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Bill Marks playing hockey in his back yard in front of the Bradford Cabinet Works with an old blacksmith shop on the left.

The Bradford Hockey Club from the 1914-1915 year.
Front Row (l-r): D. Riddell, Jay Germaine, Frank Hammell
Back row (l-r): Bert Chester, Bruce McKay, Jim Curry, Mac McLean, Fred Collings

Photograph of the Convent demolition

Photograph of the Convent demolition

Photograph donated digitally by Bill Marks. Boys in the photograph are Bill Marks (in grade 7) and Jamie Webb (in grade 8) playing at the Beeton Arena.

"Thompson Smith's mill in Amsterdam, where Riverview Inn now stands, about 1890. Moe Campbell hepled build this mill. This mill's last owners were Mickle and Dyment."

Thompson Smith was a Toronto man who participated in the incorporation the Rama Lumber Transport Co. and who opened up a lumber mill in Amsterdam (near Bradford). The exact date of opening is unknown, but it was sometime between 1858-1869. The mill was a steam mill and many of the logs cut were shipped along the Holland River. Smith's mill was eventually one of many in the area during the late nineteenth century.