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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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1940 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration - Official Programme and Prize List
- 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 58
- R5 S4 Sh2 B1
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Vertical File Collection
- Creator
- Ontario Plowmen's Association
- Description Level
- File
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- Box 92, File 58
- R5 S4 Sh2 B1
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1940
- Physical Description
- 0.5 cm 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
- Official programme and prize list for the 1940 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration held in 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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Elgin County Exhibit, International Plowing Match, St. Thomas, Ontario, 1940
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Vertical File Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1940
- Storage Location
- C5 Sh7
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Vertical File Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 105
- Storage Location
- C5 Sh7
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1940
- Physical Description
- 6 photographs : b&w on sheet 51 x 94 cm
- Scope and Content
- Exhibit comprising six black and white photographs mounted on cardboard with the legend "Elgin County Exhibit, International Plowing Match, St. Thomas, Ontario, 1940". Five photographs depict various exhibits of Elgin County agricultural produce displayed in the County Exhibits tent at the 1940 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration 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. One image shows the exterior of the tent. Fragment of backing sheet attached to frame indicates that item was framed by Bishop's Art Store, 307 Talbot St., St. Thomas.
- Name Access
- St. Thomas (Ont.)
- Subject Access
- Agriculture
- Plowing Matches
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Elgin County Plowing Match
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Stollery Studio fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- October 7, 1946
- Accession Number
- 2018-57
- Storage Location
- M7 S1 Sh3 B1 1_1433
- M7 S1 Sh3 B1 1_1434
- M7 S1 Sh3 B1 1_1435
- M7 S1 Sh3 B1 1_1436
- M7 S1 Sh3 B1 1_1437
- M7 S1 Sh3 B1 1_1438
- M7 S1 Sh3 B1 1_1439
- M7 S1 Sh3 B1 1_1440
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Stollery Studio fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Item Number
- 46-1905 (1_1433)
- 46-1906 (1_1434)
- 46-1907 (1_1435)
- 46-1908 (1_1436)
- 46-1909 (1_1437)
- 46-1910 (1_1438)
- 46-1911 (1_1439)
- 46-1912 (1_1440)
- Accession Number
- 2018-57
- Storage Room
- Archives 4th Floor Storage Room
- Storage Location
- M7 S1 Sh3 B1 1_1433
- M7 S1 Sh3 B1 1_1434
- M7 S1 Sh3 B1 1_1435
- M7 S1 Sh3 B1 1_1436
- M7 S1 Sh3 B1 1_1437
- M7 S1 Sh3 B1 1_1438
- M7 S1 Sh3 B1 1_1439
- M7 S1 Sh3 B1 1_1440
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- October 7, 1946
- Publication
- 1_1430 and 1_1432 were published with article in St. Thomas Times-Journal on September 10, 1946, page one.
- Physical Description
- 8 negatives : plastic
- Scope and Content
- Photographs of the Elgin County Ploughing Match, taken on October 7, 1946.
Caption from St. Thomas Times-Journal: "At the Elgin County Plowing Match on Monday: Exceptionally Good Work of Elgin Men at Revival of Plowing Match; Dinner Held: Contestants Not as Numerous as the Matches Before War, but Enthusiasm Is High and Display Is Meriorious One; J. A. Carroll Speaks."
1_1435: "The youngest ploughman at the Match was Keith Benner, age 17, who competed in the three furrow plowing class in tractor, in stubble. Keith has been plowing for at least five years and can keep his end up with many ploughmen two or three times his age. His home is about six miles east of Aylmer. He finished second in his class."
1_1436: "The oldest woman spectator at the ploughing match was Mrs. Hannah Hepburn of New Sarum, wodpw of Mylson Hepburn, pioneer resident of that district, who died about a year ago. Mrs. Hepburn is 85 years old. She took a keener interest in the plowing events than many of the younger people. She admitted that she had never plowed on her husband's farm but said: "I've done about everything else - hauled in hay, pitched sheaves, milked cows and work like that." Born in the British Isles, Mrs. Hepburn came to Canada in her youth. She has been back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean five times and wouldn't mind making another trip."
1_1440: "Three young women competitors at the Match attracted the interest of hundreds of spectators and won the commendation of the judges and J. A. Carroll, managing secretary of the Ontario Plowman's Assocation, for their good work. Mrs. Grace Johnson, of Mossley, shown above, on the tractor she shared with her husband, John Johnson, finished a close second to Mrs. Cliff Bartlett, of Vienna, in the women's class. She took first in the Harrietsville match last week. Before her marriage Mrs. Johnson, like Mrs. Wilma Schackleton, of Belmont, another competitor at the Elgin match, was a trained nurse on the staff of Victoria Hospital, London, where she trained and graduated. "I think I'd rather do a day's nursink [sic] than this," she said, as the photograph was taken."
1_1438: "The oldest plowman by far at the Match was Alex McCormick, of Shedden, who is in his 82nd year and has been plowing sicne he was a boy of 14 or 15 years. He plowed a land in sod, using the sturdy old all-steel high cut plow with which he completed and won prizes at matches in bioth Canada and the United States over a period of about half a century. Mr. McCormick's plowing was one of the centres of attraction at the Match. He was presented with a special prize by the Elgin County Plowmen's Association.
1_1433: "A corn loader made when he was 80 years of age and still being operated by him at the age of 84 years was exhibited by C. W. Trigger, R. R. 6., St. Thomas, a pioneer farmer off the Wellington Road, Yarmouth, at the plowing match. Mr. Trigger is shown in the above picture explaining his corn loader to Charles D. Coyle, M. P. for Eglin, and to James McBain, deputy reeve of Yarmouth, his stepson. The exhibition of home-made farm machinery and equipment was under the direction of Frank Webster, assistant agricultural representative in Elgin."
- Subject Access
- Plowing Matches
- Agriculture
- Related Material
- Original photograph sleeve: M7 S1 Sh4 B1 1_247
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'Elgin County Plowing Matches'
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Vertical File Collection
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1924-1998
- Storage Location
- Box 93, File 39
- R5 S4 Sh2 B2
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Vertical File Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- Box 93, File 39
- R5 S4 Sh2 B2
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1924-1998
- Physical Description
- 9 p. of textual records
- 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.
- Subject Access
- Agriculture
- Plowing Matches
- 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
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Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food. Elgin County Branch fonds
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food. Elgin County Branch fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- GMD
- textual records
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1940-1984
- Accession Number
- 2011-30
- 2011-35
- Storage Location
- R5 S2 Sh4 B1
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food. Elgin County Branch fonds
- Creator
- Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food. Elgin County Branch
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Accession Number
- 2011-30
- 2011-35
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- R5 S2 Sh4 B1
- GMD
- textual records
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1940-1984
- Physical Description
- 34.5 cm of textual records
- 119 photographs : b&w
- History / Biographical
- In 1907 the Ontario Department of Agriculture established its Extension Branch to set up and administer a network of branch offices in each county to provide advice and assistance to farmers and agricultural organizations at the local level. The Elgin County Branch office was established in 1911, largely as a result of the vigorous lobbying efforts of Wallacetown, Ontario resident John E. Pearce.
Each Extension Branch office was headed by the resident Agricultural Representative. Fred Moore Clement of Lincoln County arrived in 1911 as the first Agricultural Representative for Elgin County. Mr. Clement was succeeded by Charles W. Buchanan, who served until 1927. Following Mr. Buchanan were Fletcher S. Thomas (1927-1945), A.O. Dalrymple (1945-1946), A. Victor Langton (1946-1972), Harold Buck (1972-1980), John A. Anderson (1980-[1985?]), and David Murray ([1985?]-[1996?]).
By 1923 the Elgin County Branch office of the Ontario Department of Agriculture was situated at 371 Talbot St., St. Thomas, Ontario, subsequently known as the Royal Bank Building. The office relocated in early 1965 to 594 Talbot St., St. Thomas.
In a press release issued May 22, 1996, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food announced the closure of its St. Thomas, Ontario branch office and the consolidation of its functions in a new regional Ministry office to be opened in London, Ontario.
- Custodial History
- Records comprising the fonds were in the custody of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Elgin County Branch, St. Thomas, Ontario until its closure in May, 1996. Records were transferred to the custody of the Elgin County Library and subsequently transferred to the Elgin County Archives.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of various records created, collected and maintained by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Elgin County Branch, St. Thomas, Ontario. Records include annual reports; records relating to the 1959-1960 Elgin Farmstead Improvement Contest and the Elgin Farmstead Improvement Centennial Contest (1965-1967); and miscellaneous records and photographs documenting agricultural events, activities and organizations in Elgin County.
- Fonds is arranged into the following series:
- 1. Annual Reports, 1955-1965
- 2. Farmstead Improvement Contest, 1959-1971
- 3. Photographs, 1940-1979
- 4. Miscellaneous, 1954-1984
- Name Access
- Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food. Elgin County Branch (St. Thomas, Ont.)
- St. Thomas (Ont.)
- Subject Access
- Agriculture
- Plowing Matches
- Related Material
- Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration fonds
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Peter Burwell's Oxen Team
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Eden Women's Institute fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1940
- Accession Number
- 2005-04
- Storage Location
- R7 S5 Sh1 B2 63a
- R7 S5 Sh1 B2 63b
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Eden Women's Institute fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession Number
- 2005-04
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- R7 S5 Sh1 B2 63a
- R7 S5 Sh1 B2 63b
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1940
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w
- Scope and Content
- Two black and white photographs show (63a) Peter Burwell and family of Eden with their team of oxen, "Jiggs and Wimpy" pulling a wagon. (63b) shows the team of oxen at the first Plowing Match at Mitch Hepburn's farm near St. Thomas. Peter Burwell drove the oxen and Kenneth Waterworth took the plow handles.
Included in the Eden Women's Institute Tweedsmuir History, Volume One.
- Name Access
- Eden Women's Institute
- Eden (Ont.)
- Subject Access
- Plowing Matches
- Agriculture
- Website / Street View Notes
- Link directs to the source information for this image, from the Tweedsmuir book.
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Plowing Match
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Stollery Studio fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- October 26, 1949
- Accession Number
- 2018-57
- Storage Location
- M7 S1 Sh2 B2 2_2460
- M7 S1 Sh2 B2 2_2461
- M7 S1 Sh2 B2 2_2462
- M7 S1 Sh2 B2 2_2463
- M7 S1 Sh2 B2 2_2464
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Stollery Studio fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Item Number
- 49-3076 (2_2460)
- 49-3077 (2_2461)
- 49-3078 (2_2462)
- 49-3079 (2_2463)
- 49-3080 (2_2464)
- Accession Number
- 2018-57
- Storage Room
- Archives 4th Floor Storage Room
- Storage Location
- M7 S1 Sh2 B2 2_2460
- M7 S1 Sh2 B2 2_2461
- M7 S1 Sh2 B2 2_2462
- M7 S1 Sh2 B2 2_2463
- M7 S1 Sh2 B2 2_2464
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- October 26, 1949
- Publication
- 2_2460 was published in St. Thomas Times-Journal on October 27, 1949, page one.
- 2_2462 was published in St. Thomas Times-Journal on October 27, 1949, page six.
- Physical Description
- 5 negatives: plastic
- Scope and Content
- Photographs of the Plowing match.
Caption from St. Thomas Times-Journal on October 27, 1949, page one: “Young Women Compete in Tractor Plowing.”
2_2460: “Five young women competed in tractor sod plowing at the Elgin County match, on Wednesday, the largest number of fair contestants at a County match in several years. Front row, left to right: Anne Blue, Wallacetown, who finished fourth; Helen Pettit, St. Thomas, third; Margaret McWilliams, Wallacetown, who took first honors. Back row: Mrs. Ethel Longfield, Mossley, fifth; and Cela McKillop, Wallacetown, second.”
Caption from St. Thomas Times-Journal on October 27, 1949, page six: “Plowmen’s President Prize Winner.”
2_2462: “Fred Charlton, Springfield, president of the Elgin County Plowmen’s Association, was a busy man at the match Wednesday. But he wasn’t so busy attending to his official duties hat he couldn’t go out and take seconds prise in the tractor playing in sod for Junior Farmers, 17 to 26 years. Harold Ellis, also from the Aylmer-Springfield district, took first prize in this class and also the special for the highest scoring land in the junior section with 83 point.”
- Subject Access
- Plowing Matches
- Related Material
- Original photograph sleeve: M7 S1 Sh4 B7 7_320
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Plowing Match at Talbotville
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Stollery Studio fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- October 9, 1947
- Accession Number
- 2018-57
- Storage Location
- M7 S1 Sh3 B2 2_3838
- M7 S1 Sh3 B2 2_3839
- M7 S1 Sh3 B2 2_3840
- M7 S1 Sh3 B2 2_3841
- M7 S1 Sh3 B2 2_3842
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Stollery Studio fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Item Number
- 47-3654 (2_3838)
- 47-3655 (2_3839)
- 47-3656 (2_3840)
- 47-3657 (2_3841)
- 47-3658 (2_3842)
- Accession Number
- 2018-57
- Storage Room
- Archives 4th Floor Storage Room
- Storage Location
- M7 S1 Sh3 B2 2_3838
- M7 S1 Sh3 B2 2_3839
- M7 S1 Sh3 B2 2_3840
- M7 S1 Sh3 B2 2_3841
- M7 S1 Sh3 B2 2_3842
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- October 9, 1947
- Publication
- 2_3838 and 2_3839 were published with article in St. Thomas Times-Journal on October 10, 1947, page twenty.
- 2_3840 was published with article in St. Thomas Times-Journal on October 10, 1947, page one.
- Physical Description
- 5 negatives : plastic
- Scope and Content
- Photographs of the Elgin County Plowing Match held at Talbotville.
Caption from St. Thomas Times-Journal, October 10, 1947, page twenty: "At Elgin County Plowing Match at Talbotville: Greater Competition Need of Elgin Plowing Matches: Response of Contestants Disappointing, Thursday; Especially Among Juniors; Winners Announced."
2_3838: "Indians take to plowing. Here are three from the Oneida Reserve (left to right): Sam Thomas, James Hill and Elijah Antone. They competed in Class No. 1, sod, walking plow."
2_3839: "For years Alex McCormick, 82, of Shedden, has held the honor of being the oldest competitor at the annual Elgin Plowing Matches. This year he was again in the centre of things at the match held Thursday at the Auckland farms at Talbotville. Here he is seen (centre) shaking hands with Elgin's Warden, James McBain, as Agricultural Representative Vic Langton looks on. Mr. McCormick has been plowing for almost 70 years, and has used the same plow for 50 years. He retired from farming 30 years ago after hurting his knee while working on the farm. However, he says he can still show a lot of the younger fellows how to plow. Competition in plowing with a team isn't as tough now as it was 50 years ago."
2_3840: "Elgin County Plowing Match at Talbotville: General View of the Event; Held on the Adjoining Farm of Walter and Ralph Auckland."
- Name Access
- Talbotville (Ont.)
- Subject Access
- Agriculture
- Farm life
- Farming
- Plowing
- Plowing Matches
- Related Material
- Original photograph sleeve: M7 S1 Sh4 B3 3_348
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Plowing Match at Wallacetown
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Stollery Studio fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- October 27, 1948
- Accession Number
- 2018-57
- Storage Location
- M7 S1 Sh2 B1 1_3600
- M7 S1 Sh2 B1 1_3601
- M7 S1 Sh2 B1 1_3602
- M7 S1 Sh2 B1 1_3603
- M7 S1 Sh2 B1 1_3604
- M7 S1 Sh2 B1 1_3605
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Stollery Studio fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Item Number
- 48-3718 (1_3600)
- 48-3719 (1_3601)
- 48-3720 (1_3602)
- 48-3721 (1_3603)
- 48-3722 (1_3604)
- 48-3723 (1_3605)
- Accession Number
- 2018-57
- Storage Room
- Archives 4th Floor Storage Room
- Storage Location
- M7 S1 Sh2 B1 1_3600
- M7 S1 Sh2 B1 1_3601
- M7 S1 Sh2 B1 1_3602
- M7 S1 Sh2 B1 1_3603
- M7 S1 Sh2 B1 1_3604
- M7 S1 Sh2 B1 1_3605
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- October 27, 1948
- Publication
- 1_3600, 1_3601, and 1_3604 were published with article in St. Thomas Times-Journal on October 27, 1948, page twelve.
- Physical Description
- 6 negatives : plastic
- Scope and Content
- Photographs of contestants and attendees at the Elgin County Plowing Match held at Wallacetown.
Captions from St. Thomas Times-Journal: "Elgin Plowing Contests Attract Record Crowds; Largest Match in Years."
"Team Drawing Competition Is Feature Attraction; So Many Plowing Contestants Second Farm In Wallacetown Area Has To Be Used."
1_3600: "A Plowing Family - The lyons boys really took the lion's share of the honors in the horse plowing class, open to Elgin contestants only, at the Elgin County Plowing Match at Wallacetown, Wednesday. In the order of their ages, they finished first, second and third. They were photographed right after the match with their proud mother, Mrs. Roy Lyons, 4 Omemee street, St. Thomas. Left to right: Douglas Lyons, aged 27, Wallacetown, who finished third; Mrs. Lyons; Wallace Lyons, 38, Iona Station, who finished second; Ray Lyons, 40, Dutton, who took first honors."
1_3601: "Team Drawing Contest - A sturdy team owned and driven by N. C. Srigley of Wheatley, Ont., tied for first place in the team drawing match which was a feature of the Elgin Plowing Match. The contest was a novelty for this district and attracted hundreds of spectators. The teams had to draw a stoneboat, loaded with bags of gravel, at least 12 inches, in three trials. The dead weight of the final load was about four tons. Mr. Srigley also won the special prize he put up for the best teamster in the match."
1_3604: "Only Woman Contestant - Mrs. Douglas Lyons of Wallacetown was the only woman to plow in the Elgin County match, Wednesday. It was her first attempt to plow in a match and she had only plowed about three hours previuosly/ While she was winning honors in her class, her husband, Douglas Lyons, took third prize in the horse plowing class for Elgin contestants. They are shown above measuring the furrows in Mrs. Lyons' land."
- Name Access
- Elgin County Plowmen's Association
- Wallacetown (Ont.)
- Subject Access
- Plowing
- Plowing Matches
- Farm life
- Farming
- Related Material
- Original photograph sleeve: M7 S1 Sh4 B5 5_360
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Plowing Match Judging
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Clachan Women's Institute fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1948
- Accession Number
- 2015-20
- Storage Location
- R3 S1 Sh6 B3 103
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