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Bradford West Gwillimbury Local History Simcoe County
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Town Hall and Courthouse

Town Hall and Courthouse

The Bradford Courthouse and old town hall building which now houses the town financial offices at 57-61 Holland Street East.

Irma Pappenheim

Tornado - Steve Rushton yard

Tornado - Steve Rushton yard

Steve Rushton of Bradford stands by the wreckage of his camper-trailer yesterday after it was picked up by a tornado and dumped 75 feet away in a neighbor's yard. Several homes were damaged by the twister but there were no injuries.

Bradford Witness

Threshing on the Faris Farm

Threshing on the Faris Farm

Threshing at the Faris Farm circa 1892, showing the stationary steam engine, and the barn of the era, with no foundation on the north half of lot 12, con. 5.

Thompson Smith Mill Office

Thompson Smith Mill Office

The office for Thompson Smith's Mill, Amsterdam. Robert Collings, Geo. Taylor, Miss Scott, Mrs. W. McKinstry (Ida Collings), Jas. Spence (Seated), Jack Davey (standing), James Scott, Sam Scott, Jack Busby, Tommy Mulligan.

Thompson Smith was a Toronto man who participated in the incorporation the Rama Lumber Transport Co. and who opened up a lumber mill in Amsterdam (near Bradford). The exact date of opening is unknown, but it was sometime between 1858-1869. The mill was a steam mill and many of the logs cut were shipped along the Holland River. Smith's mill was eventually one of many in the area during the late nineteenth century.

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