Ontario Hog Producers Campaign Drives Halton Reach
An Ontario information campaign started in Halton as part of a province wide effort involving 5,000 volunteers to inform 40,000 to 50,000 hog producers. Canvassers plan 10 to 15 farm visits per person to promote the Hog Producers Marketing Program and distribute government hog management guidance.
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Ontario Hog Producers Marketing Agency
Halton
Ed Davenport
Ontario Federation of Agriculture
Ontario Hog Producers’ Association
Ontario
Camvassers
Canada
Real Estate Tops Spring Talk Among Farm Operators
Farmers gather to discuss real estate options and sales agreements as spring farewells farming incentives. Reports from Dundas Street to Queen Elizabeth highlight sales activity and shifting incentives, shaping ongoing land transactions.
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Dundas Street
Queen Elizabeth
Land Prices Spark Speculation In Trafalgar Township
In Snyder's Corners Trafalgar township land sells from 1000 to 2000 dollars per acre while areas north to the Hornby base line fetch 500 to 900 dollars per acre. The text notes farming intent is low and questions what farms are being purchased for, suggesting real estate speculation as the likely motive.
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Snyder's Corners
Trafalgar Township
Hornby Base
Halton 1913 Agriculture Survey Highlights Roads and Labor
A 1913 thesis by George Wilson, former Ontario Agricultural College student and now director of the Fruit Branch, notes transportation plans for a Hamilton to Toronto concrete road funded by Wentworth Halton Peel York and others totaling 600 000 for 40 miles. It contrasts early absence of highways with modern routes Lakeshore 2 Queen Elizabeth Dundas No 2 No 7 and No 25 and mentions new survey work for the 401 and potential future aviation strips. It also covers labor saving devices raising farm efficiency yet labor scarcity keeps wages around 25 per month, and warns weeds like ragweed mustard ox-eye daisy mullein false flax Canadian thistle couch grass sow thistle and notes the spread of wild carrot chicory bladder campion and leafy spurge since then.
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Halton County
George Wilson
George
Lakeshore Highway
Bronte
Ontario Agricultural College
Ontario Department of Agriculture
Oakville
Hamilton
Toronto
Wentworth
Halton
Peel
York
Ontario
Queen Elizabeth
Dundas Street
Hornby
Campbellville
Milton
Trafalgar
Wilson
Burlington to Pay 25 Per Cent of New Nelson High School
Nelson council debates a by law to share the $1.2 million high school cost with Burlington paying 25 percent and Nelson 75 percent. The by law goes to Toronto for approval after a board deputation outlines expected enrolment, site and future growth.
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Burlington
New Nelson
Nelson Council
Burington
Toronto
Burlington District High School Board
M. M. Robinson
Hughes Cleaver
G. W. Johnstone
Cleaver
Nelso
Robinson
Nelson
East Flamboro
Guelph
Trafalgar
Q. FE
Council
New St
Oakville Snow Cost Burden Hits Town Finances
Oakville taxpayers faced a sizable snow removal bill of 5334 dollars for the period from November 1935 to the present. The figure, cited by assistant clerk Dennis Camm, covers sand costs and slipperiness control as streets thaw each spring.
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Oakville
Dennis Camm
Papa
Mom
Agr Rep Service in Halton County Since 1914
A retro look at Halton County Agricultural Representative office origins from Burlington opening on June 1 1914 with H R Hare, through shifts to Milton, and a 1934 handoff to the writer who recalls the evolving real estate climate and a 1917 tractor rental policy amid wartime food production. The piece notes a quizzical 1917 statement about repair billing by the Tractor Company.
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Agricultural Representative Service
Halton
Rep
Burlington
H. R. Hare
R. R. Fleming
Milton
D. A. Andrew
Alex P. Mac Vannel
A. G. Kirstine
Shorty
Ontario Department of Agriculture
Nelson Council Seeks Rescission of Hamilton Annexation Bill
Nelson council says Ontario legislature should rescind the bill that awards about 60 acres of township land to the City of Hamilton along with Hamilton Beach annexation and a strip of Burlington. Dr Walter Chadwick prompted the move citing no prior notice or discussion. Reeve Harold Adkins to write Minister William Goodfellow requesting action to reverse the change.
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Nelson Council
Ontario Legislaure
Hamilton
Hamilton Beach
Burlington
Walter Chadwick
Downship Council
Chadwick
Harold Adkins
William A. Goodfellow
Nelson
Hamilton Bay
Esquesing Council Buys Truck and Rejects Hospital Grant
Regular Esquesing Township Council meeting with Reeve Linham presiding heard Bradford Clements and George Brown discuss employee insurance. Mavela Motors won a $2,383 tender for a one ton truck subject to Highway Department approval. Treas urer ordered payment of multiple local accounts and fees. Alvin Anderson, James Carney and Spencer Wilson joined Hornby Community Park Board. The council declined hospital funding until Dr. Agnew reports to County Council. A by law to use the Esquesing Fire Area No 1 truck for mutual aid passed.
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Esquesing
Reeve Linham
Bradford Clements
George Brown
Mavela “Motors
Department of Highways
Bell Telephone Co
Halton Registry Office
the Municipal World
Town of Georgetown
Switzer
Arthur Scott Motors Ltd
Town of Milton
Gillies and Switzer
Milton
Acton Free Press
Acton
Alvin Anderson
James Carney
Spencer Wilson
Hornby
Esquesing Fire Area No. 1
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Halton Agriculture Survey
Hinton’s
Ag Rep
W. OH. Denny
State Farm
Mia
Ww. H. ‘Denny
Brock St
Thad
Ixve
Doug Manning
Alrdravs Jersey Dairy Don Timmings
Cape Cod
Churchill Highlands
Wright
Wilbur St
Insuror
Council of the Corporation of
E. G. Tyler
HYDRO
Ontario Hydro
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