﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!--RSS Genrated: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:39:38 GMT--><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Farms and Food History</title><link>https://www.farms.com:443%2freflections-on-farm-and-food-history%2flives-lived-archive%2frss%2f387</link><atom:link href="https://www.farms.com:443%2freflections-on-farm-and-food-history%2flives-lived-archive%2frss%2f387" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><description>RSS document</description><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[SuperUser Account]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Hanoverhill Starbuck]]></title><link>https://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/lives-lived-archive/hanoverhill-starbuck</link><description><![CDATA[ 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 ...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/lives-lived-archive/hanoverhill-starbuck</guid></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[SuperUser Account]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Albert Edward Silverwood]]></title><link>https://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/lives-lived-archive/albert-edward-silverwood</link><description><![CDATA[ The founder of Silverwood Dairies, A. E. Silverwood was born in 1876 in Victoria County, Ontario to parents William Alexander Silverwood and Mary Jane Cooney. In 1899 Silverwood got a job for ...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2017 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/lives-lived-archive/albert-edward-silverwood</guid></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[SuperUser Account]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[David Fife]]></title><link>https://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/lives-lived-archive/david-fife</link><description><![CDATA[ The history of Canadian agriculture owes a great debt to the experimental efforts of one man. A Scotch immigrant farmer, David Fife was responsible for introducing a strain of wheat uniquely suited ...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2017 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/lives-lived-archive/david-fife</guid></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[SuperUser Account]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Abraham Doras Shadd]]></title><link>https://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/lives-lived-archive/abraham-doras-shadd</link><description><![CDATA[ Abraham Doras Shadd was born in Wilmington, Delaware on March 2, 1802. The son of a free African-American shoemaker, Abraham was acquainted from a very young age with the prejudice and racism that ...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2018 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/lives-lived-archive/abraham-doras-shadd</guid></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[SuperUser Account]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Daniel Massey]]></title><link>https://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/lives-lived-archive/daniel-massey</link><description><![CDATA[ Daniel Massey was a farmer and farm-implement manufacturer of Upper Canada, notable for being the founder of the Massey farm implement business, the predecessor of the Massey Ferguson company, an ...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/lives-lived-archive/daniel-massey</guid></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[SuperUser Account]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Frederick Stimson]]></title><link>https://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/lives-lived-archive/frederick-stimson</link><description><![CDATA[ The son of a wealthy merchant and farmer Frederick Stimson, born in 1842, had many advantages while growing up in Compton, Quebec. Upon his father’s death Stimson inherited the family farm and much ...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2018 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/lives-lived-archive/frederick-stimson</guid></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[SuperUser Account]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[W.A. Dryden]]></title><link>https://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/lives-lived-archive/wa-dryden</link><description><![CDATA[ William Arthur Dryden was born on May 29, 1881 at Maple Shade Farm in the township of Whitby, Ontario. As the third of four generations of Dryden’s that inhabited lot 20, concession 7, W.A. (or ...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2017 15:10:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/lives-lived-archive/wa-dryden</guid></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[SuperUser Account]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[JOHN LUCAS]]></title><link>https://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/lives-lived-archive/john-lucas</link><description><![CDATA[ John Reynolds Lucas was born at St. John’s River, New Brunswick on May 4, 1800. In 1807, the family moved to a farm on Lake Ontario in Upper Canada near modern-day Burlington. John’s mother Phoebe ...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/lives-lived-archive/john-lucas</guid></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[SuperUser Account]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Norman Dow]]></title><link>https://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/lives-lived-archive/norman-dow</link><description><![CDATA[  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 ...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/lives-lived-archive/norman-dow</guid></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[SuperUser Account]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Craig Switzer]]></title><link>https://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/lives-lived-archive/craig-switzer</link><description><![CDATA[  Farmer; 4-H Club leader; life member and past-president of Erin Agricultural Society. Born Dec. 6, 1948; died Feb. 24, 2017 in Erin, aged 68.  

 Erin-area residents may have known  Craig Switzer ...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2018 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/lives-lived-archive/craig-switzer</guid></item></channel></rss>