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Photograph of Bessie Sutherland Campbell in 1865, the year she married William Campbell (Grain Dealer). Photograph saved by Lewis Campbell.

A photograph of William L. Campbell (Grain Dealer) standing, c. 1865. Father of William L., Elizabeth F. And Dr. Lewis Campbell. His branch of the Campbell clan was from Caithness, Scotland. At an unknown date they moved to Ireland. William was born in Kilglass, County Sligo Ireland in 1838. He emigrated with his family in 1857 to Traverse City, Michigan. In about 1860 he came to Canada first settling in Brantford, then Newmarket. He was sent to Bradford by his Newmarket employer in 1862 to open a grain and lumber business.

A photograph of six Bradford business men, c. 1865. William L. Campbell (Grain Dealer) is on the top left in back row. He was sent to Bradford by his Newmarket employer in 1862 to open a grain and lumber business.

Advertisement of Driffill's Hardware, Book, Stationary, and Fancy Goods House.

Advertisement of the Farmers' Inn of Newton Robinson, and the Bradford Hotel of Bradford.

A look at the advertisement fees and administration of the South Simcoe News, precursor to the Bradford Witness & South Simcoe News.

The bottom section of the advertisement is information on the Post Office.

Flag part of Jean and Rob Keffer's centennial album

"The long anticipated commencement of our national existence as the Dominion of Canada is at length realized. Henceforward the four millions of British subjects upon this continent will exist but as one people. We begin our new era of history under most auspicious circumstances. The causes that provoked so much strife and bitterness between us and our sister provinces are at length happily removed; the objects for which as a people, we have so long struggled have been in the main effectually secured, and the calamities that loomed so ominously in the future have vanished altogether from the political horizon." ...

Sepia photograph of William John Watson (1868-1951). Also referred to as "Grampa Watson." Son of Charles Watson, husband of Ida Jane Mulligan Banting and father of Isobel Watson Coutts.