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The two-storey, brick house located at 108 Holland St. West was built by John Maurino on what was originally a 100-acre farm owned by John Skinner. Skinner lived on Church St. (at the southeast corner of John Street). There was a creek behind the original barn and a pond used for watering stock, etc. It was also used as a hockey and skating rink in the winter many years ago. The land was eventually sold to John Maurino. He added a two-storey shed and a new barn to the property at the time he built the house that is seen in this photo from 1995. Maurino and his wife (a sister of Cavallo, the local harness and shoemaker) farmed the land with their children Augustus, Aida, Frank, Lena and Laura. (1, 2)

From the Yesterdays section of the Bradford Witness:
"This is a photo of the 1931 class at Bradford High School submitted by Mr. and Mrs. Grennville Halbert. Shown in the top row (left to right) are Allan Gould, Frank Maurino, Murray Faris, Errol Gray, Don WIlson, Lou Neilly, Lorne West, James Darling, Keith Kilkenny, and Laurie Melbourne. Second row (left to right) Mr. Clary, the principal; Miss Cook, teacher; Home Henbest, Addison Black, Emory Belfry, Ivor Rogers, Marion Bell, Muriel Kneeshaw, Helen Clubine, Helen Clark, Ann Watt, and Connie Nolan. Third row (left to right) Zella Gardner, Maude Gardner, Edith Noble, Kathleen Holdane-Wilson, Marion Edney, Barbara Dunn, Evelyn Ward, Eleanor Collings, Mildred Faris, Ruth Cerswell, and Phyllis Mitchell, teacher. Bottom row (Left to right) Donna Archer, Jessie Lowry, Margery Seim, Helen Leeson, Marion Cullingham, and Evelyn Leeson. The Witness welcomes photos of interest."

Bradford Public School, Room 5.

Teacher: Miss. Robinson
Back Row: Donald Wilson, unknown, Wilbert Curry, Tom Holly, Florie Rogers, Hilda Corrigan, Betty Semenuk, Isabel Hunter, Evelyn Lang, Verda Feegan, Helen Metcalf, Marjorie Seim and Mary Webb.

Second Row: Muriel Reeves, May Parks, Marjorie Bales, Jean Robinson, Lilly Bonn, Gladys Ogilvie, Ida Cavallo, Eleanor Collings, Eilleen Church, Carrie Stamper and Marian Church.

Front Row: Ken Seim, Harvey Aikens, Elwood James, unknown, Aubrey Belfrey, unknown, Art Hand, Bruno Cavallo, Joe Zampoloni, Frank Maurino and Eddy Stamper.

Files including letters, newspaper clippings (namely birth and death records), photographs, and essays on select families of Bradford West Gwillimbury

The Bradford Witness decided to release a series of articles from local townspeople on the history of certain events in Bradford and West Gwillimbury's time. This week, the history of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, which also marks its centennial year, is the topic.

"The Bradford Rotary Club elected its new executive last week, naming Bas Visser president. Front, from left;; Jim Simone, treasurer; Frank Maurino, inter-club relations; Reg Harris, Paul Harris Fellowship winner. Rear: Paul Travis, vocational service; Peter Van Scheyndel, secretary; Bas Visser; Don Wood, vice-president; Rick Walker, past president; Sheldon Harries, international service. Absent, Wayne Stinson, club services; Bill Skwarchuk community service."

Professor W. H. Day, who initiated much of the work in the marsh operated the Kingwilbra Gardens beside Bridge Street. Tom Fuller Sr. was one of the workers on the marsh for the professor. Mr. Fuller recalled getting paid 17-cents an hour and then getting a rather substantial raise to 20 cents an hour. The work crew included Arthur Taylor, Jack Geddes (killed in action during the Second World War), Wilbert Mulliss, Bruno and John Carvalho, Frank Maurino, Herb Taylor, Homer and Howard Henbest, Gordon McKelvie, Bob Edney, Charles Hansford, Joe Sangdrige. In the photo, top left, A. Moffat, S. Foster, H. Taylor, Tom Fuller, A. Doan, J. Foster, W. Semenuk, B. Cudmore. Middle Row: N. Gilfin, A. West, M. Thompson, R. Smith. Bottom Row: J. Ellis, H. Ellis, Hunter, J. Sadur, M. Zlotkin.