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"The first year-round residents of the Marsh arrived in the late autumn of 1934 and took up residence in the row of houses shown in the above picture. They were families from Holland and they named their village Ansnorveld.
Members of the Christian Reformed Church, after selling their first crops, built the first church on the Marsh, also shown above, in the spring of 1936. Today there are two beautiful Christian Reformed churches on the Holland Marsh."

Mechanized harvesting on the marsh. If you have any additional information about this photo please contact the library at 905-775-3328.

A boat pulling a smaller scow after the Avro Anson plane crash on the marsh. Men in photo are B.B. Dodger, Ben Woodcock, Jack Rodgers and B.B. Collings.

Harvesting onions on the marsh. If you have any additional information about this photo please contact the library at 905-775-3328.

Drainage pipes in the marsh.

An onion topper, the first step in harvest mechanization on the marsh.

Drying Onions.

Mechanized harvesting of onions using tractors and pallet boxes.

Sweet baby in wicker buggy, is Lylia Bell / Culbert, photo taken 1924. Carriage is an example of one produced at the Bradford Carriage Works.

The office for Thompson Smith's Mill, Amsterdam. Robert Collings, Geo. Taylor, Miss Scott, Mrs. W. McKinstry (Ida Collings), Jas. Spence (Seated), Jack Davey (standing), James Scott, Sam Scott, Jack Busby, Tommy Mulligan.

Thompson Smith was a Toronto man who participated in the incorporation the Rama Lumber Transport Co. and who opened up a lumber mill in Amsterdam (near Bradford). The exact date of opening is unknown, but it was sometime between 1858-1869. The mill was a steam mill and many of the logs cut were shipped along the Holland River. Smith's mill was eventually one of many in the area during the late nineteenth century.