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PID: ourstories:8647
Title: Muck Growers' Conference Awards
Date: 1975
Subjects
Description: Awards presentation at the Muck Growers' Conference. From left: William Watson Jr., Charlie Davis, Dick Hilliard.

PID: ourstories:10104
Title: Marsh Hay
Date
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Description: Horse hooked up to a baler from 1907.

PID: ourstories:8703
Title: Farm Truck
Date
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Description: One of the trucks that hauled produce from Selkirk Gardens to Toronto in the early 1930s.

PID: ourstories:10057
Title: Marsh Farming
Date
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Description: An early planter on the marsh.

PID: ourstories:11370
Title: Harvesting
Date
Subjects: tractor--agriculture--field--crate
Description: Photo of two tractors pulling wagons loaded with pallet boxes in the Holland Marsh.,

PID: ourstories:11233
Title: Mechanized Harvesting
Date
Subjects: agriculture--tractor--machinery--labour
Description: Photo of two men, one driving a tractor pulling a wagon and one operating a mechanized harvesting machine, in the,

PID: ourstories:10020
Title: Prof W.H. Day and Crew
Date
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Description: Professor W. H. Day, who initiated much of the work in the marsh operated the Kingwilbra Gardens beside Bridge Street.

PID: ourstories:9492
Title: Hurricane Hazel
Date
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Description: House being moved.

PID: ourstories:8965
Title: Discharge Pumps
Date: 1954
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Description: Photo was taken near the Bradford Pump House at the junction of the canal and the Holland River near Hwy. 11. The pumps

PID: ourstories:9683
Title: Marsh Hay
Date
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Description: Scows leaving to cut hay on the marsh.

PID: ourstories:9520
Title: Aftermath of Hurricane Hazel
Date: 1954
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Description: Bushels of carrots in storage following Hurricane Hazel.

PID: ourstories:8907
Title: Hurricane Hazel
Date: 1954
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Description: View towards Springdale Christian Reformed Church from Hillsview Road.

PID: ourstories:10522
Title: Gertie Spek
Date: 1955
Subjects
Description: One year after Hurricane Hazel, before the canal was dug out.

PID: ourstories:8514
Title: Topping Onions
Date
Subjects: produce--labour--agriculture--field--machinery--vegetable
Description: Photo of three men in the middle of the process for onion topping in the Holland Marsh. A small shed and several bushels,

PID: ourstories:9325
Title: Marsh Muck House
Date
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Description: A section of one of the work sheds built for the Selkirk Gardens operation, still in use today, on the north canal bank,

PID: ourstories:9363
Title: Harry Verkaik's Barn
Date: 1954
Subjects
Description: Harry Verkaik's barn on River Road after Hurricane Hazel.

PID: ourstories:11075
Title: Emerson Machine
Date
Subjects
Description: A machine built and designed by Emerson Faris.

PID: ourstories:9301
Title: Marsh Farming
Date
Subjects
Description: Bushels of carrots on the marsh.

PID: ourstories:11195
Title: Lettuce Harvest
Date
Subjects: produce--machinery--tractor--labour--agriculture--crate--vegetable
Description: Image of a lettuce field with two labourers hoisting crates of lettuce while standing on a wagon, and a third man,

PID: ourstories:10967
Title: Church submerged
Date
Subjects
Description: Church submerged after hurricane Hazel.

PID: ourstories:8546
Title: Marsh Field
Date
Subjects: crop--agriculture--labour--nature
Description: Photo of a freshly plowed field in the Holland Marsh with a line of trees visible along the horizon.,

PID: ourstories:11217
Title: Harvesting
Subjects: crate--agriculture--field
Description: Pallet boxes during harvesting season in the Holland Marsh.,

PID: ourstories:8891
Title: Barge Cleaning the River
Date
Subjects
Description: Clam digger mounted on a barge cleaning the river to improve drainage to the pumps.

PID: ourstories:9157
Title: Breaking Up the Marsh
Date
Subjects: labour--tractor--machinery--field--agriculture
Description: Photo of a man operating a tractor with an attached mechanism for breaking the muck to create a new field in the Holland,

PID: ourstories:9841
Title: Hurricane Hazel
Date: 1954
Subjects
Description: Store underwater.

PID: ourstories:8497
Title: Tripp Home
Date
Subjects
Description: An aerial view of the Tripp Home along Canal Road.

PID: ourstories:11397
Title: Airplane disaster
Date: 1944
Subjects
Description: ACAF Bomber crashed on the Marsh. Plane was not badly damaged as it plowed into the muck. B.B. and Dodger Collings hired

PID: ourstories:9081
Title: Hurricane Hazel
Date: 1954
Subjects
Description: The landing place for boats on the dike during Hurricane Hazel. A boat delivers some marsh folks to dry land

PID: ourstories:8585
Title: The Flood
Date: 1954
Subjects
Description: This photo was taken facing south east from the present site of the Muck Research Station three days after Hurricane

PID: ourstories:9806
Title: Aftermath of Hurricane Hazel
Date: 1954
Subjects
Description: G. Van der Kooi, F. Weening and S. Van der Kooi.

PID: ourstories:8762
Title: Marsh Carrots
Date
Subjects: produce--labour--agriculture--field--vegetable
Description: Photo of several labourers harvesting carrots, which were collected in bushel baskets. The photo shows some workers at,

PID: ourstories:11369
Title: Drying Onions
Date
Subjects
Description: Drying Onions.

PID: ourstories:9570
Title: Canal Bank
Date
Subjects
Description: A view of the Marsh Canal looking north from the 5th line bridge.

PID: ourstories:10265
Title: Sutherland Home
Date
Subjects
Description: Sutherland home overlooking the marsh on Concession 3.

PID: ourstories:9974
Title: Canal Bank
Date
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Description

PID: ourstories:11247
Title: Hurricane Hazel
Date: 1994
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Description: Rescuers search for trapped families in the Marsh, in aftermath of Hurricane Hazel. From "And The Swamp Flourished", by

PID: ourstories:10095
Title: Rol Family
Date
Subjects
Description: Marsh Families

PID: ourstories:8517
Title: Farmers in the Holland Marsh
Date
Subjects: suit--labour--agriculture--men--hat
Description: Photo of Johan Rupke and Arie Koerts, two farmers, standing in a field and checking the crops in the early days of the,

PID: ourstories:8534
Title: B.B. Collings
Date: 1941
Subjects: tools--machinery--agriculture--man--labour
Description: Photo of B.B. Collings clad in suspenders and a white long sleeved shirt and holding a pitchfork while standing on a,

PID: ourstories:9750
Title: Marsh Farming
Date
Subjects
Description: Marsh Harvest.

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