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Time Draws Near For The Millennium Clock

  • CA BWGPL PH26652

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Community : Bradford
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Description : We, the Downtown Revitalization Committee, wish to express our thanks to all those families who have agreed to sponsor the millennium clock. The response, in only the first three days, has been overwhelming. Family names, engraved on this millennium marker, will ensure a place in the history of Bradford West Gwillimbury. Thank you to our corporate sponsors: Vins Plastics, Gary Ross Memorial Fund, Ventera and Holy Trinity High School. Since space is limited, we encourage you to contact Bradford Print Shoppe, Royal Bank, or The Village Inn to secure your name on the millennium marker. The cost is $250 for 30 letters.

Local 10-digit dialing starts today

  • CA BWGPL PH26659

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Community : Bradford West Gwillimbury
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Description : Starting, today, all who live or work in the 905 area should add the area code to the 7-digit number when making local phone calls. Calls made without the code may be interrupted by a recorded announcement before the call will be connected. The announcement will disrupt local data calls (i.e. fax, modem, call forwarding, Internet dial-up, etc.) made with only 7 digits. It is important that everyone in the 905 area program their equipment to accommodate 10 digits immediately. Local 10 digit dialing becomes mandatory for all calls on June 9th, when the new 289 area code will be added to the "905" region. The area code is not required for 911, 411 or 611 calls.

Jason Ballantyne: The Advance

  • CA BWGPL PH26678

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Community : Bradford
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Description : "Well, many of us oldtimers actually still call it a township although it's really a town," shrugged Wallace, past-president of Innisfil's historical society. He and Warrington, the current president, have come together to talk about the past of a community that is 150 years old this year. In the 1700s, the western border of Quebec ran right near the current town of Innisfil. Back to the Seven Year's War and a time when England and France were fighting it out for a continent, from Louisbourg to the Plains of Abraham. The names of descendants and the cemeteries that dot the area, stones of white standing out against patchworks of green. Places like Cherry Creek, Allandale and Belle Ewart have risen and fallen in importance. Wallace said, "I think today Innisfil doesn't have anything big enough to call a town - really they're not much more than villages.

Holmes, McArthur, Whiteside

  • CA BWGPL PH26690

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Community : Bradford West Gwillimbury
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Description : WEGWHIST, the West Gwillimbury History Project, is nearing completion, but there are still some families to be tracked down. The Project is looking for descendants or relatives of the following pioneering families: Holmes, McArthur, Bannerman, Fisher, McKeeman, Jeffs, Armson, Boddy, Whiteside, Draper, Kidd and Rogers. Are these your family names? Do you know the history of your family in West Gwillimbury? Can you help fill in the gaps?

WEGWHIST progress

  • CA BWGPL PH26692

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Community : Bradford West Gwillimbury
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Description : The WEGWHIST (West Gwillimbury History Project) team is happy to report that significant progress is being made, in the writing of the History of West Gwillimbury Town-ship. During recent after-noon sessions at the Bradford Public Library, the team collected family photo heirlooms to include in the book. The response has been overwhelming. The photos, and the unique stories that seem to accompany them, have provided a new source of information that has been truly inspiring.

Heritage home rolls to its new lot in life

  • CA BWGPL PH26719

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Community : Bradford West Gwillimbury
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Description : At just half a kilometre, it wasn't much of a trip. But for a very old homestead, it was an incredible journey. George Elliot House, built in 1861 on then endless acres of farmland north of Toronto, was tugged slowly buy surely to a new location yesterday. It is to be restored and renovated into semi-detached dwellings by Habitat For Humanity volunteers, then turned over to two families who will put in at least 500 hours of "sweat equity" labour to secure ownership. The 360-tonne gothic-style house had become surrounded by new homes in northeast Brampton. The builder Metrus offered it for free if Habitat For Humanity agreed to do the move to a double lot up Tobram Rd. that Metrus was donating. After weeks of preparation, the exquisitely quoined brick farmhouse was lifted yesterday onto a huge platform of steel I-beams atop mammoth rubber wheels. By mid-afternoon, the house had rumbled into place after a three-hour trip. Hundreds of Habitat volunteers were joined by local politicians and dignitaries, including Toronto Argonauts head coach Mike "Pinball" Clemons. Clemons said Habitat's style of volunteerism brings the community together. "The best kind of giving is simply elbow grease," he said.

Recognized for contributions to Heritage

  • CA BWGPL PH26721
  • 2008

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Community : Bradford West Gwillimbury
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Description : On March 17, BWG Council recognized the contributions of two long-time residents to Ontario's heritage, presenting a Certificate of Achievement to Barbara Verney and a Certificate of Lifetime Achievement to George Jackson, on behalf of the Ontario Heritage Trust and the 2008 Heritage
Community Recognition Program. Barbara Verney was co-founder of the BWG Local History Group. Through her involvement with the Group, the Town's HEART Committee, IODE and Gwillim Group, she helped organize walking tours of historic Bradford, bus tours of the Holland Marsh, displays on the anniversary of Hurricane Hazel, and the installation of the statue of Elizabeth Gwillim Simcoe and historic plaque in Bradford during the Sesquicentennial. She was the Town's Co-ordinator for the Bicentennial of Yonge St. in 1996, and has won numerous awards for her community involvement and voluntarism. Mayor Doug White Called George Jackson the "godfather of BWG history." Also a founder of the BWG Local History Group, Jackson is a volunteer, an historian, and an author.

Volunteers receive provincial heritage awards

  • CA BWGPL PH26722

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Community : Bradford West Gwillimbury
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Description : You'd be hard pressed to find two people who have shown their love for Bradford West Gwillimbury more than George Jackson and Barbara Verney over the past 20-plus years. The duo were recognized by the Ontario Heritage Trust for their hard work preserving and commemorating the history of the town at a town council meeting, where they each received recognition. Ms Verney received a certificate of achievement through the 2008 Heritage
Community Recognition Program for her outstanding volunteer contributions. In 1990, Ms Verney put her love for the town front and centre when she volunteered as secretary at the first meeting to organize the Bradford West Gwillimbury Local History Association. Two years later, she became president of the association and continued in that role until the end of 2008. She has received recognition for her volunteer work in the past, including a provincial award for volunteers older than 65 in 2002. Much like Ms Verney, Mr. Jackson has been busy doing his part to help preserve the heritage of Bradford West Gwillimbury. In 1987, when he was a member of the Bradford Library building committee, he promoted the inclusion of a local history room. In 1990, he was founding president of the Bradford West Gwillimbury Local History Association. For three years in the late 1990s, Mr. Jackson worked with two architects to compile background information for the book, Inventory of Historic Buildings in Bradford, Ontario. For this work and much more, Mr. Jackson received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Ontario Heritage Trust.

BWG Heritage Committee

  • CA BWGPL PH26725

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Community : Bradford West Gwillimbury
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Description : The Town of Bradford West Gwillimbury is seeking individuals who are interested in helping their community by serving on the BWG Heritage Committee. Among other matters, the committee will advise council on the protection of heritage assets and promoting heritage conservation within the community. If you would like to participate in this worthwhile endeavor please submit a letter of interest to the address noted below outlining your background, pertinent information and why you are interested in serving on the BWG Heritage Committee. Backgrounds with architectural conservation techniques, management, historical research, and knowledge of the community's heritage would be considered an asset. An applicant must be eligible to vote at a municipal election of the Town of Bradford West Gwillimbury.

Preservationists mourn lost buildings, but some developpers find worth in saving urban history

  • CA BWGPL PH26731

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Community : Bradford West Gwillimbury
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Description : Some days, it seems Toronto's built heritage is becoming, well, a thing of the past. A row of 19th-century houses on Charles St., just west of St. Thomas St., will soon be torn down to make way for a condo. Walnut Hall built in 1856 and the last standing row of Georgian townhouses on Shuter St., was demolished last year after decades of neglect led to bricks falling to the sidewalk. But there are also "wins" in the battle to preserve the city's past. The design studio of John Lyle, the man responsible for some of the city's most treasured early 20th-century architecture, including the Royal Alexandra Theatre, will get new life as part of the One Bedford condo on Bloor St. W. Fuelled by a strengthened Ontario Heritage Act, which in 2005 gave municipalities more control over historic buildings, saving the past has become an issue that appears to resonate with many Torontonians and a few developers. The heritage conservation district (HCD) is one weapon in the preservationists' arsenal. While the beefed-up Ontario Heritage Act is making it easier to preserve architectural heritage, Nasmith says more needs to be done before even more Toronto landmarks fall victim to the wrecking ball. Saving history is no easy task. For big urban developers, incorporating a piece of history into modern condo projects can mean costly delays and expensive restoration work. Trying to do the right thing can be costly. First, Fenton says, there's the time spent meeting with city officials and attending public meetings to face a roomful of often hostile residents. At the neighbourhood level, preserving the past can mean pitting neighbour against neighbour in a battle of property rights. Nasmith says there is a lot of misinformation about heritage conservation districts. One such fallacy is that this designation will lower property values because no one will want to buy a home bound by rules on what you can and cannot do. It's rare for homes designated under the Ontario Heritage Act to come on the market, says Royal LePage agent Jeff Derksen, because people who buy them do so because they appreciate their history, not because they want to flip a house. The design guidelines proposed for the Kingswood neighbourhood, if approved by residents and council, would ban the severing of lots. The 50-foot lot next to McMillan's 1898 home was severed and two homes constructed side-by-side - homes he feels are out of character for the neighbourhood and should not have been approved by the city. While some may find the rules governing designated properties burdensome, he says most people are more receptive once they hear about the city's incentive programs, such as the matching grants for homeowners to get as much as $10,000 for approved renovations to the exterior of their homes.

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