Mostrar 1901 resultados

This portrait is of George McDonald, a stonemason and contractor of Bradford in the early 1900s. An article with a short biography accompanies this picture. McDonald worked on the A.E. Scanlon's law office and the Presbyterian Church.

The caption of this photograph follows:
"Business Men of Bradford of Twelve Years Ago [1894]
Top Row (from left to right): W.J. Walker; J.H. Driffill; Jas. Driffil; E.P. Snow; H.C. Barry; J.H. Davey; S.J.W. Sutherland; Dr. L.H. Campbell; E. Garrett.
Second Row: A. Thompson; H.S. Broughton; Robt Stewart; Jas. Clarke; Wm. Campbell; R.J. Barry; Wm. Kilkenny; John Bemrose, sr.; E. Boddy; Jas. Mills.
Third Row: J.H. Hockridge; C. Elliot; R.F. Green; T.S. Graham; J.S. Boddy; G. Ogilvie; John Bemrose, jr.
Front Row: B. Hulse; E. Driffill; W. Scott; H. Parker; J.G. Cook; W.L. Campbell; A. Sutherland; W.W. Ellis."

This portrait is of Thomas A. Pratt, and it was featured alongside members of the Municipal Council including F. Moore, Samuel Oldham, L.J. McConkey, and George W. Stoddart.

This portrait is of Edmund Garrett as part of the Members of Bradford High School Board of 1906. Other members were T.W.W. Evans, H.S. Broughton, A. Neilly, Robert Stewart, and Dr. L.H. Campbell.

This portrait is of George A. Carefoot, the Head Master of Bradford High School.

The article accompanying this photograph gives a quick history of W.E. Simmons, boat and launch builder of Bradford. He was a boat builder in Hull, England before landing in Bradford by June, 1905.
The photograph features E.A. Collings' boat prior to its launch.

Greenview Farm was the residence of Richard H. Crake, wheat farmer, and covered 212 acres in 1906. It was located on the "Bond Head Rd.", or Highway 88 near Sideroad 10. 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.

This photograph is a view of Bradford from the Holland River Road, or what is now Canal Road.

This event took place at the Bradford Town Hall, sometime before or during World War I.

Please contact the Bradford WG Public Library (905-775-3328) if you have any additional information about this photo or its contents.

The Canal Bank Lunch and Garage on the south west corner of the north canal bank and Simcoe road, owned by the Hrynyk’s