Contains items relating to the early history of Bradford, Holland Landing, and West Gwillimbury
Zonder titelSettlement
4 Archivistische beschrijving results for Settlement
One binder of handwritten transcripts of land registry data for Concessions 1-8, compiled by Marcia Lee in June, 2001. Mostly ballpoint pen on lined paper, with some notes and drawings in pencil and/or highlighted with various colours of highlighter.
Zonder titelOne binder of handwritten transcripts of land registry data for Concessions 9-15, compiled by Marcia Lee in June, 2001. Mostly ballpoint pen on lined paper, with some notes and drawings in pencil and/or highlighted with various colours of highlighter.
Zonder titel"The first year-round residents of the Marsh arrived in the late autumn of 1934 and took up residence in the row of houses shown in the above picture. They were families from Holland and they named their village Ansnorveld.
Members of the Christian Reformed Church, after selling their first crops, built the first church on the Marsh, also shown above, in the spring of 1936. Today there are two beautiful Christian Reformed churches on the Holland Marsh."