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Gordon, Bill, Marion and Don Brethet.

John and Eleanor Brethet with children Laura, Alice, Hazel, Cecil and Gordon ca. 1902.

James Brethet (d. 1945) from Ireland in 1866.

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.

Dr. Benjamin S. Cerswell, a native of Bond Head, dies in Yakima, Washington.

Event Date : Sunday, January 05, 1941
Event Type : Death

Description (pg 4): Suddenly, at Bradford, on Sunday, January 5th, 1941, Edith May Phillips, beloved wife of S.R. Lee. The funeral took place from her late residence on Tuesday, January 7th at 2.30 o'clock to Trinity Church, Bradford, for service. Interment in Coulson's Hill cemetery.

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.

Event Date : January 25, 1891
Event Type : Death

Synopsis:
Age: 73 years, 9 months, 26 days. Born at Old Castle, County Meath, Ireland in 1817. Emigrated to Canada in 1819, and settled on lot 24, concession 5, Tecumseth. Married Margaret Sutherland of West Gwillimbury, and they moved to lot 4, concession 6. Widowed, and married Miss Sharpe of King Township. He had a daughter who married Ingham N. Sharpe, and now lives in West Toronto Junction. Died of a paralytic stroke. Interred at St. John's Cemetery, Tecumseth.