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 Farmers’ Creditors Arrangement Act

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | OCTOBER 1934 | THE FARMER

Important among the several new laws and regulations affecting the farmer, which were passed at this year’s session of the Dominion Parliament, is the Farmers’ Creditors Arrangement Act which provides for a simple and inexpensive legal procedure by which a farmer over-burdened with debt may arrange a compromise with his creditors and so get off to a new start, financially speaking.

This advertisement appeared in the July 13, 1940 edition of Canadian Countryman. It was taken out by the Bell Telephone Company of Canada (now Bell Canada) to advertise

This is one of the first “batch freezers” produced by Emery Thompson in the early twentieth-century. Based on a design he had originally patented in 1906, this

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Angry Farmer Challenges Wage Rates Paid on Government Projects

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | SEPTEMBER 21, 1940 | CANADIAN COUNTRYMAN

I am angry! As a matter of fact I am boiling mad!

All this past year we farmers have listened up to “no profiteering this war”. We have had the price of many of our products set at cost or below, but we have cheerfully carried on feeling that we were being patriotic. We have paid higher costs for almost everything we purchased and paid our labor somewhat higher wages and

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

John G. Barron

OCTOBER 27, 1850 - FEBRUARY 12, 1926

John G. Barron was one of Manitoba’s earliest and most celebrated cattle breeders in the province’s history. Barron’s success in breeding Shorthorn cattle won him a great number of medals at fairs and livestock shows across North America. The fruits of John’s success extended beyond his own immediate family to his adopted community of Carberry, Manitoba. In 1920 the editor of the local paper claimed that John Barron did more “than anyone else to put Carberry on the map of Canada.”

John Gerrie Barron was born in Elora, Upper Canada (modern-day

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News from our rich agriculture history

The Farmers’ Creditors Arrangement Act

Bell Telephone Ad

Freezer

Angry Farmer Challenges Wage Rates Paid on Government Projects

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Hanoverhill Starbuck

John G. Barron