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Day, William Henry obituary

Event Date : Tuesday, July 05, 1938
Event Type : Death

Description : Passed away suddenly, in his 68th year, while working his land in the Holland Marsh. Husband to Ethel A. Williams. Was instrumental in establishing the Holland Marsh after moving to Bradford from Guelph where he was a professor at the Ontario Agricultural College.Is interred in Woodlawn cemetery in Guelph where Rev. Vaughan conducted the service.

Bradford Witness

Debris along Hwy 400

Debris along Hwy 400

Debris from the marshland piling up along Highway 400. Photograph from Betty Kennedy's 'Hurricane Hazel,' found in the Local History Collection.

Toronto Telegram

dePeuter House

dePeuter House

The dePeuter family standing next to their house, surrounded by debris. The debris came from the flood by Hurricane Hazel breaking the marsh's dykes.

Toronto Telegram

Devald, Louis death

December 30, 1994
Death
DEVALD, Louis - Peacefully at his home at R.R. #1, Kettleby on Friday, December 30, 1994, Louis Devald in his 69th year. Beloved husband of Maria Eek. Dear father of Jack and his wife Marie, Theresa and her husband Alex Makarenko. Dear grandfather of Amy and Ryan Devald, Matthew, Menjamin, Nathan and Jennesa Makarenko. Friends called at the Lathangue & Skwarchuk Funeral Home, 30 Simcoe Street, Bradford. Funeral Mass was held at the Holy Martyrs of Japan Church, Bradford on Tuesday, January 3, 1995 at 11 a.m. Interment at Holy Martyrs Cemetery, Bradford. Conations to the ALS Society or the Mjultiple Sclerosis Society of Canada would be appreciated. To all those who gave your support, thank you so much.
"Your fight is over, your battle done, the time has come to rest.
We'll meet again on some future date to take up where we left [off]. We made our vows togeth and sait 'Till Death do us part'. When I look back on our life just one thing make[s] me glad; that you chose me to share with you those precious years we had."

Bradford West Gwillimbury Times

Discharge Pumps

Discharge Pumps

Photo was taken near the Bradford Pump House at the junction of the canal and the Holland River near Hwy. 11. The pumps were flown in from Western Canada by the Armed Forces, arranged by Mr. Stoddart. A tractor was used to run the pump. Water was pumped from the flooded land over the dyke and into the canal from where it flowed along the Holland River and into Cook's Bay.

Rob Watson

Documents

Documents

List of documents donated by Art Janse that relate to the Holland Marsh Scheme

Art Janse

Drainage Committee asks province for special funding for Holland Marsh

Drainage Committee asks province for special funding for Holland Marsh

A proposed drainage scheme to relocate the drainage canals in the Holland Marsh will cost an estimated $8.7 million. This sum is too great for the Marsh farmers alone so they are attempting to extend the assessment area to 65,000 acres of upland property in Bradford West Gwillimbury, King Township, New Tecumseth, Newmarket, East Gwillimbury, and Caledon but this idea has been met with legal challenges. Due to the legal fees surrounding this the Holland Marsh Drainage Committee has asked the province for $2 million in extraordinary funding for the scheme. After being completed in 1930 the 17.5 miles of canals that ring the Holland Marsh have been dredged several times, and after Hurricane Hazel were even widened and deepened. Although, recent studies show that the canal is almost filled in at certain points. Studies have also shown that due to south canal being filled in so much the north canal is handling four times the flow of the south canal. Relocation of the canal is the preferred solution to this problem.

Bradford West Gwillimbury Times

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