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Page detailing the many competitions running as part of Carrotfest in 2000. They include library poetry and art competitions, an IGA contest and a baby 'Gwilly' look-alike contest.

Library float in the Bradford West Gwillimbury Santa Claus Parade.

Children on the Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library's float in the Santa Claus Parade.

Bradford W.G. Public Library's float in the 1992 Santa Claus Parade. Theme was the transition from the manual card catalogue to computers. Dinosaur is "Bruno Bronty," made by the 1989 Summer Reading Club.

Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library float in Santa Claus Parade. Theme of the float was the transition from the manual card catalogue to computers.

"Bruno Bronty" (made by the 1989 Summer Reading Club) on the Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library's float in the Santa Claus Parade.

Photograph of Ethel Day, wife of Professor W.H. Day and librarian of Bradford Public Library from 1936 - 1953. She was also the mother of Ida Day Smith, former librarian, whom she took over from in 1936. Mrs. Day was the sole librarian and worked originally a room on the second floor of T.W.W. Evans law office at 21 Holland St. West, then in the late 1940s, moved to a room above the fire hall on Barrie Street. She hand-wrote all records, and was librarian until her death on November 23, 1953.

Photograph of Ida Day Smith, daughter of Professor W.H. Day and librarian of Bradford Public Library in 1936. She was also the daughter of Ethel Day, who took over the librarianship in 1936. Ida Day was the sole librarian after Mary Brown, and worked in a second floor room of T.W.W. Evans' law office. Once she married Raymond Smith in October of 1936, the couple moved away and Ida's mother, Ethel, took over the librarianship duties.