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Event Date : Saturday, November 30, 1935
Event Type : Death
Description : Passed away in Hawkestone, Ont. at the age of 67. Husband to Colina Jones. Was a well known druggist in Bradford, where he conducted a business next door to the Queen's Hotel. Is interred in St. John's Cemetery, Norway.
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Event Date : Tuesday, October 16, 1956
Event Type : Death
Description : A native of Bradford, Mr. Norman B. Strong, 74, of Colin Ave., Toronto, passed away suddenly at his home on Tuesday of last week. He had been at business on Monday. Mr. Strong was the only son of the late Mr. Wm. Strong, one time shoe merchant of Bradford, and his wife, the late Mrs. Sarah Bingham Strong. He apprenticed with the late Mr. William Campbell in what was for so many years known as Campbell's Drug Store, Bradford, before attending the Ontario College of Pharmacy in Toronto, from which he graduated in 1905. After a short period in Montreal, Mr. Strong went into business for himself in Haileybury. He returned to Toronto in 1921 and has operated two drug stores in the city for the past 33 years, one in the King Edward Hotel and the other at Bloor and Yonge St., known as Strong-Mellraith Ltd., of which Mr. Strong was president. Mr. Strong was a member of Timothy Eaton Memorial Church, the Downtown Kiwanis Club, and York Downs Golf Club of Toronto. Mr. Strong is survived by his wife, the former Adelaide Kinzinger; two daughters, Mrs. E. W. Steiner and Mrs. Marion Hardy, and three grandchildren, all of Toronto; and one sister, Mrs. W. G. Faris (Bertha) formerly of Maple Farm, Bradford, and now residing in Queensville. He was predeceased by two sisters, Mrs. Harvey Graham (Clara) and Mrs. R. H. Perley (Florence), also, by his father's first marriage, a half brother and two half sisters, namely, Walter Strong, Mrs. Broughton (Alma) and Miss Myra Strong. The funeral was held in Toronto on Thursday from the Morley Bedford Chapel, Eglinton Ave. W., with interment in York Cemetery.
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Event date: January 3, 1941
Event type: Death
Description: "Bradford Pa., Star; Funeral services for Daniel Howe Neilly, 86, of the Derrick City road, who died at 12.05 o'clock Wednesday morning at the Bradford Pa. hospital from injuries received when he was struck by a car on Christmas Eve, were held at 2.30 o'clock Friday afternoon at the McAllister funeral home. ... Mr. Neilly, who was known as "Uncle Dan" to many, was well-known in this section, where he had resided for the past 33 years." ...
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Parte deLocal History Collection
W. Davey Butcher Shop. W. Davey is the man standing in front of the shop with the apron on. It later became Webb's Butcher Shop. He is the one sitting on the carriage. It then became Pezzanitti's Meat Shop until a few years ago. The shop was located on the north side of Holland Street, west of Barrie Street.
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This portrait is of George McDonald, a stonemason and contractor of Bradford in the early 1900s. An article with a short biography accompanies this picture. McDonald worked on the A.E. Scanlon's law office and the Presbyterian Church.
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Obituary for William L. Campbell in a 1948 edition of the Bradford Witness. He passed in 1948.
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An article announcing the death of and paying tribute to Ron Simpson.
"St. John's Presbyterian Church was filled yesterday with people mourning the death and celebrating the life of longtime Bradford West Gwillimbury Councillor Ron Simpson...Mr. Simpson, a custom homebuilder by profession, has been a councillor since 1985 for all but one term.,,"
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Parte deLocal History Artifacts
Labels for dispensed remedies from William L. Campbell's drugstore on Holland Street.
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Parte deLocal History Artifacts
Business card found in library time capsule. Business card is for Gary Lamb, Town of Bradford Councillor.
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A prescription written by Dr. Lewis H. Campbell on his brother William L. Campbell's (owner of a pharmacy) stationary. Dated September 26, 1915.
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