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January 8, 1985
Death

William J. Sutherland, 78, of Bond Head died Jan. 8, 1985 at YorkCounty Hospital. Son of the late John Sutherland, of West Gwillimbury Township and the late Mary Noble of Yorkshire, England, hewas born Sept. 17, 1909 in Bond Head. He was married Sept 21, 1935 in Tecumseth Township to the late Elva Bradley...He was predeceased by his wife on Dec. 26, 1984. Surviving are three daughters, Margaret Brethet, of RR3 Tottenham, Marian Davey, of RR1 Bradford, and Doris Colborn, of Gilford, one son, John Sutherland, of Midland, one sister, Mary Breedon, of RR1 Bradford, 10 grandchildren and one great grandchild....

Event Date : Thursday, April 10, 1902
Event Type : Death

Description : "Age: 64th year. Born in Bradford on December 12, 1838, as the second, but oldest living son of Thomas and Jane Driffill. His father, Thomas, had come to Bradford before it was a town, and was first married in 1830. His first wife died, and he remarried, and had eight children. Only four survive: Mrs. Jeffs, Bond Head; James Driffill, Toronto; Mrs. T.S. Graham, Bradford; Miss C.E. Driffill, Newmarket. Joseph was married in May 1869 to Margaret E. Clinkenbroomer, daughter of Joseph Clinkenbroomer, then of Bradford. They had four children, of whom Alfred and Edna survive. Arthur died in 1894 at age 24 (or in 1895 at age 25), and Louisa in 1898, at age 23. Joseph partnered with his brother James and ran a hardware store on the corner of Holland and Simcoe Street. Interred in Mount Pleasant cemetery."

Event Date : Wednesday, January 17, 1951
Event Type : Death
Municipality : St. Catharines

Description : "Although not resident here during the past six years, the sudden passing of Mrs. F.C. Ryan at her home in St. Catharines on Wednesday evening last is felt as a very Personal sorrow to hundreds in this community where, during the years of her girlhood, and again more recently, she was so well known as affectionately esteemed..."

Event Date : Thursday, August 27, 1942
Event Type : Death

Description : Wife to Hulse Stoddart of Bradford and mother to Wilson and Leila Frances will be interred at Barrie Union Cemetery. The funeral was perormed by Rev. Jewitt.

Description : Wilfred Kingsley critically injured his wife, Helen, with a hammer before killing himself. He leaves five children, Johnny, Peter, Jimmy, Gail, and Dawn, his mother, and two sisters, Mrs. Dave Melbourne of Toronto, and Mrs. Gilbert Faris of Kleinburg.

"Return Open Verdict in Accident Which Caused Fireman's Death"

Relates to the Grand Trunk Railway derailment on July 15, 1908

"Had Come from Toronto Thursday - Went Bathing After Day's Work

Mushaelo (Michael) Bohoniuk, 25-year-old Ukrainian, of 70 Runnymede Rd., Toronto, was drowned in the Holland Marsh irrigation cala, at a point where the canal skirts the rear of Mr. J.W. Wilson's farm, late Saturday afternoon.
The drowned man, it appears, had come up from Toronto on Thursday and had secured work with Anglo del Zotto and F. Bollsanelo, market gardeners. Having finished work on Saturday afternoon, he had decided to bathe in the canal. Undressing and donning a pair of trunks, he left his clothes in his employer's shack, started out apparently for the canal, and nothing further was seen of him alive. ..."

Description : Dr. James Cummings killed, wife injured in auto accident.

Article on the total number of people injured and killed due to train related accidents in one year (1908). The majority were railway employees.