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Marsh Hay Cutters

CA BWGPL WEG-Mar-OS9683
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1890-1920

Part of WEGWHIST Collection

Scows leaving to cut hay on the marsh.

Marsh Land

CA BWGPL WEG-Mar-OS9311
Item
1946

Part of WEGWHIST Collection

Freshly broken marshland in 1946. The break in the tree line is for Highway 400.

Men on a boat - Aftermath of Hurricane Hazel

CA BWGPL LHC-Dis-Hazel-PH9806
Item
1954

Part of Local History Collection

G. Van der Kooi, F. Weening and Sjeord Van der Kooi stand with the flooded Marsh behind them.

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Prof W.H. Day and Crew

CA BWGPL LHC-Her-Day-OS10020
Item

Part of Local History Collection

Professor W. H. Day, who initiated much of the work in the marsh operated the Kingwilbra Gardens beside Bridge Street. Tom Fuller Sr. was one of the workers on the marsh for the professor. Mr. Fuller recalled getting paid 17-cents an hour and then getting a rather substantial raise to 20 cents an hour. The work crew included Arthur Taylor, Jack Geddes (killed in action during the Second World War), Wilbert Mulliss, Bruno and John Carvalho, Frank Maurino, Herb Taylor, Homer and Howard Henbest, Gordon McKelvie, Bob Edney, Charles Hansford, Joe Sangdrige. In the photo, top left, A. Moffat, S. Foster, H. Taylor, Tom Fuller, A. Doan, J. Foster, W. Semenuk, B. Cudmore. Middle Row: N. Gilfin, A. West, M. Thompson, R. Smith. Bottom Row: J. Ellis, H. Ellis, Hunter, J. Sadur, M. Zlotkin.

Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library