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Part of Local History Collection
This farmhouse, more than 135 years old, was the home of the tollgate keeper on the Old Amsterdam Toll Road.
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Part of Local History Collection
This farmhouse, more than 135 years old, was the home of the tollgate keeper on the Old Amsterdam Toll Road.
Part of Local History Collection
Threshing at the Faris Farm circa 1892, showing the stationary steam engine, and the barn of the era, with no foundation on the north half of lot 12, con. 5.
Removing the threshing machine from the barn. It was the last one used in the area, on July 27th, 1949.
Stan Brown
Part of WEGWHIST Collection
The office for Thompson Smith's Mill, Amsterdam. Robert Collings, Geo. Taylor, Miss Scott, Mrs. W. McKinstry (Ida Collings), Jas. Spence (Seated), Jack Davey (standing), James Scott, Sam Scott, Jack Busby, Tommy Mulligan.
Thompson Smith was a Toronto man who participated in the incorporation the Rama Lumber Transport Co. and who opened up a lumber mill in Amsterdam (near Bradford). The exact date of opening is unknown, but it was sometime between 1858-1869. The mill was a steam mill and many of the logs cut were shipped along the Holland River. Smith's mill was eventually one of many in the area during the late nineteenth century.
Thomas W. Evans' Teaching Certificate
Part of Local History Collection
Teachers certificate to Thomas W. Evans to teach at Coulson's Hill.
Evans and Evans
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.
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
Part of Local History Collection
Thelma and Wilfred Kneeshaw.
Part of Local History Collection
The Village Inn located on the south east corner of Holland Street and Simcoe Road, prior to renovation in the late 2000s.
The UN Memorial Ceremony in Korea
Part of Local History Collection
Mr. Coun Bal Seon, Director of Memorial Affairs with Lorraine Mantle and her mother Helen Vipond at The UN Memorial Cemetery in Busan, Korea.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library