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Photograph of Bradford's town council from 1985-1988.
Back Row: William Marks, Gary Lamb, Dennis Roughley, Peter Dykie Jr.
Front Row: Reeve Sandy Hudson, Mayor William de Peuter, Deputy Mayor William Dykie

Photograph of Bradford West Gwillimbury's town council from 1991.
Back Row: Frank Jonkman, Peter Dykie Jr., Dennis Roughley, Jim Corneau, Gary Lamb, William Marks
Front Row: Deputy-Reeve William Dykie, Deputy-Reeve Frances Reid, Mayor William de Peuter, Reeve Sandy Hudson, Deputy-Mayor Bud Brown
Absent: Ron Simpson
Photography Donated By: Ackland Photography

Photograph of Bradford West Gwillimbury's town council from 2010-2014.
Back Row: James Leduc, Raj Sandhu, Carl Hordyk, Ron Simpson, Del Crake, Peter Dykie Jr., Gary Lamb
Front Row: Doug White, Rob Keffer

Photograph of Bradford West Gwillimbury's town council from 2014-2018.
Back Row: Mark Contois, Ron Orr, Gary Baynes, Peter Dykie Jr., Gary Lamb
Front Row: Peter Ferragine, Rob Keffer, James Leduc, Raj Sandhu

Photograph of Bradford West Gwillimbury's town council from 1994.
Back Row: Peter Dykie, Dennis Roughley, Ron Simpson, John Gabriel, Gary Lamb
Front Row: B.L. Vanderpost, Frank Jonkman (Mayor), Bud Brown, John Gorzo

Photograph of Bradford West Gwillimbury's town council from 1997-2000.
Back Row: Ron Simpson, Peter Dykie Jr., Frank Jonkman, Charles Brown, Marty Toombs
Front Row: Gary Lamb, John Gorzo, Brian Bonany, Sharon Villlani

Photograph of Bradford West Gwillimbury's town council from 2000-2003.
Back Row: Gary Lamb, Jim Corneau, Del Crake, Marty Toombs, Peter Dykie Jr.
Front Row: Brian Bonany, Dennis Roughley, Frank Jonkman, John Gorzo

Article about the amalgamation of the Bradford and Innisfil Police Departments, and a vote by the town councils.

Article about the amalgamation of the Bradford and Innisfil Police Departments; the previous defeated vote was reexamined after Innisfil Town Council voted for the bylaw, and BWG Town Council revisited the proposal.

"When Jean Keffer asked me to sign her petition to keep Gwillimbury in the Town name, I did so with the following in mind...Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Gwillim was an aide-de-camp of General Wolfe. He was with Wolfe when the General died on the Plains of Abraham in 1759. His daughter Elizabeth married John Graves Simcoe; the rest is history. My own connection to the "Gwillburys" began in 1803, when my 5G-Grandfather, John Eves, a Quaker from Pennsylvania, built one of the first settler dwellings, after he was patented with Lot 108 in West Gwillimbury. He is credited with the first industry in the "Gwillimburys", when he built a sawmill on the Holland River soon after. I even found reference to North Gwillimbury in the 1881 census where my Great-Great grandparents Thomas Lamb and Rachel Eves briefly lived. When I wrote on the Millenium Clock Monument, with assistance from George Jackson, I tried to balance the story of the Town and Township, so that one can see the relationship that existed, where we were intertwined socially, economically and emotionally. My wife Julie and I both spent our formative years in West Gwillimbury, and our two sons are the 9th generation in Ontario as descended from those original settlers on Lot 108. The name Bradford West Gwillimbury may be long and unwieldy, but historically and emotionally it is ours alone."