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Description : Bradford Women's Institute celebrated its Golden Anniversary, Wednesday July 2 with a key Institute personality, Mrs. Austin Zoeller as guest speaker. Mrs. Zoeller is editor of "Home and Country" the official W.I. magazine and immediate past president of the Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario.

More than 100 W.I. members, representing 12 branches, attended the giant birthday party held at the new Marie of Incarnation Separate School in Bradford.

Mrs. Jack Camplin of Beeton had the distinction of being the only lady attending that was present when the branch was organized on July 2, 1925 by the late Kate Aiken. Mrs. Camplin drove Mrs. Aiken (later nationally known on radio) to the meeting. Mrs. Camplin remembers every lady wore a hat and Mrs. Aiken stirred enthusiasm for Institute work with a stirring speech.

A surprise visitor at Bradford's anniversary was Mrs. Janet Barlow of Surrey, England. Mrs. Barlow is one of 10,000 English W.I. members. She belongs to the 150-member Nork afternoon branch that has an active choir, won drama awards and, like other English Institutes, raises money by selling baking, vegetables, flowers and plants at W.I. markets. Mrs. Barlow is visiting her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. David Barlow of Fountain Villa, R.R. 2, Bradford.

Members of Bradford W.I. were honoured for 25 years of service in Institute work with presentations of pins and plates. They were: Mrs. C.A. Dimock, Mrs. Alex Spence, Mrs. H.W. Curry, Mrs. H.L. Blackwell, Mrs. A.M. Dow and Mrs. Jack Rumble. Bradford W.I. Secretary Mrs. Gordon Church, made the presentations.

Mrs. H.W. Curry, who presented each guest with a history of Bradford Women's Institute read the minutes of the first branch meeting. There were 55 members by the end of 1925 and by 1927 membership grew to 96.

Institute colors of blue and gold predominated in the flowers and decorations; piano solos by prize-winning Bradford students Karen and Jimmy Brinkos and paintings on display by Pauline Kulha added to the evening celebration.

Bradford Deputy-Reeve Ken Wood extended congratulations on behalf of Mayor Joe Magani and the town council. Bringing greetings were W.I. leaders: Mrs. Norman Tuck, Barrie, provincial board director; Mrs. R.W. Margurie, Minesing, area president (Simcoe County) and Mrs. Paul Tipping, Tottenham, vice president of South Simcoe District.

Mrs. H.L. Blackwell cut the anniversary cake fashioned in the shape of the figure 50 and Mrs. A.W. Spence and Mrs. Ted Dow poured tea.

Convening the celebration were Mrs. Alfred Tizzard, Mrs. Howard Tizzard, Mrs. Jim Church and Mrs. Jack Rumble with the latter being co-chairman with president Mrs. Dan Clements.

This newspaper article is from the Bradford Womens Institute Scrapbooks.

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Description : Local Ladies Attend WI Conference
By Mrs. Harold Watson

WATERLOO - The 34th annual officers conference Women's Institute of Ontario (WI) was held May 4 to 6 at the University of Waterloo. The theme of the conference was: to accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but believe.

The 1982 conference year was public relations officers at branch districts, area levels and branch members at large. Mrs. Keith Hiepleh of FWIO chairman, chaired the meeting. Mrs. Hiepleh introduced Mr. R. McNeil, minister of agriculture who urged all to help support agriculture, to believe in Ontario for it is a great province to live in. We must dream, but also act in the future, self sufficiency, produce our own food. Buy Ontario foods, keep our money in our province, we are helping our economy. This is good PR.

SPEAKER

Guest speaker, Walter Borosa, chief of protocol, government of Ontario, was born in Yugoslavia. Protocol is the rule book that they must follow to gain respect of one another. He has conducted 17 royal visits to Canada, we well as many friends from other countries. This mean good public relations.

Mrs. Hiepleh, in her address, said we, as chosen delegates from 14 subdivisions, had been given a golden opportunity to promote PRO with each other. The WI is celebrating its 85th anniversary. In honor of the founding of the first WI, near Stoney Creek. Mrs. Westerbring-Muller, president to ACCW will be the guest speaker. The topic will be a flicker to a flame. Over 1,000 women are expected to attend.

4-H

Miss Molly McGee, director of home economics branch, Ontario ministry of agriculture and foods brought greetings. Miss McGee reported 4-H groups are the only groups in Ontario who have maintained the highest membership in 1982 with 5,000 leaders and 2,020 WI assistants. These are enthusiastic young women working for our country and WI.

Mrs. Verna Mulloski gave the Erland Lee presentations. This is the 10th anniversary of our purchasing of the Erland Lee home, near Stoney Creek by WI. The committee worked very hard to maintain this home to the original state. The home was built in 1864. The first year, 6,000 visited the home. Mr. Lee organized the teaching of domestic science in the schools in approximately 1885.

DIED?

Bruce Johnston of CKCO TV in Kitchener, was asked to speak to WI. Mr. Johnston said he knew nothing of WI, he thought it had died and gone to heaven. Looking into WI activities and history, he found they were a very large group of dedicated women of the world and deserved a great deal of credit.

A musical, Gilbert and Sullivan's Princess Ida, by students from Waterloo's Oxford Secondary School presented the play Wednesday evening. This was enjoyed by all.

Thursday morning, plenary session conducted by Mrs. J. Born, PROFWIO. Through the untiring effort of Mrs. Adelaide Hoodless, and Mr. Erland Lee cofounders of WI, there are 1,207 branches in Ontario with 27,490 members, 113 districts in Ontario associated country women of the world, nine million members with 30,000 across Ontario.

These people made it possible for over 560 PRO officers of the FWIO to attend the officers conference. These are most important.

Who am I? I am a member of the Women's Institute. Those attending from the Bradford area were: Mrs. Harold Watson, district 14 PRO Simcoe South; Mrs. O Hughes, Mrs D. Jebb, Mrs. A. Haines, Mrs. A. Orr and Mrs. H. Campbell, Shanty Bay musical directors.

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Description : A Medical Missionary's Life in the Congo

Editor's note:

Dr. Jim Evans is the son of Bradford lawyer C.T.S. Evans and is currently serving with the United Church of Canada's Institute Medical Evangelique in the Republic of the Congo.

Jim and his wife will be writing to The Witness periodically on his experiences in the Congo.

Dear Friends,
We are somewhat uncertain as to how we should formulate our first circular letter as a married couple. Since many of you know only one of us, we feel that some sort of introduction is called for. Thumbnail biographical sketches will be unnecessary for some of you and inadequate for many of you. But they seem to be our only alternative for this kind of letter so we hope that you will understand.

Jim's home is Bradford, Ontario where he lived until he entered the University of Toronto. There he gained his medical degree and completed a year's internship. He then went to British Columbia to work in a home mission hospital of the United Church of Canada. After two years there he had a marked change of scene by going to Congo for four months. Upon his return he "dabbled" in theology for a year and then took a year's surgical residency in Vancouver. It was during the later experience that he decided to return to Congo. Thus, as an appointed missionary of the United Church of Canada, he took a tropical medicine course in Belgium and arrived in Congo in 1965. Three and a half years in Africa were not only quite interesting, but provided Jim with an opportunity to assess the needs. During an extended furlough he took various refresher courses and completed a Master of Public Health program at John Hopkins University in Baltimore. This new experience and knowledge should be helpful as he now oversees the Public Health program here at I.M.E. (Institute Medical Evangelique).

The ship docked in Baltimore on July 29 and it was exactly one month later that we were married. The first week back was spent with Jim's family in Canada and at the end of that time Jim's brother, Bob, was married -- two family weddings in one summer! Then Patty began a very busy but happy three weeks at home in California seeing family and friends after a year's absence and finishing up wedding plans.

Short Honeymoon

Our wedding was as meaningful and happy an occasion as we could have hoped for. All of our family and friends who were able to share this experience with us made it all the more special. For those who could not come, we wish we could tell about it in detail but there just is not enough space.

After a "mini honeymoon" of two days, we returned to pack our possessions and make arrangements necessary to enable us to leave a week and two days later! It was a hectic time but somehow everything was accomplished and we left Covina September 10, spent a day and half in Seattle seeing many of Patty's friends and family there, another day and a half in Toronto and Bradford, and on September 14, left for a two week honeymoon in Scandinavia.

What a wonderful two weeks that was! We spent the longest time in Norway where the scenery was spectacular. We traveled by plane, steamer, and train, thus getting a variety of views of many areas. We stopped in Stockholm for a couple of days and ended our Scandinavian visit in Copenhagen which is, indeed, the charming city it is reputed to be. This stay in Denmark included a trip to the Hans Christian Anderson country which was one of the highlights of our two weeks. September 29 we began the trip to Congo which included a planned layover in Brussels of eight hours and an unplanned layover in Geneva of six hours due to technical problems and the strict security measures. Were we ever happy to arrive in Kinshasa! We were happier still to arrive at I.M.E. which is now our home! After our many travels over the last year we were eager to settle into one place.

Like Home

We have been here six weeks now and, indeed, it does seem like home. Jim is very busy in the public health program for even as current programs continue, the public health team is evaluating the direction in which it is moving and potential opportunities for contributing further to the rural health program of this region, as well as public health interests here on the I.M.E. grounds, Jim is teaching two courses in the school of nursing in addition to taking his share of night calls for the hospital.

Parry has been quite busy as she supervised the painting of the interior of the house after our arrival and is presently doing those final touches to make it look like home. She is discovering the challenges of keeping house and cooking where there is no hot water (although now there is running water all day since the rains started), where there is the constant battle with the bugs, where all water must be boiled before drinking, where doing the laundry is not just pushing buttons on a washer and dryer, etc. One could go on forever -- but the important point is that such aspects of life do not continue to seem as inconveniences but rather become those things one just does in daily living. Patty is also making some progress in her Kikongo study as she attends class two times a week and tries to keep to regular study hours. Her best opportunities to hear it spoken so far have been on road trips when she has accompanied Jim. One trip was to a village with the public health team to carry on clinics, another to a village where T.B. patients were being followed up, and the third to a community health centre which was originally sponsored by I.M.E. and is now becoming independent. These have been fascinating trips as they have been opportunities to see some village life, to meet village people, and to understand better the physical, social and spiritual needs of the Congolese.

Hope

These are happy days for us as we are beginning our marriage, establishing our home, making and renewing many friendships, and joining in the effort to provide better health care. It is with the hope of helping to meet the many needs of these people that we have come; and we trust that our efforts, your prayers and God's participation turn our hope to reality, through our lives Christ himself will become a reality to those we encounter.

Especially, now as Christmas approaches, we are thankful for God's Gift of his Son and we want to take the opportunity of this season to share with each of you our wish that yours will be a most blessed Christmas and a very happy New Year.

Sincerely, Dr. Jim and Patty Evans

Patty Evans

Patty (nee Parks) spent her pre-college years in various California cities where her father has pastored American Baptist churches. She began her college days at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington, and after two years there, transferred to Standford University to complete the work for her nursing degree. Following a year's work in Covina, California (where her family now lives), Patty entered a Master's program at the University of Washington. She changed the role of student to that of faculty member at the end of a year and taught in a coronary care program at the University. In August, 1969 she began the challenging and exciting experience of sailing on the hospital shop the S.S. HOPE as it made its 8th voyage -- this time to Tunisia. It was a full and busy year as she worked in the Intensive Care Unit and had an opportunity to learn about the language and culture of the patients and the Tunisian counterpart nurses. It turned out to be a year not only for new nursing experiences but also for travel as well throughout Tunisia and to parts of Europe. One of these times was to meet Jim in London for two weeks at Christmas which was, of course, a most happy holiday. The year in Tunisia ended on a delightful note, for Jim, on completion of his program at Johns Hopkins, was able to go to Tunisia to work with the HOPE public health team for the last five weeks and then sail home with all the other "Hopies".

A long way up! Firefighters will train in this 57' high tower. The tower will also be used to dry fire hoses. This photo appeared with an article in the Bradford Gazette.

An edited compilation based on written notes by Gladys Anna Isobel Watson (known as Isobel Watson) of Watson's life. Edited and Compiled by granddaughter, Michelle Joyce. Includes 12 page transcript, Cover Page and Reproduction of the Marriage Certificate of Norman Blain Coutts and Gladys Anna Isobel Watson. Watson was born July 14, 1907 on a farm located in West Gwillimbury at Concession 4, Lot 7 to William John Watson and Ida Jane Milligan Banting. Isobel married Norman Bhain Coutts and raised with him five children: Duncan, Roderick, Karol Anne, Brian and Sharon. The oral history was transcribed in November 2007, shortly before Isobel's death.

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Description : Born in Brock, Ontario, in 1837, the oldest son of seven children.
Came to Bradford in 1854 as an apprentice for Thomas Wallace, harness-maker.
Went to America, but returned and partnered with Wilson Scott to buy out the shop of Mr. John Davidson, a partnership that lasted 49 years.
Married Anne Driffill on March 25, 1868.
Had seven children, four of whom are still living: Harvey, Charles, Victor, and Mrs. T.W.W. Evans.
In 1891, sold their business to Mr. E.P. Snow.
Was then appointed to the Clerkship of the Second Division Court, which he held until his death.
Was a member of the: Bench of Magistrates, High School Board, Public Library Board, and the Agricultural Society.
Was the Reeve of Bradford for nine years.
Died of pernicious anaemia.
Age: 66 years.
Interred in Mount Pleasant.

Letter regarding payment of a subscription in support of the Hydro-Electric Railway Association of Ontario, dated March 25, 1918.

Contains an index of titles in the George & Helen Jackson Heritage Room based on genealogical resources specific to the Bradford and West Gwillimbury area.