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Episode 1 - Ice Harvesting on the Trent river A short series of historical events from Trenton, Ontario

Episode 4 - The Gilbert Hotel - Mary Bleecker’s Gilbert house grew and became the renown Gilbert Hotel spanning almost 100 years in Trenton, Ontario

Episode 8 - The Trenton Newspapers - In 1854 Peter Begg a school teacher and budding journalist bought a printing press and he founded the first newspaper in Trenton .. the weekly was called ..the Advocate ..

Episode 11 - The Bridge - Thomas Burrowes painted a fine watercolour titled the Ferry at the Mouth of the Trent it was of the ferry docks on the west side of the Trent River at Trent port. The docks were located at the same spot where all the bridges would be built.

Episode 14 - Hazel Farley - Born in 1890, Hazel Farley wanted to be a doctor but since her father objected to that profession for women, she became a teacher and Trenton High School benefited from that decision.

Special Episode - Fighting Tugboats - Trenton's Central Bridge Company had never built boats but it certainly knew steel.

Episode 2 - Henry T P Comstock was born at Trenton, Ontario, 1820 , the son of Noah Bird Comstock and Catherine Tompkins. He worked as a fur trapper and sheep drover and came into knowledge of the enormous silver lode which is named after him, but sold out his interest early and did not profit from it. . The Comstock Lode was the richest silver mine in American history.

Episode 6 - William Bleasdell and the boulder. William Bleasdell took a particular interest in the geology of the Trenton area, and the granite boulder—argued to be the largest glacial erratic in North America— it now bears his name

Episode 9 - The lost story of Firhurst Manor

Episode 12 - Ships and Steamers - Trenton's harbour was a beehive of activity in the early 1900's. Day and night barges and schooners loaded and unloaded lumber, grain and other supplies. Excursion boats such as the "Varuna" and the "Brockville" were a favorite for Trentonians going on picnics to Twelve O'Clock Point, Presquile or the Thousand Islands.

Episode 15 - The Quinte Hotel, Trenton - By afternoon’s end all that remained of the downtown landmark Quinte Hotel was a pile of smoldering rubble. Over approximately 120 years, it has been a workers boarding hotel, accommodation for travelers, elegant dining establishment, rock band venue, and strip club

Episode 3 - Bleecker’s ferry

Episode 7 - The Tripps of Trenton - Its official address may have been 58 Dundas Street West, but everyone knew it as "Mark Tripp's corner".

Episode 10 - Trenton’s first female doctor, Ada Alfretta Funnell

Episode 13 - Air Station tornado 1936 - October 29, 1936, it started as a heavy rain.Over the Bay of Quinte sinister black clouds moved in from the east and southwest and collided forming a small tornado with 100 mph winds.

Episode 16 - The Post Office - In 1888, Thomas Fuller designed Trenton's first official Post Office/Customs House on Dundas Street West.

Episode 17 - Blacksmiths - They weren't the most attractive buildings but blacksmith shops were one of the most vital businesses in the history of Trenton