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Description : A listing of significant events in Bradford in 1951.

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Description : T.A. Pratt shares his memories of his school days, both attending and teaching. He recalls classmates Ernest Baker, Dan Collings, Billy Montgomery, and his teachers Miss Blakesley, Mr. O.J. Stevenson, and Miss McMullen. Also mentioned is one of his students, Frank Keaney, and Joan Compton and Tom Evans Jr., who had recently scored very well in graduation examinations. Pratt also takes time to reminisce about people he knows who had recently died: Clara Kilkenny, Hector Greig, and George Bannerman.

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Description : An article describing Mr. Archer and his butcher shop.

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Description : Article shows breakdown of the population of Bradford in 1950 by age group, based on figures gathered by assessor F. Collings.

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Community : Bradford
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Description : Donald Semple is appointed the new Bradford postmaster, effective December 1, 1950.

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Description : Mr. J.H. Lukes, former principal of Bradford Public School, dies in Midland. Mr. Lukes was married to Leona Davey, a native of Bradford.

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Community : Coulson's Hill
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Community : Alliston
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Description : Samuel and Mathilda McMaster and Roy and Merle Leslie, all of Alliston, died when their car hit a tree on No. 10 Simcoe County Road, three miles south of Alliston. Lloyd Gerrard of Aliston suffered a concussion and shock.

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Description : The trial of Larry Shirley and Frank Watson, the two men charged with robbing the Bank of Commerce in Bradford, ends in Barrie. The two are remanded until February 27, when the judge will hand down his ruling. A third man, Leonard Jackson, is still at large.

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Description : Robert Evans is Named QC

BRADFORD - When Bradford lawyer Robert Evans read through the Globe and Mail January 1, he found his name listed among about 150 lawyers chosen for appointments to Queen's counsel by the Attorney General of Ontario.

He wasn't exactly surprised by the honor, but was very pleased.

"Appointments are awarded to lawyers who have been in practice for a number of years, and I had applied for it," said Mr. Evans, with the Bradford law firm of Evans and Evans.

Perhaps one reason he wasn't amazed by the appointment is that a number of other lawyers in his family have been similarly honored.

FAMILY

Robert Evans' grandfather T.W.W. Evans started the law firm in 1894 and not only was he named to Queen's counsel (it was then King's counsel because King George V ruled Great Britain) but so were his father Charles, uncle Brock, and his brother Thomas.

Robert Evans was born in Bradford and called to the bar in 1966. Since then he's worked in the Bradford family firm doing most of the litigation work.

An active member of the Progressive Conservative party, Mr. Evans admits the appointment has political overtones, but points out that members of other political parties are also appointed to Queen's counsel.

He told the Witness his appointment was "a mark of experience and was likely considered in light of his other community affiliations.

A member of the York Region Law Association, he was president of that group for two years, and is also active in the Simcoe County Law Association.

ACHIEVEMENTS

A term as president of the Bradford Rotary Club, and another as master of the Masonic Lodge in Bradford round out his list of achievements, and one of the personal highlights he proudly points to is that he was among several businessmen chosen to represent Canada in an Australian exchange program in 1967.

His family of wife Janet, and three daughters, Heather, 6, Jackie, 5, and Pamela, 3, have welcomed other exchange students into their home in past years.

Mr. Evans said he has been proud to watch Bradford growing over the years, and is equally proud of his family's law firm.

Although there are no specific duties attendant with his appointment to Queen's counsel, a few changes will result.

"I'll have to have a new silk gown made up to wear in court, and we'll have to have new letterhead printed with Q.C. after my name," he laughed.