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- ? - 2018
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Contains items relating to the Mills and factories of the Bradford area. Headings include:
Maps
Manufacturing
*Mills
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Part of WEGWHIST Collection
Contains items relating to the Mills and factories of the Bradford area. Headings include:
Maps
Manufacturing
*Mills
Part of WEGWHIST Collection
From 'Governor Simcoe Slept here': "Hockey Stick Factory - Yet another industry that once thrived in the Bradford Carriage Works building. Hockey sticks for the NHL as well as axe handles came off the production line between the years 1935 to 1937."
People in the photograph, recalled by Ernie Peters: top three on the left are Al McKeown, Syd Gapp, Harry Sabodian; front row centre is Miss Margaret (Peg) Davey, the company's secretary; Ernie Peters is front row, second from right.
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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
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"Bradford Flour Mill Samuel Lukes" is painted on the side of this building which was situated on Holland St. East at Morris Rd. This mill was built in 1904, and could mill 300 barrels a day at maximum capacity.
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George Harmon, Thomas Saint, Lorne Church, Len Saint, Mac Campbell, Donald Campbell, Oscar Lukes, Gilbert Lukes, Jim Peters, Fred Collings.
Culbert, Lylia and a Carriage Works baby carriage
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Sweet baby in wicker buggy, is Lylia Bell / Culbert, photo taken 1924. Carriage is an example of one produced at the Bradford Carriage Works.
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Contains items regarding the various organizations in the Bradford area. Headings include: Gun Clubs Jr. Farmers LOL (Loyal Orange Lodge) New PATH Old Boys Association Women's Institute
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"Before the turn of the century, the Doolittle Rifle Club and the Neilly team were widely known as marksmen. This picture was taken in the 1890's after the 10 Neilly boys trounced the Barrie Rifle Club by more than 90 points. The Neillys were either brothers or first cousins except for John R. who was a second cousin."
Front row, left to right: John G. (grandfather of Hazel Kell, Kay Russell and Wilford Neilly's family), James A. (Etta Meredith's father), Joseph, John D. Doolittle (Gilford, captain of the club).
Middle row, left to right: Samuel (grandfather of Sam Neilly), Matthew (who lived where Neilly lives today), Robert (owner of a Bradford Hardware store)
Back Row, left to right: unknown, John D. (father of Lorne), John R. and Andrew (Bradford jeweler).
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Contains information relating to the military presence, recruitment, and police force in Bradford. Headings include:
1837 Rebellion
Attestation Papers
Battalions Served by Canadians
Bond Head Armson Crash
Boyd Gang
Bradford West Gwillimbury Policing
Col. Tyrwhitt
Earl Bowles
Early Militia
Fenian Raids
Korean War
Photographs
Royal Canadian Legion
Veterans
War Effort at Home
World War I & World War II
*Military/Policing - Other
Hopkins, Ormond obituary from the Globe and Mail
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"Military padre who compared his job to being a mosquito in a nudist colony spent more than 30 years ministering to troops.
Ottawa - Serving in Egypt 50 years ago was an eye-opener for Ormond Hopkins, a padre with the Royal Canadian Army Chaplain Corps. Not only did he have to cope with the heat, sand and flies, he also had to adjust to the local culture.
On New Year's Eve, 1956, Mr. Hopkins, an Anglican priest known as Hoppy to his friends, had the opportunity of observing Egyptian culture at close range. The brass had booked two belly dancers from Cairo to entertain Canadian troops and, as a man of the cloth, he felt obliged to protest the salacious nature of the festivites..."
Buzz Bourdon