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Mathew Kneeshaw, the Simcoe County Board of Education Trustee, was one of the key people in the 112th graduation exercises at Bradford District High School. He presented prizes and diplomas to the graduating students, two of whom are Martha Verhaaff and Nancy Jean Burton. Martha was the junior valedictorian, and Nancy Jean gave the address for the senior class.

Wesley Norman Adair and Margaret Luella Brown (Ella) with bride's father Joseph Brown and flower girl Margaret Turner, Vic Turner's daughter by his first marriage. Simcoe St., Bradford, one south of Budd's.

James Bell was the Great Grandfather of Lylia Culbert. He was born January 3, 1831 in West Gwillimbury, Simcoe County, Ontario. His parents were James (born 1797) and Margaret Brown (born 1799) who were married in 1826. His brothers Andrew (born 1827) and Robert (born 1829) were born in Jedburgh, Scotland. James Bell married Isabella Wood on November 13, 1855 and farmed Lot 11 Con. 13 in West Gwillimbury. He died in 1911.

Bus and Lylia ready for Bradford's Centennial

This week "Yesterday" features a photograph of the pupils at Bradford Public School in 1912 submitted by Max Morris of Stayner. Mr. Morris recalls the principal of the school was Mr. Gordon. Five girls in the front row Mr. Morris can identify are (left to right) Marion Ritchie, a Moore girl, a Peterman girl, a Hirleyhey (her sister is standing directly behind her), and Miss Saint. Other names in the photograph include Davey, Woods, Wardman, McKinstry, Faris, Jermyn, Metcalf, Stoddaart, Spence, Bowser, and Parks.

Children playing with puppets they made at a program at the Bradford Public Library.

Summer Program at the Library. Summer 1986.

Tangle of cars, buses and snowplow on Highway No. 11 north of Bradford was being cleared to remove bottleneck in Ontario's main north-south highway yesterday when Globe and Mail plane slid down for a close view, which is looking north. Sunday night some 500 motorists were stranded in this region.

George W. Peterman on the left and his brother on the right. They are dressed for the Revolution of Louis Riel.

Bradford First Presbyterian Church, 1847. Located on the site of the present church where it stood until 1892 when it was sold to Trinity Anglican Church, Bradford. It was then moved to the site of the present Anglican Rectory where it was used as a Parish Hall until 1951.