Milton - Farming

    Photograph from "The Canadian Champion" courtesy of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food.

    Photograph from "The Canadian Champion"

    Farmer. Died 2001. Inducted into the Ontario Agricultural Hall of Fame 2003. Photograph from "The Canadian Champion"

    Photograph from "The Canadian Champion"

    Ontario Agricultural Museum. Photograph from "The Canadian Champion"

    George Swann was one of the founders of the Milton Farmers Market. Photograph from "The Canadian Champion"

    Note from Ross Pearen - 'A rarity among bovines, these three bull calves would rather have their lunch than pose for the camera, were born to a Holstein cow, 'Cleveland Elsie', owned by W. O. Snow an

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    Amy Merry and her husband Percy Merry farmed on the 6th line in Trafalgar township. In the 1970s she recorded many of her memories of farming in the area in the late 1890s to the 1920s. These were tr

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    SCAN ONLY. See "Halton's Scotch Block - the people and their stories" by Jim Dills and Gloria Brown

    Goat classes, judged by V. F. Sowerby of Ingersoll

    Winners of the 4H Club, Queen and Princess Joyce Wilson and Queen Anne Ruhl.

    Black and white. Lady in sweater and pants holding African violet plant. Lady on left wearing pale coloured suit.

    Cows in barn. Fair Day, interior view of cow barn.

    Largest pumpkin in the show displayed by Mr. Tom Brownridge who won 13 prizes.

    Halton Dairy Queen Carol Swackhamer of Acton presents the Paul Beer Memorial Trophy to Claude Picket.