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S.S. #5, West Gwillimbury, Bond Head School. Teacher was Irma Burton.
Back Row, left to right: George Brown, Audrey Cameron, Alice Shaw, Irma Burton (teacher), Harold Webb, Harold Thompson, Don Wilson, Lorne Harvey.
Middle Row: Jean Reynolds, Marie Wilson, Mary Brown, Mary Mellon, Wilma Hansford, Dorothy Bentley, June Duncan, Bud Brown, Jim Thompson.
Front Row: John Preece, Bill Breedon, Clark Shaw, Joe Reynolds, Art Preece, Wilson Stoddart, Stewart Reynolds.

New Bond Head School, 1954.
Upper caption reads, "The New S.S. 5 West Gwillimbury building at Bond Head is a marked contrast with the old school, which can be seen behind at left. The old building was in continuous use for 80 years. In 1908, the roof blew off and had to be replaced with a new one. The new one-classroom school is of rug brick and has an aluminum roof and large windows all along the side facing the road. The first sod was turned on Thanksgiving Day and the new school, built by Contractor Wilfrid Halbert of Thornton, was moved into at the beginning of February. D.A. Lapp, public school inspector for South Simcoe, officially opened the building."

Bond Head Public School, 1945. Teacher was Lylia Bell (Mrs. Culbert).
Back Row: Wallace Reynolds, Art Preece, Marie Wilson, Stewart Reynolds, Jean Reynolds, John Preece, Wilma Hansford, Joe Reynolds, Mary Mellon, Jim Thompson, Gloria Duncan, Bud Brown, Lylia Bell (Mrs Culbert).
Middle Row: Mildred Reynolds, Joyce Reynolds, Alice Smith, Diane Duncan, Natalie Duncan, Margaret Sutherland, Ena Brown, Marguerite (Peggy) Dermott.
Front Row: Peter Scanlon, Lloyd Reynolds, Percy Scanlon, Walter Reynolds, Gordon Brown, Doug Reynolds, Don Whiteside.

Bond Head Public School, 1945-1946. Teacher was Mrs. Lylia Culbert.
Back Row, left to right: Lloyd Reynolds, Stewart Reynolds, Joe Reynolds, Jim Thompson, Art Preece, Wallace Reynolds, Peter Scanlon, Mrs. Lylia Culbert.
Middle Row: Alice Smith, Mildred Reynolds, Marion Burton, Ena Brown, Marie Wilson, Marguerite Dermott, Joyce Reynolds, Percy Scanlon, Walter Reynolds.
Front Row: Etta Whiteside, Mary Culbert, Margaret Sutherland, Norman Harvey, Donny Whiteside, Allan McLean, Doug Reynolds, Charles Hansford, Gordon Brown.

Bond Head one room schoolhouse, built in 1874.

This annual strawberry supper has been a highlight in the community for over 75 years.

Interior of the Bond Head Trinity Anglican Church.

United Church Manse looking across the road from Cardie McLeans

Bradford Witness newspaper article on the fire which destroyed the Bond Head United Church in 1941. From a scrapbook made by Vira Bateman.
"Almost isolated by roads which were nearly impassable, residents of Bond Head and surrounding districts yesterday formed a bucket brigade and fought flames which, for a time threatened to destroy part of the town. The Bond Head United Church (upper left) was completely destroyed. The fire started in a near-by garage owned by William Jardine, who was badly burned in an attempt to rescue his car (lower left). Three of the volunteer firemen are shown (upper right) cooling off after the battle. They are (left to right) cooling off after the battle. They are (left to right) Archie McLean, Cookstown; Ernie Hughes, Fennell's Corners, and John Bell of Toronto. Furniture from the adjacent houses was piled in a plowed field for protection (lower right). Inset is Rev. T.J. Jewitt, minister of the church, who helped fight the blaze."

Bond Head looking west.