News from our rich agriculture history

The Farms.com farm and rural history website is dedicated to celebrating and digitizing the last 150 years of success in the Canadian agriculture and food industry. The agriculture and food industries in Canada have a rich heritage of innovation, and have laid a foundation of excellence upon which we continue to grow. We celebrate Canada’s food and agriculture innovations on these pages.

THE EIGHT-HOUR DAY

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | APRIL 1, 1920 | THE FARMER'S ADVOCATE

The fact that the eight-hour day was dragged into the Peace Conference does not dress it up in any more attractive form to present to the Canadian electorate, and it is evident that our parliamentarians and legislators realize how ill-timed any eight-hour day legislation would be at present. In fact, none of them show any desire to risk burning their fingers by enacting an eight-hour day,

This cartoon originally appeared in the March 9, 1940 issue of Canadian Countryman. It is a humorous depiction of the reforestation spirit that was sweeping the nation

This is an example of a pedal-powered grinder produced by Deering in the late 19th-century. Using the simple combination of a grindstone turned by the operation of

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Is She Worth Her Keep?

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | JUNE 24, 1920 | THE FARMER'S ADVOCATE

NO; the school-teacher has not been of much account. In the rural districts she has, perhaps, been a leader, socially, but she has not been of very much account. If she had been, or, rather, if her office had been considered so, trustees would have “tumbled over themselves” trying, first to get the best woman available for the place, and then to give her a salary commensurate with

Hanoverhill Starbuck

APRIL 1979 - SEPTEMBER 1998

Farming and agriculture is a large field with many hard-working men and women who dedicate their lives to their work. However, the most important part of many farms, and often the most overlooked aspect of the industry, is the animals who provide for us. One truly incredible animal who provided quite a lot for the agricultural industry and the food industry as a whole was the bull Hanoverhill Starbuck. Born in April of 1979 on Hanover Hill Holstein, Starbuck became an exceptional breeder.

In May of 1979 two sire analysts from Quebec were visiting Ontario looking for new young

Norman Dow

JULY 24, 1920 – NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Farmer; Second World War veteran; International Plowing Match and Rural Expo enthusiast. Born July 24, 1920. Died, aged 97, on Nov. 6, 2017 in Mitchell.

Norman Dow used to tell a story about the pig who rode with him in the cab of an army truck he drove in Italy during the Second World War.

The piglet appeared as a practical joke in the bed of an unfavoured corporal, Norman reported once to The Memory Project, a Historica Canada platform. “The (men) decided that, since I was a farmer, I probably knew how to look after it,” he said. The animal

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News from our rich agriculture history

THE EIGHT-HOUR DAY

REFORESTATION

FOOT POWER GRINDER

Is She Worth Her Keep?

lives lived

Hanoverhill Starbuck

Norman Dow