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Notice how while there are cars parked on the street, others are still using horse and carriage.

This is a picture of Holland Street looking west when it was just a dirt road. Notice the trees that used to line the street. The white building on the right was the post office and up to 1915 was home to the first library in town. The dark building beside it was a laundry .

Holland Street looking east towards the Barrie/Simcoe Street intersection. Kilkenny Furniture is on the left side, and the Queen's Hotel is the most visible sign on the right.

Holland Street, Taken after 1905 (W. Whyle bought the Queen's hotel in 1905).

This is the Holland Street Theatre

The Bradford Model School pictured was constructed in 1878 to replace a previous building destroyed by fire.
Mr. Frank Wood was the first principal in 1878.
It was established by Simcoe County Council for the training of teachers, and by 1907, 496 teachers were trained there.
Upon the discontinuance of Model training in Ontario, the building continued to be Bradford Public School until the new Bradford Public School was erected in 1951. The Model School was located east of the present school.
It consisted of three rooms downstairs, and two large ones upstairs. It was made of brick, and was heated by two coal furnaces.

Municipality : Innisfil
Community : Churchill
Lot : 16
Concession : 4
Description : From 1935 to 1940, George and Marjorie Constable ran an overnight accommodation for travellers. At that time Highway 400 did not exist. Highway 11 was the main tourist route to the north.
House built on farm previously farmed by Sid Browning

Standing - Marjorie, Ernest, Clara, Clarence, Mabel, Harold, Viola, Ross
Seated - Andrew, Frank, Alice Jane, Dorothy, Roy

This photo was taken sometime after Clarence returned from World War I.
Dorothy is wearing Viola's wedding ring so it would show up in the picture. Dorothy was not married.

Community : Cookstown
Lot : SH 1
Concession : 1
Description : St. John's Anglican Rectory

This event took place at the Bradford Town Hall, sometime before or during World War I.

Please contact the Bradford WG Public Library (905-775-3328) if you have any additional information about this photo or its contents.