County pioneer: The legacy of Conrad Bongard by James M Bongard https://2022.countymoments.ca/conrads-legacy/#comment-39 Wed, 24 Aug 2022 20:09:32 +0000 https://2022.countymoments.ca/?p=972#comment-39 Hello !

I was reading some work from a cousin about Hans Bangert -> Peter -> Johann -> Conrad and thought to google “Bangert Bongard”. This took me to your site.

I’m in Webster, NY along Lake Ontario.

Thank you for your work.

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