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Watson Hogdson and his wife Emiline McKelvey.

Three of John and Ida Watson's five children. From left: Charles, Jean, Karolyn. Absent: Isobel (married Norman Coutts) and Marion.

John and Ida Watson with Charles in the background.

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Community : West Gwillimbury
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Description : John and Ida Watson with Charles in the background.

Home of Mrs. Harold Watson 1978 built on the former grounds of Presbyterian Church horse sheds dating back to 1890's. In 1951 two lots were purchased for $350.00, one lot 164' x 49', the other one 40' x 265' on which was built a house 24' x 36'. in 1962 it was purchased and completed inside and out. This photo is from the Bradford Womens Institute Scrapbooks.

Wayne Siervogel at 4 1/2 months. He was one of the babies whose delivery Mrs. Mae Fuller assisted with at Mrs. Fuller's Nursing Home.

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Community : Bradford West Gwillimbury
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Description : We Once Had A Fair

Forty-three years ago in Bradford the annual Bradford and West Gwillimbury fall fair was held, with horse races, livestock competitions, dances, and a midway.

The weather was almost perfect and the fair attracted crowds estimated at 3,000.

The celery harvest was under way that week as well, and Professor W.H. Day's 40 acres were described as an "animated hive of industry," with 250 men and boys harvesting the celery crop.

Twenty-nine years ago in Bradford a just-completed census put the population of the town at 1,373 an increase of 66 from the previous year.

A huge wasp's nest, measuring three feet long, was discovered in a barn at the rear of the Orange Hall.

The nest's construction was "like basket weaving, and is in lovely tones of fawn shade." The wasps were killed by "liberal applications of DDT."

Marooned cars, zig-zagged across Yonge St. at Fennell Corners, made it tough for snowplows. First through on stretch between Bradford and Barrie, bucked drifts and a 40-mph blizzard for more then eight hours. But Ontario's drifts are comparative molehills to Saskatchewan's mountains.

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Community : Bradford
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Description : A detailed article describing the marriage between George Evans Jackson and Jean Doris Kneeshaw.

Some of the hijinks at the annual Gay 60's Christmas party included a mock wedding in which reluctant groom Walter Lloyd (second from left), married the beautiful bride, Bea Dixon. A deonair Ben Steers (second from left) was best man, while Eva Wright (extreme left) resplendent in tuxedo was an usher.