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The fundraising for a new building for the Bradford Public Library reaching the $75,000 mark.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library
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The fundraising for a new building for the Bradford Public Library reaching the $75,000 mark.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library
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Members of the 1989 Summer Reading Club at the Bradford Public Library posing with their paper-maiche dinosaur. Dinosaur was named "Bruno Bronty" by Jill Foley. In no particular order: Kristin, Kendra, Erin, Teresa Park, Nicole V., Jane Mazeda, Kevin, Megan, Jill Foley, Annabella DaSilva, Lisa Dudo, Rebecca Nieboer, Jason Weening, and librarian Anita Sikma.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library
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Librarian Adrienne Price checking out books at the Bradford Public Library, while chatting with a little girl.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library
Adrienne Price and Marilyn Reynolds at the Bradford Public Library
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Adrienne Price (left) and Marilyn Reynolds at the Bradford Public Library.
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The adult online catalogue computers at the Bradford W.G. Public Library, not yet installed during the transition from the card catalogue to computers.
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Anne Wagg, Chair of the Fundraising Committee holds a balloon at the Library Ground Breaking Ceremony that reads: "I support the new Bradford Library, will you?"
Bond Head Booketeria a novel idea
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An article about the creation of a "Booketeria" in order to help provide library services to the Bond Head area.
"What is a Booketeria? It's a self-serve mini-library, a new and innovative way to make library resources more available in a small community. With the help of the Bond Head Post Mistress Judith Baguely, room was found in the tiny Bond Head Post Office for shelving that holds approximately 450 paperback books, ranging from adult titles to kids' literature, and from romance and murder mysteries, to the latest works by Canadian authors..."
Bradford West Gwillimbury Times
Bradford Railway Station Sign Plaque
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Plaque was hung in the Library Café at 425 Holland Street West in February, 2017. It accompanies the old Bradford Railway Sign hanging in the Café.
Plaque reads:
The railway station in Bradford has a long history serving the leisure travel, commuting and freight needs of our community. Bradford’s economy has always been strongly tied to railway access to Toronto; historically supporting booming livestock industry and facilitating other exports. Wagon loads of wheat were at times lined up back to Bond Head waiting to load their wheat onto rail cars. More
recently it serves as a commuter link with Union Station.
The present station was built around 1900 by the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) in response to strong economic growth tied to industry.
The current station was acquired by GO Transit in December 1998, and over the next number of years undertook extensive renovations to help adapt it to its role as a vital commuter link along the Barrie to Union Station Line. The most significant renovations took place in 2006-2007 with the pouring of a new concrete foundation and the removal of parts of a previous
renovation from the 1950s.
Designed by Peter Wilson
Peter Wilson
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library and Cultural Centre
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Photograph of the new public library and cultural centre
Jim Craigmyle
Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library Welcomes you
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Ad for the new Library on Holland Street West
Bradford Times