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Apple Growers Inspect Orchards
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Stollery Studio fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- August 20, 1946
- Accession Number
- 2018-57
- Storage Location
- M7 S1 Sh3 B1 1_1421
- M7 S1 Sh3 B1 1_1422
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Stollery Studio fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Item Number
- 46-1463
- 46-1464
- Accession Number
- 2018-57
- Storage Room
- Archives 4th Floor Storage Room
- Storage Location
- M7 S1 Sh3 B1 1_1421
- M7 S1 Sh3 B1 1_1422
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- August 20, 1946
- Publication
- 46-1464 (1_1422) was published with article in St. Thomas Times-Journal on August 22, 1946, page one.
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- Physical Description
- 2 negatives : plastic
- Scope and Content
- Photographs of apple growers from Oxford County inspecting Elgin orchards, taken on August 20, 1946.
Caption from St. Thomas Times-Journal: "Oxford Apple Growers Look Over Elgin Orchards: Leading commercial apple growers of Oxford County paid a visit to Elgin County, Wednesday, to inspect several of Elgin's orchards in company with Harold Hambidge, Aylmer, a leading producer of East Elgin; H. P. Aitchison, manager of the Elgin Fruit Crowers' Co-Operative, and Robert R. Waddle, retired Dominion fruit inspector. The Times-Journal photographer caught the visitors and their escorts in one of M. W. Meek's beautiful apple orchards off the Union Road, Southwold, inspecting one of the many trees loaded with snow apples. Mr. Hambidge's new orchard near Staffordville; Frank Heffer's orchards, south and west of Aylmer; the Meek orchards; R. D. Ferguson's orchards on the Union Road, Southwold; the orchards of W. H. Mills and Son, Sparta; and Mr. Hambidge's young orchard off the Caverly road, west of Aylmer, were visited. The part had noonday luncheon at Invererie Heights, Port Stanley. The Oxford growers were favorably impressed witht he apple crop prospects in Elgin. In the above picture, from left to right, are: Arnold Burton, George Laird (secretary and manager of the Oxford Fruit Growers' Co-Operative), Elmer Karn, John Longhurst, Harold Hambidge, R. R. Waddle, H. T. Aitchison and R. Webber (president of the Oxford Fruit Growers' Co-Operative). Oxford's apple crop prospects compare with those in Elgin. Orchard treatment methods and spraying programs and results in Elgin orchards were observed by the visiters."
- Name Access
- Oxford (Ont. : County)
- Southwold (Ont. : Township)
- Subject Access
- Agriculture
- Related Material
- Original photograph sleeve: M7 S1 Sh4 B1 1_242
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