Agricultural History of Hastings County
- CA ON00156 HCHS/6/2/32
- File
- 2014
Display panels about the history of agriculture in Hastings County.
Agricultural History of Hastings County
Display panels about the history of agriculture in Hastings County.
Display panels on the women who were appointed to be the Hastings County Plowing Match 'Queen of the Furrow'.
Display of newspaper articles on 1986 International Plowing Match
Part of Records of the Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County
Collection of scanned newspaper articles on the 1986 International Plowing Match held at Stirling, Ontario.
Display of photographs of 1986 International Plowing Match
Part of Records of the Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County
Collection of scanned Intelligencer negatives taken at the 1986 International Plowing Match held at Stirling, Ontario.
Biographical notes on Harry Danford of Rawdon Township
Notes on the Danfords of Stirling-Rawdon and nomination for an award for Harry Danford by the Hastings County Plowing Match and Farm Show, 2008.
Danford, Harry
The fonds consists of 633 photographs, 23 negatives, letters, sympathy cards, business cards, newspaper clippings, genealogy and family history and a few business papers belonging to the Smith family, primarily Frank Smith of Madoc. The photographs found in this fonds mainly depict the area around Madoc, with some from Bancroft, Maynooth and other places in Hastings County. A large number of the photographs were taken on vacation or while travelling through Canada and the United States. The photographs were taken in Florida, Atlantic City, Pittsburgh, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Healy Falls, Shaw Falls, Coppercliffe, Ottawa, Port Carling, Gaspe, Napanee, Madoc, Bancroft, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick.
The families primarily depicted in the photographs are the Smith family, McCaw family, Swayne family and Cassidy family. Many of the photographs have names and places written on the back of them. Other people mentioned on the photographs include: Jean Phillips Thompson, Mary Smith Barton, Aunt Vera, Muriel Smith, George Wright, Hugh Pepper, Frank Smith, Frank and Jane Packer Ingersoll, Elizabeth Baker, Martin Porter, Kay Seaton, Helen Whycock, Bessie Woods, Tom Ross, Jack and Ann Yonkers.
There are 3 letters from Henry and Eliza Smith between 1872 and 1874; a birth certificate for Frank Smith, news clippings on the Smith and McCaw families and events in Madoc. There are also family trees and other genealogical information connecting the Smith, McCaw and other families. Much of the information appears to have been gathered by Mary Elizabeth Barton (born Smith: lived from 1921 to 2017).
Smith (family)
Hastings County Junior Farmers materials
Materials relating to the Hastings County Junior Farmers, including:
Hastings County Junior Farmers
The History of The Keilty Potato Farm
This file contains a copy of a school project written by Llarian Keilty from Foxboro Sr. Elementary School. It is titled The History of the Keilty Potato Farm originally purchased by Philip Ball in 1834 located in the Township of Hungerford, Lot 9, Concession #7.
Emma Winter discusses the history of Bishop Seeds company.
Winter, Emma Isabel
Frankie Patterson discusses her life on a farm as a child and her work as a member of the parish at St. Thomas' Church, Belleville.
Patterson, Frankie Louella
Stapley, Forde Samuel Russell/Smith, Sarah Almina/Bird,Kenneth Mulholland
Forde Stapley, Sarah Smith and Kenneth Bird discuss the workings of a stone machine used to remove large boulders from the fields.
Stapley, Forde Samuel Russell
Merle Clark discusses going to school in Actinolite, farming and church activities.
Clark, Merle Blanche
Thurlow Township : maple syrup making 1966
File contains two copies of a newspaper article from the Stirling News Argus concerning maple-syrup making at the Charles Treverton and Sons Farm, near Plainfield in 1966.
Ploughing Match, Hastings County : special edition, 1961
File contains a special edition of The Ontario Intelligencer, 3 October 1961, devoted to the opening ceremonies and daily programs of events of the International Plowing Match, which was hosted by Belleville and Hastings County.
1961 Internatinal Plowing Match Programme
Printed official programme and prize list of the 1961 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration in Belleville, Ontario.
1961 International Plowing Match Brochure
Printed brochure of the 1961 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration in Belleville, Ontario.
1961 Internatinal Plowing Match Poster
Printed poster advertising the 1961 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration in Belleville, Ontario.
1961 International Plowing Match Pass
One individual admittance pass for the 1961 International Plowing Match, belonging to Thomas S. Ransom.
1961 Internatinal Plowing Match Prize List
Printed prize list of the 1961 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration in Belleville, Ontario.
Farmstead Improvement Contest Brochure
Printed brochure of rules, classes, judges, awards, and suggestions for the Hastings County Farmstead Improvement Contest, part of the 1961 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration in Belleville, Ontario.