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1906-05-31

Article from the May 31, 1906 - special edition of the Bradford Witness and South Simcoe News featuring local businesses and members of the community. This article provides a history of the grain elevator business previously on the site of the current GO Train Station on Bridge Street. Farmers around town would bring in their grain to the elevators by wagon and sleighs in order to have their grains bought. The highest bidder would then direct the farmers to their specific grain mills to be processed. The building was demolished by the end of the Second World War.

Bradford Witness

Bak's Market

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1989-1992

Part of Local History Collection

Bak's Market

Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library

Little Caesar's plaza

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1989-1992

Part of Local History Collection

View of 136 Holland Street Plaza, which includes the Fish & Chips store and the Little Caesar's plaza

Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library

The Country Store

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1989-1992

Part of Local History Collection

View of The Country Store in the early 1990s.

Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library

The Zucca Melon

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1948-11-10

Part of Local History Collection

"One exhibit which attracted a great deal of interest in last Thursday's parade was the huge melon tied on the front of Gordon Bateman's truck, which was being driven for Bradford Seed House.
The melon, which weighed 115 pounds, was over five feet long and more than 1 foot in diameter. It was not grown here but was brought in by a traveller for seeds, selling to Bradford Seed House.
This traveller informed that the melon is of the gourd variety and is known as the Zucca Melon. It is used to make Christmas peels and cherries.
After the parade was over a policeman's whistle stopped the Bateman truck at Yonge and Queen and the officer halted traffic while he examined the melon, he being just as curious as many others watching the parade.
The melon in shape and colour slightly resembles the vegetable marrow."

Bradford Witness