Photograph: 56ers Baseball team, Hall of Fame Induction

Photograph

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Goulbourn Museum

Name/Title

Photograph: 56ers Baseball team, Hall of Fame Induction

Entry/Object ID

D2023.9.2.10

Description

Team photograph depicting the members of the 56ers baseball team at Alexander Grove Park on the occasion of the team's induction into the sports hall of fame.

Photograph Details

Subject

Baseball team "56ers"

Context

Credited In memory of our parents Garnet "Red" Bradley and Fern Bradley (Knox) donated by their family. Red Bradley was a member of the Orange Young Britons #74. He was an avid athlete in Stittsville and volunteered as a coach and trainer for local teams. Elected as Goulbourn Township Councillor 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, Goulbourn Township Deputy Reeve 1965, 1966, Reeve 1967, 1968, and represented the Township of Goulbourn on the first Ottawa Carleton Regional Council 1967, 1968, Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton 1968. The Bradley family's story in Goulbourn dates back to the 1860s and the 10th line of Goulbourn (Fernbank Road). In 1948 Red Bradley took over the farm from his father John Wyckliffe Bradley and married Fern Knox of City View. They had dairy cattle until 1961 then they transitioned to beef cattle. They raised six children and farmed the land until 2007. Red Bradley's Sports achievements: 1949 Eastern Ontario Amateur Softball Association, Stittsville Intermediate Champs, 1950 Eastern Ontario Men's Intermediate Softball Champs, 1952 Eastern Ontario Senior A Softball Champions, 1954 Eastern Ontario Senior A Softball Champions, 1954 Stittsville Senior City Champions, 1956 Ontario Amateur Softball Association Senior A Champions, 1996 Stittsville 56'ers were inducted into the Goulbourn Sports Wall of Fame, 1955-1956 Rideau District Hockey Champions.

Collection

Artefact Collection: Digital

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Inscription

Location

Back

Transcription

Cliff FIRST ROW (L-R) BERT GORDON, BARRY GRAHAM SECOND ROW (L-R) RED BRADLEY, WELDY PARKS, DENZIL GRAHAM, LARRY ROMHILD, KEITH RUSSELL, PADDY BULLARD, EDDIE GARLAND, DENNIE CRAIG, GARTH GARLAND, DOUG BULLARD, BRUCE MACDOUGAL, ELDIE MCELROY (evoy?), CLIFF NEIL Stittsville 56'rs

Material/Technique

Pencil, Pen

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Photograph, Black-and-White

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects