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Specific Families and Ethnicities
Part of Resource Collection
Contains an index of titles in the George & Helen Jackson Heritage Room based on specific families and ethnicities to aid genealogical research in the Bradford and West Gwillimbury area.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library
Specific to Bradford and West Gwillimbury
Part of Resource Collection
Contains an index of titles in the George & Helen Jackson Heritage Room based on genealogical resources specific to the Bradford and West Gwillimbury area.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library
Speech for Sunday Service, June 25 1995
Part of Local History Collection
Typed speech given by Margaret Irene Turner for Sunday Service at the Bradford United Church on June 25, 1995, including mentions of her family's involvement with the Methodist Church at Mount Pleasant and a story about "Caroline's quilt." Includes an attached handwritten "sequel" written and signed by Margaret Irene Turner, expanding on the story of the quilt.
Margaret (Irene) Turner
Part of Oral History Collection
An interview with Mrs. Vaaletta Sturgeon describing her childhood and growing up in Bradford West Gwillimbury.
Vaaletta (Mitchell) Sturgeon
Turner, Irene (Brown) and Brown, Ernest MP3
Part of Oral History Collection
An interview with Mrs. Irene Turner and her brother, Ernest Brown, discussing family history.
George Jackson
Part of Oral History Collection
An interview with Ms. Irene Turner discussing her upbringing, specifically details about her father growing up.
George Jackson
Walter Reeves - Badge Collection
Part of Local History Collection
This collection of pins, medals, and badges, once owned by Walter Reeves, comes to us in digital format from his descendant, Bill Marks. They were collected from Walter's career as Chief of Police for the Town of Bradford, his participation as a Lacrosse player in the 1909 championship, and his St. John's Ambulance badges.
The Ontario Provincial Police began to operate in the area in the 1930s as a motorcycle patrol, working in conjunction with the Chief of Police of the Town. Walter "Gunch" Reeves assisted the first constable posted to the area, I.R. Spencer, in many of these cases. The first OPP detachment office in West Gwillimbury opened on January 1, 1949, where they worked from the second floor of the township building under Corporal D. Adair.
Walter Arthur Reeves was born in England in 1886, and moved to Bradford when he was 13 years old. He was known as a lacrosse star as he was part of Bradford's 1909 O.A.L.A. Intermediate Lacrosse champion team (medal which is included in this collection). He married Sarah "Sadie" Saint in February 1909. He was a train inspector, and was appointed Town Constable in 1929, a position which he served until his death in 1946 from a heart attack.
Bill Marks
Part of Local History Collection
Photographs of the Webb family found in the BWGPL collection.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library
Part of WEGWHIST Collection
Description : More information is needed for the History of West Gwillimbury! Did your family reside in the Township of West Gwillimbury prior to 1960? A member of WEGWHIST - the West Gwillimbury History project - will be pleased to meet with you for a chat, and to take notes. If you have any old photographs, please dig them out. The Project will copy the photos and return them immediately.
Part of Oral History Collection
An interview with Mr. and Mrs. John West, discussing harvesting onions, potatoes and carrots, with mentions on the harvesting machines that were used in farming such vegetables.
George Jackson