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Holland Marsh Garden and Associated Industry Greatly Exceeds Most Optimistic Visions

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1956-05-30

Part of Local History Collection

Article detailing the development of the Holland Marsh. It was copied from the Prof. W.H. Day Memorial Unveiling programme and published in the Witness alongside the unveiling ceremony story.

Bradford Witness

Holland Marsh mural

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2016-07-09

Part of Local History Collection

Mural on the side of 64 Holland St. West. It depicted the farmers of the Holland Marsh. This mural was painted in 1995 as part of the Downtown Revitalization Project. It was painted over in the fall of 2016 due to vandalism, and only Gwilly the Carrot remains.

Amanda Gallagher

Holland St., Looking east

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1989-1992

Part of Local History Collection

View of Bradford from Holland Street West, looking eastward towards the Church Street intersection.

Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library

Holland St., Looking West Later

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1965

Part of Dorothy Cilipka fonds

White building on left is Compton's IGA. Sometime in the 1950's.

Dorothy Cilipka

Holland Street - A dirt road

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Part of Local History Collection

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 .