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Rt. Hon. W.L. Mackenzie King having breakfast with Sir William Mulock on Sir William's hundredth birthday.

Photograph of the Bond Head Cenotaph plaque - memorial to the soldiers who lost their lives in the Great War from Bond Head. Plaque reads:
"In Memoriam
Sgt. James Edward Cassells.
Robert Everett Carter.
Leonard Averill.
William J.M. Wood.
Who fell in the Great War."

World War II pilots in front of Hipwell's General Store in the early 1940s.

Thomas Alexander Nelson (1861-1898) proprietor of the Nelson Foundry in Bond Head, pictured here with his wife, Ellen Pricella (Brown) Nelson. This sepia coloured studio photo was likely taken in the 1880's when bustles were fashionable.

Dorothy and Dawn Culbert twins and are 8 years old in this picture. They are the daughters of Bill and Jean Culbert.

Sketch of the Rev. Featherstone Lake Osler (1805-1895), who was the first resident clergyman in West Gwillimbury. Rev. Osler was born in Falmouth, England, and left for Bond Head with his wife, Ellen, in 1837. He was an Anglican minister who looked after parishioners spread out over 240 square miles (of Simcoe County). He set up the Anglican Church in Bond Head, which still has a pew from his era in the church.

Sir Francis Bond Head (1793-1875) was the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada from 1835-1838, and in this time he sent a militia to squash the 1837 Rebellion, led by William Lyon Mackenzie, at Montgomery's Tavern.

S.S. # 5 Bond Head.

Mrs. Viola Burden and the students who moved into the new Bond Head School 1954
Back Row: Etta Whiteside, Merle Reynolds, Rachel Feaver, Allan McLean, Norm Harvey, Don Whiteside, Richard Sweeney, Keith Reynolds, Gord Brown, Karl Reynolds, Teacher Mrs. Viola Burden.
Middle Row: Jean Watt, Marion Sutherland, [?], Velma Smith, Bonnie Whiteside, Bill Whiteside, John Broderick, Gerald Sweeney, Tom Whiteside, [?], [?], Jim Reynolds,
Front Row: Elaine McLean, [?], [?], Nancy Whiteside, Reg Hipwell, Fred Reynolds, Allan Newman, Bob Watt, Barbara Noble, Joan Broderick,? Cummings.

S.S. #5
Back Row (l-r): Reta McLean, Annie Copeland, Isobel Noble, Dorothy Stone, Teacher Miss Janet McLeod, Cladwyn Burton, Edna Webb, George Gummerson, Clarence Clark, Bill Watt, Joe Noble.
Middle Row (l-r): Jack McLean, Allan Gould, Earl Hemphill, Elmer Bentley, James Watt, Wilmot Bentley, Russell Webb, Victor Cummings, Unknown, Harry Gosley, Unknown.
Front Row (l-r): Unknown, Mabel Copeland, Myrtle Gosley, Amy Copeland, Beatrice Webb, Ina Webb, Lenore Webb, Olive Reynolds, Ann Watt, Helen Clark, Raymond Hurr.