Bill Codlin

Bill Codlin grew up on a farm in the Claireville area of old Etobicoke. He talks about: what life was like on the farm, and selling produce at the St. Lawrence Market the village and people of Claireville (now gone) Swimming and playing hockey on the Humber River A spring fair where they showed the horses and cattle on the street before there was a fair ground. Attending the one room Claireville School Fighting a fire with no fire department - just a bucket brigade. the local doctor visiting in the winter with a “snow car”- a precursor to the snowmobile ( a Ford fixed up with dual wheels on the back and skids on the front).

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Bill Codlin is an episode from Etobicoke Historical Society Oral Histories by Etobicoke Historical Society.

This episode is 00:46:54 long.

This episode was published on Jan 1, 2022.

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