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Bradford Times Article - Canada 150 Quilt

  • CA BWGPL 2017-05-11-01
  • Item
  • 2017-05-11

Event Date: May 11th, 2017
Event Type: Newspaper article
Municipality: Bradford, Ont.

Description: Bradford Times article describes creation of Canada 150 quilt and its creation and donation.

Nancy Young

Proclaiming Yonge's Bicentennial

  • CA BWGPL 2017-05-15-01
  • Item
  • 1996-08-21

Description: Celebrating Yonge street's 200 years of existing.

Bradford West Gwillimbury Times

Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms

  • CA BWGPL 2018-12-05-10
  • Item
  • 1982

A copy of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It was enacted as part of the Canada Act 1982 and came into force on April 17, 1982.

Government of Canada

Canada 150 Quilt

  • CA BWGPL 2019-05-30-01
  • Item
  • 2017-04-27

Event Date: May 30th 2019
Event Type: Donation
Municipality: Bradford Ont.

Description: Canada 150 Quilt donated to the BWG Local History Association. Handmade by Nancy Young & Kathy Clarke.

Nancy Young

Thomas Kilkenny Furniture

  • CA BWGPL OS10125
  • Item
  • c. 1880

A late Victorian c. 1880 side boar with decorative work, produced in Thomas Kilkenny's Furniture factory. It is owned by his great granddaughter Ruth Booth.

90th Birthday - Bertha Langford

  • CA BWGPL OS10374
  • Item
  • 1980-09-06

Bradford's Bertha Langford celebrated her 90th birthday last week with more than 200 family and friends in attendance. The energetic lady still loves to bowl. Happy birthday!

Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library

Match Safe

  • CA BWGPL OS11403

This well preserved match safe, with its Masonic symbols, was moulded in Thomas Nelson's Foundry in Bond Head c. 1870. Marion McKibbon, his granddaughter, presently owns it.

The Original Reilly Family

  • CA BWGPL OS8625
  • Item

Members of the Reilly (alternative spelling: Riley) family who came from Ireland.
Top Row, left to right: Francis, Archibald, Elizabeth, George.
Bottom Row: Alex, Jane, Arthur.

Thomas & Ellen Nelson

  • CA BWGPL OS9756
  • Item
  • 1880

Thomas Alexander Nelson (1861-1898) proprietor of the Nelson Foundry in Bond Head, pictured here with his wife, Ellen Pricella (Brown) Nelson. This sepia coloured studio photo was likely taken in the 1880's when bustles were fashionable.

Marion McKibbon

Newton Robinson

  • CA BWGPL OS9845

Main St. looking north in Newton Robinson.

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