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Files including letters, newspaper clippings (namely birth and death records), photographs, and essays on select families of Bradford West Gwillimbury

Bradford Witness
Vol. LXVIII, #05
February 1 , 1933
Page 4

Bradford Witness
Vol. LXVIII, #05
February 1 , 1933
Page 4

An obituary for George Webb, previous owner of the Uneda Hotel. He passed away on May 16th, 1926 and this obituary appeared in the May 19th, 1926 issue of the Bradford Witness.

Event date: May 15, 2005
Event type: death

Description: Died at Ottawa on May 15, 2006, as a result of complications from an aneurysm. Padre Hopkins had a distinguished 32 year career in the Canadian Armed Forces, including service with the RCHA in Korea in 1953 and the first Canadian contingent of the United Nations Emergency Force in the Sinai. He was the first Chaplain awarded the Order of Military Merit and ended his military career as Chaplain General. ...

Event Date : Thursday, January 30, 1941
Event Type : Death

Description (from page 5): In Penetanguishene Hospital, on Thursday, January 30, 1941, Charles W. Hounsome, formerly of Bradford, in his 68th year. Interment Saturday, February 1, in Wyebridge Anglican Cemetery Page 1 is image above

Description : E. Gladstone Lloyd of Schomberg dies of heart ailment at the age of 55. Schomberg's postmaster for more than 25 years.

"Pte. Long's Death.

Weston, April 12 - (Special) - Rev. Dr. Long received word to-day of the death of his son, Pte. A. G. Long, by shell shock in Belgium on March 29th. He was with the 18th Battalion, and formerly with the Goodyear Company at Calgary. He was well known at Brampton and Bradford. Pte. Long spent Christmas Day in the front line of trenches. Two brothers and two sisters and the parents survive."

Event Date : January 25, 1891
Event Type : Death

Synopsis:
Age: 73 years, 9 months, 26 days. Born at Old Castle, County Meath, Ireland in 1817. Emigrated to Canada in 1819, and settled on lot 24, concession 5, Tecumseth. Married Margaret Sutherland of West Gwillimbury, and they moved to lot 4, concession 6. Widowed, and married Miss Sharpe of King Township. He had a daughter who married Ingham N. Sharpe, and now lives in West Toronto Junction. Died of a paralytic stroke. Interred at St. John's Cemetery, Tecumseth.

Obituary for Marjorie Blanchard Campbell in an unnamed newspaper. Her death was in 1968.