'Elgin County Plowing Matches'

Scope and Content: File contains the following:; -a programme for the 1924 Elgin County Plowing Match, held on the farm of J.H. Miller, near Dutton, organized by the Elgin County Plowmen's Association (copy).; -a list of Elgin County Plowing Matches, 1936-1968; lists the year, location, number of plowmen, number of lands plowed and the Champion Plowman.; -an advertisement for the annual Elgin County Plowing Match organized by the Elgin County Plowmen's Association, held beginning October 22, 1929 on the Dominion Canners Farm at Aylmer, just west of Orwell on Highway 3; published in the St. Thomas Times-Journal, October 22, 1929 (copy).; -an advertisement for the 46th Annual Elgin County Plowing Match, held September 6, 1980 at the St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital Farm; taken from the West Lorne Sun and Rodney Mercury, September 4, 1980, p. 8 (copy).; -Dutton Advance newspaper article: "63rd Annual Elgin Plowing Match", September 16, 1998.

Related Material: Elgin County Plowmen's Association fonds; Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration fonds; Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Show fonds