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Front view of the Williams farm house.

William M. and Mary Ethel Kneeshaw (nee Baynes) at Deerhurst on their wedding day, February 19, 1901.

William Alexander Langford born 20 July, 1890 in Alton, On.
Bertha Catherine Elizabeth Pettit born 6 September, 1890 in Adjala Twp, On.
They were married on March 6, 1919.
Their children are Dorthy Henriette, born 3 Feb., 1920, Keith Henry, born 9 Jan., 1926, Stewart William. born 17 Mar., 1930.

Article on a meeting by town council, highlighting the creation of a large processing plant for Bradford's vegetable growers to be built on Dissette Street (then called Doucette).

Council of West Gwillimbury in 1903.
Back Row: John Lee, Charles Stewart, George Hodgson
Seated: Jack Neilly, Robert Thorpe, Wm. Wood, Tom Ritchie.

S.S. # 3 Back Row (l-r): Edward Stewart, Lloyd Reynolds, Robert Young, Teacher Miss Janet McLeod, Doug Wood, Percy Scanlon. Front Row (l-r): Margaret Culbert, Donna McArthur, Frank McArthur, Leila Stoddart, Merle Reynolds, Bill Bateman, Unknown.

A page from a bound document with blue cover. The document is an agreement between the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario and the Township of West Gwillimbury relating to providing hydro-electricity to the area.

Photograph from the sod turning for the new West Gwillimbury municipal building in Spring 1950.

L-R: Percy Reynolds (School Board Trustee), Joe Vernon (School Board Trustee), Wilfred Kneeshaw (Town Councillor), Bill Patchett (School Board Trustee), Ed Fennell (Town Councillor), Mac Wilson (School Board Trustee), Herbert Hughes (Town Reeve; with shovel), Mel Law (Town Councillor), Bill Melbourne (Town Councillor), Bob Westlake (School Board Trustee), Art Kneeshaw (Town Clerk Treasurer & School Board Sec. Treas.), Donald Gray (Road Superintendent), Charlie (C.T.S) Evans (Town Solicitor), Herb Stevens (Builder & Architect)

A bound document with blue cover. The document is an agreement between the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario and the Township of West Gwillimbury relating to providing hydro-electricity to the area.

Presentation to council of a building plaque for the new Township of West Gwillimbury Administrative Building on August 12, 1989. The Councillors sitting behind the desk include Jim Corneau, Frank Jonkman, Charles "Bud" Brown, Art Janse, Frances Reid and Ron Simpson.

The building was designed by architect R. Myles Allison from Barrie, and replaces the offices built in 1951. The building and adjacent works garage cost $820 000.