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Rennick's shop. The Standard Bank rented the front east room of this store for about 50 years. The Reynolds turned it into a meat shop and then an antique shop.
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Rennick's shop. The Standard Bank rented the front east room of this store for about 50 years. The Reynolds turned it into a meat shop and then an antique shop.
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Back Row, left to right: Henrietta (Hattie, Mrs. Wm. McKay), Robert, Sarah (Mrs. Wm. Creyke, later Mrs. Wm. Brimson), William, Andrew W. Carter, Ellen (Nellie, Mrs. Thomas Arnold). Seated: Mr. John Culbert, Herbert, Mrs. John Culbert, Elizabeth Margaret (Mrs. Andrew Carter), and Isabella Jane Edythe Carter (Mrs. Russell Rowe). In 1872, the Gazetteer and Directory of Simcoe Country states that Mr. Thomas Phillips owned the North 1/2 Lot 21, Concession 5, Tecumseth Township, comprising approximately 112 acres. Mr. Phillips was later Reeeve of Tecumseth Township and during this time the house and original barn were built, both in one year. The lumber for the buildings was obtained from the Coffey oak bush on the adjoining 200 acres. A sawmill was operated while some 60 acres of oak lumber was taken out. On November 29, 1890, the farm was sold by Mr. Phillips' widow, Sarah Phillips (she was a Miss Van Every, sister of Mrs. Wm. Hill, next farm, Lot 20) to Mr. John Culbert. John Culbert, with his brother Robert and sister Mary Jane (later Mrs. Carruthers, grandmother of the late Mrs. Cardie McLean) had cvome to Canada about 1850 from Dungannon, Tyrone County, Northern Ireland. John returned to Ireland to marry Miss Isabella Johnson and bring her as a bride to Canada in 1861. His brother Alex and sisters Mary Ann and Ellen (later Mrs. Robt. Watt, step-grandmother of Wm. Watt, Bond Head) came to Simcoe County with John and Isabella. Before purchasing the Tecumseth Township farm, John and Isabella Culbert were tenants of the former Simcoe Manor farm, Beeton, and the David Ross farm near Cookstown. They raised a family of three sons, Robert, William, and Herbert, and four daughters, Henrietta (Hattie), Sarah, Ellen (Nellie) and Elizabeth.
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Back Row, left to right: Jean, Bill, Margaret, Marilyn. Front Row: Brenda, Lynda.
Trinity Methodist Church - Bond Head
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"Canada Methodist Church, built 1887"
This became the Trinity United Church
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Bond Head Methodist Church Stained glass window
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Bond Head Methodist Church - stain glass window in memory of John Wilcox and Edward Jeffs.
John Wilcox was a pioneer of Tecumseth Township, arriving in 1855 from Cuba (where he worked in mine structure support). He was born in Chyandour, Cornwall, England on April 22, 1827, and apprenticed as an architect and carpenter. He was sent to Cuba in 1848 to work. In Canada, he married Ann Proctor with whom he had 5 children. John helped the town build roads and bridges, and promoted the Wesleyan Methodist Church in its early days.
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Rev. Wm. Fraser meditates beside the monument he built for his wife Jane Geddie, located directly behind the first Presbyterian Church in Bond Head.
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Bond Head Methodist Church 1873-1942 which was destroyed by fire.
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S.S. #5, Bond Head School. This one-room schoolhouse was built in 1874
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Bond Head Public School, S.S. #5
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S.S. #5, Bond Head Public School, class from 1948-1949.