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Peter Wilson
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Local History Collection Brochure
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Peter Wilson
Local History Resource Guide - How to Use our Digital Collections
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Guide on how to search and use our Digital Collections database
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library
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Article on the construction of George Stoddart's residence
Bradford Witness
Geo. Stoddart residence - Mason work
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Article on the construction of George Stoddart's residence
Bradford Witness
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An article on the life of Dr. William H. Porter, the former town dentist.
Bradford Witness
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Open letter from David Compton to the people of Bradford announcing Compton's IGA closure after 59 years in operation.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Times
River Takes Life of George Atkinson
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Bradford Witness
Vol. LXVIII, #04
January 25, 1933
Page 1
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library
Prelude to a child;s tragic death
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" '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..."
Bradford Witness
Five Drown in Branch of Boyne Near Beeton
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"The branch of the Boyne River which crosses the road into Beeton, west of No. 27 Highway, was, like all other streams of the district, swollen to danger proportions last Friday night and at this point a terrific toll in lives was taken. Five bodies have been recovered and some neighbours fear that there may be more. ..."
Bradford Witness
Man Finds Work, is Drowned in Canal
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"Had Come from Toronto Thursday - Went Bathing After Day's Work
Mushaelo (Michael) Bohoniuk, 25-year-old Ukrainian, of 70 Runnymede Rd., Toronto, was drowned in the Holland Marsh irrigation cala, at a point where the canal skirts the rear of Mr. J.W. Wilson's farm, late Saturday afternoon.
The drowned man, it appears, had come up from Toronto on Thursday and had secured work with Anglo del Zotto and F. Bollsanelo, market gardeners. Having finished work on Saturday afternoon, he had decided to bathe in the canal. Undressing and donning a pair of trunks, he left his clothes in his employer's shack, started out apparently for the canal, and nothing further was seen of him alive. ..."
Bradford Witness