- CA BWGPL LHC-Dis-Hazel-2016-11-04-04
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Meeting on the Highway 400 for clean-up. Photograph from in Betty Kennedy's 'Hurricane Hazel,' found in the Local History Collection.
Toronto Telegram
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Part of Local History Collection
Meeting on the Highway 400 for clean-up. Photograph from in Betty Kennedy's 'Hurricane Hazel,' found in the Local History Collection.
Toronto Telegram
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Interior of Auke Ellens' store, flooded by Hurricane Hazel breaking the marsh's dykes.
Toronto Telegram
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The dePeuter family standing next to their house, surrounded by debris. The debris came from the flood by Hurricane Hazel breaking the marsh's dykes.
Toronto Telegram
Robert Saunders and the pumping of the Marsh
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Robert Saunders (left) and numerous other companies came to the aid of the Holland Marsh, offering their equipment free of charge to pump out the flood water. The Marsh was dry again by November 13th.
Toronto Telegram
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Springdale's main road viewed from above to see the extent of the flooding.
Toronto Telegram
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A wooden clog found in the debris field caused by the flood of Hurricane Hazel and the dykes overflowing.
York University Archives
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Mural on the side of 64 Holland St. West. It depicted the farmers of the Holland Marsh. This mural was painted in 1995 as part of the Downtown Revitalization Project. It was painted over in the fall of 2016 due to vandalism, and only Gwilly the Carrot remains.
Amanda Gallagher
Hazel remembered & Aftermath of the Flood
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Two articles relating to the memories of those who lived through the Holland marsh flooding due to Hurricane Hazel. The first is a continuation of Edo Knibbe's recollection, and the second is by Addy Ellens.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Times
Surveyor-General gave name to Holland Marsh
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"The ties between "The Marsh" and the Netherlands seem to have been destined by fate's fickle finger. They stretch back to the earliest days of British settlement when in 1791 General Frederick Haldimand, Canada's Governor-in-Chief, assigned his Surveyor-General to do a survey of the Lake Simcoe area. Although a British army officer, the man was Dutch-born and by coincidence was named Samuel Johannes Holland." ...
Era Banner
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Photograph of firefighters tending to a bush fire on the edge of the Holland Marsh.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library