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Contains files and information relating to the Hon. W. Earl Rowe, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1963-1968 and reeve of the Township of West Gwillimbury 1919-1923.

Contains information on the local heroes of Bradford and West Gwillimbury, including police, firefighters, paramedics, or prominent citizens with heroic actions.

Contains various photographs of the Saint Family of Bradford.

Photographs of the Jessop Family. Most of the photographs are of brothers Earl, Mervyn, and Clarence Jessop, donated by Mervyn to the WEGWHIST collection.

This file contains an assortment of photographs and letters compiled & donated by Karol Joyce, of the Atkins, Watson & Banting families. The first lot of items were donated in 2014 and the most recent were donated on January 26, 2018.

This file contains an assortment of photographs, documents, advertisements and other materials. The items pertain to the Campbell and related families. Collected and digitally donated by Luanne Campbell Edwards in 2017 and October 2018.

Contains various items on crimes committed in or around the Bradford West Gwillimbury area.

This collection of pins, medals, and badges, once owned by Walter Reeves, comes to us in digital format from his descendant, Bill Marks. They were collected from Walter's career as Chief of Police for the Town of Bradford, his participation as a Lacrosse player in the 1909 championship, and his St. John's Ambulance badges.

The Ontario Provincial Police began to operate in the area in the 1930s as a motorcycle patrol, working in conjunction with the Chief of Police of the Town. Walter "Gunch" Reeves assisted the first constable posted to the area, I.R. Spencer, in many of these cases. The first OPP detachment office in West Gwillimbury opened on January 1, 1949, where they worked from the second floor of the township building under Corporal D. Adair.

Walter Arthur Reeves was born in England in 1886, and moved to Bradford when he was 13 years old. He was known as a lacrosse star as he was part of Bradford's 1909 O.A.L.A. Intermediate Lacrosse champion team (medal which is included in this collection). He married Sarah "Sadie" Saint in February 1909. He was a train inspector, and was appointed Town Constable in 1929, a position which he served until his death in 1946 from a heart attack.