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Part of Local History Collection
This portrait is of George W. Stoddart, and it was featured alongside members of the Municipal Council including F. Moore, Samuel Oldham, Thomas A. Pratt, and L.J. McConkey.
Edmund Garrett
Part of Local History Collection
This portrait is of F. Moore, and it was featured alongside members of the Municipal Council including Thomas Pratt, Samuel Oldham, L.J. McConkey, and George W. Stoddart.
Edmund Garrett
Part of Local History Collection
This portrait is of L.J. McConkey, and it was featured alongside members of the Municipal Council including F. Moore, Samuel Oldham, Thomas A. Pratt, and George W. Stoddart.
Edmund Garrett
Part of Local History Collection
This portrait is of Samuel Oldham, the Reeve of 1906. It was featured alongside members of the Municipal Council including F. Moore, Thomas Pratt, L.J. McConkey, and George W. Stoddart.
Edmund Garrett
Part of Local History Collection
This portrait is of Thomas A. Pratt, and it was featured alongside members of the Municipal Council including F. Moore, Samuel Oldham, L.J. McConkey, and George W. Stoddart.
Edmund Garrett
Bradford Witness - May 31, 1906 edition
Part of Local History Collection
This edition of the Bradford Witness is located in the Local History Room, and is in particular a very noteworthy edition. The printing of this edition included many photographs of local businessmen, houses, storefronts, churches, and of the main streets. It also included mini-biographical articles of the people included, acting as a local history gold-mine for Bradford's early 1900s. We have included some of these photographs and articles here, though a full copy of the text and photographs was reorganized thematically by the Bradford West Gwillimbury Historical Society in 1997.
Edmund Garrett
Part of Local History Collection
The caption of this photograph follows:
"Business Men of Bradford of Twelve Years Ago [1894]
Top Row (from left to right): W.J. Walker; J.H. Driffill; Jas. Driffil; E.P. Snow; H.C. Barry; J.H. Davey; S.J.W. Sutherland; Dr. L.H. Campbell; E. Garrett.
Second Row: A. Thompson; H.S. Broughton; Robt Stewart; Jas. Clarke; Wm. Campbell; R.J. Barry; Wm. Kilkenny; John Bemrose, sr.; E. Boddy; Jas. Mills.
Third Row: J.H. Hockridge; C. Elliot; R.F. Green; T.S. Graham; J.S. Boddy; G. Ogilvie; John Bemrose, jr.
Front Row: B. Hulse; E. Driffill; W. Scott; H. Parker; J.G. Cook; W.L. Campbell; A. Sutherland; W.W. Ellis."
Edmund Garrett
Part of Local History Collection
The article accompanying this photograph gives a quick history of Whimster & Wilcox Store, owned by J.E. Hodgson in 1906. It was located at 16 Holland Street West, and was immediately east of the Queen's Hotel. It began in Aurora by James Whimster and a Mr. Wilcox in 1886, though in 1904 it was launched in Bradford by Charles Elliot. The store featured dried goods, furnishings, clothing, and groceries.
Edmund Garrett
Part of Local History Collection
Article describing the business and life of Mr. C. Goode, grain merchant and owner of the Goode Elevators. Article from 1906.
Bradford Witness
Part of Local History Collection
The article accompanying this photograph gives a brief history of the Queen's Hotel, rebuilt after Bradford's great fire of 1871 as Western Hotel. The Western Hotel burned down in 1890, and the structure in the photograph was built soon after. It was owned by William Whyle in 1906.
Edmund Garrett