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Greenview Farm building

Greenview Farm was the residence and farm of Richard H. Crake, wheat farmer, and covered 212 acres in 1906. It was located on the "Bond Head Rd.", or Highway 88 near Bond Head. It was first the Tyrwhitt Farm, owned by Colonel Tyrwhitt of Bond Head, before Crake bought it in 1903. Crake farmed here until 1914, when it was sold to F. Smelser. He was known to the town as Dick Crake.

Edmund Garrett

Electric Meter Register - Inside View

An Electric Meter Register book provided by the Department. Bond Head appears in the register, as do parts of New Tecumseth. It provides an example of the way such information was tracked at the time and how it would have been tracked in the Bradford West Gwillimbury area.
According to an Electricity Inspection Service hand-out from the same time period as the book: "A Meter Register Book is supplied by the Department of Trade and Commerce to contractors for The purpose of assisting them in complying with the provisions of the Electricity Inspection Act, and the regulations established thereunder. The following requirement are necessary...The Electricity Inspection Act provides a penalty of fifty dollars for any neglect in respect of the above requirements."

Canadian Department of Trade and Commerce

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