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The hired man’s duties

By Nor’west Farmer September 11, 2018

This is part of an article that appeared in the historic farm publication the Nor’West Farmer in February 1920.  The question of working hours on the farm is one that nearly every reader of this paper is interested in. So this letter will serve as well as another to introduce the subject. A Saskatchewan reader,[...]

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Pioneer sale offers historical insight

By Alex Campbell December 21, 2016

The ad seen here appeared in a fall 1916 edition of the Canadian Thresherman and Farmer magazine. William Staples, Dominion grain commissioner, was selling his farm equipment as his son was on active service with the Canadian military. Staples senior therefore needed to discontinue his farming operation. William Staples was born at Fleetwood, Ontario on[...]

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Agriculture engineers in the early years

By Alex Campbell November 23, 2016

The Manitoba Agricultural Museum holds in its collection the photo seen here, which is thought to show the students of an engineering course at the Manitoba Agricultural College. Manitoba’s rapid growth at the turn of the century prompted the provincial government to support agricultural research and education. The Manitoba Agricultural College (MAC) was established in[...]

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The three-wheel tractor craze

By Alex Campbell November 16, 2016

The images of the 1916 Brandon Light Tractor Plowing Demonstration demonstrate a significant craze in tractor design which was sweeping North America at the time. By 1916 the day of the Prairie-style gas tractor was coming to an end. Designers and manufacturers realized they needed tractors which were suitable for smaller farms and for jobs[...]

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Conventional tractors attracted attention too

By Alex Campbell November 30, 2016

The 1916 Brandon tractor demonstrations attracted a lot of conventional tractors along with the three wheelers. Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Company (MS&MC) brought its Twin City 15-30 tractor. MS&MC started operations by providing structural steel in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Between 1909 and the mid-teens MS&MC supplied tractor engines to Reeves & Company, manufactured the 30-60 Case[...]

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It’s been a century since women gained the right to vote

By Lorraine Stevenson January 28, 2016

Men and women in galleries mark the occasion by singing ‘O Canada.’” “Cheers on the floor of the house...” So declared the headlines of the January 28, 1916 Manitoba Free Press. Jan. 28 marks exactly 100 years since the Manitoba’s legislative assembly gave unanimous approval to the bill that made Manitoba first in Canada to[...]

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The legend of John Ramsay: kindness in the face of tragedy

By Ed Ledohowski July 4, 2013

Timeworn and solitary, the marble gravestone surrounded by picket fence lies in a hayfield overlooking the Lake Winnipeg shoreline about five km. east of Riverton. Its chiselled inscription, in a strange mixture of script and print fonts, reads: “IN Memory of BETSEY. Beloved Wife of JOHN RUMSAY. WHO DIED September 1876. Aged 35 years.” Lone[...]

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The Massey 101 was one cool machine

By Manitoba Agricultural Museum July 11, 2013

When it came to marrying style with functionality, James Duncan was the Steve Jobs of his day and his Massey Harris Model 101 Senior was — and is — as cool as anything to come out of Apple’s design lab. With its streamlined hood, bright-red paint with yellow wheels, chrome trim, and louvred side curtains[...]

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The hired man’s duties

Pioneer sale offers historical insight

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Conventional tractors attracted attention too

It’s been a century since women gained the right to vote

The legend of John Ramsay: kindness in the face of tragedy

The Massey 101 was one cool machine

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