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The Local History Department received a digital donation of photographs and artifacts from Barry Schroeder on December 7, 2016, to include in our database. Barry is a train enthusiast and has collected numerous items relating to the stations of the area, namely the Bradford Train Station.

Contains photographs and other items related to attending school in the Bradford West Gwillimbury area.

Photographs, newspaper articles, etc. related to the Santa Claus Parade in Bradford.

Contains various photographs of the Saint Family of Bradford.

Contains items relating to the hamlets and small communities of Bradford West Gwillimbury, such as: Amsterdam Ansnorveldt Bond Head Coulson's Hill Deerhurst Dunkerron Fennel's Corners Fisher's Corners Gilford The Hollows Mount Pleasant / Botchtown Middleton / Middletown Newton Robinson / Latimer's Corners Pinkerton Springdale Steele's Corners

Contains files and information relating to the Hon. W. Earl Rowe, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1963-1968 and reeve of the Township of West Gwillimbury 1919-1923.

Contains items related to churches and religion in the Bradford West Gwillimbury area.

This collection of pins, medals, and badges, once owned by Walter Reeves, comes to us in digital format from his descendant, Bill Marks. They were collected from Walter's career as Chief of Police for the Town of Bradford, his participation as a Lacrosse player in the 1909 championship, and his St. John's Ambulance badges.

The Ontario Provincial Police began to operate in the area in the 1930s as a motorcycle patrol, working in conjunction with the Chief of Police of the Town. Walter "Gunch" Reeves assisted the first constable posted to the area, I.R. Spencer, in many of these cases. The first OPP detachment office in West Gwillimbury opened on January 1, 1949, where they worked from the second floor of the township building under Corporal D. Adair.

Walter Arthur Reeves was born in England in 1886, and moved to Bradford when he was 13 years old. He was known as a lacrosse star as he was part of Bradford's 1909 O.A.L.A. Intermediate Lacrosse champion team (medal which is included in this collection). He married Sarah "Sadie" Saint in February 1909. He was a train inspector, and was appointed Town Constable in 1929, a position which he served until his death in 1946 from a heart attack.

Bradford United Church's annual reports from the 1980s, up to 1986.