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Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration fonds
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm
- Description Level
- Fonds
- GMD
- textual records
- graphic material
- objects
- Date Range
- 1956-1962
- Storage Location
- R5 S2 Sh6 B1-2
- R4 S1 Sh4 B4
- R4 S1 Sh3 B5
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- R5 S2 Sh6 B1-2
- R4 S1 Sh4 B4
- R4 S1 Sh3 B5
- GMD
- textual records
- graphic material
- objects
- Date Range
- 1956-1962
- Physical Description
- 48 cm of textual records
- 144 photographs : b&w
- 10 pins
- 1 pencil
- 1 napkin
- History / Biographical
- On February 12, 1957 the Elgin County Plowmen's Association organized a meeting of representatives of various Elgin County municipal, civic and agricultural organizations at the offices of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Elgin County Branch in St. Thomas to discuss petitioning the Ontario Plowmen's Association for the right to hold the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration in Elgin County. A delegation was appointed to present the petition at the Ontario Plowmen's Association's annual meeting in Toronto on February 26, 1957, at which time the O.P.A. awarded the event to Elgin County.
The Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration was established on a provisional basis on April 17, 1957, and the following officers were elected: Leslie Armstrong, Chairman; Albert Auckland, Vice-Chairman; A.V. Langton, Secretary-Treasurer and Lands Committee Vice-Chairman; Don Grieve, Associate Secretary-Treasurer; and Ken Bawden, Lands Committee Chairman. The Committee's permanent executive officers, constituent committees and committee chairmen were appointed on September 28, 1959: Frank Pineo was appointed Chairman, Leslie Armstrong Vice-Chairman, A.V. Langton Secretary-Treasurer, and James Galbraith Assistant Treasurer.
The committee was responsible for planning, organizing and administering the International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration held October 11-14, 1960 on the Thomas J. Hume and Sons farm and various neighbouring farms in the vicinity of Springfield, Ontario. The event was sanctioned and sponsored by the Ontario Plowmen's Association, with additional funding support provided by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Elgin County Branch, the County of Elgin and the City of St. Thomas.
- Custodial History
- The records comprising this fonds were originally in the custody of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Elgin County Branch. The branch was closed in the 1990s and the records were transferred to the custody of the Elgin County Library. The records were subsequently transferred to the Elgin County Archives.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of records created, collected and maintained by the Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration and its constituent committees in the course of planning, organizing and administering the International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration held October 11-14, 1960 in the vicinity of Springfield, Ontario.
Fonds is organized into the following series:
1. Executive Committee
2. Tented City Committee
3. Health and Sanitation Committee
4. Lands Committee
5. Tractor Committee
6. Teams and Horse Show Committee
7. Tickets Committee
8. Parking Committee
9. Billets Committee
10. Lunch Committee
11. Wagon Tours Committee
12. Demonstrations Committee
13. County Exhibits Committee
14. Historical Committee
15. Banquet Committee
16. Reception Committee
17. Publicity Committee
18. Photographs
- Name Access
- Elgin County Plowmen's Association
- Subject Access
- Agriculture
- Plowing Matches
- Related Material
- Local Committee for the 1985 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Show fonds
- Elgin County Plowmen's Association fonds
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