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New Canal Bridge Officially Opened by County Officials

CA BWGPL LHC-TownBWG-Stre-2017-04-20-15
Item
1957-09-18

Article detailed the opening of the bridge near the Holland Marsh pumphouse which "serves a considerable portion of the Holland Marsh, [and] replaces the old wooden structure which was in a bad state of repair". Officials for Simcoe and York Counties, and King Township attended.

Bradford Witness

Holland Marsh mural

CA BWGPL LHC-TownBWG-PublArt-2016-11-04-13
Item
2016-07-09

Part of Local History Collection

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

Marsh Bushfire

CA BWGPL LHC-TownBWG-Muni-BWGCol-2016-12-23-03-2016-12-23-18
Part
1989-1991

Part of Local History Collection

Photograph of firefighters tending to a bush fire on the edge of the Holland Marsh.

Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library

Marsh bush fire

CA BWGPL LHC-TownBWG-Muni-BWGCol-2016-12-23-03
Item
1989-1991

Part of Local History Collection

Photograph of firefighters tending to a bush fire on the edge of the Holland Marsh.

Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library

Bridge Street looking south

CA BWGPL LHC-TownBWG-Muni-BWGCol-2016-10-28-05
Item
1989-1992

Part of Local History Collection

View of Bridge Street, looking south over the Holland Marsh and Canal Road.

Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library

Steal of a deal: Marsh for train bridge? Good deal - in 1853

CA BWGPL LHC-Newsp-Arti-2017-05-10-09
Item
2013-11-28

Part of Local History Collection

Article from the King Connection on King township's portion of the Holland Marsh, which West Gwillimbury traded for a train bridge into the town of Bradford in 1852.

King Connection

Surveyor-General gave name to Holland Marsh

CA BWGPL LHC-Newsp-Arti-2016-12-08-05
Item
1999-03-25

Part of Local History Collection

"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." ...

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