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General Correspondence and Administration
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1957-1958
- Storage Location
- R5 S2 Sh6 B1 F1
General Correspondence and Administration
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1959
- Storage Location
- R5 S2 Sh6 B1 F2
Executive and Committee Minutes
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1957-1961
- Storage Location
- R5 S2 Sh6 B1 F7
Financial Statements
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1959-1961
- Storage Location
- R5 S2 Sh6 B1 F8
Wentworth County International Plowing Match 1959
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1959
- Storage Location
- R5 S2 Sh6 B1 F10
Insurance
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1956-1961
- Storage Location
- R5 S2 Sh6 B1 F13
Executive Committee
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm
- Description Level
- Series
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1956-1962
- Storage Location
- R5 S2 Sh6 B1 F1-13
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm
- Description Level
- Series
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- R5 S2 Sh6 B1 F1-13
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1956-1962
- Series
- Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration fonds - Executive Committee series
- Physical Description
- 21.5 cm of textual records
- History / Biographical
- The Executive Committee of the Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration was established under its original name, the Local Provisional Committee, at a meeting held April 17, 1957. The committee was responsible for the general planning and administration of the International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration held October 11-14 in the vicinity of Springfield, Ontario. Members of the committee included Frank Pineo, Chairman; Leslie Armstrong, Vice-Chairman; A.V. Langton, Secretary-Treasurer; and James Galbraith, Assistant Treasurer.
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of records created, collected and maintained by the Executive Committee of the Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration. Series includes correspondence, administrative records, minutes, financial statements and reports.
- Subject Access
- Agriculture
- Plowing Matches
Less detail
Caterers
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1959-1960
- Storage Location
- R5 S2 Sh6 B1 F53
Banquet Committee
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm
- Description Level
- Series
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1959-1960
- Storage Location
- R5 S2 Sh6 B1 F50-53
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm
- Description Level
- Series
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- R5 S2 Sh6 B1 F50-53
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1959-1960
- Series
- Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration fonds - Banquet Committee series
- Physical Description
- 2 cm of textual records
- History / Biographical
- The Banquet Committee of the Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration was established at a meeting of the Executive Committee held September 28, 1959. C.M. Williams was appointed committee chairman. The committee was responsible for organizing the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration Banquet held October 14, 1960 at the St. Thomas-Elgin Memorial Arena, and for regulating the activities of caterers at the International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration held October 11-14, 1960 in the vicinity of Springfield, Ontario.
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of correspondence, banquet programs, banquet tickets and other records created, collected and maintained by the Banquet Committee of the Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration.
- Subject Access
- Agriculture
- Plowing Matches
Less detail
Publicity Committee
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm
- Description Level
- Series
- GMD
- textual records
- objects
- Date Range
- 1959-1961
- Storage Location
- R5 S2 Sh6 B1 F55-60
- R5 S2 Sh6 B2 F1-15
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm
- Description Level
- Series
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- R5 S2 Sh6 B1 F55-60
- R5 S2 Sh6 B2 F1-15
- GMD
- textual records
- objects
- Date Range
- 1959-1961
- Series
- Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration fonds - Publicity Committee series
- Physical Description
- 11.5 cm of textual records
- 10 pins
- 1 pencil
- 1 napkin
- History / Biographical
- The Publicity Committee of the Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration was established at a meeting of the Executive Committee held September 28, 1959. Philip Schliehauf was appointed committee chairman. The committee was responsible for the creation and distribution of official publications and souvenirs, media relations, advertising, and the planning and organiztion of special events at the International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration held October 11-14, 1960 in the vicinity of Springfield, Ontario.
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of various souvenir objects, correspondence, programs, prize lists, brochures, invitations, newspaper and radio features and advertisements, newspaper clippings, media handouts and records relating to the organization of special events at the International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration held October 11-14, 1960 in the vicinity of Springfield, Ontario including the horseshoe pitching contest, Queen of the Furrow contest, Mayors' Class plowing competition, special coaching day for plowmen and Local Counties' Day plowing competitions. Records in this series were created, collected and maintained by the Publicity Committee of the Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration.
- Subject Access
- Agriculture
- Plowing Matches
Less detail
Newspaper Clippings
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1959-1960
- Storage Location
- R5 S2 Sh6 B2 F6
Advertising
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1959-1960
- Storage Location
- R5 S2 Sh6 B2 F7
Local Counties' Day
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Local Committee for the 1960 International Plowing Match and Farm
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1959-1961
- Storage Location
- R5 S2 Sh6 B2 F15
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
Less detail
Financial Statements
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Plowmen’s Association fonds
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1958-1960
- Storage Location
- R5 S2 Sh6 B2 F30
Miscellaneous
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Plowmen’s Association fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- GMD
- textual records
- Date Range
- 1958-1980
- Storage Location
- R5 S2 Sh6 B2 F30-34
Elgin County Plowmen's Association fonds
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Plowmen’s Association fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- GMD
- textual records
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1958-1985
- Storage Location
- R5 S2 Sh6 B2 F16-34
- R4 S1 Sh4 B4 F18-20
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Plowmen’s Association fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- R5 S2 Sh6 B2 F16-34
- R4 S1 Sh4 B4 F18-20
- GMD
- textual records
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1958-1985
- Physical Description
- 12.5 cm of textual records
- 4 photographs : b&w
- History / Biographical
- The Elgin County Plowmen's Association was established in late August, 1922 at a meeting held in the offices of the Elgin County Representative of the Ontario Department of Agriculture and Food, C.W. Buchanan. At this meeting the following executive officers were elected: Alex Anderson, President; William Wadland, First Vice-President; Sam Garton, Second Vice-President; and Fred Carr, Secretary. At the same meeting, the following directors were appointed: Roy Evely; J.J. Ashton; C.W. Buchanan; J.R. Teeple, Reeve, Yarmouth Township; and R.A. Penhale, President, Elgin County Board of Trade.
- The Association organized the inaugural Elgin County Plowing Match, held October 17-18, 1922 on the farms of James Todd and Alex Anderson near St. Thomas, Ontario. An estimated 4,000 people attended the event, won by William Wadland, Yarmouth Township.
- The Second Annual Elgin County Plowing Match was organized by the Elgin County Plowmen's Association and held October 23-24, 1923 on the farms of Mrs. W.A. Hill and D.W. Bearss, just north of St. Thomas, Ontario. William Wadland, Yarmouth Township was declared champion for the second consecutive year.
- The Third Annual Elgin County Plowing Match was held October 29, 1924 on the farm of J.H. Miller, just north of Dutton, Ontario.
- The Elgin County Plowmen's Association continued to organize an annual plowing match in Elgin County for many years, although some years were missed as a result of economic conditions during the depression of the 1930s and the Second World War, 1939-1945.
- The Elgin County Plowmen's Association was a key partner, with the Ontario Plowmen's Association, the County of Elgin and the Elgin County Branch of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, in organizing the International Plowing Match events held in Elgin County in 1940, 1960 and 1985.
- 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 Elgin County Plowmen's Association, including minutes of meetings, records relating to the annual Elgin County plowing match organized by the Association for the period 1979-1984, and records relating to the Association's bid to the Ontario Plowmen's Association to host the 1985 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Show in Elgin County.
Fonds is organized into the following series:
1. Minutes
2. Annual Plowing Match
3. 1985 International Plowing Match Bid
4. Miscellaneous
- 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 fonds
Less detail
Rural Beautification Program Photographs - Fred G. Moyes property
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Local Committee for the 1985 International Plowing Match and Farm
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1955-1985
- Storage Location
- R5 S2 Sh5 B1 F35
Local Committee for the 1985 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Show fonds - County Beautification Committee series
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Local Committee for the 1985 International Plowing Match and Farm
- Description Level
- Series
- GMD
- textual records
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1955-1985, predominant 1982-1985
- Storage Location
- R5 S2 Sh5 B1 F13-48
- R6 S1 Sh4 B2 F1-2
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Local Committee for the 1985 International Plowing Match and Farm
- Description Level
- Series
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- R5 S2 Sh5 B1 F13-48
- R6 S1 Sh4 B2 F1-2
- GMD
- textual records
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1955-1985, predominant 1982-1985
- Series
- Local Committee for the 1985 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Show fonds - County Beautification Committee series
- Physical Description
- 1 cm of textual records
- 83 photographs : col.
- 1 photograph : b&w
- 79 negatives : col.
- 2 posters : 25.5 x 38 cm
- 3 signs : 28 x 35.5 cm or smaller
- History / Biographical
- Under the direction of joint chairmen Harold and Audrey Jenkins, the County Beautification Committee of the Local Committee for the 1985 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Show was responsible for organizing the Elgin Beautification and Farmland Conservation competition at the International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Show held September 17-21, 1985 in the vicinity of St. Thomas, Ontario.
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of records created, collected and maintained by the County Beautification Committee of the Local Committee for the 1985 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Show. Series includes reports and correspondence, and a brochure, posters, signs, photographs and negatives relating to the Elgin Beautification and Farmland Conservation competition.
- Subject Access
- Agriculture
- Plowing Matches
Less detail
'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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