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Part of Vital Statistics
Event Date : October 18, 1894
Event Type : Death
Description : Age: 8 months. Infant child of Mr. Henry Parker. Buried in Pontypool.
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Part of Vital Statistics
Event Date : October 18, 1894
Event Type : Death
Description : Age: 8 months. Infant child of Mr. Henry Parker. Buried in Pontypool.
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Event Date : April 6, 1895
Event Type : Death
Description : Daughter of Mr. Henry Parker. Age: 2 years, 4 months, 13 days.
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Event Date : Thursday, February 16, 1900
Event Type : Death
Description : Infant son of Mr. Henry Parker, Blacksmith.
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Porter, William Henry obituary
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Event Date : Sunday, January 20, 1907
Event Type : Death
Description : Dr. W.H. Porter, L.D.S. Born on February 27th, 1837, in Dublin, Ireland. Came to Canada when he was an infant. In 1868 was granted a license by the Dental Board of the Royal College of Dental Surgeons. Practiced in Bradford for over 40 years. In 1866, he married Mary, daughter of Capt. R.B.C. Playter, Holland Landing, Ont. She survives him. Father of Dr. Fred Porter, of Orillia, who graduated from the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario and Toronto University. Also survived by three brothers, Rev. G.H. Porter, of Little Metis, Quebec, Samuel, of Lindsay, and one living near Rochester, N.Y. Interred at Holland Landing cemetery.
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Article on the total number of people injured and killed due to train related accidents in one year (1908). The majority were railway employees.
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Event Date : Sunday, February 01, 1970
Event Type : Death
Description : Sarah Elizabeth (Sadie). At the Willows Rest Home Lodge, Aurora, on Sunday, February 1, 1970. Sadie Saint, of Bradford, in her 89th year, beloved wife of the late Walter Reeves, dear mother of Dorothy (Mrs. Harvey Marks), Bradford and the late Muriel, loving grandmother of Noreen (Mrs. Allan Hodgson) Beverley (Mrs. Jack Sanders), and Bill, also survived by 6 great-grandchildren. Friends may call at the Lewis Funeral Home, 30 Simcoe St., Bradford. Final resting place Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
Reeves, Walter A. obituary (short)
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Event Date : Tuesday, November 05, 1946
Event Type : Death
Description (pg1): "Town Constable Passes; Walter Reeves, Well Known Resident and Police Officer, Falls to Rally from Attack; Walter Reeves, Bradford's genial town constable and former lacrosse star, who suffered a heart attack about two weeks ago, died at his home here yesterday morning. The funeral will be held from Trinity Anglican Church tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. An obituary will appear in next week's issue."
(pg 5) REEVES - At his home, Bradford, Ont. on Tuesday, November 5, 1946, Walter A. Reeves, beloved husband of Sarah Saint and father of Mrs Harvery Marks (Dorothy). Resting at his late residence. Funeral on Thursday at 2 o'clock. Service in Trinity Church at 2.30. Interment in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Masonic brethren please meet at Lodge rooms at 1.30."
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Reeves, Walter obituary (long)
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Event Date : Tuesday, November 05, 1946
Event Type : Death
Description : Husband of Sadie Saint and father to Mrs Harvey Marks (Dorothy) died in his home after a seizure from thrombosis. Mr Reeves was a Town Constable for Bradford. He was born in England and moved to Bradford at 13. Member of the Bradford lacrosse championship team of 1908-09. Rev. H.G. Blake conducted the ceremony and interment is in St. Pauls' Cemetery, Coulson's Hill.
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Event Date : Thursday, February 09, 1984
Event Type : Death
They came to this small village, located just south of Cookstown, to pay their last respects to a political legend.Gathered in the Newton Robinson United Church, with the rain falling softly outside, they listened as Rev. Henry Dahlin performed the service. It was a final tribute to a man whose political career spanned almost 65 years. William Earl Rowe, former lieutenant governor of Ontario and political veteran died last Thursday at his Newton Robinson home after suffering a heart attack. He was 89.
Born in Iowa, Mr. Rowe grew up in Simcoe County, where his political career began in 1919 when he became reeve of West Gwillimbury Township. He spent 35 years as a Conservative legislator at both the provincial and federal levels before he was named lieutenant governor in 1963. A former leader of the Ontario Conservative Party, Mr. Rowe was also the youngest member in the R. B. Bennett cabinet, where he served as minister without portfolio.In 1958, his daughter Jean Casselman Wadds was elected to parliament, making the Rowes the first father-daughter team in Canada's history. She now serves on the MacDonald Commission on the economy.In addition to his long and distinguished political career, Mr. Rowe was also actively involved in harness racing throughout his life. Together with his son, Bill, he founded both the Barrie and Windsor Raceway.
Among those attending the funeral service held Monday afternoon at Newton Robinson United Church were Lieutenant Governor John Black Aird, Premier William Davis, New Brunswick Premier Richard Hatfield, Solicitor General George Taylor, former lieutenant governor Roland Michener, and York-Peel MP Sinclair Stevens.Premier Davis described Mr. Rowe as a great Canadian who will be remembered as a man who excelled as parliamentarian Queen's representative in Ontario as a breeder and racer of standard-bred horses a farmer and most importantly in raising a fine family."
Mr. Rowe's wife Treva died five weeks ago after suffering a series of strokes. They are predeceased by a son Lennox. Mr. Rowe leaves a sister Mary Lennox and a daughter Jean Casselman Wadds. In addition he leaves to mourn grandchildren Mrs. Jane Hutchins, Nancy Casselman of Toronto, Earl Rowe of Shanty Bay, Clare Casselman of Toronto, Scott Rowe of Cookstown, Cindy Rowe of London, Patti Rowe of Cookstown, and great-grandchildren Jennifer Hutchins, Katherine and Crystal Rowe. Mr. Rowe was buried at Newton Robinson Cemetery. Honourary pallbearers were Roland Michener, William Davis, Art Evans, Bill Hodgson, Louis Levesque, and Ellen Fairclough. Pallbearers were Earl Rowe, Scott Rowe, Lorne Lennox, Jim MacDonald, Dave Hutchins, and Clare Casselman."
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Event date: Monday, July 27, 1959
Event type: Death
Description: Mr. Dan Sadovchuk had been in York County Hospital about two months and appeared to be improving when death struck suddenly on Monday, July 27.
Bron in the Ukraine, September 23, 1888, Mr. Sadovchuk came to Canada when nineteen years old, living in Montreal until 1924. While in Montreal he married a young widow, Mrs. Stephanie Semenuk Pelowich, who had a little son Jimmy. Mr. and Mrs. Sadovchuk lived in Port Colborne and Windsor before coming to Bradford in 1932. They had one son of their own, George, who grew up and attended school in Bradford.
Mr. Sadovchuk was a gardener, and loved gardens. Everyone who knew him said he was a fine man. The serenity of his countenance bore evidence to the truth of the statement.
He is survived by his wife, of Bradford; his son, George Sadovchuk, of Toronto, his step-son, Jimmy Pelowich of Toronto; and one sister, Mrs. N. Malnachuk of Blind River, Ontario.
Rev. T.J. Dew of Mimico returned to Bradford to take the funeral services in Trinity Anglican Church, Bradford. Interment in Prospect Cemetery, Toronto.
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