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Description of the annual outdoor service held at Auld Kirk, celebrating the 180th year since it's founding. Also has a brief history on the Scotch Settlement.

Elsie and Bill Reynolds on their wedding day.

S.S. #5, Bond Head School, 1934. Teacher was Edna Ball.
Back Row, left to right: Elmer Barker, Unknown, ? Copeland, Edna Ball (teacher), Unknown, Lorne Barker.
Middle Row: Bill Murray, Al Harvey, Dorothy Copeland, Paddy Clarington, Eileen Dixon, Dewitt Bentley, Unknown, Art Webb.
Front Row: Herb Barker, Jack Breedon, Lorna Dixon, Kathleen Clarington, Jim Bentley, Jean Bannerman, Freddy Switzer.

S.S. #5, Bond Head School. Teacher was Edna Ball.
Back Row, left to right: Clark Thompson, Marion Thompson, Golda Hansford, Edna Ball (teacher), Josephine Orr, Jack Breedon, Al Harvey.
Middle Row: Jim Bentley, Don Wilson, Jean Reynolds, Marie Wilson, Dorothy Bentley, Audrey Cameron, Fred Switzer, Harold Webb.
Front Row: Jim Thompson, George Brown, Bud Brown, Art Preece, Bill Breedon, Ken Aspden, Lorne Harvey.

S.S. #12, Coulson's Hill. Teacher was Miss Byne Ball (later Mrs. Hulse Stoddart). Back Row, left to right: Ken Kneeshaw, William Roberts, Clarence Kneeshaw, Art Belfry, Evelyn Thorpe, Florence O'Neil, Josephine Riley. Front Row: John O'Neil, Art Kneeshaw, Jack Roberts, Milton Hambly, Lloyd Kneeshaw, Ken Thorpe, Mona O'Neil, Ruth O'Neil, Joe Mooney.

Dr. and Mrs. Cummings with their children, from left to right, Julian, James, Harley, and Victor.

From left: Doug Reynolds, Elsie Reynolds, Tianna Reynolds, Stephen Reynolds.

Frances Laurine Perry (nee Gummerson).

Description : Following four years of volunteer work by a team of members of the Bradford West Gwillimbury Local History Association, Governor Simcoe Slept Here - The Legacy of West Gwillimbury was launched on December 15th. In October, 2001 over forty people responded to the initial invitation to meet and discuss the possibility of writing a history of West Gwillimbury and they choose to call themselves WEGWHIST - West Gwillimbury History. The book was written by a team of 15 Bradford West Gwillimbury residents. Governor Simcoe Slept Here tells the story of the two waves of pioneer settlers to West Gwillimbury - the Scottish, Irish and English, who settled on the highlands during the 1820 - 1830 period and the European settlers who arrived a century later to the Holland Marsh. Churches, schools and hamlets are documented in the two volumes, along a CD which includes "The Many Faces of West Gwillimbury" as photographed by Franz Aschwanden, a listing of the Marsh Land Owners in 1949 and a Genealogical Index of the Families.

Gwillim Group Committee members with Lieutenant Governor Onley, his wife Ruth Ann and Peter Van Loan. Back Row (l-r): Darlene Braybrook, Tom Fuller, Jennifer Gordon, Mary and Don Gardiner, Vera Stoddart and Peter Line. Middle Row (l-r): Natalie Dykie, Christine Houlieff, Brenda Winter, Zelma Fuller, Bill Marks, Joan Gibson, Mikki Nanowski and Judith Moses. Front: Lieutenant Governor Onley, Ruth Ann Onley and Peter Van Loan.