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Bond Head one room schoolhouse, built in 1874.

Photograph of the Bond Head United Church Sunday School in the Centennial year.

Part of Jean and Rob Keffer's centennial album

United Church Manse looking across the road from Cardie McLeans

Photograph of the Bond Head United Church Sunday School in the Centennial year.

Part of Jean and Rob Keffer's centennial album

Photograph of the Bond Head United Church Sunday School in the Centennial year.

Part of Jean and Rob Keffer's centennial album

Bradford Witness newspaper article on the fire which destroyed the Bond Head United Church in 1941. From a scrapbook made by Vira Bateman.
"Almost isolated by roads which were nearly impassable, residents of Bond Head and surrounding districts yesterday formed a bucket brigade and fought flames which, for a time threatened to destroy part of the town. The Bond Head United Church (upper left) was completely destroyed. The fire started in a near-by garage owned by William Jardine, who was badly burned in an attempt to rescue his car (lower left). Three of the volunteer firemen are shown (upper right) cooling off after the battle. They are (left to right) cooling off after the battle. They are (left to right) Archie McLean, Cookstown; Ernie Hughes, Fennell's Corners, and John Bell of Toronto. Furniture from the adjacent houses was piled in a plowed field for protection (lower right). Inset is Rev. T.J. Jewitt, minister of the church, who helped fight the blaze."

Bond Head Women’s Institute 1967 Back row l-r: Vira Bateman, Ruth Stoddart, Elva Sutherland, Vera Kneeshaw Third row l-r: Shirley Brown, Donna Yarrow, Eldora Nevils, Leila Lloyd, Irene Wilcox, Jenny Meher, Grace Elliott, Margaret Hannah, Marion Watt Second row l-r: Amy Young, Ruth Usher, Beulah Breedon, Florence Phillips, Alice Green, Bea Dixon, Nora Welch, Bobbie Hodgson, Laura Lloyd, Edna Harvey, Edna Smith Front row l-r: Alice McArthur, Annie Bradley, Suzanne Armstrong, Ada Amey, Alice Lloyd

"Bond Head's Pioneer Parade last saturday, July 1, was another example and proof of the fact that enthusiasm and willing workers can produce what money expenditure cannot. The Bond Head workers for the parade, and other events, did not have big financial resources but they did have a wealth of initiative, enthusiasm willingness to work, and a determination to do credit to Bond Head, and they most certainly accomplished the latter. That parade, and other events of the day, made July 1, 1967, red letter day for Bond Head." ...

Annie Mathilda Stewart Bradley, wife of James Bradley. She died November 9, 1970, at the age of 96.

James and Annie Bradley (nee Stewart) on their first anniversary. They were married January 15, 1895.