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Hallowe'en Fun on the Farm

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | OCTOBER 18, 1924 | CANADIAN COUNTRYMAN

Hallowe’en comes at such a fine time of the year for the boys and girls on the farm. Better decorations than money can buy are at hand without any cost, but the times spent in gathering and arranging them. Huge shocks of corn stacked in the corners, branches of leaves turned red and gold with autumnal colouring and made brighter by contrast with small fir trees and pieces of evergreen,

This cartoon first appeared in a December 1944 edition of Canadian Countryman. It depicts an imprisoned man representing “world trade” sitting in his cell,

This is an example of an antique cast iron hand drill from an unknown time period. As with their modern, electrified counterparts, the human-powered hand drill was used to

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The Back-to-the-City Movement

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | JULY 8, 1920 | THE FARMER'S ADVOCATE

Go into any city or town in Canada to-day, and try to rent a house in which to live, and you will find that houses are as scarce as Hebrews in Aberdeenshire. The people of our towns and cities are huddled together like herrings in a box. They are glad to pay $50 monthly to a landlord for a respectable six-roomed house on a respectable street. Many of them, unable to rent houses, have had to

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

Edward Alexander Partridge

NOVEMBER 5, 1861 - AUGUST 3, 1931

Edward Alexander Partridge was born on a farm in Vespra Township, Simcoe County on November 5, 1861. His Methodist upbringing, though imperilled by an early crisis of faith, imparted in Edward a keen sensitivity towards injustice, and a stubborn belief in the perfectibility of man that would inform his later radicalism. A bright and hard-working young man, Edward attended high school in Barrie and became a schoolteacher upon graduation; but he could not escape his desire to return to the land. In 1883, Edward and his brother left Ontario to seek opportunity on the expanding western

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News from our rich agriculture history

Hallowe'en Fun on the Farm

IMPRISONED WORLD TRADE

Hand Drill

The Back-to-the-City Movement

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Rev. Norbert Jutras

Edward Alexander Partridge