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Part of Local History Collection
From left to right: John Gabriel, James Church, .., Ted Mendrek, Bill Marks, Ron Kneeshaw
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library
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Part of Local History Collection
From left to right: John Gabriel, James Church, .., Ted Mendrek, Bill Marks, Ron Kneeshaw
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library
Part of Local History Collection
Article about the 1991 election, where Pat Storey was voted in the new mayor of Bradford West Gwillimbury, and information on Frank Jonkman (as councillor), Dennis Roughley and John Maurino as Ward 2 councillors, and Peter Dykie and John Gabriel as Ward 1 councillors.
Bradford Today
Part of Vital Statistics
Event Date : Monday, June 14, 2004
Event Type : Death
Description : (Former employee of The Toronto Star Ltd.). Peacefully at Bradford Valley Specialty Care on Monday, June 14, 2004. Harvey Marks of Bradford in his 95th year. Beloved husband of late Dorothy (Dode) Reeves. Dear father of Noreen Hodgson, Beverly Palmer and William (Erica) Marks. Dear grandfather of George Hodgson, Marilyn Woods, Mark Hodgson, Cindy Callicrago; Sandra Enwright, Glenda Gustave; Jennifer and Kristen Marks. Dear great-grandfather of Curtis Wood, Brittney and Ryan Callicragas; Bill, Jeff and Greg Enwright; Trevor Daley. Predeceased by his brothers Gilbert, Carl, Lyman, George, and Allan. Friends may call at Lathangue & Skwarchuk Funeral Home, 30 Simcoe Road, Bradford, for visitation on Thursday, June 17, 2004 from 10:30 a.m. until time of a Memorial Service in the Chapel at 11:30 a.m., followed by interment of ashes at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Bradford. Donations to the new Cancer Unit at Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket would be appreciated.
Reprinting Governor Simcoe Slept Here
Part of WEGWHIST Collection
The WEGWHIST team has bowed to public demand, and will reprint Governor Simcoe Slept Here, the Legacy of West Gwillimbury. The reprint of the 2-volume set should be available mid-August, 2006. Some factual errors in the first edition will be printed in an addendum to be included with the reprint, and available to all who have already purchased a book. Pre-publication sale of the reprint is underway. The pre-publication price will be $5, the post-publication price $75.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Times
Part of WEGWHIST Collection
Description : The reprint of the magnificent 2-volume local history book, Governor Simcoe Slept Here: The Legacy of West Gwillimbury is now available. Those who wish to mail out a copy as a Christmas gift should call Bill Marks or George Jackson.
Part of WEGWHIST Collection
Description : Amsterdam, Botchtown, Middleton, The Hollows... are names included in the history of Bradford and West Gwillimbury, "Governor Simcoe Slept Here." The book also contains the story of how Bradford grew from a single hostelry in 1820 - Milloy's Tavern - to a town of 1,000 inhabitants by 1858, and how it came to be the market town, when the overland supply route to Kempenfeldt met the route followed by new settlers in West Gwillimbury, on their way to Holland Landing. Governor Simcoe Slept Here is available at the Holiday price of $55 for the 2-volume set, at the Bradford Public Library, Simcoe County Museum, Condy Books et cetera in Bradford.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Times
Steal of a deal: Marsh for train bridge? Good deal - in 1853
Part of Local History Collection
Article from the King Connection on King township's portion of the Holland Marsh, which West Gwillimbury traded for a train bridge into the town of Bradford in 1852.
King Connection
The CF-AZE aircraft. Built by Noorduyn Aviation of Cartierville, Quebec, and owned by Prospector Airways of Clarkson, Ontario.
Part of WEGWHIST Collection
Photograph donated digitally by Bill Marks. Boys in the photograph are Bill Marks (in grade 7) and Jamie Webb (in grade 8) playing at the Beeton Arena.
Bill Marks
Part of WEGWHIST Collection
Bill Marks playing hockey in his back yard in front of the Bradford Cabinet Works with an old blacksmith shop on the left.
Bill Marks