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

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Community : Other - Bradford
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Description : Albert E. West, a veteran of the North-West Rebellion, dies in Newmarket in his 94th year.

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Community : Bradford
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Description : Mrs. Disossway, visiting from Detroit with her sister Miss Barnard, dies suddenly. They had been injured in a car accident the previous spring which took the life of a third sister and it is believed that this took a great toll on Mrs. Disossway's heart.

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Community : Bradford West Gwillimbury
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Description : Mayor Gordon: "I'll be tough"

"I'll be tough when I have to be tough," Bradford Mayor Roy Gordon said after taking the oath of office in the community centre Monday night.

Mayor Gordon succeeds Joe Maganni Bradford's mayor of 16 years who announced his retirement last fall.

"I want the people of Bradford to get involved in the operation of the town," Mayor Gordon told the 60 people who braved snowy streets to attend the inauguration. "We need to be told if we're doing things right or wrong."

Mayor Gordon, along with the rest of council, was sworn in by lawyer Charles Evans described by Mr. Magani as the "Father of Bradford."

Councillors sworn in were Zyg Fenik, Sandy Hudson, Rick Wright and John Zima. Reeve Ken Wood and Deputy-reeve Milt Hambley also took office Monday night.

Budd Robson, Gordon Bantam, James Church, and Keith Stevens were sworn in for another term on the Bradford Public Utilities Commission.

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Community : Holland Marsh
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Description : Andrew Turczyniak dies of a concussion after falling off a catwalk over the an old bridge on the canal.

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Community : Bradford West Gwillimbury
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Description : Local Lawyers Given Plaques by Province

Prominent local lawyers Charles and Brock Evans were presented with plaques from the Ontario government by local MPP Earl Rowe.

Charles Evans was honored for his 60th anniversary of his call to the bar, and his brother Brock was similarly honored for his 52 years in practice.

The law firm on Holland Street has existed on its present site since 1894, when the Evans father T.W.W. Evans, opened his practice.

The elder Evans grew up on a farm about five miles from Bradford in West Gwillimbury. His mother was born and grew up in Bradford.

Both parents taught school in Bradford, and then moved to Toronto while Mr. Evans attended Osgoode Hall Law School.

Of their seven children, three of six boys became lawyers and the girl married a lawyer.

Charles Evans graduated Osgoode Hall in 1926 and joined his father's practice, at the time of the Holland Marsh Reclamation project.

Eventually, Brock Evans left his Toronto practice to join his brother and father in Bradford about 30 years ago.

Charles' sons Tom and then Bob later joined the firm, to bring to four the number of Evans' in the firm Evans and Evans.

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Community : Other - Bradford
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Description : Describes a letter written by Mr. George Harrison of Port Hope about his time in Bradford.

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Community : Bradford
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Description : Letter from the Dominion Census Taker for Bradford, Mr. J.S. Cordingley, detailing the size of the population and the problems he encountered in carrying out his duties.

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Community : Coulson's Hill
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