- CA BWGPL WEG-Chu-BHChu-2016-08-29-06-2016-08-29-07
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- 2016-06-10
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Hopkins, Ormond obituary from the Globe and Mail
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"Military padre who compared his job to being a mosquito in a nudist colony spent more than 30 years ministering to troops.
Ottawa - Serving in Egypt 50 years ago was an eye-opener for Ormond Hopkins, a padre with the Royal Canadian Army Chaplain Corps. Not only did he have to cope with the heat, sand and flies, he also had to adjust to the local culture.
On New Year's Eve, 1956, Mr. Hopkins, an Anglican priest known as Hoppy to his friends, had the opportunity of observing Egyptian culture at close range. The brass had booked two belly dancers from Cairo to entertain Canadian troops and, as a man of the cloth, he felt obliged to protest the salacious nature of the festivites..."
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Church of the Holy Martyrs Blessed and Opened by Cardinal McGuigan
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Article on the blessing and opening of the Holy Martyrs Roman Catholic Church. Article describes the event.
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From the Yesterday section of the Bradford Witness:
"Mrs. Earl Bowles submitted this week's photo of the Bradford Methodist Church taken before the First World War. The building still occupies a prominent spot in the town just north of the post office on Barrie Street and has since become the Bradford United Church. The trees which used to shade the street are long gone, but many of the older house along that street, including the church, are in excellent condition."
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Contains information on the churches of Bond Head, including the Trinity Anglican, United/Methodist, and Presbyterian churches.
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Contains items based on the churches in the Bradford West Gwillimbury area. Headings include:
Auld Kirk
Bond Head Churches
Bradford Presbyterian Church
The Convent
Church Photographs
Dunkerron United
Holy Martyrs of Japan
Methodist Churches in BWG
Springdale Christian Reform
St. Luke's Anglican
St. Paul's Anglican
Trinity Anglican
*Churches - Other
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Osler, Reverend Featherstone Lake
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Sketch of the Rev. Featherstone Lake Osler (1805-1895), who was the first resident clergyman in West Gwillimbury. Rev. Osler was born in Falmouth, England, and left for Bond Head with his wife, Ellen, in 1837. He was an Anglican minister who looked after parishioners spread out over 240 square miles (of Simcoe County). He set up the Anglican Church in Bond Head, which still has a pew from his era in the church.
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Rev. Wm. Fraser meditates beside the monument he built for his wife Jane Geddie, located directly behind the first Presbyterian Church in Bond Head.
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Christ Church on the Bond Head Road in Middleton, the first Anglican church in West Gwillimbury. Before demolition after WWII.
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Bond Head Methodist Church ruins
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The third Bond Head Methodist Church after it was destroyed by fire. The fire began in a nearby garage owned by William Jardine. Residents formed a bucket brigade to put out the blaze.