- CA BWGPL OS11496
- 1975
From left to right: Wm. Watson Jr., Charlie Davis, Dick Hilliard at an awards presentation.
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From left to right: Wm. Watson Jr., Charlie Davis, Dick Hilliard at an awards presentation.
Clam digger mounted on a barge cleaning the river to improve drainage to the pumps.
Part of Local History Artifacts
Event Date: 1974
Event Type: Educational Film
Description: This film profiles the vegetable growing industry and people of the Bradford Marsh, and talks about how farming practices have changed from past to present.
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food - Information Branch
Bohoniuk, Mushacio (Michael) obituary
Part of Vital Statistics
Event Date : Saturday, June 13, 1936
Event Type : Death
Description : Bohoniuk, 25-year-old Ukranian, of Toronto, was drowned in the Holland Marsh irrigation canal, at the point where the canal skirts the rear of Mr. J. W. Wilson's farm. He had arrived in Bradford two days before and secured work with Anglo del Zotto and F. Bollsanelo, market gardeners. Having finished work, he decided to bathe in the canal. When he did not appear for supper, a search was instituted, police were called, and eventually his body was found in about nine feet of water. The body was removed to the undertaking rooms of T. Kilkenny & Son, Bradford. Coroner Dr. J. A. Cummings did not feel that an inquest was necessary.The brother of the dead man had the body removed to Toronto for burial in Mount Hope Cemetery.
Bradford Witness
Part of Local History Artifacts
This notebook contains the levels taken and noted by Dave Sutherland for the Holland Marsh Reclamation Scheme. The second page states, "Holland Marsh reclamation scheme commencing at west side of Holland River going S.W. across marsh Feb 15/24."
Dave Sutherland
Part of Local History Artifacts
This notebook contains the levels taken and noted by Dave Sutherland for the Holland Marsh Reclamation Scheme. The second page (as seen in this image) states, "Holland Marsh reclamation scheme commencing at west side of Holland River going S.W. across marsh Feb 15/24."
Dave Sutherland
Bradford-Holland Marsh Plan 100 Year Spectacle
Part of Local History Collection
Article about the preparation for Bradford's centennial celebrations in 1957, including a bit of history on Bradford and the Holland Marsh.
Toronto Daily Star
Part of WEGWHIST Collection
Breaking up land (3000 acres) on the Colbar Marsh north Bradford in the New Marsh around 1950 with a one-furrow plow. Lou Neilly (a World War II fighter pilot from Gilford) is driving the tractor and Jack Armstrong is on the plow.