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Walton coronet
1919
Bendale, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

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Walton band cap
1919
Bendale, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

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Class photo of school section #5, Ellesmere.
5 May 1927
Bendale, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

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Class photo of School Section # 5 Ellesmere (just west of Bendale), taken in 1927. Seven year old Bill Walton sits at the far right end of the front row.
Photo: Scarborough Archives

Bill recalls his school days:

"I went to school at SS #5. It didn't seem to take long to walk to school. It was a mile and a quarter. We didn't think about time at that time. It was a two room school, it was starting to get more modern, it had central heating. You know, sort of shaping up into a more modern type of school.

I went two years to Agincourt Continuation School and then I quit. I wanted to farm anyway and my dad needed help. That was the middle of the depression. There was no incentive to get a job anywhere".

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From Bill Walton's photo collection
1924

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From Bill Walton's photo collection
1928

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Walton Farm
1921
Bendale, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

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"We raised grain and hay and we had pigs and quite a big orchard. The orchard was quite a thing at one time. It kind of petered out".

-Bill Walton

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Walton Farm
1921
Bendale, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

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"There was always something to do. You had cattle there, a daily thing you had to look after. I did take some time off. Ok maybe I did take a few days off, and went somewhere. But you didn't just think you were getting away from it all".

-Bill Walton

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Walton Farm
1921
Bendale, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

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Plowing Match Prize List, cover page
3 November 1926
Bendale, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

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This image and the following three are the pages of the Prize List for a Plowing Match held on the Walton farm on November 3, 1926. Many of the prize donors listed are local Scarborough residents. Organized by The East York Branch of the Ontario Plowmen's Association, the event was billed as 'OPEN TO THE WORLD'.

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Plowing Match Prize List, page two of four
1926
Bendale, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada