Bond Head Anglican Church interior
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Interior of the Bond Head Anglican Church.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library
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Bond Head Anglican Church interior
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Interior of the Bond Head Anglican Church.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library
Part of WEGWHIST Collection
Bond Head Methodist Church 1873-1942 which was destroyed by fire.
Bond Head Methodist Church Interior
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Harvest Home Celebration at the Bond Head Methodist Church in 1911.
Bond Head Methodist Church ruins
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The third Bond Head Methodist Church after it was destroyed by fire. The fire began in a nearby garage owned by William Jardine. Residents formed a bucket brigade to put out the blaze.
Bond Head Methodist Church Stained glass window
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Bond Head Methodist Church - stain glass window in memory of John Wilcox and Edward Jeffs.
John Wilcox was a pioneer of Tecumseth Township, arriving in 1855 from Cuba (where he worked in mine structure support). He was born in Chyandour, Cornwall, England on April 22, 1827, and apprenticed as an architect and carpenter. He was sent to Cuba in 1848 to work. In Canada, he married Ann Proctor with whom he had 5 children. John helped the town build roads and bridges, and promoted the Wesleyan Methodist Church in its early days.
Bond Head Trinity Anglican Church interior
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Interior of the Bond Head Trinity Anglican Church.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library
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Christ Church on the Bond Head Road in Middleton, the first Anglican church in West Gwillimbury. Before demolition after WWII.
Leslie F. Wilcox, Dr.
Church of the Holy Martyrs Blessed and Opened by Cardinal McGuigan
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Article on the blessing and opening of the Holy Martyrs Roman Catholic Church. Article describes the event.
Bradford Witness
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Contains items based on the churches in the Bradford West Gwillimbury area. Headings include:
Auld Kirk
Bond Head Churches
Bradford Presbyterian Church
The Convent
Church Photographs
Dunkerron United
Holy Martyrs of Japan
Methodist Churches in BWG
Springdale Christian Reform
St. Luke's Anglican
St. Paul's Anglican
Trinity Anglican
*Churches - Other
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Hopkins, Ormond obituary from the Globe and Mail
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"Military padre who compared his job to being a mosquito in a nudist colony spent more than 30 years ministering to troops.
Ottawa - Serving in Egypt 50 years ago was an eye-opener for Ormond Hopkins, a padre with the Royal Canadian Army Chaplain Corps. Not only did he have to cope with the heat, sand and flies, he also had to adjust to the local culture.
On New Year's Eve, 1956, Mr. Hopkins, an Anglican priest known as Hoppy to his friends, had the opportunity of observing Egyptian culture at close range. The brass had booked two belly dancers from Cairo to entertain Canadian troops and, as a man of the cloth, he felt obliged to protest the salacious nature of the festivites..."
Buzz Bourdon