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2010 Vancouver Olympic Torch Relay - Travelling through Town
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Photograph from the 2010 Vancouver Olympic torch relay. Onlookers can be seen waving as Steven Gonsalves carries the Olympic torch through Bradford on December 18th, 2009.
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"The Grand Trunk Railway have made an important innovation by installing their passenger train locomotives with a electric light equipment. One of the large type of passenger locomotive constructed at the Point St. Charles works of this company has just been turned out from the shops and is now at work in Montreal and Portland night passenger service, which has, in addition to all the well known modern appliances of merit for the safety and convenience of train operating, a powerful electric lighted head lamp and a number of incandescent lamps, which have been placed in the cab of the locomotive for the purpose of lighting the steam and air pressure and water gauges..."
This article appears in the Bradford Witness many times throughout the year 1900.
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Educational Society of the Methodist Church donation envelope
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An envelope to hold monetary donations to the Educational Society of the Methodist Church. The envelope is sealed but unsigned. It was stapled to a piece of paper with a printed label reading "PROBABLY TURN OF THE CENTURY" as part of a display inside of the Bradford United Church.
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2010 Vancouver Olympic Torch Relay - Torch Bearer
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Photograph from the 2010 Vancouver Olympic torch relay. Steven Gonsalves carries the Olympic torch through Bradford on December 18th, 2009.
Ventures in Mission - Pastoral Charge Participation in the Information and Study Phase, Spring 1983
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Information booklet for participating pastoral charges about the United Church of Canada's Ventures in Mission fundraising campaign, given to Bob Evans by Rev. Henry Dahlin.
Inserts inside the booklet include:
The agenda for "FALL AREA MEETINGS FOR PASTORAL CHARGE LEADERSHIP" for September 25 - October 15, 1983, including handwritten notes from Bob Evans.
Copies of a letter from Bob Evans dated March 29, 1984 pertaining to the Ventures in Mission campaign, including handwritten edits and a handwritten list of Ventures in Mission committee members.
A handwritten note to "Bob" (Bob Evans) from "Henry" (Rev. Henry Dahlin) about the booklet.
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"The long anticipated commencement of our national existence as the Dominion of Canada is at length realized. Henceforward the four millions of British subjects upon this continent will exist but as one people. We begin our new era of history under most auspicious circumstances. The causes that provoked so much strife and bitterness between us and our sister provinces are at length happily removed; the objects for which as a people, we have so long struggled have been in the main effectually secured, and the calamities that loomed so ominously in the future have vanished altogether from the political horizon." ...
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My Canada: When Lacrosse was King in Bradford
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An article about the history and popularity of the game of lacrosse in Bradford, written by Luanne Campbell Edwards.
"At this time in June, 110 years ago, there was only one topic being discussed in every household in Bradford: the Bradford players on the Canadian Lacrosse Associations' All Star Team, then playing across Canada on their way to Vancouver, as part of an around-the-world trip promoting the national game. At that time in Canada's history, that game was lacrosse - not hockey..."
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Listing of Charges Known to Have Received Forward Phase Gifts, 1984
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Spreadsheet of United Church charges that received Forward Phase Gifts as part of Ventures in Mission, dated February 8, 1984. Data collected includes the Conference, Presbytery, Name of Charge, Location of the charge, Charge Code, number of gifts received, and their Total Commitment in dollars.
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2010 Vancouver Olympic Torch Relay
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Photograph from the 2010 Vancouver Olympic torch relay. The relay travelled through Bradford on December 18th, 2009.
Crowds Welcome Olympic Flame to Bradford
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Newspaper article about the Olympic torch travelling through Bradford on December 18th, 2009, as part of celebrations for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.
"The Olympic Torch Relay passed through Bradford last Friday and Crowds lined Holland Street to catch a glimpse of the flame..."