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"Serious smashup on the G.T. R. North of Bradford - Engineer, Fireman and Express Messenger Badly Injured"

Relates to the Grand Trunk Railway derailment on July 15, 1908.

" 'Could the life of one child have been saved and the lives of five others been improved if the Children's Aid Society had acted sooner?' This is the question that Mrs. Carol Simone keeps asking herself after the drowning on Monday of her neighbor's child, Betty Lowder, aged 12..."

"George Murray Gillam, 29, of R.R. 3 King, was drowned in the canal, Holland Marsh, in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Werner Ploder, son of Mr. A. Ploder, Holland Marsh, was returning home around 1:50 a.m. when tat the bridge, located at the far end of Ansnorveld, he saw the lights of a car in the water, and hurried to his home from where he called the King township police.
Bradford firemen were called, responding to the call at about 2 a.m. and they took the young man's body from the water, and a few hours later hauled the car out.
The car had gone through the guard rail of the bridge, where the water is about seven feet deep. Mr. Gillam was alone in his car."

Funeral card for William Campbell from 1914. His death occurred on March 29th, 1914 at the age of 75. William was a grain dealer in Bradford.

Marriage announcement in a New York state newspaper with details about the wedding of Marjorie Blanchard and William L. Campbell. The marriage occurred in Jamestown, New York in 1917.

Front and back views of a funeral card announcing the funeral of Dr. Lewis H. Campbell of Bradford on August 18th, 1935.

William M. and Mary Ethel Kneeshaw (nee Baynes) at Deerhurst on their wedding day, February 19, 1901.

Muriel and Stanley Cairns' wedding day, June 6, 1936. From left to right: Dolph and Eveline Kneeshaw, Muriel and Stanley Cairns, Isaac and Grace Cairns.