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.

Agriculture as a Profession

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | OCTOBER 16, 1919 | THE FARMER'S ADVOCATE

The word agriculture, derived from the Latin ager - a field plus culture, cultivation, meaning literally the cultivation of a field, the art or science of cultivating the ground, has gradually come to represent a great deal more than the original meaning was intended to convey. In Roman times, when class distinction played such a prominent part, the land was all owned by the patricians or

This advertisement was originally published in 1920 for Carhartt Overalls, a U.S. based work-clothing manufacturer. The brand, originally created for railroad workers, is

This is an example of a metal cream can that would have been familiar on many dairy farms prior to the invention of the mechanical cream separator in the 1880s. Before the

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Do Farmers Take Life Too Seriously

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | AUGUST 19, 1920 | THE FARMERS ADVOCATE

My wife and I have just returned from a trip to the coast; we couldn’t stay as long as we would have liked to, as we had to get back in time for haying. Now that we are back, we are wondering why it is that we have lived here all these years without taking a trip such as we have taken this summer. We’re both feeling a whole lot better for having taken the holiday, and even though

JOHN LUCAS

MAY 4, 1800 - AUGUST 17, 1875

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 died when he was young, so his older sister Rebecca took care of the house. John’s older brothers and his father Clement fought in the War of 1812, beginning a military tradition for the Lucas family that John would continue. The war also brought British soldiers to his community, which sometimes caused tension with the locals. One day, a few British soldiers stole some of

Robert Miller

1857 - 1935

There are few names of more significance to the history of the livestock business in Canada than that of Robert Miller. The famous livestock man was born on July 15, 1857 in Brougham (Pickering), Upper Canada into a Scottish family of immense importance to the livestock community of Ontario. His father, John, had migrated from Scotland to Upper Canada in 1835, bringing livestock with him. His farm, known as Thistle Ha’, was known far and wide, and is currently a National Historic Site. The Millers specialized in Shorthorns, which would dominate the family industry during

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News from our rich agriculture history

Agriculture as a Profession

Carhartt Overalls

Cream Can

Do Farmers Take Life Too Seriously

lives lived

JOHN LUCAS

Robert Miller