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Contains news clippings and articles on various disastrous events of Bradford West Gwillimbury; includes fires, Hurricane Hazel, drownings, explosion, train wrecks
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Part of Joe Saint fonds
Contains news clippings and articles on various disastrous events of Bradford West Gwillimbury; includes fires, Hurricane Hazel, drownings, explosion, train wrecks
Joe Saint
Part of Joe Saint fonds
Contains news clippings and articles on various fires of Bradford West Gwillimbury; articles ranging from 1864 - 1958
Joe Saint
Part of Joe Saint fonds
Files including letters, newspaper clippings (namely birth and death records), photographs, and essays on select families of Bradford West Gwillimbury
Joe Saint
Part of Local History Collection
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library
Part of Local History Collection
Contains articles on the accidental deaths within the Bradford and West Gwillimbury area
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library
Part of Local History Collection
Event Date : Wednesday, July 10, 1957
Event Type : Death
Description : Little Glen Wist, 6, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wist of the Holland Marsh, was drowned in the canal beside his home at noon last Wednesday. Apparently he had fallen into the water while playing with a small toy boat, to which he had attached a string about eight feet long.Glen had been at the storage building with his two elder brothers, Gary and Paul, and his father. At noon Mr. Wist told the three boys to go home for lunch. When Mr. Wist reached home it was realized that the youngest brother was missing. A search was immediately begun, and when they went to the canal they found the toy boat floating on the water. When they pulled in the boat, little Glen's body came in sight, the string of the boat being tied to his foot. Resuscitation work was begun immediately by his father, and a neighbour. Bradford fire brigade was called and the firemen, with the help of Miss Marilyn Ritchie, R.N., who was soon joined by a doctor, worked for three and a half hours, but in vain. Little Glen was a bright, lovable little chap who would have started to school this fall, had he been spared. He is survived by his two elder brothers, Gary 11 and Paul 8, and his parents. The funeral was held from the Church of Holy Martyrs, Bradford, on Saturday at 9:30 a.m. Interment was in the Roman Catholic Cemetery, Bradford.
Bradford Witness
River Takes Life of George Atkinson
Part of Local History Collection
Bradford Witness
Vol. LXVIII, #04
January 25, 1933
Page 1
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library
Bradford School Principal Drowns in River
Part of Local History Collection
Newspaper article on the drowning of George G. Atkinson
Newmarket Era Banner
January 27, 1933
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Newmarket Era Banner
Prelude to a child;s tragic death
Part of Local History Collection
" 'Could the life of one child have been saved and the lives of five others been improved if the Children's Aid Society had acted sooner?' This is the question that Mrs. Carol Simone keeps asking herself after the drowning on Monday of her neighbor's child, Betty Lowder, aged 12..."
Bradford Witness
Part of Local History Collection
"Life ended suddenly on Monday afternoon for a 12-year-old Holland Marsh girl who went swimming in the Holland River. Betty Lowder, R.R.2, Newmarket, was swimming under the bridge at the intersection of No. 3 Concession and the Graham sideroad with her brothers and sisters, when she submerged in the middle of the murky river in about eight feet of water. There were no adults present..."
Bradford Witness