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Michigan Central Railroad Employees Band
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Anderson family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1920
- Accession Number
- 2004-05
- Storage Location
- C5 Sh5 B2 F3
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Anderson family fonds
- Creator
- John Jackson
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession Number
- 2004-05
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 105
- Storage Location
- C5 Sh5 B2 F3
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1920
- Publication
- Published in "Harvest of Memories: Elgin's History Through a Photographer's Lens-Volume II" on page 161.
- Series
- Anderson family fonds - Photographs series
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.5 x 25 cm on sheet 29 x 35 cm
- Scope and Content
- Black and white photograph showing the Michigan Central Railroad Employees Band, St. Thomas, Ontario, posed on the front steps of the Elgin County Court House, 1920. John Jackson photograph. Standing, left to right: P. Cain (President), R. Eddleston (Secretary), Ed. Mitchener, P. Powless, Ed. McGhee, R. Knight, Wm. Waters, R. Bell, Wm. Smith, Wm. Robinson, Fred. Hardy, C.W. Adams (Hon. Secretary), E.R. Webb (Hon. President). Sitting, middle row, left to right: F. Crute, J. Gant, E. Andrews, W. Taylor (Leader), F. McLauchlan, W. Barnwell, S. Read, J. Atkinson. Sitting, front row, left to right: J. Mitchener, J. Schuyler, D. Wilkinson, C. Hayden, A. Demcie, A. Allen, Chas. Rowe." Peter Powless, 190064 served in the First World War as a member of the 91st Battalion. This photograph was published in the St. Thomas Times-Journal, July 24, 1920, p. 9.
- Name Access
- Michigan Central Railway
- Michigan Central Railroad
- St. Thomas (Ont.)
- 91st Battalion
- Elgin County Courthouse
- Subject Access
- Elgin County Courthouse
- First World War
- Music
- First Nations
- Aboriginal Peoples
- Native Peoples
- 91st Battalion
- Railways
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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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