A page from a bound document with blue cover. The document is an agreement between the Township of West Gwillimbury relating to Holland Marsh pumping.

A page from a bound document with blue cover. The document is an agreement between the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario and the Township of West Gwillimbury relating to providing hydro-electricity to the area.

An insert of rules from an Electric Meter Register book provided by the Department of Trade and Commerce.

An Electric Meter Register book provided by the Department. Bond Head appears in the register, as do parts of New Tecumseth. It provides an example of the way such information was tracked at the time and how it would have been tracked in the Bradford West Gwillimbury area.
According to an Electricity Inspection Service hand-out from the same time period as the book: "A Meter Register Book is supplied by the Department of Trade and Commerce to contractors for The purpose of assisting them in complying with the provisions of the Electricity Inspection Act, and the regulations established thereunder. The following requirement are necessary...The Electricity Inspection Act provides a penalty of fifty dollars for any neglect in respect of the above requirements."

"Public Utilities man Roy Storey links the Campbell house up allowing the wonderful world of electric refrigerators and ranges. The last old house in Bradford without them has fallen to the soft life of 1970. Nevertheless, Campbell vows that the modernization of his home will not include a telephone."

Correspondence relating to supplying the Bradford train station with power and light, dated 1918.

Blank petitions “request[ing] your honorable body to obtain from the Hydro-Electric Power Commission an estimate of the cost to us, respectively, of supplying us with Hydro-Electric Light and Power…”

Letter from Samuel Lukes dated July 12, 1918 and a response letter from the Municipal Clerk of Bradford dated July 13, 1918. Lukes' letter is in regards to using the new hydro-electric poles to hold his telephone line from his home to his flour mill. The lines were taken down with the telegraph poles when hydro-electric poles were to be put in place.

Correspondence and documents related to the sale of debentures by Bradford in order to fund the introduction of hydro-electric power in the area, dated 1918. Items include offers to buy the debentures. The offer from W. L. McKinnon & Co. was accepted by the Council.

A bound document with blue cover. The document is an agreement between the Township of West Gwillimbury relating to Holland Marsh pumping.