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150 friends attend her 99th birthday

  • CA BWGPL PH26354

Municipality :
Community : West Gwillimbury
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Description : Mrs. Suzanna Armstrong turns 99. She recollects parts of her life and tells what it is like to be 99 years old.

17th Child

  • CA BWGPL OS10600
  • 1972

York County Hospital established a record Monday when a Bradford area woman Mrs. Rosella Bell gave birth to her 17th child - a 10lb., one ounce girl. Mrs. Bell has had more children than any other mother at the hospital - and it's her last, she says. Her husband Roy works at Greenacres Home for the Aged. The couple already has 11 girls and five boys ranging in age from three years to 21.

31 Ontario Scholars At City High Schools

  • CA BWGPL PH26550

Municipality :
Community : Barrie
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Description : This year the three Barrie high schools have graduated 31 Ontario Scholars -- students in grade 13 with an average of 80 per cent or better.
There were 16 Ontario scholars at North, 12 at Central and three at Eastview.
The top grade 13 student in the city is a young man who shoots through course the way he shoots golf.
Ian Postnikoff, a student at North Collegiate, shoots golf in the low 90s and this year he earned an average of 91.4 per cent in Grade 13. Ian is 18 and will be entering the University of Toronto to take honors science in the fall and he plans to become a medical doctor.
Ranks Second
Valerie Thompson, 17, also a Barrie North student ranked second in the city with an average age of 89.6 per cent. Valerie has been active in the high school drama club. This summer she plans to stay at home to enable her mother to take a summer course.
Valerie is entering York University on a scholarship and she plans to take an honors BA.
Marsha Goodhead, 19, stood third with an average of 89.4 per cent. Martha has been on the student council at Barrie North and she has spent much of her spare time working as a candy striper and Sunday school teacher. She will be entering the pre-medicine course at Queen's University in the fall.
Top Student
Dianne Beelen, 17, was the top student in grade 13 at Barrie Central Collegiate with an average of 88.3 per cent. Dianne has been active in both the glee club and the classics culb at Central. She plans to take French and Latina at the University of Toronto.
Judy Mason, 19, ranked second at Central with an average of 87.8 per cent. She's been active in a number of school organizations. Judy was president of the classic club, make-up director for the drama club, an executive in the biology club and a trombone player in the band.
Stanley Isbrandt, 18, also a student at Central obtained an average of 86 per cent. Stanley played the tuba in the school band for five years. This summer he is working for his father in construction In the fall he will go to the University of Waterloo to take honors math.
Ken Collum, 18, was the top student in grade 13 at Eastview Secondary School. He is an avid chess player and was president of the chess club at Eastview.
He is working on the farm for the summer and will attend the University of Waterloo next year where he will take math and computer science.
Alan Kneeshaw stood second at Eastview students will be receiving the $150 Ontario Scholarships as will the following 16 students from North: Wayne Campbell, Nancy Daym Glenn Godfrey, Marsha Goodhead, Terry Henry, Greg Kneeshaw, Murray Maw, Wendall McArthur, Ian Postnikoff, Lesley Reid, Julia Smith, Valerie Thompson, Chris Thorpe, Donna Tuck, Grace Veenema, John Wilson.

7th Line Bond Head

  • CA BWGPL OS9409

Looking west on the 7th Line of Tecumseth. Note the board sidewalk along the road leading to Trinity Anglican Church (about 1850s).

8th Canadian Field Ambulance Officers and NCOs

  • CA BWGPL OS9855
  • Item
  • November 1918

This image documents the 8th Canadian Field Ambulance at the time of the signing of the armistice ending WWI on November 11, 1918 and can be found in a war photograph album belonging to Lieutenant Colonel Ernest Raymond Selby. The photographs in the album are both original photographs taken by Dr. Selby and copies of official Canadian military photographs. Selby was born in and grew up in the Bradford West Gwillimbury area before moving to Calgary, Alberta. Many of the men pictured were awarded medals in recognition of honour and/or bravery.

Top Row: Sgt. Maguire, Sgt. F. E. Dutton, Cpl. Brewster, Sgt. Munis, Sgt. Davidson, R.S.M. Coward, R.S.M. G. Taylor, Staff-Sgt. Graydon, Sgt. Nash, Cpl. Tillett, Cpl. Guthrie, Sgt. Patience
Middle Row: Capt. R. M. Harvie, Capt. A. S. Lamb, Capt. D.C. Malcolm, Major W. G. Cosbie, Lt-Col. E. R. Selby, Major W. J. MacKensie, Capt. J. F. Sparrow, Capt. Knight, Capt. Christie
Bottom Row: Sgt. H. Hay, Sgt. Montgomery, Cpl. Clements, Sgt. Valiquet, Sgt. Wyers, Sgt. Cowan, Sgt. Coleman, Sgt. Holding, Cpl. Lean

Ernest Raymond Selby, Dr.

8th Line Survey Line

  • CA BWGPL OS9922

The survey line for the 8th line in West Gwillimbury, looking west from Lots 10 and 11, Concession 8.

90th Birthday - Bertha Langford

  • CA BWGPL OS10374
  • Item
  • 1980-09-06

Bradford's Bertha Langford celebrated her 90th birthday last week with more than 200 family and friends in attendance. The energetic lady still loves to bowl. Happy birthday!

Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library

A country home away from home

  • CA BWGPL PH26624

Municipality :
Community : Bradford
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Description : Twenty-nine years ago, Ross and Shirley Klubine took over the Klubine family farm on Highway 11, just north of Bradford. The beautiful brick farmhouse, built circa 1850, had become "somewhat decrepit." They replaced the front entry and, using family photographs, repaired and restored the verandah. They opened their doors to visitors, starting the first "Bed and Breakfast" establishment in Simcoe County. A sign proclaiming the "Country Guest Home" went up at the end of a drive lined with majestic maple trees, and immediately attracted the attention of the local health inspector. Both Ross and Shirley were involved in the venture. Seven years ago Ross passed away, and was buried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, on land that is still part of the farm. Now her baked goods, and fresh jams, are two of the staples on the breakfast table at the Guest Home, that bring visitors back, again and again. The Country Guest Home is open all year round, but summer is the peak season. Rates have remained reasonable, and include a full home cooked breakfast.

A Heritage Moment... The Illustrated Witness, a memento from 1906, now available

  • CA BWGPL PH26639

Municipality :
Community : Bradford
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Description : A copy of the May 31, 1906 Bradford Witness owned by Rose Magloughlen, who inherited from her aunt, Florence Batchelor. Rose loaned the copy to the Historical Association, which had it copied and compiled in book format. The edition was written 102 years ago, when Bradford was almost 50 years old - but still had a population of only around 1,000. There were 4 churches, a public school and a high school, one policeman, and a whole variety of shopkeepers and service providers. Travel was by real horse power, and about this time, the wooden sidewalks in town were replaced with smooth cement - but you still had to dodge the puddles and muddy spots when crossing dirt streets on a rainy day. This "illustrated edition" of The Witness was special and expensive to print, because it not only told of the many business and professional offices and manufacturing works within the Town, it contained many pictures that had to be engraved prior to being printed. The editor, Mr. Edmund Garrett, wrote in his preamble, "It is hoped, however, that this number will possess vastly more interest than that of any publication ever gotten up in the village - interesting alike to present dwellers in our midst and to the thousands who have gone from us to dwell in other places." Even today, folks returning to Bradford to search for their roots are surprised to find a story and a picture of an earlier generation of their family in this publication - including information about Bradford's very first land developer, Letitia Magee. The book was out of print, but the Bradford West Gwillimbury Local History Association decided to reprint it as another reminder of the past, on the 150th Anniversary of the founding of Bradford. Copies are only $10 each.

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