- CA BWGPL PH25693
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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."