"To help solve the housing problem for the thousand or more people made homeless by the flood a trailer town is being planned. Bradford Rotary Club members are in charge of this project and the objective is 100 trailer cabins to be located on the ball grounds. It is proposed to install showers and toilet facilities to serve this big trailer camp. The search for a sufficient number of trailers is already underway."
Event Date : Friday, August 17, 1956 Event Type : Death
Description : Died suddenly at Toronto. Survived by his wife, dear son of Mary Jane and the late Adolph; brother of Sister Marie Reine, Mrs. May Sullivan and Adolph. Resting at F. Lynett Funeral Home, 3299 Dundas St. W. Funeral Monday to St. Basil's Church for mass at 9:15 a.m. Interment Lefroy, Ont.
This portrait is of Herbert E. Watson, a dentist of Bradford. An article with a short biography accompanies this picture. It notes his dentist office was on the upstairs of the Kilkenny block of Holland Street, meaning his office was beside the Kilkenny Furniture store.
Event Date : Friday, August 30, 1996 Event Type : Death
Description : Suddenly at Meadowcroft Place at the age of 92. Husband of the late Noreen Westlake. Father of Marilyn Westlake. Brother-in-law of Velma Standing. Brother of Ruth Kneeshaw-Kemp, and the late Ethyl Gould, Lillian Edney and Roy and Bob Westlake. Employee with the Globe and Mail for over 30 years. Visitation and service at the Turner and Porter Yorke Chapel, 2357 Bloor St. West, at Windermere, near the Jane subway. Reception to follow. Cremation.
Newspaper article dated 1889 from the South Simcoe News, describing the disappearance and drowning death of William Sutherland, son of Alexander and Elizabeth Sutherland.
