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1940 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration - Invitation and Letter Seal
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Vertical File Collection
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1940
- Storage Location
- Box 92, File 59
- R5 S4 Sh2 B1
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Vertical File Collection
- Creator
- Elgin County Plowmen's Association
- Description Level
- File
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- Box 92, File 59
- R5 S4 Sh2 B1
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1940
- Physical Description
- 1 p. of textual records
- History / Biographical
- The 1940 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration was held in Elgin County October 15-18, 1940, on lands adjacent to the Technical Training School (formerly and subsequently the Ontario Psychiatric Hospital), St. Thomas, Ontario and on Bannockburn Farms, property of Mitchell F. Hepburn, then Premier of Ontario. The event was held under the auspices of the Ontario Plowmen's Association, with extensive organization by the Elgin County Plowmen's Association.
- Scope and Content
- Letter of invitation to the International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration held in Elgin County October 15-18, 1940 under the auspices of the Ontario Plowmen's Association. Letter was issued by Clarence Patterson, Elgin County Warden under letterhead of the Elgin County Plowmen's Association. Letterhead lists the executive officers of the Elgin County Plowmen's Association and the chairmen of committees for the 1940 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration.
- Letter seal: "International Plowing Match, Elgin County, October 15-18, 1940".
- Name Access
- Elgin County Plowmen's Association
- Subject Access
- Agriculture
- Plowing Matches
- Related Material
- Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration fonds
- Local Committee for the 1985 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Show fonds
- Elgin County Plowmen's Association fonds
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