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Ontario Tourism Region : Ontario's Highlands
Description From Owner:
- Pop. 8. In Rawdon T., Hastings C. on C. Rd. 14,35 km. NW of Belleville.
- The place was first called Big Springs in 1884 and was proposed as a divisional point at the junction of the Central Ontario Railway and the CPR. There was a dispute over land and the railway yards were built 17 km. W at Havelock.
- When the post office opened in 1900 the name was changed to Bellview after hotelier John Bell.
- By 1920, Bell's hotel had closed and J. F. Baker, station agent for the Central Ontario Railway, proposed re-naming the place for Andrew Bonar Law (1858-1923), Canadian-born prime minister of Great Britain (1922-1923).
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