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- 1865
Part of Local History Collection
Photograph of Bessie Sutherland Campbell in 1865, the year she married William Campbell (Grain Dealer). Photograph saved by Lewis Campbell.
Luanne Campbell Edwards
Part of Local History Collection
Photograph of Bessie Sutherland Campbell in 1865, the year she married William Campbell (Grain Dealer). Photograph saved by Lewis Campbell.
Luanne Campbell Edwards
William Campbell, Grain Dealer 1865
Part of Local History Collection
A photograph of William L. Campbell (Grain Dealer) standing, c. 1865. Father of William L., Elizabeth F. And Dr. Lewis Campbell. His branch of the Campbell clan was from Caithness, Scotland. At an unknown date they moved to Ireland. William was born in Kilglass, County Sligo Ireland in 1838. He emigrated with his family in 1857 to Traverse City, Michigan. In about 1860 he came to Canada first settling in Brantford, then Newmarket. He was sent to Bradford by his Newmarket employer in 1862 to open a grain and lumber business.
Luanne Campbell Edwards
Part of Local History Collection
A photograph of six Bradford business men, c. 1865. William L. Campbell (Grain Dealer) is on the top left in back row. He was sent to Bradford by his Newmarket employer in 1862 to open a grain and lumber business.
Luanne Campbell Edwards
The South Simcoe News advertisement and subscription fees / Post Office information
Part of WEGWHIST Collection
A look at the advertisement fees and administration of the South Simcoe News, precursor to the Bradford Witness & South Simcoe News.
The bottom section of the advertisement is information on the Post Office.
South Simcoe News
Part of Local History Collection
"The long anticipated commencement of our national existence as the Dominion of Canada is at length realized. Henceforward the four millions of British subjects upon this continent will exist but as one people. We begin our new era of history under most auspicious circumstances. The causes that provoked so much strife and bitterness between us and our sister provinces are at length happily removed; the objects for which as a people, we have so long struggled have been in the main effectually secured, and the calamities that loomed so ominously in the future have vanished altogether from the political horizon." ...
South Simcoe News
Part of Local History Collection
This article highlights the Bradford Division Sons of Temperance social event held on February 26, 1868
South Simcoe News
Part of Local History Collection
"Job Morris, Died June 15, 1869, Aged 44 Years"
From the Belfry Cemetery
Amanda Gallagher
Mechanics' Institute, Bradford
Part of Local History Collection
"The last Re-union of the season took place in the Town Hall, on Friday evening last, in the presence of a large and intelligent audience, and was decidedly one of the most interesting and successful meetings of the kind our village has ever witnessed." ...
South Simcoe News
Part of Local History Collection
Sepia photograph of a woman, believed to be Mary Ann Porterfield (1794-1870). Wife of Charles Watson, Mother of William John Watson.
Karol Joyce
William Campbell, Grain Dealer 1870
Part of Local History Collection
photograph of William L. Campbell (Grain Dealer), c. 1870. Father of William L., Elizabeth F. And Dr. Lewis Campbell. His branch of the Campbell clan was from Caithness, Scotland. At an unknown date they moved to Ireland. William was born in Kilglass, County Sligo Ireland in 1838. He emigrated with his family in 1857 to Traverse City, Michigan. In about 1860 he came to Canada first settling in Brantford, then Newmarket. He was sent to Bradford by his Newmarket employer in 1862 to open a grain and lumber business.
Luanne Campbell Edwards