Special Places | Part 1

Bradwardine

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Elevator Agent’s House

Construction Date: 1907

Origins:

  • Albert Ellis
  • Albert Hunter

Community: Bradwardine

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Bradwardine House 2

Community: Bradwardine

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Bradwardine House 3

Community: Bradwardine

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Bradwardine House 4

Location: English Museum

Community: Bradwardine

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Bradwardine House 5

Location: English Museum

Community: Bradwardine

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Bradwardine Retail Outlet

Origins: H. Hotham – contractor

Community: Bradwardine

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Bank of Hamilton Vault

Construction Date: 1904

Features:
Merged with Bank of Commerce, then closed in 1925

Community: Bradwardine

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Bradwardine Pool Elevator

Construction Date: 1927

Community: Bradwardine

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Ancrum Anglican Church

Construction Date: 1901

Origins: 

  • originally on SE 17-12-22
  • opening service July 1901; consecrated 1902
  • de-consecrated and moved to farm of Claire & Beth English in 1986

Features: 

Head Carpenter George Wolrige – assisted by community.  P. 326, “Bradwardine & District, A Century and More”

Location: English Museum

Community: Bradwardine

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Tarbolton United Church

Construction Date: 1888

Origins: Presbyterian Church

Features:

  • Site donated by James Sibbald
  • Donation by J. Wedderburn and friends in Scotland helped with costs
  • Memorial windows in memory of Mrs. A.S. Wedderburn, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Rutherford, Mr. & Mrs. Charles Lamb, Emerson Wolfe
  • Annual service and picnic

Location: NW 21-11-22

Community: Bradwardine

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Matthews Cemetery – Ancrum

Construction Date: 1908

Location: 

Bradwardine area; SE 20-12-22

Ancrum Church was half mile south

Location: SE 20-12-22

Community: Bradwardine

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Tarbolton Cemetery

Construction Date: 1988

Origins:

  • Sibbald and J. Joynt each offered land
  • Quick decision prompted by the death on July 2, 1888, of a child, Mary Jane Wood – first funeral  on July 4, 1888
  • Named after a village in Scotland that was, for a time, home to Robert Burns

Location: NW 21-11-22

Community: Bradwardine

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Bradwardine Village Site

Origins: 1902

  • Site chosen by CPR for a stop on its branch line from Brandon to Lenore
  • Bradwardine Post Office had existed in the region, but not on this site, since the 1880s
  • Nearby Communities of Tarbolton and Ancrum had churches and cemeteries established

Community: Bradwardine

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Tarbolton School Site / Cairn

Construction Date:  Cairn 2007

Origins:

  • First school 1883
  • New structure 1907
  • Closed 1948

Location: NE 20-11-22

Community: Bradwardine

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Bridge Over Oak River

Construction Date: 1920

Features:

  • On the main road south from Bradwardine.
  • A modest example of this style of concrete bridge construction

Location: South of Bradwardine SW 6-12-22

Community: Bradwardine

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Former Railway Bridge at Bradwardine

Construction Date:  1908

Location: East of Bradwardine

Community: Bradwardine

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Spring Valley School

Construction Date: 1937

Origins:

  • Spring Valley School District #649 (1891–1967)
  • The school was built ca. 1888 by John Moore on 12-11-22 and moved by George Buller to NE 11-11-22 about 1895. It burned in 1937 and was rebuilt a half mile west. It closed in 1948.

Location: NW 10-11-22

Community: Bradwardine

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