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Part of Local History Artifacts
Commemorative spoon head detail.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library
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Commemorative spoon head detail.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library
Bradford West Gwillimbury amalgamation 25th anniversary spoon
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Commemorative decorative spoon in a red case.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library
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Commemorative copper dollar made for the Town of Bradford's 125th anniversary. The coins were able to be used at Downtown Bradford businesses.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library
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"When Jean Keffer asked me to sign her petition to keep Gwillimbury in the Town name, I did so with the following in mind...Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Gwillim was an aide-de-camp of General Wolfe. He was with Wolfe when the General died on the Plains of Abraham in 1759. His daughter Elizabeth married John Graves Simcoe; the rest is history. My own connection to the "Gwillburys" began in 1803, when my 5G-Grandfather, John Eves, a Quaker from Pennsylvania, built one of the first settler dwellings, after he was patented with Lot 108 in West Gwillimbury. He is credited with the first industry in the "Gwillimburys", when he built a sawmill on the Holland River soon after. I even found reference to North Gwillimbury in the 1881 census where my Great-Great grandparents Thomas Lamb and Rachel Eves briefly lived. When I wrote on the Millenium Clock Monument, with assistance from George Jackson, I tried to balance the story of the Town and Township, so that one can see the relationship that existed, where we were intertwined socially, economically and emotionally. My wife Julie and I both spent our formative years in West Gwillimbury, and our two sons are the 9th generation in Ontario as descended from those original settlers on Lot 108. The name Bradford West Gwillimbury may be long and unwieldy, but historically and emotionally it is ours alone."
Gary Lamb
LHA at the Unveiling of the Elizabeth Gwillim Statue
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Barbara Verney, Zelma Fuller and George Jackson thanking Lieutenant Governor Onley and presenting him with a copy of the Bradford West Gwillimbury Local History Associations book "Governor Simcoe Slept Here; The Legacy of West Gwillimbury" at the official unveiling of the Elizabeth Gwillim Simcoe Statue.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library
Elizabeth Gwillim Simcoe Returns to Bradford ... at last!
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Newspaper editorial on the Lady Gwillim Simcoe statue prior to the unveiling ceremony
Bradford West Gwillimbury Times
Elizabeth Gwillim Simcoe returns to Bradford
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Newspaper article on the creation of the Elizabeth Gwillim Simcoe statue
Bradford West Gwillimbury Times
Gwillim Group Committee, Lt. Gov. Onley and P. Van Loan
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Gwillim Group Committee members with Lieutenant Governor Onley, his wife Ruth Ann and Peter Van Loan. Back Row (l-r): Darlene Braybrook, Tom Fuller, Jennifer Gordon, Mary and Don Gardiner, Vera Stoddart and Peter Line. Middle Row (l-r): Natalie Dykie, Christine Houlieff, Brenda Winter, Zelma Fuller, Bill Marks, Joan Gibson, Mikki Nanowski and Judith Moses. Front: Lieutenant Governor Onley, Ruth Ann Onley and Peter Van Loan.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library
Doug White - Unveiling of the Elizabeth Gwillim Statue
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Mayor of Bradford West Gwillimbury, Doug White giving his address at the official unveiling of the Elizabeth Gwillim Simcoe Statue in Bradford West Gwillimbury.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library
Elizabeth Gwillim Statue Plaque
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This commemorative plaque stands beside the Elizabeth Simcoe Statue, erected by the Gwillim Group with help from sculptor Brenda Wainman Goulet on the corner of John and Barrie Streets in Bradford.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library