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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

This cartoon, appearing in the June 22, 1940 edition of the Canadian Countryman, was published on the cusp of one of the most decisive turning points in the early phase of

This is an example of an iron post hole digger of the “clamshell digger” variety, so named because of shape of the blades. Unlike modern variants which

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The New Politics

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | NOVEMBER 6, 1919 | THE FARMER'S ADVOCATE

A political revolution has swept the slate clean in the Province of Ontario, and a new era is dawning. During a revolution it is hard to predict whose head will go, and, in the upheaval still fresh in our minds, the weapon placed in the hands of Ontario’s electors fell with a vengeance. The ballot was not in every case, we think, used discreetly, but, unlike revolutions where the

Albert Edward Silverwood

FEBRUARY 15, 1876 – DECEMBER 2, 1961

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 Flavelles Limited of Lindsay Ontario. Two years later he got married to Eva M. Ferris of Lindsay. In 1903 the company placed him at their new location in London, Ontario, a hub for Western Ontario egg and poultry producers. Later that year Silverwood opened Silverwood Produce with just one assistant.

For the first six years Silverwood operated his company with half equity given to Flavelles

Rev. Norbert Jutras

1856 - 1929

Norbert Jutras was born in 1856 in La Baie du Febvre, near Trois-Riviers, Quebec. Jutras was raised on a farm, and he carried with him a keen interest in agriculture and rural communities even as he devoted his life to the Church, a career which would bring him to the Francophone communities of Manitoba. His persistent advocacy in favour of small-scale family farming in opposition to the growing commercialization of agriculture earned him the title, “The Apostle of Mixed Farming.”

A bright young man, Norbert Jutras excelled in his studies and attended the seminary at

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News from our rich agriculture history

Is She Worth Her Keep?

Immigration

POST HOLE DIGGER

The New Politics

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Albert Edward Silverwood

Rev. Norbert Jutras