Museum / Archive

Elgin County Archives

Part Of

St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds

Creator

St. Thomas Times-Journal

Description Level

Item

Accession Number

2008-01

Storage Room

Archives Storage Rm. 105

Storage Location

C8 Sh5 B1 F2 47

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

ca. 1955

Publication

Published in "Harvest of Memories: Elgin's History Through a Photographer's Lens-Volume II" on page 101.

Series

St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds - Aerial Photographs, [195-?] file

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 16 cm

1 photograph : b&w negative

Scope and Content

Black and white aerial photograph and corresponding negative showing Middlemarch, Ontario, ca. 1955. Looking northwest along the Chesapeake and Ohio/C&O (formerly Pere Marquette) rail line, with Fingal Line at right. The Pere Marquette Railway was constructed through Middlemarch in 1900. Many farmers worked with teams of horses building the road bed. Later, a stock yard and a station were also constructed. Freight trains carried cattle, salt and fertilizer into Middlemarch. During the First World War, many farmers shipped milk to Windsor every morning; others shipped wheat, sugar beets, cattle and hogs. At one time, four passenger trains passed through Middlemarch each day.

Name Access

St. Thomas Times-Journal

Middlemarch (Ont.)

Pere Marquette Railway

Chesapeake & Ohio Railway

Subject Access

Newspapers

Railways

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