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It's business as usual, or better, when women like Patti Alsop run the family firm
It's business as usual, or better, when women like Patti Alsop run the family firm

It's business as usual, or better, when women like Patti Alsop run the family firm

Date2/25/1983
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Original Toronto Star caption: It's business as usual; or better; when women like Patti Alsop run the family firm. Hard work plus love equals success.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0023091F
Farmer-mother: Patti Alsop went to university for a veterinarian's degree and returned a farmer she won't consider any other life for daughters Meghann, 2, (above) and Jessie, 6 months
Farmer-mother: Patti Alsop went to university for a veterinarian's degree and returned a farmer she won't consider any other life for daughters Meghann, 2, (above) and Jessie, 6 months
2/25/1983
Like his grandfather, Brampton's Bill Brander raises cattle and grows grain on family acres, ignoring factories edging property
Like his grandfather, Brampton's Bill Brander raises cattle and grows grain on family acres, ignoring factories edging property
12/28/1982
Uneven increase: Dairy farmers have seen stable income growth, while others have done variously better or worse than Ontario's average 13 percent hike in realized farm net income
Uneven increase: Dairy farmers have seen stable income growth, while others have done variously better or worse than Ontario's average 13 percent hike in realized farm net income
2/1/1983
Carl Cosak of Honeywood, Ont., is one of a growing number of beef ranchers who shun the normal pratice of putting antibiotics in animal feed. It's har(...)
Carl Cosak of Honeywood, Ont., is one of a growing number of beef ranchers who shun the normal pratice of putting antibiotics in animal feed. It's har(...)
10/26/1988
When uptight city folk move to the farm, what do they do? Hunker down, that's what, and set a spell
When uptight city folk move to the farm, what do they do? Hunker down, that's what, and set a spell
5/15/1977
East Caledon dairy farmer Jim Early, 65, has learned the land his family started working in 1914 is one of 57 proposed sites for a dump and may take g(...)
East Caledon dairy farmer Jim Early, 65, has learned the land his family started working in 1914 is one of 57 proposed sites for a dump and may take g(...)
6/4/1992
Farmer Paul Lemauviel stands in a wheat field with his family near Duck Lake, Sask
Farmer Paul Lemauviel stands in a wheat field with his family near Duck Lake, Sask
9/17/1973
Farms for sale: Joe Gray still plows the Brampton area farm his family carved out in 1823, but more and more neighbors are giving up on the struggle to produce food in the urban shadow
Farms for sale: Joe Gray still plows the Brampton area farm his family carved out in 1823, but more and more neighbors are giving up on the struggle to produce food in the urban shadow
10/31/1985
Borrowing money is the only way farmers are able to keep off welfare, according to Del Busche, whose income has dropped sharply with the falling price of grain
Borrowing money is the only way farmers are able to keep off welfare, according to Del Busche, whose income has dropped sharply with the falling price of grain
1/16/1970
Billy Bayles, whose 87-acre farm lies just south of Brougham, decided there was no use trying to fight Queen's Park and sold the farm to the government. Now many of his neighbors won't speak to him
Billy Bayles, whose 87-acre farm lies just south of Brougham, decided there was no use trying to fight Queen's Park and sold the farm to the government. Now many of his neighbors won't speak to him
5/8/1973
Food prices have been increasing rapidly in recent months and consumers will have to pay even more in the future, Ontario farmers warn. Joe Alexander,(...)
Food prices have been increasing rapidly in recent months and consumers will have to pay even more in the future, Ontario farmers warn. Joe Alexander,(...)
5/30/1974
Debt-ridden farmers: George Bothwell, left, and Jerry Riddell, both carry huge debts caused by high interest rates
Debt-ridden farmers: George Bothwell, left, and Jerry Riddell, both carry huge debts caused by high interest rates
6/4/1981